Anyone doing keto?

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  • IamBorg
    IamBorg Posts: 49 Member
    I've been "lazy keto" off and on for about a year. My body likes keto and lazy keto, my brain and cravings feel differently lol.

    I don't do fat bombs at all. I think those are great for the more straight sized folks who are doing keto. In other communities, I've read "carbs are a limit, protein is a goal, and fat is what it is" or something like that. So not restricting anything other than carbs, and trying to get in the right amount of protein, and not restricting fat or trying to reach a certain amount of fat.

    For me that's meant that I use butter when I want, however much I want. But I don't put it in coffee (I seriously don't get how that tastes good, but I do put butter on steak when I reheat it in the microwave to prevent it drying and others think that's disgusting so yeah). I put it on veggies, use olive oil when making eggs, put cheese on everything I like with cheese, and don't eat anything that's artificially 'low fat'.
  • Danp
    Danp Posts: 1,561 Member
    whitpauly wrote: »
    psuLemon wrote: »
    psychod787 wrote: »
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    Don't worry, there is Keto bread these days! So boom!!! Lol

    Yea but it tastes NASTY! At least the one I paid $12 a loaf for🤷the low carb tortillas are awesome tho👍

    I wonder if it's as bad as the gluten free bread I used to get years ago. I'm not gluten intolerant or anything I just wanted to try it and as a bread it was straight up awful. It was heavy and dense and chewy. Ugh!

    However...

    It made outstanding toast. Once you put it in a toaster it went cooked up wonderfully. The denseness really worked in it's favour and made for delicious crispy toast =)
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,430 MFP Moderator
    Danp wrote: »
    whitpauly wrote: »
    psuLemon wrote: »
    psychod787 wrote: »
    f4x20ww4n333.jpg

    Don't worry, there is Keto bread these days! So boom!!! Lol

    Yea but it tastes NASTY! At least the one I paid $12 a loaf for🤷the low carb tortillas are awesome tho👍

    I wonder if it's as bad as the gluten free bread I used to get years ago. I'm not gluten intolerant or anything I just wanted to try it and as a bread it was straight up awful. It was heavy and dense and chewy. Ugh!

    However...

    It made outstanding toast. Once you put it in a toaster it went cooked up wonderfully. The denseness really worked in it's favour and made for delicious crispy toast =)

    It could have been the brand too. I have made some good keto breads, muffins and other desserts.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,292 Member
    edited March 2020
    I just got some "keto friendly" high fiber tortilla's from amazon.ca (11g carbs - 8g fiber = 3 net carbs, keywords=la tortilla factory high fibre whole wheat tortillas)

    I would call them on the more expensive than not side @ $5.79 CAD, USD$4.28 per 10-pack.

    Edible, a bit dry not to the touch but while eating, but not too bad for 70 Cal to use as a wrapper. Would prefer high fibre Wasa crackers for other applications.

    BTW I am not doing either keto or low carb. They just happened to catch my eye because they were low cal and high fiber!
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,430 MFP Moderator
    edited March 2020
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    I just got some "keto friendly" high fiber tortilla's from amazon.ca (11g carbs - 8g fiber = 3 net carbs, keywords=la tortilla factory high fibre whole wheat tortillas)

    I would call them on the more expensive than not side @ $5.79 CAD, USD$4.28 per 10-pack.

    Edible, a bit dry not to the touch but while eating, but not too bad for 70 Cal to use as a wrapper. Would prefer high fibre Wasa crackers for other applications.

    BTW I am not doing either keto or low carb. They just happened to catch my eye because they were low cal and high fiber!

    I personally prefer La Banderita. 5 net carbs and taste is pretty close to the real thing. Even my wife likes them and she doesn't like "diet" foods.

    647 makes a pretty good low carb bread. Its 6 net carbs per slice and taste like standard Italian bread.
  • appalachian_gigi
    appalachian_gigi Posts: 36 Member
    I really like it!
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,292 Member
    edited March 2020
    psuLemon wrote: »
    I personally prefer La Banderita. 5 net carbs and taste is pretty close to the real thing. Even my wife likes them and she doesn't like "diet" foods.

    647 makes a pretty good low carb bread. Its 6 net carbs per slice and taste like standard Italian bread.

    Remember amazon.ca is not quite the same as amazon.com :wink:

    La Banderita Tortillas is minimum order 4x 8pack of 8" (360g each) at $61.94 with shipping included and arriving March 18 to 23. at only $43 per kg!

    Mama Lupe 36g 60Cal (50% from fat), 3g fat, 7g C -4g Fibre, 6g protein is coming in at JUST CAD $72.22 per kg!!!

    My lowly, somewhat dry to the taste, La Tortilla Factory is coming in at $16.08 per kg with shipping.

    I'm OK with somewhat dry -- and under $20 per kg -- heck: sigh me up for under $10 per kg if you can find me one! :wink:

    * no hit on 647
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,430 MFP Moderator
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    psuLemon wrote: »
    I personally prefer La Banderita. 5 net carbs and taste is pretty close to the real thing. Even my wife likes them and she doesn't like "diet" foods.

    647 makes a pretty good low carb bread. Its 6 net carbs per slice and taste like standard Italian bread.

    Remember amazon.ca is not quite the same as amazon.com :wink:

    La Banderita Tortillas is minimum order 4x 8pack of 8" (360g each) at $61.94 with shipping included and arriving March 18 to 23. at only $43 per kg!

    Mama Lupe 36g 60Cal (50% from fat), 3g fat, 7g C -4g Fibre, 6g protein is coming in at JUST CAD $72.22 per kg!!!

    My lowly, somewhat dry to the taste, La Tortilla Factory is coming in at $16.08 per kg with shipping.

    I'm OK with somewhat dry -- and under $20 per kg -- heck: sigh me up for under $10 per kg if you can find me one! :wink:

    * no hit on 647

    In my area, i have 8 different grocery stores, with about 20-25 total in 5 mile radius.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,292 Member
    psuLemon wrote: »
    In my area, i have 8 different grocery stores, with about 20-25 total in 5 mile radius.

    WHAT? You expect me to expend time in the bread isle? Checking out labels? While carrying my baskets full of Yogurt and frozen veggies? Nah, I usually pick up the occasional box of WASA or Ryvita or what have you, or some white sandwich bread in long life packaging for the flat-mate.

    A few years back, when I was starting out on MFP, I had looked for the fabled 50, 60 and 70Cal tortillas that I kept reading about in other peoples' logs. Never found them at my local grocery stores (Safeway / IGA, SaveOn, Walmart, Choices--one or two of each--within walking distance, Real Canadian Superstore too with a few minutes drive). The closest thing I found in the "regular store" sections was some weight watcher's bread... low cals achieved by slicing normal bread extra thin.

    One or two of the super healthy and what have you specialty breads you guys have down south (don't remember the exact ones, Dave's killer breads I think were one of them but not sure), were available frozen at $9.99 a loaf. Don't know about you, but I'm not willing to pay 3x the going rate of a normal loaf for frozen goodness :smiley: (not sure if it was actually Dave's bread, as I just searched for it at save-on and it came up @ $5.99 on sale ($6.59 regular) which is not the $8.99 and $9.99 price I remember)

    Anyway. TL/dr: if my fellow Canucks know of low cal breads that are generally available at grocery stores at semi reasonable prices... I am all ears :smiley:
  • cmhart5085
    cmhart5085 Posts: 2 Member
    Bambirose28 wrote: »
    I’ve been doing Keto for a few days. I want to know what to expect in the coming weeks and any good recipes...
    thanks

    I found it was too fatty for my tastes .. but good luck

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