Missing the convenience?
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KellyJelly11
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I am one week into Keto and I am loving it. I'm down 5 lbs, my appetite has shrunk and I am slepping better.
I find I am not missing carbs as much as I am missing the convenience of carb heavy food. Anybody else have this issue?
I am not a great plan ahead eater, but this is going to make me into one. lol. Anybody have any tips?
Thanks for listening, feel free to add me as a friend, I need some keto buddies
I find I am not missing carbs as much as I am missing the convenience of carb heavy food. Anybody else have this issue?
I am not a great plan ahead eater, but this is going to make me into one. lol. Anybody have any tips?
Thanks for listening, feel free to add me as a friend, I need some keto buddies
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Personally I am finding that I need to have hard-boiled eggs at all times for an easy grab. I am also needing to have lunch meat for the extra sodium hike if I am just feeling really lazy. It is kind of funny because I used to cook a couple pounds of ground beef or taco meat and it would last several days but now I am finding I need to pre cook meat more often and in greater quantities. Yikes I can eat 6 plus oz in one setting. Also I am finding canned green beans to be my go-to veggie when I don't have time or want to cook something else. I am only just about at week 3 and I know this is so personalized but I would love to hear what other people think as well.4
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My convenience foods are the leftovers from a whole roasted chicken or a chuck roast or a London Broil or a pork loin. I can eat for a few days off any one of those.2
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I try to have leftovers around and if I don't I'll just eat some eggs.
If I need the convenience of fast food I just get beef patties or grilled chicken at places like McDonalds or whatever.2 -
Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »I try to have leftovers around and if I don't I'll just eat some eggs.
If I need the convenience of fast food I just get beef patties or grilled chicken at places like McDonalds or whatever.
what a great idea!!!! thanks Sunny_Bunny.I am also needing to have lunch meat for the extra sodium hike if I am just feeling really lazy.
this is great! i need more sodium and i haven't had lunch meet around because I cant make sandwiches but this works.My convenience foods are the leftovers from a whole roasted chicken or a chuck roast or a London Broil or a pork loin. I can eat for a few days off any one of those.
ya I love leftover roasts and such. very convient. i have no problem hitting my protein quota for the day. fats are harder for me, and to stay within my calorie goal
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I know! I totally miss the convenience. I think that's the worst part of keto. I like to get the little packets of almond butter, low-carb bars, and different kinds of nuts, since they don't need to be refrigerated and I can carry them in my purse.1
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For convenience I always keep turkey pepperoni, individual cheese portions, and pickles on hand. Lunch meat (check the carbs before buying though, some are better than others!), celery & nut butter can be good snacks too (depending on the nut butter - i.e. cashew is higher carbs than others so watch the labels). The lazy/quick'n'easy meals I like to make are either bacon & eggs, or meat with salad greens.
I buy a fully cooked rotisserie chicken from the store once per week and eat that over a couple of days, and also a local farmer makes really yummy sausage that just needs to be thrown on a grill for a couple of minutes.
It does blow my mind that I'm not dying for pizza and sugar and chips and ice-cream and all that stuff. My "will power" has not even been tested one single time since starting keto; it feels super natural to me and I am totally satisfied with the food I'm eating!6 -
I basically pre-cook almost all of my meat and freeze it into single size portions in containers or freezer bags. Right now, I have pre-cooked roasted chicken thigh, plain ground beef, ground beef with chilli seasoning, chicken breast cut into strips and chocolate almond fat bombs. I also normally have pre-cooked breakfast sausage and salmon but I just finished the last of those. I also keep pre-cooked bacon and boiled eggs in the fridge at all times.
I don't buy it pre-cooked. I cook it myself to control what's in it.
For me, this works because sometimes I come home late and hungry. I'm the only one that cooks in my family so it's great to either warm up and eat before I cook so I'm not tempted to taste what I make for them, or I eat it with them so we're all at the table together.
It's also great in the mornings for breakfast as I get up at 5-5:30am and often don't feel like spending time in the kitchen that early.
I don't eat the fat bombs as much as I used to. I find that I don't need them but I still like to have them on hand for those days that I feel like I want a "treat".5 -
I am blow away to that I do not crave any of my past fav foods that I can't have anymore. I have totally embraced Keto as a lifestyle, 2 months into it, I can't see myself going back to my old habits.3
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Batch cooking saves my soul. I am much better at it in the winter and variety is necessary because I just can't bring myself to eat the exact replica for days on end. I typically make myself a large pot of soup for work lunches (summer is usually salads or a struggle in general) for the week and then supplement with whatever (veggies & dip, roll ups, lc muffins etc). We normally have a large Sunday supper that we can eat off of and then I also do a bulk meat, such as pork carnitas, taco meat, Mississippi pot roast, fajita chicken etc that can be used in a variety of ways. Taking advantage to freeze a few portions is a lifesaver too!4
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KellyJelly11 wrote: »Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »I try to have leftovers around and if I don't I'll just eat some eggs.
If I need the convenience of fast food I just get beef patties or grilled chicken at places like McDonalds or whatever.
what a great idea!!!! thanks Sunny_Bunny.I am also needing to have lunch meat for the extra sodium hike if I am just feeling really lazy.
this is great! i need more sodium and i haven't had lunch meet around because I cant make sandwiches but this works.My convenience foods are the leftovers from a whole roasted chicken or a chuck roast or a London Broil or a pork loin. I can eat for a few days off any one of those.
ya I love leftover roasts and such. very convient. i have no problem hitting my protein quota for the day. fats are harder for me, and to stay within my calorie goal
I eat high fat. That's what keto is low carb, high fat. I eat cream cheese by the clump. I like it. It's easy. It's fat. Less appealing than the "sweet fat bombs" I made and over ate a more appealing than pork rinds (to me).2 -
My husband and I are almost two months in and we both agreed that we miss being able to stop eat and go.
Sometimes when we need a quick pick me up, we'll ready grass fed beef jerky, hard boiled eggs, parm crisps, or nuts.
For a healthy fast meal at home we'll get spring mix, precooked shrimp and avocado, top it with your low carb faves, toss with olive oil and red wine vinegar and spices and you're all set.
Once we were really desperate and went to McDonald's and got grilled ranch snack wraps and left the tortilla. We don't tell anybody but it worked for the moment.
All in all, the more you do it the better you'll be at it. Initially it took work and we made a lot of errors (we still do). It's an ongoing learning process. The more research you do the better you'll be at it.3 -
thank you everybody for your wonderful advice!0
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It's so easy. Don't make it hard. Hard boiled eggs, cheese sticks, have 0 carb lunch meats like hard salami and slices of cheese that have no carbs. They are all grab and go. Make little bags of one ounce of nuts. I have 5 kids going back and forth to all kinds of ball games etc. I would just stop at a grocery store and get salami and some kind of cheese and grab a bag or cello pack of spinach or baby greens and make what I dubbed a Keto burrito. Meat then cheese stuffed with greens and then just roll it up. So easy. All the convenience stores carry hardboiked eggs and sandwich meat or cheese sticks. You can even order fast food and just ditch the bun. Keep it simple and you'll succeed.2
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All cheese has carbs. It just depends on the increments whether labels round it down or not. So if you're eating 8 oz of cheese, even if it is a slice at a time that says zero, you will still have carbs. Lunch meats without as much processing might have zero carbs... For people who have to stick to really low numbers, these things do add up...
And convenience foods definitely help in the beginning...find some good ones!1
