Category: Ketogenic diet tips

  • Eating Italian Food On Keto: What to Eat/Avoid, Restaurant Tips, and Recipes

    Eating Italian Food On Keto: What to Eat/Avoid, Restaurant Tips, and Recipes

    No matter where you travel in Italy, it seems like they have cracked the code on good cooking. Whether you have pasta, pizza, salad, lasagna, soup, or dessert, you can’t go wrong with authentic Italian food. Unfortunately, many of the best dishes are filled with starchy foods, flour, or sugar. This can make it challenging…

  • Complete Guide to Keto Camping, Hiking, and Backpacking

    Complete Guide to Keto Camping, Hiking, and Backpacking

    There is no better time to get out and surround ourselves with nature, but what are you supposed to eat? Ironically, the most popular camping foods, meals, and snacks are so highly processed that they bear little resemblance to real food. From the chips to the sugar-filled trail mix, the hotdog buns to the deli…

  • Best Low Carb Rice Substitutes for Keto

    Best Low Carb Rice Substitutes for Keto

    Some of the most delicious dishes feature rice as a key ingredient. Risotto, fried rice, paella, and sushi, for example, all rely on this starch-filled grain, but are there any rice varieties that won’t pack on the carbs? Unfortunately, the answer is no.  If you’re on a non-keto low-carb or standard ketogenic diet, you should avoid rice…

  • Low Carb Chips for Keto: What to Buy and How to Make Them Yourself

    Low Carb Chips for Keto: What to Buy and How to Make Them Yourself

    Chips are usually just crunchy carbs slathered with salt and oil. The best examples of this are tortilla chips and potato chips. Their palate-pleasing combination of salt, fat, and carbs makes it unnaturally easy for us to overeat them without feeling full. This is why many of us can easily eat an entire family-sized bag…

  • Are Beans Keto? Full Guide to Beans and Their Keto-friendly Alternatives

    Are Beans Keto? Full Guide to Beans and Their Keto-friendly Alternatives

    When compared to high-carb processed foods, beans are considered as a health food. However, from a low-carb perspective, they contain too much starch. In fact, the net carb content of most beans and lentils is so high that they belong on the “do not eat” list for keto. To help you figure out exactly what…

  • Are Pork Rinds Keto? The Many Benefits Of This Zero Carb Snack

    Are Pork Rinds Keto? The Many Benefits Of This Zero Carb Snack

    Yes, pork rinds are keto-friendly and used widely by people on low-carb diets. That said, it’s still easy to be fooled into thinking that this humble keto snack food is unhealthy. Though they are crisp like chips (and are typically found in the same grocery store aisle), pork rinds share very little else in common…

  • Is Popcorn Keto-friendly? (Plus Other Low-carb Alternatives)

    Is Popcorn Keto-friendly? (Plus Other Low-carb Alternatives)

    Corn and keto don’t work well together. Whether it is categorized as a grain or a starchy vegetable, you’ll find corn in the “Do Not Eat” category of any keto diet food list. This is because each cup of corn is packed with over 35 grams of net carbs. That is enough to keep most…

  • The Keto Food Pyramid: Low Carb Food List Made Simple

    The Keto Food Pyramid: Low Carb Food List Made Simple

    Starting the ketogenic diet can be overwhelming. The keto beginner is often bombarded by conflicting information regarding the “right” way to follow the diet and enter ketosis. Though experts may not agree on the exact details of a “perfect” keto diet, there are several low-carb food groups that are widely accepted as healthy keto staples.…

  • Weight Gain on Keto: Common Causes, Simple Solutions, and Hunger Hacks

    Weight Gain on Keto: Common Causes, Simple Solutions, and Hunger Hacks

    For most people on keto, weight loss is the easy part. Keeping the weight off, however, is the hard part. The keto diet is often described as the antidote for the vicious cycle of weight loss and weight gain, but it isn’t failproof. Though keto can indeed suppress appetite and make fat loss easier to achieve, this…