Greens, meat, and high-fat dressing — the quick and easy keto trinity that’ll help you meet your needs for vitamins, minerals, fiber, fat, and protein in one low-carb meal. Finding a healthy and tasty keto salad dressing, however, can get tricky when you venture beyond olive oil and vinegar. Most of the popular dressings will either be high in sugar or packed with inflammatory oils (and sometimes both). Even dressings that seem keto-friendly may still contain unhealthy ingredients. To ...
Our Top 10 Keto Friendly Salads
The most delicious and healthy way to get more veggies in your diet is with a keto salad recipe. But why must we have the distinction of "keto salad"? Aren't all salads — with their leafy green and oily dressings — low-carb and keto-friendly anyway? Not necessarily. Many popular salads come with sugary dressings, bread, and croutons that turn one of the healthiest meals you can consume into a delivery mechanism for more carbs and unhealthy ingredients. Fortunately, your salad doesn't have ...
- November 9, 2019
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Our 25 Favorite Keto Chicken Recipes
Chicken dishes are so popular that they are the third most widely consumed food in America, following closely behind grain-based desserts and yeast breads. In other words, chicken is the most widely consumed keto-friendly food in the United States. Most chicken dishes, however, come with a carb-rich side like rice or potatoes or chicken that is breaded with high carb ingredients, making a high-protein keto food into an unhealthy meal. Fortunately, there are many low-carb vegetables and keto ...
- September 29, 2019
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Coconut Flour vs. Almond Flour — Everything You Need to Know
With coconut flour and almond flour, you can make pancakes, cookies, bread, muffins, pizza, and even waffles that are both healthy and delicious. In fact, they are the feature flours for anyone following a ketogenic, paleo, low-carb, or gluten-free diet — allowing us to satisfy almost any craving without slipping back into our old eating habits. As with any food, however, there are some crucial caveats to be aware of before using these flours. After considering these concerns, we find ...
- June 20, 2019
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What is Saturated Fat? The Truth about These “Bad” Fats
Saturated fat has been known for decades as being a “bad” or “unhealthy” type of fat. However, the truth is saturated with complexity. For example, specific types of saturated fats and different foods rich in these fats can vary in how they affect our health. These fats can also impact each of us differently depending on our genetic vulnerabilities. For most people, however, this “bad” fat actually has a neutral or positive effect on health, particularly when consumed as a part of a carb ...
- June 6, 2019
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Zero Carb Food List that Keeps Keto and Ketosis Simple
Keeping carbohydrate intake low is the key to keto diet success. When carb intake is too high, we simply cannot enter ketosis and experience the unique benefits of keto. However, this doesn’t mean that you have to rigidly track your carbohydrate intake at all times. In fact, many keto dieters are able to stay in ketosis by using one simple strategy: Eating mostly keto-friendly foods that have little to no net carbs (i.e., digestible carbs that reduce ketone production). Although it may ...
- March 5, 2019
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25 Keto Recipes for Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras as we know it here in the United States is celebrated in Louisiana, and we most often think of Fat Tuesday in New Orleans. Everything is decorated with green, gold, and purple. You can, of course, celebrate Mardi Gras and keep it keto. We've rounded up keto recipes for traditional favorites like King Cake, gumbo, and jambalaya. We also included recipes that feature green, gold, and purple, cajun flavors, or seafood. So make sure you indulge just a bit! 1. Fiesta Slaw This ...
- February 25, 2019
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Maple Shrimp Salad
Maple Shrimp Salad is a sweet and savory dish that can be served as an entrée or as a side salad for dinner. It reminds me of warm, slightly saccharine spring nights. The kind where you sit for hours after dinner is served, and bask in the extended daylight hours. For this salad, I used pre-cooked, peeled shrimp with no tails to save on time. There’s not a lot of prep time involved, you will just need to ensure the shrimp is thoroughly cooked before serving; it should be an orange color ...
- January 31, 2019
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Keto Diet vs. Atkins Diet: What’s the Difference?
The ketogenic diet and the Atkins diet have both helped thousands of people achieve incredible fat loss results and improve health. However, there is much controversy surrounding which approach is best for weight loss, how healthy they are, and how they work. Both diets focus on restricting carbs to lose fat, but the Atkins diet approaches this from a different angle than the keto diet. The hallmark (and benchmark) of the keto diet is sustaining nutritional ketosis, while the Atkins diet ...
- January 14, 2019
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Buffalo Chicken Meatloaf Cupcakes
These cupcakes are a fun savory dish that you can serve for dinner or easily pack for a lunch. Ground chicken is mixed with celery and onion, stuffed with blue cheese, and baked with a spread of buffalo sauce over the top. The ground chicken is kept moist thanks to the use of gelatin. These cupcakes are everything you'd want from mini meatloaves. Yet even better thanks to the creamy blue cheese and spicy buffalo sauce. The Preparation Buffalo Sauce: 1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted ...
- January 7, 2019
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