Want to impress the family? Make them this amazing cheesy bacon ranch chicken dish, and you’ll be sure to make everybody happy. This tasty, yet keto-friendly dish includes lots of crowd-pleaser ingredients like bacon, cheese, and chicken. The good news is that it’s easy to make and can be cooked up in one pan. The main protein source for this dish comes from juicy chicken thighs that get fried up in olive oil and smothered in a tasty mix of herbs and spices. Once the chicken is ready, you ...
One-Pan Cabbage and Bacon Keto Bowl
Cabbage sauteed with butter and bacon makes an easy yet crave-worthy one-pan meal. You'll love the simplicity of this dish because it's one of those recipes that you can easily commit to memory and make again and again. It's a true keto staple! If you'd like to use this as a side dish then feel free to portion into smaller servings. It would go great with our seared ribeye steak, or our Instant Pot smothered pork chops. You can easily use this is a meal-prep recipe because it keeps ...
- February 20, 2020
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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 for optimal results. That being said, you can still get your rice fix by using low-carb substitutes and keto recipes. Let’s begin our journey through the ...
- January 15, 2021
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What is the Slow Carb Diet?
Like the ketogenic diet, the slow carb diet is based on simple rules and low-carb whole foods that can help promote fat loss and health improvement. Both diets have led to incredible weight loss results of 100 pounds or more. That being said, the slow carb diet sets itself apart from other low-carb diet plans in many ways, including the incorporation of some carb-rich foods and a cheat day once a week. This approach may sound refreshingly easy, and it can be highly effective, but there are ...
- April 22, 2020
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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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Top 10 Foods for the Ketogenic Diet
Decades of research indicates that high-fat, low-carb keto-friendly foods, the very foods we once thought were destroying our health, may be doing just the opposite. Studies upon studies on the ketogenic diet have been discovering benefits for people with all types of conditions, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, epilepsy, and Alzheimer’s disease. How could a diet filled with so much cholesterol and fat be so good for us? Because many of the foods that we once thought were ...
- December 10, 2017
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Ketogenic Diet Low Carb Cheat Sheet
When people are new to the ketogenic diet, they often wonder what type of foods they should and could eat while restricting carbs. Although we do have an in-depth ketogenic food list, it doesn’t cover everything and doesn’t include all of the keto-friendly replacements and recipes that are most commonly asked about. Use our recommendations below to get an idea of the best alternatives for common high-carb ingredients and what foods you can replicate while going the low-carb route. Not only ...
- September 22, 2014
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