CNS what are your staple meals? I'm a little worried about variety.
I have quite a few. I have taken a bunch of my old ones and just put them with salad instead of rice, or something like that.
Breakfast this week:
Diced red jalepeno, red pepper, ham, and green onion. Scrambled into a couple eggs. I separate three egg yokes from the whites, cook the yokes in 1tbsp butter, then drizzle the yoke and butter over the eggs, then put a slab of havarti over it all and wait a few minutes until it melts. Sometimes I top that with hollandaise. It is probably top 5 breakfast I have had.
My lunches are almost always a huge salad. I pack them in the mornings. Saute 2 cups kale in 1tbsp butter and 1 tbsp coconut oil. Just break it down until it is a little soft. I put that on top of about 1/5 c raw spinach and 1.5c romaine. Sea salt and ground pepper. Stalk of celery chopped up. Top with 2tbsp good olive oil. Lately I have been buying a really creamy artichoke/parm/spinach dip and smearing it on top. Some diced grilled chicken/pork/or steak(whatever is left over). Sometimes I hold back the dip and use hollandaise or something like that. It is really freaking good. Today I used Mascopone cheese in place of dip with a little left over beef gravy from the beef bouguignon I cooked this weekend.
Dinner is where I get my variety in dishes: Also, I cook a lot and really like it, so some of them are involved
1. modified Beef bourguignon with cauliflower
2. broiled salmon with broiled asparagus, topped with hollandaise or butter
3. Blackened flounder with a creamy shrimp scampi and broccoli
4. grilled hamburgers(chuck) with salad, havarti cheese, and an avocado
5. grilled chicken breast with regular shrimp scampi and sweet potatoes(yep, I know they are high in carbs but a bunch of the sources I have found on keto still recommend eating them)
6. baked chicken, gravy, some veg of some sort
7. Taco salads
8. grilled steak
9. seared ahi tuna
Butter on top of most things. Also, get some Morton lite salt. I prefer sea salt, but evidently, getting potassium and magnesium is really important. Evidently, keto is a dieretic(sp) diet and you will expel a bunch of both through urine. I don't eat bananas because of the sugar content, so it is pretty hard to get very much potassium any other way.
This is mostly in the last two weeks. We eat a pretty big variety of stuff. There are plenty more meal options if you want more ideas.
Most of the above stuff is much easier than most ppl think. If you want actual recipes, let me know.
