Me and my girlfriend are attempting a keto-style diet, but I am a terrible chef and don’t have much energy to cook generally. Previously I’d mostly eat soups and stews since I could make a huge pot, freeze some of the extra and eat it with rice, but most of the recipies I know aren’t keto friendly (or at least the one suitable for a full meal). It also doesn’t help that I’m a pretty terrible cook and my girlfriend is used to well-seasoned African cuisine.
I’m hoping to find some keto or keto-adjacent meals that can be prepared in bulk easily, and ideally (but not necessarily), frozen.
Please, as someone who went down the keto rabbit hole 10 years ago, please don’t do it unless you have a medical reason, aka diabetes.
Keto is not sustainable for you and in fact for the vast majority of people, it’s not inherently healthier, the reason it works as with any other elimination diet, is that you remove a bunch of highly palatable calorie dense foods.
The hard truth that no one wants to hear is that the only way to lose weight long term is to change your lifestyle to one that you can stick to for the rest of your life, that means learning to eat nice balanced meals of veggies, carbs and proteins for 80-90% of your food.
Here is a video by RP on Keto https://youtu.be/yTSJuzE0XsA
Here is a great channel encouraging sustainable weightloss practices
https://youtube.com/@adamwrightfitness
Here is one with more use of the word cunt
https://youtube.com/shorts/A2VAufxYTuc
If you want recipes there is this guy for example
https://youtube.com/shorts/_iRKBfG5fdM
Keto is a fucking cult, get out while you can, unless you want to have diarrhea anytime you have pasta, or a beer, or anything with higher amount of carbs, your gut biome changes and you will not be able to properly digest it for a while, so no living your life and having a fun date night with your girl, it won’t be fun in the evening.
I also encourage you to read Atomic Habits, it’s not about weightloss, but it is really good about teaching you that small changes over a long period have big results, and that is what weight loss is, you can’t rush it, it’s a long process.
Also you want to consider picking up weight lifting as building and most importantly retaining muscle mass will do much more for your health than whatever keto cultist claim.
Why are you interested in the keto diet? Are there specific goals you’re trying to accomplish? It’s a tricky diet that is best done with medical supervision.
I highly recommend Harvard’s Nutrition Source for science-based nutrition information. They use accessible language and have recipes too!
Since others have shared a lot of recipes, I’m just popping in to say that drinking a lot of water and adding electrolytes is extremely important on this diet. For real, it’s not something you wanna FAFO about, because you’ll feel like absolute shit.
There are online calculators you can use to input your age, height, weight, etc, and determine how much water you need to drink. Just don’t forget the electrolytes!
If it helps, this is what I use (it’s a bit cheaper on Amazon but I really like the company so I order direct).
Also, if you want to track your calories/carb intake, I recommend an app called Cronometer (google play link here).
Best of luck! I’ve been on keto for years now (hopping off now and then around the holidays) and can’t recommend it enough.
I used ruled.me and cavemanketo.com for most of my keto recipes. Ruled me is good for fancier dishes if you want something a little different, some can also be made for a week or frozen. Caveman has lots of simple casseroles that are great for portioning out and freezing or eating over a week.
I cannot encourage you to harm yourself with this hair-brained diet.
Consider changing your dietary intake to be more in line with your body’s nutritional needs. Eat less food, eat more vegetables.