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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Breakfast, Lunch and Snack Foods


  • Unsweetened chocolate almond milk (add a little sweetener of your choice or drink plain)
  • Full-fat cottage cheese with chopped tomatoes
  • Hard boiled eggs (buy the pre-cooked and peeled kind in a bag)
  • Scrambled eggs (with or without add-ins or toppings such as chorizo sausage, veggies, cheese, pico de gallo, etc)
  • BACON
  • Bologna pizza roll-up: tomato paste & mozzarella on a slice of turkey bologna (can also add salami or pepperoni)
  • Microwave flax bread
  • Celery with cream cheese
  • Celery with pimento cheese
  • Celery with natural peanut butter
  • Raw veggies with guacamole
  • Raw veggies with dip: radishes, cauliflower, pepper strips, celery, mushrooms
  • Raw mushrooms dipped in marinara
  • Pork rinds with french onion dip
  • Pork rinds with natural peanut butter and sugar-free strawberry jello (tastes like PBJ!)
  • Pork rinds with peanut butter, cup of chicken broth or boullion (reminds me of my favorite childhood lunch of peanut butter sandwich with chicken noodle soup)
  • Pork rinds dusted with Splenda and cinnamon (tastes like cinnamon twists from Taco Bell)
  • Shrimp with low carb cocktail sauce
  • Cheese sticks (cheddar jack, orange & white string cheese)
  • Nuts (watch portion sizes & carb count. Cashews are apparently a little higher carb than other nuts)
  • V-8 juice (1/2 cup is 5 grams of carb)
  • Cucumber slices with rice wine vinegar
  • Cucumber slices with Olive Garden salad dressing
  • Baby tomatoes or tomato wedges with Olive Garden salad dressing
  • Berries
  • Pickles
  • Olives
  • Pizza bowl: sliced mushrooms topped with marinara and cheddar jack cheese
  • Hot dogs with cucumber slices, mustard & ketchup, celery salt, sport peppers
  • Lunch meat
  • Ham (Hormel Brown Sugar Cured) with green pepper slices
  • Taco salad (hamburger seasoned with taco spices, on top of lettuce with salsa, sour cream, olives, tomatoes, avocado, etc.)
  • Chicken salad (white meat chicken, mayo, chopped celery, serve in half an avocado if desired)
  • Tuna salad
  • Shrimp salad
  • Turkey bratwurst (leftovers)
  • Cold chicken wings (leftovers previously roasted with seasoned salt)
  • Crystal Lite (I like the pomegranate cherry). Add chia seeds for fun.
  • Sugar-free Jello cup - chop up the Jello into cubes and add a little heavy cream. It's like Jello mixed with whipped cream and you don't even need to add sweetener)
  • Greek yogurt - add a little Crystal Lite for flavor (lemonade or cherry pomegranate is really good. Can also sprinkle with sliced almonds.)
  • Cottage cheese with berries
  • Atkins Shakes (dark chocolate royalle flavor is delicious)
  • Chicken broth - supposed to be good for "Keto flu" symptoms
  • Hot and sour broth - chicken broth or boullion with vinegar and cayenne pepper. 
  • Hot and sour soup - hot and sour broth with chicken, eggs, mushrooms, tofu, veggies for more of a meal or just drink the broth for a snack
  • Root beer "float" - diet root beer over ice with a couple tablespoons of heavy cream added
  • Hot chocolate - 1/2 cup of unsweetened chocolate almond milk, 1/2 cup of heavy cream, 2 teaspoons of Swiss Miss No Sugar Added hot chocolate mix (has a little over 2 carbs)
  • Sugarless cough drops, sugarless gum - not exactly "foods" but helpful for sweet cravings and for getting rid of keto breath or an unpleasant taste in the mouth
  • Cinnamon sugarless breath mints