Reddit reviews Quick & Easy Ketogenic Cooking: Meal Plans and Time Saving Paleo Recipes to Inspire Health and Shed Weight

http://mariamindbodyhealth.com/

Randomly found her cookbook at Costco a few weeks ago, that's what started it all.

Food is all amazing. Even desserts!

Feels kinda weird referring to it as a diet given all the amazing food my wife's been cooking.

After only a couple of weeks I'm down 9lbs, appears to be water-weight, but it's a start.

tl;dr: buy her cookbook

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1628601000/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1628601000

I like her other book Quick and Easy Ketogenic Cooking a lot more. I've also found that I do better with her recipes when I use the exact ingredients she calls for. For example, her recipes are all written to be dairy free and I tried to substitute things like almond milk for half and half, and it just doesn't come out right. Same with the sweeteners she uses.

But I still find myself looking more at her books than actually making anything. The Bacon and Butter cookbook is more practical in terms of things I want to make, but less fun to look at (less pictures and not as fancy looking recipes).

I've been purchasing keto cookbooks for my library system and have been reading through them as they come in. Here's a little list:

Sweet & Savory Fat Bombs by Martina Slajerova
https://www.amazon.ca/Sweet-Savory-Fat-Bombs-Delicious/dp/1592337287/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1480350212&sr=1-1
Haven't made anything from it yet, but I have this one checked out right now. I am going to try the recipe for their Toasted Coconut Cups today. The ingredient lists seems semi reasonable and it's great for squares, chocolate, spreads, and little treats if you're into that kind of thing.

The KetoDiet Cookbook by Martina Slajerova
https://www.amazon.ca/KetoDiet-Cookbook-Grain-Free-Sugar-Free-Starch-Free/dp/1592337015/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1480350335&sr=1-1&keywords=ketodiet+cookbook
Of all the books I've looked at so far this one seems the most reasonable and helpful. It's actual recipes instead of just a "wrap bacon around asparagus, cook" kind of thing. Plus, there's pretty pictures of the food and I like pictures in my cookbooks. I have it checked out right now and was going to give their recipe for zuch lasagna a try as a first recipe.

Quick & Easy Ketogenic Cooking by Maria Emmerich
https://www.amazon.ca/Quick-Easy-Ketogenic-Cooking-Recipes/dp/1628601000/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1480350438&sr=1-2
I had high hopes for this one, but I didn't like the look of it at all, save for a few recipes on slow cooker pulled-pork / pulled-chicken kind of thing. It was lots of "wrap bacon around asparagus, cook" that I mentioned above--the sort of food that folks on keto maybe already know. I did snap a few pictures of recipes I'd like to try, but it wasn't one I am considering purchasing, like the two above.

It can be hard to wade through the crap on pinterest and two sites I've found helpful for bang-on recipes are these:
http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/
http://www.ditchthecarbs.com/

Hope this is helpful. Happy shopping <3

Posted this earlier today in another keto thread. You have to make it in advance, but it's SUPER easy to throw together, and is four servings (4 breakfasts!)

I'm pretty new to this diet so I've been living out of the Quick and Easy Ketogenic Cooking book (Link)

Author has a chocolate shake for breakfast that I love! I can drink one serving about 6AM for breakfast, and not be hungry until about 1PM.

• 3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp coconut oil or unsalted butter
  
  
• 1/4 cup MCT oil
  
  
• 2 cups water
  
  
• 4 whole large eggs plus 4 large egg yolks
  
  
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  
  
• 1/4 cup Swerve confectioners style sweetener or equivalent amount of liquid or powdered sweetener
  
  
• 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
  
  Throw it all in a blender and blend until smooth. Refrigerate overnight to thicken. Pour over 2-4 cups ice, if desired (I don't).
  
  Yield 4 servings (about 1 cup each)
  
  Macros:
  
  664 calories
  
  70g fat
  
  8g protein
  
  1g carbs
  
  0g fiber
  
  
  Side Note If you don't want chocolate, take out the cocoa powder and vanilla extract. Use any flavor extract you'd like instead.
  

I purchased this book from Amazon a little over a month ago:

"Quick & Easy Ketogenic Cooking: Meal Plans and Time Saving Paleo Recipes to Inspire Health and Shed Weight"
http://www.amazon.com/Quick-Easy-Ketogenic-Cooking-Recipes/dp/1628601000

It provided me with a lot of useful health/food information, the recipes were pretty good for the most part and most importantly, helped me realize portion sizes

I got this one - https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Easy-Ketogenic-Cooking-Recipes/dp/1628601000/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482943942&sr=8-1&keywords=keto+cookbook

It's really great as the first twenty pages or so talk about the keto lifestyle and all sorts of different things from sweetners, to proteins. And fantastic recipes!

This one is great for beginners, both recipes and explanations

I meal prep breakfast and work-snack items. I get up really early to go to work and I'm not a morning person so I'll never cook in the mornings. On Sunday (I work m-f) I cook a quiche, and then eat a slice for breakfast on the way to work. I also pick a snack to have at work for the week so I'm not tempted by the vending machine on my break. Last week I made keto egg muffins; this week it's hard boiled eggs. I'm getting tired of eggs haha.

For the other meals, I cook. Lunch is fish because it's fast, and then dinner is usually a protein plus veggies. But I only work part time; if I were still working full time I'd have to figure out something different for lunch.

I also make sure I have some stuff in the fridge that I can grab and eat quick if need be. Cheese, hot dogs (I love Nathan's hot dogs, only 1g of carbs a piece I think), lunch meat, stuff like that, because there are definitely times I don't feel like cooking. So I think for me, I cook when I can because fresh stuff always tastes better but I do meal prep for the meals I know I'm not going to have time for. I think it works pretty well :)

There is a keto recipe subreddit /r/ketorecipes and tons of blogs/sites/etc online for more resources. This is the book I bought and so far it seems really nice. Most of the meals are pretty easy and she has a lot of great information about keto in there as well. There is also a section at the beginning where she makes a 7 day meal plan with a corresponding shopping list which is nice, though too expensive looking for me haha.

edit: I also really like pickles for snacks. Mostly because of the salt and crunchiness