What to Eat on a Ketogenic Diet

There is so much good food to eat on a ketogenic diet. In the early days when you start your keto diet, you may miss some convenient foods. The first few weeks of your Ketogenic diet involves getting to know a new way of eating so it will take planning to get it right.

The Keto Kitchen contains a range of fresh foods as well as convenient foods to make life easy when you are on the run.

Recommended Vegetables

Alfalfa sprouts
Artichokes
Asian greens
Asparagus
Baby spinach
Bamboo shoots
Bean sprouts
Bok choy
Broccoli
Broccolini
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage
Capsicum
Cauliflower
Celery
Chard
Cucumber
Eggplant
Endive
Fennel
Green beans
Kale
Kohlrabi
Leeks
Lettuce – all types
Mushrooms
Okra
Olives
Onions
Radicchio
Radish
Rocket
Sea vegetables e.g. kelp, wakame, kumbu, arame
Snow peas
Spinach
Sprouts
Squash
Tomato
Water cress
Zucchini

Vegetables to Limit

(Limit to 1 handful (raw) daily (total))

Avocado
Beetroot
Carrots
Corn
Parsnip
Peas
Pumpkin
Water chestnuts

Protein

(1 palm-sized portion per meal)

Beef
Cheese
Chicken
Duck
Eggs
Fish
Kangaroo
Lamb
Mussels
Oysters
Pork
Prawns
Scallops
Squid
Turkey
Veal
Tofu or Tempeh (Consume 2 palm sized portions per meal of Tofu and Tempeh)

Recommended Fruits

(1 handful of recommended fruit may replace 1 handful of vegetables once daily)

Apples
Apricots
Blackberries
Blueberries
Cherries
Fresh fig
Grapefruit
Guava
Honeydew melon
Kiwi fruit
Lemons
Limes
Mandarin
Mulberries
Nectarines
Orange
Passionfruit
Paw paw
Pears
Pineapple
Raspberries
Rockmelon
Strawberries
Tangerine
Watermelon

Healthy Oils

Coconut oil
Flax/Linseed oil*
Macadamia oil*
Olive oil*
Sesame oil*
Walnut oil*

*Cold pressed oils are preferable

Nuts and Seeds

Almonds
Brazil nuts
Coconut meat
Flax/Linseeds
Hazelnuts
Macadamias
Nut butters/spreads (no added sugar)
Pecans
Pepitas
Pine nuts
Pistachio nuts
Sesame seeds
Sunflower seeds
Walnuts

Keto Diet Creature Comforts

At our Robina Clinic on the Gold Coast, we have an extensive range of keto approved foods to complement your keto diet. Gold Coast Naturopath, Cindi has done the research for you to provide ketogenic friendly foods. If you find yourself missing a slice of bread, a sneaky cookie or a bowl of muesli for breakfast, we have got you covered.

We have a range of keto food including:

Protein Powders including pea, rice, soy, whey and collagen
Protein Bars
Bone Broth’s – vegetable, chicken or beef
High protein breads, cakes, cookie & muffin mixtures
High protein granola
Low carbohydrate rice & fettuccine
Low carbohydrate coconut milk
MCT oils

Drop by the Clinic to pick up your keto approved foods.

Are you feeling confused and need some help with your keto diet?

Book an appointment with Cindi today.