Keto Lifestyle

Looking for an appealing way to get more beets in your diet on a carb-up day? This colourful dish is easy to make, and stunningly beautiful, allowing you to serve up a pulse-based spaghetti, whether you use red lentil or chick pea noodles.

This classic Canadian soup is something I like to whip up on a cold evening when I’m doing a carb-up to take the edge off the chill. It can easily be made vegan by using a veggie broth and omitting the ham, but I’ve always had it with ham growing up, so that’s my preference.

I like to have desserts on carb-up days, but I often feel like they pale in comparison to my keto desserts due to the lack of fat. This slow-carb carrot cake recipe, however gives my keto carrot cake a decent run for its money.

I had discounted any possibility of a cream cheese style frosting for carb-up desserts, thinking that it simply couldn't be done without a lot of fat. But then I heard about the idea of using sweet potato as a base for frosting. Mind blown.

Who doesn’t love a hearty barley soup? This one is made even heartier with the inclusion of 2 different kinds of mushrooms, as well as fleshy Swiss chard.

Carb-up desserts don't have to have a ton of refined flour and sugar. Take this vegan crustless sweet potato pie recipe. The sweet potato purée becomes a delivery system for all sorts of nutritious spices, including maca, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and nutmeg, and the vegan protein powder...

Atkilt is a spiced cabbage and potato dish that’s complements the sourness of the injera beautifully, while having plenty of nutritious ingredients to satisfy your body’s needs in a flavourful way.

One of my favourite parts of Ethiopian food has always been injera. Ethiopian food is usually served up on a plate covered with this deliciously sour flat bread and you simply tear off pieces and use it to pick up and eat the curries. It is not a keto food, being made of teff flour...