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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2261119" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>Keto is a diet which works best for you (or your husband, as the case may be), if you find, within it, things that you/he actually likes to eat. No cheese? More meat and eggs. Rice is out, but cauliflower rice is fine. And yeah, almond flour (and coconut flour for that matter) are pricey, but there's no law anywhere that states you have to absolutely make bread. I didn't make my first Keto Mug Bread until I'd gone without any kind of bread for 3 years. And now, after a year of the occasional keto mug bread, I can say I make it maybe twice a month? My diet just doesn't desperately cry out for bread. So while a lot of keto foods can get expensive, it's easier to just keep it really simple. Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, cauliflower rice, above ground, non-starchy vegetables, leafy greens, proper butter/ghee, coconut oil, olives, extra dark chocolate... Very few carbs in herbs and spices, usually, so making food interesting shouldn't be a very big problem. Berries are fine. Other fruit, steer clear from. It doesn't have to be more complicated or expensive than it absolutely has to be. As for metformin, it doesn't do anything about what a person eats. It just tells their liver not to dump too much glucose in the morning. There's two sources of glucose in our lives: What we eat, and what our liver makes. So while the metformin takes a LITTLE care about the liver, the bulk of what goes on with our blood sugars is food related. So yeah... The metformin is probably not making much of a dent. And Intermittent Fasting would solve quite a few of the food issues.... It's easier to have one or two meals a day and still be original/creative, than have to make three. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Just keep in mind that a lot of the expensive ingredients go into foods that need to resemble high-carb foods... While there's plenty of low carb fare around that doesn't need xantan gum, psyllium husk powder, xylitol, stevia/erythritol blends and what have you... An omelet with salmon and spinach has no need of those things. Keep it simple, then you keep it inexpensive. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 2261119, member: 401801"] Keto is a diet which works best for you (or your husband, as the case may be), if you find, within it, things that you/he actually likes to eat. No cheese? More meat and eggs. Rice is out, but cauliflower rice is fine. And yeah, almond flour (and coconut flour for that matter) are pricey, but there's no law anywhere that states you have to absolutely make bread. I didn't make my first Keto Mug Bread until I'd gone without any kind of bread for 3 years. And now, after a year of the occasional keto mug bread, I can say I make it maybe twice a month? My diet just doesn't desperately cry out for bread. So while a lot of keto foods can get expensive, it's easier to just keep it really simple. Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, cauliflower rice, above ground, non-starchy vegetables, leafy greens, proper butter/ghee, coconut oil, olives, extra dark chocolate... Very few carbs in herbs and spices, usually, so making food interesting shouldn't be a very big problem. Berries are fine. Other fruit, steer clear from. It doesn't have to be more complicated or expensive than it absolutely has to be. As for metformin, it doesn't do anything about what a person eats. It just tells their liver not to dump too much glucose in the morning. There's two sources of glucose in our lives: What we eat, and what our liver makes. So while the metformin takes a LITTLE care about the liver, the bulk of what goes on with our blood sugars is food related. So yeah... The metformin is probably not making much of a dent. And Intermittent Fasting would solve quite a few of the food issues.... It's easier to have one or two meals a day and still be original/creative, than have to make three. ;) Just keep in mind that a lot of the expensive ingredients go into foods that need to resemble high-carb foods... While there's plenty of low carb fare around that doesn't need xantan gum, psyllium husk powder, xylitol, stevia/erythritol blends and what have you... An omelet with salmon and spinach has no need of those things. Keep it simple, then you keep it inexpensive. ;) [/QUOTE]
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