The Keto for Two Cookbook: 100 Delicious, Keto-Friendly Recipes Just for Two!
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Finally, keto recipes that are just the right size!
Preparing your own meals is essential to succeeding on the keto diet. But the typical keto recipes usually serve four or more, and with the average household size now less than three people, that’s just too much food, especially if your goal is to lose weight and are looking for help with portion control.
In The Keto for Two Cookbook, you will find 100 easy and delicious two-serving keto recipes to minimize waste and monitor your portions. It’s perfect for both singles and couples who are following the keto diet. Including recipes for every meal of the day, this cookbook is full of fantastic and flavorful low-carb recipes that fit your appetite and help you maintain your keto goals.
Lindsay Boyers
Lindsay Boyers is a holistic nutritionist specializing in the keto diet, gut health, mood disorders, and functional nutrition. Lindsay earned a degree in food and nutrition from Framingham State University, and she holds a certificate in holistic nutrition consulting from the American College of Healthcare Sciences. She has written twelve books and has had more than 2,000 articles published across various websites, including MindBodyGreen, Healthline, Livestrong, The Spruce, and VeryWell. Lindsay truly believes that you can transform your life through food, a proper mindset, and shared experiences and that’s what she aims to convey to her readers.
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The Keto for Two Cookbook by Lindsay Boyers, Adams MediaINTRODUCTION
When you’re following a keto diet, you need exciting new recipes that can fight the food monotony that often develops. Unfortunately, most keto recipes you’ll find are designed to make six servings (or sometimes even more). But when you’re only cooking for one or two people, that can translate to a lot of leftovers and unused food. Not to mention, wasting precious keto-approved ingredients is definitely not something that you want to do! But now you can eat what you want without wasting food with The Keto for Two Cookbook.
Inside, you’ll find one hundred delicious keto-approved recipes that cover everything from breakfasts and dinners to snacks and even desserts. There are meals that are designed for meat eaters and others that are vegetarian friendly. You’ll also find suggestions on how to easily adapt the recipes to fit your dietary preferences and your taste buds. And the best part? Every recipe in this book is already designed and perfectly portioned for two.
But it’s not just the serving size that makes these recipes stand out; they’re also already macronutrient-balanced to fit in with your keto lifestyle. Need to know how many net carbs are in each recipe? That information is already listed for you. Trying to boost your fat intake? You’ll know exactly how many grams are in each serving so you can make educated choices when designing your meal plan.
The recipes also use ingredients that you probably already have stocked in your pantry or refrigerator. There’s nothing unusual or hard to find here. Just simple low-carbohydrate meals that are easy to whip up, but satisfying and delicious enough for even the most sophisticated palates.
Sharing a meal with someone is one of the most basic pleasures in life. With The Keto for Two Cookbook, you can spend less time calculating your macros and converting recipes and more time eating while enjoying each other’s company.
CHAPTER 1
THE KETOGENIC LIFESTYLE
Lots of things in life are better with a partner—and keto is one of those things. It doesn’t matter what it is; any lifestyle change is just easier to stick to when you have support from someone—whether it’s your mom, a friend, a romantic partner, or a roommate—and this book was designed with that in mind.
Every recipe in it is perfectly balanced for two, so you can have an easy, satisfying meal without any of the waste that comes from recipes designed for a bigger crowd. Of course, if you want to make more, you can double recipes and use the leftovers for meal prep. But before jumping into the recipes, let’s start with a little background for those of you who are new to a ketogenic lifestyle.
HOW YOUR BODY OBTAINS ENERGY
Energy cannot be created. It can only be converted from one form to another. Because of this, your body needs to get energy from somewhere. It uses the food, and the macronutrients from the food, that you eat. The biochemical process of obtaining energy is a complicated one, but it’s important to understand the basics so you can get a feel for how the ketogenic diet and ketosis work on a cellular level.
ENERGY FROM CARBOHYDRATES
Although your body is adept at using any food that’s available for energy, it always turns to carbohydrates first. When you eat carbohydrates, they are ultimately broken down or converted into glucose, which is absorbed through the walls of the small intestine. From the small intestine, glucose enters into your bloodstream, which naturally causes your blood glucose levels to rise. As soon as the glucose enters your blood, your pancreas sends out insulin to pick it up and carry it to your cells so they can use it as energy.
Once your cells have used all the glucose they need at that time, much of the remaining glucose is converted into glycogen (the storage form of glucose), which is then stored in the liver and muscles. The liver has a limited ability to store glycogen, though; it can only store enough glycogen to provide you with energy for about twenty-four hours. All the extra glucose that can’t be stored is converted into triglycerides, the storage form of fat, and stored in your fat cells.
When you don’t eat for a few hours and your blood sugar starts to drop, your body will call on the glycogen stored in the liver and muscles for energy before anything else. The pancreas releases a hormone called glucagon, which triggers the release of glucose from the glycogen stored in your liver to help raise your blood sugar levels. This process is called glycogenolysis. The glycogen stored in your liver is used exclusively to increase your blood glucose levels, while the glycogen stored in your muscles is used strictly as fuel for your muscles. When you eat carbohydrates again, your body uses the glucose it gets from them to replenish those glycogen stores. If you regularly eat carbohydrates, your body never has a problem getting access to glucose for energy and the stored fat stays where it is—in your fat cells.
ENERGY FROM PROTEIN
Protein is the body’s least favorite macronutrient to use as energy. This is because protein serves so many other functions in the body. Protein provides structural support to every cell in your body and helps maintain your body tissues. Proteins act as enzymes that play a role in all of the chemical reactions in your body. Without these enzymes, these chemical reactions would be so slow that your body wouldn’t be able to carry out basic processes like digestion and metabolism and you wouldn’t be able to survive. Proteins also help maintain fluid and acid-base balance, help transport substances such as oxygen through the body and waste out of the body, and act as antibodies to keep your immune system strong and help fight off illness.
Proteins are made up of amino acids. When you eat proteins, your body breaks them down into their individual amino acids, which are then converted into sugars through a process called gluconeogenesis. Your body can use these protein-turned-sugars as a form of energy, but that means your body isn’t using the amino acids for those other important functions. It’s best to avoid forcing the body to use protein for energy, and you do that by providing it with the other nutrients it needs.
ENERGY FROM FAT
In the absence of carbohydrates, your body turns to fat for energy. The fat from the food you eat is broken down into molecules called fatty acids, which enter the bloodstream through the walls of the small intestine. Most of your cells can directly use fatty acids for energy, but some specialized cells, such as the cells in your brain and your muscles, can’t run on fatty acids as they are. To appease these cells and give them the energy they need, your body uses fatty acids to make ketones.
WHAT IS KETOSIS?
In order to convert fat into useable energy, the liver breaks it down into fatty acids and then breaks down these fatty acids into energy-rich substances called ketones or ketone bodies. The presence of ketone bodies in the blood is called ketosis. The goal of a ketogenic diet is to kick your body into long-term ketosis, essentially turning it into a fat-burning machine.
THE CREATION OF KETONES
When following a ketogenic diet, fat is taken to the liver where it is broken down into glycerol and fatty acids through a process called beta-oxidation. The fatty-acid molecules are further broken down through a process called ketogenesis, and a specific ketone body called acetoacetate is formed.
Over time, as your body becomes adapted to using ketones as fuel, your muscles convert acetoacetate into beta-hydroxybutyrate, or BHB, which is the preferred ketogenic source of energy for your brain, and acetone, most of which is expelled from the body as waste.
The glycerol created during beta-oxidation goes through a process called gluconeogenesis. During gluconeogenesis, the body converts glycerol into glucose that your body can use for energy. Your body can also convert excess protein into glucose. Your body does need some glucose to function, but it doesn’t need carbohydrates to get it because it does a good job of converting whatever it can into the simple sugar.
KETOSIS AND WEIGHT LOSS
Now that you understand how your body creates energy and how ketones are formed, you may be left wondering how this translates into weight loss. When you eat a lot of carbohydrates, your