Gentlemen,
THIS is how you prepare for so much WINNING!
I find the biggest road block to WINNING is ease of access. I have often stated that willpower is at best a finite resource and at worst a myth. So I felt that, for me and the wife, the best path to success was to make compliance as easy as possible (I feel the same way about working out. For the vast majority of people long term compliance is inversely proportional to how long it takes you to get there).
The wife picked up
Leanne Vogel's The Keto Diet as an impulse item from Costco a couple months back and it turns out that it's a very solid cookbook. So every evening for about six nights, while
@Otis was contemplating the keto health benefits of Coors Light vs Michelob Ultra and trying to figure out how many single malts he could have and not raid the Entenmanns shelf in his pantry, I got to work identifying all the recipes that 1) could be frozen & 2) had at as close to a 50% fiber content:total carbs ratio (because #ketoconstipationisreal!!!). Vogel's book is great in that it identifies which recipes can be frozen and has a breakdown of nutritional content for each recipe. I then put on my toque blance and got to cooking, portioning and vacuum sealing.
What you're looking at there is only the top layer of my freezer overflowing with prepared keto-friendly goodness. Breakfasts, Dinners, Snacks, Breadishes, Desserts all ready to go at a moments notice if (when) I don't feel like cooking.
I then looked at every recipe and verified it existed on Myfitnesspal, if not I added it (virtually all of them are up there already. Pro Tip: Search the recipe name and add the word keto at the end). I also prepared my own spreadsheet with all the nutrition info because, I'm like that.
The plan is not necessarily to eat these exclusively but rather use these to supplement our normal meals. I normally cook most nights but some days you don't have time to hunt down a keto-friendly lunch at the office or you're just darn tired when you get home and don't want to cook. That's when compliance becomes difficult or you just mail it in and microwave a mess'o'bacon and call that a meal. I figure I will have to do this process once every other month, which is completely reasonable.
I also signed up for the keto plan at
Green Chef meal kit service. It's my first foray into these services but the first three meals were remarkably good. It's three meals/week (delivered on the same day each week) and you are not obligated to participate every week. I have it set up for every other week right now and I'll see how it goes.
Honestly I have prepped so much for this FAILING will be much more difficult that WINNING!
What you can see in the photo is coconut lamb curry, no-nuts granola, breakfast jambalaya, one pot hamburger dinner, n'oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, crusty sandwich bread, bendy tortillas, bacon wrapped mini meatloaves, classic butter biscuits, baked olive chicken & prosciutto wrapped tilapia fillets. Not pictured: flaxseed cinnamon bun muffins, bacon lovers quiche, chicken crisps (baked chicken skins), baharat balls, thanksgiving balls, chili stuffed avocados (filling not the avocados), mind blowing burgers, chipotle spiced meatball subs, olive & tomato flaxseed foccacia, rosemary garlic bread, coconut mounds, almond chai truffles & jelly pie jars.