KETO FAQS: What Does A Full Day of Eating Keto Look Like?

I get a lot of questions in my DMs and email asking what a typical day of eating looks like. So here are some of my go-to foods. I’ve been keto for 5 years and the majority of the time I practice Bulletproof Intermittent Fasting, so I typically drink a fat-filled coffee in the morning, then I eat lunch and dinner. Some people would say that

 

BREAKFAST: BULLETPROOF COFFEE

At its simplest form Bulletproof Coffee (or BPC) is coffee + grass-fed butter + Brain Octane Oil. I drink a 16oz from about 9-10am and it keeps me full all morning. 

  • Some mornings I drink a Starbucks instead, you can find some of my favorite drinks here. Technically drinks with sweetener wouldn’t fit “intermittent fasting” rules, but some days a girl just needs her Starbucks!

  • Then I also try to drink 1L of water before lunch


LUNCH: AROUND 12ISH OR 1ISH

Pre-COVID I worked in an office and I would eat out every weekday for lunch. Typical lunches for me include: 

  • Bunless burger with salad. No catsup. I always add cheese, bacon, and avocado when they have it. I never get onions because I don't like them, so for me not worth the carbs. Mayo, mustard or any other low carb toppings.

  • Poached salmon salad. I love salmon and I eat a lot of it.

  • Salmon Cobb Salad. A place near my work has a great cobb, but it comes with turkey, which is fine but boring. I ask them to make it with salmon instead, it costs more, but tastes 1,000,000x better.

  • Poke Bowl. As you can see I love fish, I also love raw fish. Poke bowls are one of my favorites and the place I go to has greens as an option. I load that up with spicy tuna, tuna, crab, salmon, avocado, cucumbers, masago, furikake, and green onions.

Now that I’ve been working at home, here are some of my go-to lunches:

  • Air fryer salmon with cauliflower rice.

  • Slow cooker chicken, one of the easiest versions is frozen chicken breasts with a jar of Trader Joes Salsa Verde.

  • Egg or chicken quesadillas.

  • Pepperoni with whipped cream cheese and Trader Joes Everything But the Bagel Seasoning.

  • Deli wraps with deli turkey, mayo, mustard and pickle.

  • Salmon burgers with avocado.

WATER

  • At lunch I drink more water. Sometimes I also have diet soda, which is a bad habit I want to quit! 

  • On a good day I drink 2L between lunch and dinner, but sometimes it is 1L

Pictures are from my Instagram @ketointhecity_

 

DINNER: AROUND 7

Obviously I love to cook, so I do cook a lot for dinner. Most of the recipes you see on my blog or Instagram are dishes I like to make a lot.

  • Steak with roasted cauliflower

  • Jalapeño poppers

  • Meatballs with zoodles

  • Check out the Protein and Soups & Sides sections for lots of dinner recipes

DESSERT: MAYBE TWICE A WEEK I EAT A KETO DESSERT. 

I hope these suggestions help you create your own keto menus and I hope this blog as well as my cookbooks provide tons of ideas of how to keep keto interesting.

Ketogenic Food Blogger, Ketogenic Mommy Blogger, Low Carb Food Blogger, Low Carb Mommy BloggerJen Fisch