What to Eat
When beginning the Ketogenic Diet people often wonder what types of foods they should be eating and what their daily caloric allowance should be. In my experience, counting calories isn’t a necessity. Don’t get me wrong, you don’t want to jump the gun and think you can eat as many calories as you’d like but a big part of the ketogenic diet is ensuring you have enough healthy fats and a moderate amount of protein to keep you satiated for longer. Counting calories or fat intake is not exactly necessary because eating foods low in carbs and high in fiber is going to naturally keep the body fulfilled and satisfied for a longer period of time. The goal is to make sure to keep your fat intake high with healthy fats to satisfy your hunger pangs, keep insulin levels steady, and cravings low.

While below is a great list of food substitutes it is not all inclusive, there are many other substitutions not listed that can be very beneficial in the ketogenic lifestyle. Just be sure to always check the nutrition label.

Food Substitutions: 
Common Foods                                                  Common Food Replacements

Vegetable oil and canola oil	MCT oils, Coconut oil, Avocado oil
Margarine	Grass fed butter, coconut butter
Bread Crusts or Fried food breading	Pork Rind Dust or Parmesan cheese
Pancakes/Waffles	Almond flour pancakes and waffles; cream cheese pancakes
Common table salt	Pink Himalayan salt; Celtic Sea Salt
Chips	Baked Parmesan Crisps, Bacon Chips
Buns or Bread	Cloud Bread, Lettuce Wrap
Biscuits	Low carb keto biscuits made with blanched almond flour
Dough pizza	Cauliflower crusted pizza
Mashed potatoes	Loaded Cauliflower potatoes
Pasta	Zucchini, spaghetti squash or shirataki  noodles
Taco shells	Baked parmesan cheese shells
Sweets and treats	Fat Bombs and low carb desserts
Soda	LaCroix or natural sparkling water with stevia sweetened flavoring drops
Fruit Juice	Low carb berries with heavy whipping cream and almond milk smoothie
Coffee and sweetener; cappuccino	Fat Coffee, Functional Fat Coffee, or Coffee with Stevia and your favorite flavored sweetener drops (i.e caramel or vanilla drops)
Flour	Almond or Coconut flour
Sugar	Stevia, Erythritol or Swerve sweetener
Yogurt	Full fat greek yogurt, cottage cheese, coconut milk yogurt

Quality Recipes
Eating ketogenic does not have to be boring or fully restrictive of the things you love. When it truly is adopted as a lifestyle change, you will dive more into finding tons of quality recipes and tweaking the recipes you already love to fit the ketogenic way of eating.