What Staple Food or Dish do you constantly eat regularly when doing your OMAD - Keto Diet?
How does your Staple Food help you?
How does your Staple Food help you?
Rice is not what you would call a keto food at all, since it is basically all carbohydrate. To be on a keto diet, you will be eating mostly healthy fats and some proteins, and all of your carbs will be from vegetables and salad greens.Well for me it is rice. Because in my country there are lots of rice to eat. But of course because I am on a diet I only take a little amount of it
I am a rice eater and I don't think it is that easy to change when it comes to normal eating. But whenever I would add some pounds my tendency is to have no rice for dinner. With OMAD, maybe I can eat more rice because that will give me energy with its carbs and most of our dishes are fit for rice. And eating rice once a day is not bad albeit I think it is even healthy.
I am also reducing the rice that I eat during dinner. I have also reduced my rice serving on any meal of the day. I find it really helpful in reducing my weight and I also feel more healthy. I am not a very active person and optimizing my diet this way seems to be very effective. I am slowly removing snacks and slowly transitioning to OMAD diet.
What you are missing here, @Steve5 , is that we are talking about a KETO diet along with OMAD. For a keto diet, rice is totally not going to be appropriate.I think it could work. It's nice that one meal a day teaches us to control our appetite. We don't binge on unnecessary food because we have timed meals. It's a gradual change that makes us feel in control of our own well being.
I agree with you @Happyflowerlady however there is some evidence that people from certain (usually Asian) backgrounds are less susceptible to the insulin and blood sugar spikes that come from rice. because they have adapted to it over the generations. This is thought to be the reason why the Japanese are rarely overweight, have low levels of diabetes and suffer with less hear that disease (of course, the eat way less sugar and junk food and consume a lot of fish).
If you're going to eat rice, basmati is best. it is less starchy.
In a keto diet, rice is not good at all.
But, to answer the question of the original poster about a staple keto food... mine would be avocado. Nutrient dense, delicious, high in fat and easy on the digestion. Or alternatively - eggs. The perfect food.
For me, it is Ugali. ....
My basic main food is eggs too, but it is a scrambled egg dish with a lot more chopped vegetables than eggs--1 or 2 eggs with onions, mushrooms, kale, beets, chard, broccoli, peppers, carrots, garlic, etc. and then I also put in turmeric, ginger, and ground flax seeds. A big bowl full, it tastes terrific, and is very low carb.I’d probably say that eggs are a staple food of my keto diet. Not only are they a good source of protein and healthy fat, but there’s a huge number of ways that you can make them.
Omelet, scrambled, hard/soft boiled, poached, sunny side up, egg drop soup, eggs benedict—the list goes on and on. You can have a different egg-based meal every day of the week, which means you’re that much less likely to get tired of them.
I can only eat canned tuna so many times before I hate even the sound of opening the can.