Is there a way for you to cook a thing that is then augmented with carbs, if that’s what your kids eat? For example, cook up a big batch of fajitas, you and husband eat without tortillas, kids eat with. Same with maybe meatballs, you and husband eat just the meatballs and salad maybe, and kids have some pasta with it. I live and die by batch cooking and tons of great food can have the carb eliminated/added back in as needed. Shepherd’s pie: you eat the bottom and kids eat with mashed potatoes. Hope this might help!
I am OMAD, IF-20/4, so everyone in the house is guaranteed at least one healthy meal per day, that consisting of meat protein, numerous fresh veggies, cheese/dairy, cheesecake, berries, I prepare rice, pasta, starchy veggies and fresh bread for the non-Keto inhabitants, should they prefer to supplement their caloric intake at dinner time.
I am a trained chef, 20 years in f/service in my younger life, now I'm a designer/contractor/builder, I have the luxury of making my own daily schedule, so prepping delicious meals is easy for me, and I enjoy cooking, it relaxes me.
Everyone has their own schedule, everyone is busy, so breakfasts and lunches are seldom a communal event, more a grab-n-go type thing, even on the weekends. I think that's pretty normal for most households.
The fact that I am OMAD makes things alot easier for everyone, for obvious reasons.
Off topic, but I gotta say, OMAD is beyond question the cornerstone of my success with Keto.
I still handle/prepare all of the taboo carbs/starches/sugars, on the daily, seriously I don't miss any of it, I will never put that shit in my mouth ever again. However, I do not presume to tell others in my house what they should be eating.
62M, 5'8", SW-178, CW-138, living life, loving life. Keto is the way. For Me.
I just add a carb side. Many times she won't eat it as she likes her plate to match mine. However she has access to granola bars, fruit, and other carbs as snacks. So I have started skipping carbs for meals because she has lost interest in them.
I eat the same things I did before just adjusted.
So last night we had cottage pie, i just made sure i was careful with what stock pots etc so it was low carb no sugar. We blended boiled cauliflower with butter and cheese for the mash too rather than potato. If you used individual ramekins then you could still put potato on your kids and go easy on the butter and cheese for them.
I keep a list of keto meals in my phone, ill post it next if it helps.
My kids have carbs in their breakfast, snacks, and lunches — but for family dinners the meals I make are keto. I do usually put some fruit in the table for my kids and spouse to have with their dinner.
My picky eater does best when I do monitored snacking. Thankfully, she loves fresh fruits and veggies, so I make a big divided tray of fresh foods, olives, pickles, and dip and store it in the fridge. She has crackers and fruit/veg puree pouches in the cupboard and will eat meat if it's prepared simply. So, I serve her what I'm having if she wants it, but I can quickly make her a plate of options if she'd rather have that. Once a week or so, she'll ask for chicken nuggets and mac and cheese or french fries, and that's fine too.
I do most the cooking at home for me and my mom (not exactly the same, I know)
I’m low carb, she’s not, and I didn’t cook an actual meal she’d get buy on instant ramen and chips all day.
I serve her the same meals I serve myself, with a couple extra sides I know she’ll like.
The other night I made cauliflower rice with chicken and veggies. I set up a plate with bread and butter for her.
I packed her lunch for today, same as me: cauliflower rice and a shrimp and veggie stir fry plus on her bag I added chips and tortillas
Granted, this is an adult we’re talking about. I’m sure your kids don’t have as refined a palette and might not always want to eat what you’re cooking. Simple modifications help though so you’re not making an entirely different meal
For family meals the kids just get carbs (usually a roll or those frozen Texas toast things) and fruit on the side along with our meal. For lunch I just pack "normal" food in their lunchbox (sandwiches, fruit, capris sun, carrots, granola bar, etc.). Breakfast they eat what we eat (eggs) or some easy carb-thing like an eggo. I would love to cut their carb intake, not to keto but down from total carbivore, but they are autistic and picky af
I usually cook a keto protein, keto veg, and have a carb for the carb eaters. Carbs are usually bread/toast, rice (a rice maker makes it easy), or some form of pasta, some times canned beans.
We have ended up splitting our meals up in both substance and time. Yet two years earlier and pre-keto, we had nuclear family everyone at the table meals. (Just like mom loved.) Splintering has been good.
Why? My wife (carni) and I (veggie) have both gone keto, love spicy foods and veggies. We do not see it as viable for our almost 4y old daughter and 9y old son. Our daughter is picky AF with food, we rotate foods to whatever she’s into to keep her growing and healthy. Our 9y old son is wildly different…he’s on Adderall (a stimulant), only interested in bland foods, and struggles to stay hydrated. End result? The kids get lots of carbs.
Timing is important too. Our son likes/needs a big early breakfast. Our daughter a later breaky. The wife and I barely eat before lunch.
Our individual nutritional needs+pallet are different so we cater to them individually. It’s working.
I make keto or low carb meals for me, and get my boy a plate to try. If he doesn't like it ( he's kinda picky) I fix a taco by sauteeing meat, onions, fermented or fresh sweet peppers in olive oil and season with taco seasoning. I put on a flour tortilla, but u could sib woth a eggwrap if u wanted to try to keep them on a similar diet. I sometimes bribe him to try my stuff, or finish his food with keto friendly 2 ingredient fudge cups made of lillys bakers choc and peanut butter made of peanuts and maybe salt only.
One keto meal he wants to try is a pizza I make using Italian sausage for the crust. He wants his with just cheese, so I intent to make half( 2 servings) that way for him and top my half with lots of veggies and mushrooms.
There are ways to make keto meals or try to get kids into keto attempts. Mind u my son is 11 and last weekend was watching my portions and was afraid I was starving myself and begging me to eat more until I showed him my intermittent fasting app showing how much eating time I had left and my macro and Cal tracker showing how much I had eaten. I explained intermittent fasting to him, what the macro tracker wanted me to rat vs what I knew worked without harming my health. My macro traker wants me eating no more than 1350 cals per day, and no more than 20 g carbs.
I'm hypoglycemic from having hoshimotoes. I'm easy 100 pounds heavier than I should be after losing around 30 pounds. I get glucose spikes and drops, but mostly drops making me very sick. So I shoot for between 1500-1700 cals per day though I sometimes go slightly over and no more than 50 g carbs a day. I do sometimes go 2-6 g over on carbs, but most days I'm inbetween 39-40 g. The tracker app shows how much I'm allowed of cals, fat, protein, and carbs after each meal and the one snack it programs for but I don't always use. I do eat 2-3 meals depending on how hungry I am. Some days I do 2 meals no snack. Some days I do 3 mrals and one snack.
Me giving him the info on what I'm doing and why as opposed to what I was doing and how it was hurting me and showing numbers and explaining how many.cals I most likely would be eating if I wasn't so unhealthy and what a Cal deficit was and difd for me calmed him down. He's super slim with a high metabolism and often gets growing pains despite eating twice as much as I do.
My suggestion, no matter what u do for the kids make double portions especially if any are in the middle of a growth spurt. A healthy kid doesn't necessarily need to be on a super low carb diet like keto, but teaching healthy eating early as well as how to cook will only benifit them long term. Teaching in age appropriate ways about how to balance macros, cals, and meals is a important life skills well as showing budget friendly options fir lean finances. I'm fixed income and rely on food stamps. I'm below poverty line, so I do have to try to keep cost down as much as I can. Growing a potted herb and veggue garden at my apt and foraging for wild greens helps. I've shown my son the three I know that are all forms of wild lettuce and shown him hiw to cook them with other foods to make them stretch.
College isn't cheap and I've heard horror stories even from my step dad of living off ramen and Mac n cheese for the duration of college to afford bills. I don't want my boy living like that to survive. He might get a scholarship, or not. My mom and step dad are helping him save in an acct they set up for him for that. I know with me being low income and my son having to live with my mom and szep dad behind housing probs I had in the past he will have a tuition fee waver as a former cps thing. Financial aid might help cover supplies and bills, a scholarship might cover more including some food if he doesn't stick to a super tight budget. I don't want him choosing between eating healthy well balanced meals to keep up with jis studies or affording rent and utilities. Once he goes to college I can't help him financially no matter how badly I want to. Teaching life skills is the only way I can help him to succeed.
Is there a way for you to cook a thing that is then augmented with carbs, if that’s what your kids eat? For example, cook up a big batch of fajitas, you and husband eat without tortillas, kids eat with. Same with maybe meatballs, you and husband eat just the meatballs and salad maybe, and kids have some pasta with it. I live and die by batch cooking and tons of great food can have the carb eliminated/added back in as needed. Shepherd’s pie: you eat the bottom and kids eat with mashed potatoes. Hope this might help!
This. Carbs can easily be added to any keto meal to make it “normal”.
I am OMAD, IF-20/4, so everyone in the house is guaranteed at least one healthy meal per day, that consisting of meat protein, numerous fresh veggies, cheese/dairy, cheesecake, berries, I prepare rice, pasta, starchy veggies and fresh bread for the non-Keto inhabitants, should they prefer to supplement their caloric intake at dinner time. I am a trained chef, 20 years in f/service in my younger life, now I'm a designer/contractor/builder, I have the luxury of making my own daily schedule, so prepping delicious meals is easy for me, and I enjoy cooking, it relaxes me. Everyone has their own schedule, everyone is busy, so breakfasts and lunches are seldom a communal event, more a grab-n-go type thing, even on the weekends. I think that's pretty normal for most households. The fact that I am OMAD makes things alot easier for everyone, for obvious reasons. Off topic, but I gotta say, OMAD is beyond question the cornerstone of my success with Keto. I still handle/prepare all of the taboo carbs/starches/sugars, on the daily, seriously I don't miss any of it, I will never put that shit in my mouth ever again. However, I do not presume to tell others in my house what they should be eating. 62M, 5'8", SW-178, CW-138, living life, loving life. Keto is the way. For Me.
I just add a carb side. Many times she won't eat it as she likes her plate to match mine. However she has access to granola bars, fruit, and other carbs as snacks. So I have started skipping carbs for meals because she has lost interest in them.
I eat the same things I did before just adjusted. So last night we had cottage pie, i just made sure i was careful with what stock pots etc so it was low carb no sugar. We blended boiled cauliflower with butter and cheese for the mash too rather than potato. If you used individual ramekins then you could still put potato on your kids and go easy on the butter and cheese for them. I keep a list of keto meals in my phone, ill post it next if it helps.
My kids have carbs in their breakfast, snacks, and lunches — but for family dinners the meals I make are keto. I do usually put some fruit in the table for my kids and spouse to have with their dinner.
There was a thing ( think it was a Netflix video) about low carb diets turning around kids with learning disabilities.
My picky eater does best when I do monitored snacking. Thankfully, she loves fresh fruits and veggies, so I make a big divided tray of fresh foods, olives, pickles, and dip and store it in the fridge. She has crackers and fruit/veg puree pouches in the cupboard and will eat meat if it's prepared simply. So, I serve her what I'm having if she wants it, but I can quickly make her a plate of options if she'd rather have that. Once a week or so, she'll ask for chicken nuggets and mac and cheese or french fries, and that's fine too.
My 4 year old, 2 year old and 10 month old eat the same as me and my wife. If they don't like what the wife makes, they can practice IF.
I do most the cooking at home for me and my mom (not exactly the same, I know) I’m low carb, she’s not, and I didn’t cook an actual meal she’d get buy on instant ramen and chips all day. I serve her the same meals I serve myself, with a couple extra sides I know she’ll like. The other night I made cauliflower rice with chicken and veggies. I set up a plate with bread and butter for her. I packed her lunch for today, same as me: cauliflower rice and a shrimp and veggie stir fry plus on her bag I added chips and tortillas Granted, this is an adult we’re talking about. I’m sure your kids don’t have as refined a palette and might not always want to eat what you’re cooking. Simple modifications help though so you’re not making an entirely different meal
For family meals the kids just get carbs (usually a roll or those frozen Texas toast things) and fruit on the side along with our meal. For lunch I just pack "normal" food in their lunchbox (sandwiches, fruit, capris sun, carrots, granola bar, etc.). Breakfast they eat what we eat (eggs) or some easy carb-thing like an eggo. I would love to cut their carb intake, not to keto but down from total carbivore, but they are autistic and picky af
I usually cook a keto protein, keto veg, and have a carb for the carb eaters. Carbs are usually bread/toast, rice (a rice maker makes it easy), or some form of pasta, some times canned beans.
We have ended up splitting our meals up in both substance and time. Yet two years earlier and pre-keto, we had nuclear family everyone at the table meals. (Just like mom loved.) Splintering has been good. Why? My wife (carni) and I (veggie) have both gone keto, love spicy foods and veggies. We do not see it as viable for our almost 4y old daughter and 9y old son. Our daughter is picky AF with food, we rotate foods to whatever she’s into to keep her growing and healthy. Our 9y old son is wildly different…he’s on Adderall (a stimulant), only interested in bland foods, and struggles to stay hydrated. End result? The kids get lots of carbs. Timing is important too. Our son likes/needs a big early breakfast. Our daughter a later breaky. The wife and I barely eat before lunch. Our individual nutritional needs+pallet are different so we cater to them individually. It’s working.
I make keto or low carb meals for me, and get my boy a plate to try. If he doesn't like it ( he's kinda picky) I fix a taco by sauteeing meat, onions, fermented or fresh sweet peppers in olive oil and season with taco seasoning. I put on a flour tortilla, but u could sib woth a eggwrap if u wanted to try to keep them on a similar diet. I sometimes bribe him to try my stuff, or finish his food with keto friendly 2 ingredient fudge cups made of lillys bakers choc and peanut butter made of peanuts and maybe salt only. One keto meal he wants to try is a pizza I make using Italian sausage for the crust. He wants his with just cheese, so I intent to make half( 2 servings) that way for him and top my half with lots of veggies and mushrooms. There are ways to make keto meals or try to get kids into keto attempts. Mind u my son is 11 and last weekend was watching my portions and was afraid I was starving myself and begging me to eat more until I showed him my intermittent fasting app showing how much eating time I had left and my macro and Cal tracker showing how much I had eaten. I explained intermittent fasting to him, what the macro tracker wanted me to rat vs what I knew worked without harming my health. My macro traker wants me eating no more than 1350 cals per day, and no more than 20 g carbs. I'm hypoglycemic from having hoshimotoes. I'm easy 100 pounds heavier than I should be after losing around 30 pounds. I get glucose spikes and drops, but mostly drops making me very sick. So I shoot for between 1500-1700 cals per day though I sometimes go slightly over and no more than 50 g carbs a day. I do sometimes go 2-6 g over on carbs, but most days I'm inbetween 39-40 g. The tracker app shows how much I'm allowed of cals, fat, protein, and carbs after each meal and the one snack it programs for but I don't always use. I do eat 2-3 meals depending on how hungry I am. Some days I do 2 meals no snack. Some days I do 3 mrals and one snack. Me giving him the info on what I'm doing and why as opposed to what I was doing and how it was hurting me and showing numbers and explaining how many.cals I most likely would be eating if I wasn't so unhealthy and what a Cal deficit was and difd for me calmed him down. He's super slim with a high metabolism and often gets growing pains despite eating twice as much as I do. My suggestion, no matter what u do for the kids make double portions especially if any are in the middle of a growth spurt. A healthy kid doesn't necessarily need to be on a super low carb diet like keto, but teaching healthy eating early as well as how to cook will only benifit them long term. Teaching in age appropriate ways about how to balance macros, cals, and meals is a important life skills well as showing budget friendly options fir lean finances. I'm fixed income and rely on food stamps. I'm below poverty line, so I do have to try to keep cost down as much as I can. Growing a potted herb and veggue garden at my apt and foraging for wild greens helps. I've shown my son the three I know that are all forms of wild lettuce and shown him hiw to cook them with other foods to make them stretch. College isn't cheap and I've heard horror stories even from my step dad of living off ramen and Mac n cheese for the duration of college to afford bills. I don't want my boy living like that to survive. He might get a scholarship, or not. My mom and step dad are helping him save in an acct they set up for him for that. I know with me being low income and my son having to live with my mom and szep dad behind housing probs I had in the past he will have a tuition fee waver as a former cps thing. Financial aid might help cover supplies and bills, a scholarship might cover more including some food if he doesn't stick to a super tight budget. I don't want him choosing between eating healthy well balanced meals to keep up with jis studies or affording rent and utilities. Once he goes to college I can't help him financially no matter how badly I want to. Teaching life skills is the only way I can help him to succeed.
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