The Farm to Table Keto Food List

If you’ve stuck with the ketogenic diet for some time, you’ve probably realized how expensive it can get. It’s not a cheap diet, as most of the foods on this diet are without fillers, artificial enhancers, and preservatives.

For this reason, most plant-based diets don’t come cheap. The most affordable foods found at the grocery store, aren’t really nutritious even though they’re edible. This is why growing a Keto garden is a wise and cost-saving move for the modern farmer. Besides that, you’ll also have fresh food at your convenience and in abundance. If you plant via containers, you can make the most of limited space. If you have large amounts of farmland, you can plant any of these products, and rear cattle to achieve the optimal diet for your family at a very low cost. That said, here are some foods that should be grown on your farm, and included on your keto food list:

1) Tomatoes

There’s much debate around whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. However, there are no such uncertainties with its keto prowess. With an average carb constitute of about 4 g per 100 g serving, eating tomatoes ensures that very little carbohydrates or calories will be available to knock you out of ketosis. Moreover, tomatoes deepen the flavor of meals, work wonders in salads, and can also be steamed or eaten raw. They’re a very diverse option to include in your garden. In particular, cherry tomatoes stand out among the many tomato varieties as a great keto item.

2) Radish

Potatoes pair nicely with steak and many other greasy foods. However, these starchy, carb-heavy sides don’t pair well with the keto diet.

If you are steering clear of potatoes because of their notorious carb content, radish will offer welcome relief. Besides boasting very little starch content, growing radish is also ideal as they are fast-growing with a harvest span of four weeks. This means that you may be reading this article today, and substituting your typical potato or grain with radish by the next full moon.

Once roasted, radish will lose the bitter aftertaste and prove a like-for-like swap with potatoes in terms of flavor. What’s more, they pack a healthy punch of vitamins and minerals good for digestion, heart health, and blood pressure. If you’re not a fan of radish, try ricing cauliflower or making cauliflower mashed “potatoes” as a keto substitute for this classic carby filler.

3) Kohlrabi

Another keto alternative for potatoes is the Kohlrabi. Kohlrabi can fill the shoes of potato side dishes, and also minimize cravings for carbs just as well as radish. If fries are your kryptonite, like many Americans, you can more than make do with Kohlrabi as an alternative which looks just as good, and some say, tastes even better.

These are also a great noodle substitute and are usually ready for consumption a few weeks after planting. Additional pros of Kohlrabi include that it’s a great source of fiber and that it has cancer-fighting benefits as well.

More on Eating Keto

The ketogenic diet revolves around consuming healthy fats while keeping the body in a state of ‘ketosis.’

Ketosis is the process of lowering the number of carbs in your diet so that the body begins to burn fat instead of carbs for energy. This creates substances called ketones, which can be used as fuel.

When your body is running on ketones, you’re considered to be in a state of ketosis. Keto is a great diet for weight loss and curbing the appetite to yield peak performance. On this diet, you’ll find that it’s easier to eat less, while you’re able to focus and perform better. This is because the body exerts much less energy towards processing food, so you can get on with life and you don’t have to live in the cycle of food-dependence, cravings, mood swings, and weight gain.

Keto is also becoming more and more popular as people are leaving veganism, and other plant-based diets that starve the body of key nutrients. Fundamentally, people are getting back to our roots with diets like the Keto diet and Paleo diet, which focus on getting fundamental nutrients without all the fluff.

4) Broccoli

This is one of the best plants to grow and eat.

Eating broccoli ensures you stay in ketosis with its low starch content at 4 grams of net carbs. Broccoli goes with just about anything thrown its way, and anything it’s thrown into. From soups to casseroles, broccoli is a crowd favorite on the Keto diet.

Moreover, it’s brimming with essential micronutrients and ranks among the simplest cruciferous vegetables to grow.

However, growing broccoli requires patience as it can take between three and five months to harvest, and hence, it best pairs with other vegetables during planting.

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5) Spinach

Lastly, you can’t go wrong with spinach.

Spinach is a vegetable that does well in nitrogen-rich soil, and it doesn’t have many upkeep requirements besides that.

The home-grown variety has a crunchier texture and tastes better than what you might get in a grocery store. Regardless of its position on the list, spinach is right up there among the super green & palatable keto foods, alongside tomatoes. It typically matches the carb composition of other vegetables and compliments any meal. Additionally, it avails lots of fiber, vitamin A, calcium, and vitamin C.

Most veggies and fruits have a high carb content, so they’re off-limits when you’re on a keto diet. These typically have enormous amounts of carbs. They can damage the bodies’ ability to process nutrients efficiently – with the exception of most leafy greens.

Keto Flu & Boredom

Generally, when you’re eating on a Keto Diet, you’ll grow bored quickly. Alternative the low carb vegetable sides and experiment with carb & sugar-free sauces to make the diet more enjoyable.

The Keto diet really isn’t a “diet, but a lifestyle choice.

Sure, you can do it for a short period of time, but the best results will come from a sustained commitment to a low carb lifestyle. Overall, it’s an excellent diet that sustained our ancestors for generations. It can be hard to adjust to this diet in the beginning, primarily because your body is going to go haywire. Additionally, the diet can become quite bland, and boring at times. You may find yourself eating the same meals over and over, but this is much healthier for the body.

Have you ever put premium gasoline in a car that’s been running on unleaded gasoline for years?

The vehicle may have a few hiccups, but will eventually adjust to the input of higher-quality gasoline. But if you put a different type of gasoline each time you fill your tank p the vehicle is never going to run as efficiently as possible.

In this case, eating Keto (low carb) is akin to putting premium gasoline in your body. If you cheat the diet frequently, you’ll experience hiccups frequently. If you switch to a premium lifestyle, with few cheat days, your life will change for the better. You may feel strange as you transition – but then your body will run much more efficiently.

Overall it’s a great diet, that may take some getting used to.

Because of this, many people struggle to stick to the low carb lifestyle when they begin experiencing candida die-off symptoms, or the keto flu.

Consequently, if you’re keen on avoiding serious medical issues down the road, or if you’re in dire need of natural, plant medicine right now – this diet may be just right for you.