Keto Meal Prep: Lose Weight, Save Time, and Feel Your Best on the Ketogenic Diet Kindle Edition

A staple in our home for almost a year has been Liz’s, “The One-Pot Ketogenic Diet Cookbook”. Without this, I wouldn’t have gotten the idea for many of the fast and delicious foods that my family enjoys. Although my family is not 100% keto, or even 50%, they know dinner will be keto and it’ll be delicious.When Liz’s new cookbook, “Keto Meal Prep”, was introduced, I was SO READY! I have a keto meal plan that I’ve purchased; however, after a mini-stroke, I found it incredibly difficult to make a list of items I needed from this meal plan without getting lost on what was needed on what day and not buying things too far in advance and so on. I left something off, always – or bought too much of something and started a stockpile in my freezer.Here are my favorite things about this new meal prep book!1. Great list of items to enjoy while on keto and why or if it should be in moderation.2. List of foods to limit and why. Being told why, helps you rationalize WAY more why it’s limited.3. Keto flu symptoms and how to avoid it. For some, it just happens. I’ve been lucky and never had it.4. Basic meal prep principals. We all hear how awesome meal prep is but if you’re busy, you still think it’s just not an option. Liz helps you realize, it really is, and it’ll help you stay on track!5. Intermittent fasting is explained in the simplest of ways – maybe it’s right for you.6. “The Art of Storage” – you never knew this was really a big deal, but I now know it is if I want my food to last! The food storage chart was incredibly helpful. I NEVER knew that cooked meats could last so long. I’ve been throwing away items WAY too soon!7. Meal prep lifestyles – What is this? Well – whether you’re a beginner or advanced and just want to maintain, she’s made it easy for you and customized it without you whipping your HSA card out.8. Weekly layout – This my friends is where the glory lives. I cannot put into words how incredibly helpful these pages are.a. Shopping list for the week, sorted by produce, protein, dairy and pantry. Woman after my own heart! My heart fluttered; my OCD smiled, and I KNEW this was going to be easy.b. Step by step prep – condensed into a couple pages and NOT overwhelming!c. Daily menu in a snapshot – this helps me know what I need to change IF I want to OR tells my kids what they’re going to be having for the week. For my family, I still make the dinners but add a pork chop or other protein for them, so they feel fuller. Personally, I DO feel full because I’ve been eating different than them for the day.9. Customization with each meal. Liz gives you the freedom to be creative and add a few more ingredients for taste. I like this because I don’t feel like it’s a take it or leave it menu.10. DAIRY FREE OPTIONS!! You read right. For each meal, you have the option to be dairy free. For many, lactose intolerance and keto are hard. Everything has cheese – cheese is life after all! Liz gives you a replacement item for your dairy, so you still have a thickener in place of a dairy item. (my personal experience is that it’s usually a thickener but don’t take that as gospel)11. Macro listings – Liz makes it easy to know what you’re eating for the day without tracking everything in an app the exhaustive and manual way. You already know for each meal what your macros will be and what your daily intake is going to be.12. Ingredient and cooking tips – Liz tells you some tips for ingredients you may want to add that she loves to add or some cooking tips to make your food more flavorful in the long run.13. Staples and bonus recipes– So this sounds weird, but this section of the cookbook is just…BEYOND one of my favorite.a. Avocado lime dressing – what an awesome side item. This is something I put on everything. It’s SO good over deviled eggs. I LOVE the flavor.b. Dairy free ranch – YES PLEASE! Although since being on keto I’m far less lactose intolerant, sometimes I just don’t want to chance it.c. Caesar dressing – my daughter is a sucker for Caesar anything and she LOVES this dressing in the biggest way!d. Fat coffee – don’t feel obligated to have this but if you do, the ground cinnamon is a game changer. MCT oil and I don’t get along but the rest of it helps to get it on down. 8 oz isn’t that much either.e. Breakfasts – I use this for quick things to make on the weekends sometimes. Now with an instantpot, omelet muffins are easy, and the kids can do it.14. Lunch and dinners – these are QUICK people and I rely on these for days I come home and don’t feel well or it’s late and my family has so sweetly waited for me to cook…15. Vegetables and snacks – you can read this section but let me jump to a few of my favorite itemsa. Coconut chocolate mousseb. Blended strawberry coconut ice popsc. Caprese chopped salad – I could live on this stuff!My take away from this book is this – no matter how much time you think you don’t have, this guide makes it possible for you to have time. Recipes are simple, quick and delicious. It’s so well laid out, not confusing and visually puts you at ease. When I first saw it, I thought, “Oh wow, I can do this”, and I did. I used to feel overwhelmed with other meal preps because you don’t get it drilled down like this. In this format, it’s easy to be successful. HUGE kudos for Liz in writing another incredible tool for keto’ers of all styles!

Update: week two prep was just as frustrating as week one. Fortunately all of the needed ingredients were on the shopping list, however again the recipes call for way more of those ingredients than the shopping list says and prepping was confusing and extremely time consuming. Meals for week two do look more appealing and I've shown weight loss from following week one, about 6lb, hence the added star.So far my experience with this book has been awful. I'm only on week one so I may be back with an update, but here are my immediate complaints:1. The week 1 shopping list has missing items and incorrect amounts. One recipe calls for avocado, no avocado on the shopping list. Shopping list says you need 24 eggs, you actually need more like 30.2. The instructions are subpar. You have to jump around the book several times and it's not always obvious how much you're supposed to be cooking of what, and when. I had to stop one thing on several occasions to start on another thing, not knowing the recipe called for the latter item until everything else had been started.3. The book clearly states "ready-to-go keto for every day of the week" but it only has meals for 5 days of the week. Last I checked, ther are 7 days a week. What do I eat for the other 2 days?4. And here is what really made me hate this book: there are only two weeks of meal prep recipes for the beginner stage. I'm just supposed to eat the same 2 preps for the entirety of my beginners stage? Or do I do beginner, then performance, then maintenance all back-to-back, regardless of how much I have to lose? None of this is explained. Just annoying.

New to Keto and wanted help to kickoff the journey. Made week one yesterday, went shopping and followed the shopping list. Well the shopping list did not have avocado on it which is part of the burger meal. It had two dozen eggs but recipes have you make more. Does not mention needing to adjust recipes to make only what is needed for the week meal prep. And the first week the net carbs on day one are 33 which was higher than I expected. I will keep at it and maybe come back and update this with what I hope is a better review.

This meal preps in this book do not keep you under 20 carbs per day! She even adds in sweet potatoes towards the maintenance phase - that is not Keto.

All the recipes look delicious. Haven’t tried any yet. But at first glance: Organized beautifully. I love that it has the 3 different types of prep (beginner, performer, maintenance). I liked all the bonus recipes too.Only one star down because I would’ve liked to see pictures for each meal prep recipe. Maybe it’s just my personal opinion, but cooking is very much visual and I believe cookbooks should be as well.Otherwise, still looks great. I follow Liz on IG and am inspired by her fitness level. That’s how I came to purchase.

Good recipes and a solid way to get started with Keto. The weekly summaries ingredient list don't match up well with what the actual recipes call for though. I ended up wasting a lot of food going off the summary list, next time I'll just look at the recipe itself.

I just started on Keto, so I was looking for a simple introduction. I have been a long time bikini bodybuilder, so I am very familiar with meal prep in general. However, keto focuses on higher fat consumption than I am used to, hence the reason for this purchase. When I first opened the book, she gave a very concise and to the point summary of her background and why she wrote the book.There are six weeks worth of meal prep meal plans in this book, along with loads of good to know basics about how to recreate some of your favorites in keto form; pancakes, etc.I love that she took the whole meal prep and then mixed it up and gave you the exact shopping list that you would need (and amounts) to create each week's meal prep. I am going to be doing this meal prep on Sunday and it is beyond easy.

This book is such a useful fund of information. I am disabled and I do follow a non dairy keto diet. I was finding it a strain having to prepare a meal each evening. The prep at the weekend producing a whole week's, sometimes two weeks worth of meals to freeze working in half hour slots is a god send. Makes me wonder why I didn't do it before. This book just makes it doable. The only moan i have is that the book wasn't better edited as there are quite a few blocks of duplicate pages.

Uninspiring. written for the USA and referring to USA ingredients. For me a waste of money

Not really for UK but otherwise ok

I recommend this to several people. If you looking to lose weight, this bulk cooking book allows you to walk to the fridge and have food ready to eat. I have lost 10lbs in 25 days because of this book. BRILLIANT

Great book for beginners and pros alike. Lots and lots of recipes for every taste. I use this book day in and day out. I bought this book from the very beginning of starting my keto journey nearly a year ago and to this day like mentioned above I still use it on a daily basis. This book not only covers lots of recipes for different occasions. It gives lots of information on how to prep and store food which is an excellent addition.