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The simple, friendly way to start the ketogenic diet and lifestyle
Starting the ketogenic diet can be overwhelming―so much to learn, so many resources to choose from. So why doesn’t somebody make it easy? We did with this must-have cookbook. The Complete Ketogenic Diet for Beginners makes it easy to start, and stick with, the ketogenic diet. You get exactly what you need for surprisingly simple keto: meal plans, shopping lists, support, and lots of keto-licious recipes.
What sets this ketogenic cookbook apart from other keto books for beginners:
- 75 scrumptious recipes―From Bacon-Artichoke Omelets to Pesto Zucchini Noodles, these easy-to-follow recipes can be prepared in 30 minutes or less.
- 14-day meal plan―With breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack suggestions, this book takes the guesswork out of starting your ketogenic diet.
- The big picture―An overview explaining the fundamentals of the ketogenic diet and handy charts illustrating nutritional information help you master keto in no time.
Easy meets delicious meets healthy in this ketogenic diet and healthy lifestyle guide and cookbook. Start eating keto today!
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 20, 2016
- File size38488 KB
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From the Publisher
The perfect place to begin your ketogenic diet:
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The power of ketoLose weight, improve digestion, and feel sharper and more alert with keto. This ketogenic cookbook beginner’s guide shows you the way. |
Plenty of varietyEating a keto diet comes with new rules, but this cookbook makes sure you don’t get bored, with recipes for everything from Bacon-Artichoke Omelets to Chocolate-Coconut Treats. |
Quick and easy mealsMost recipes can be made in just 30 minutes, and all recipes include nutritional information, including macros. |
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
AMY RAMOS is the pen name of the author behind the bestsellers The Complete Ketogenic Cookbook for Beginners and the Easy Ketogenic Diet Slow Cooking cookbook (Rockridge Press). A professional chef for over 25 years, Amy is a passionate advocate for the ketogenic diet and the health benefits of a low-carb lifestyle. Her areas of expertise include recipe development, holistic health, and medically restricted diets.
Foreword writer AMANDA C. HUGHES is a ketogenic chef based in New England with nearly a decade of experience in developing and cooking popular low-carb and paleo recipes. Stemming from the success of her ketogenic food adventure blog, WickedStuffed.com, she authored the cookbook The Wicked Good Ketogenic Diet. Her advice and recipes have been described as “life-saving,” “hilarious,” “delicious,” and “nonsense free” by the hundreds of thousands of keto-loving home chefs who loyally follow her.
Rockridge Press is a trusted voice in health and diet books, publishing a wide variety of lifestyle guides and cookbooks, including multiple New York Times Best Sellers, such as Bacon & Butter: The Ultimate Ketogenic Diet Cookbook and The Wicked Good Ketogenic Diet Cookbook: Easy, Whole Keto Diets for Any Budget. The diet experts at Rockridge Press take pride in publishing thoughtful, well-researched books that help readers make positive lifestyle changes and build permanent healthy habits. Headquartered in Berkeley, California, Rockridge Press is situated in the heart of one of the healthiest regions in the world, the San Francisco Bay Area.
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What Readers Are Saying About <strongThe Complete Ketogenic Diet for Beginners:
"What I love about this book is that it brings healthy ingredients to the forefront, without being snobby. The section on keto-friendly alternatives is particularly useful, and every recipe is just 6 carbs! That’s some no-brainer type of keto stuff I can get behind."―Amanda C. Hughes, Keto Cook at WickedStuffed.com, author of Keto Life and The Wicked Good Ketogenic Diet
“This book was incredibly helpful for a keto newbie. I love that there are shopping lists that coordinate with the recipes!”―Nancy T.
“The author was informative and had a strong knowledge on Keto. I feel like this book has equipped me to be knowledgeable and successful with my new Keto low carb journey. Highly recommend this book to others.”―Ccoard
--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.Review
What Readers Are Saying About <strongThe Complete Ketogenic Diet for Beginners:
"What I love about this book is that it brings healthy ingredients to the forefront, without being snobby. The section on keto-friendly alternatives is particularly useful, and every recipe is just 6 carbs! That’s some no-brainer type of keto stuff I can get behind."―Amanda C. Hughes, Keto Cook at WickedStuffed.com, author of Keto Life and The Wicked Good Ketogenic Diet
“This book was incredibly helpful for a keto newbie. I love that there are shopping lists that coordinate with the recipes!”―Nancy T.
“The author was informative and had a strong knowledge on Keto. I feel like this book has equipped me to be knowledgeable and successful with my new Keto low carb journey. Highly recommend this book to others.”―Ccoard
--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.Product details
- ASIN : B01N9892Q6
- Publisher : Rockridge Press (December 20, 2016)
- Publication date : December 20, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 38488 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 162 pages
- Lending : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #9,255 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1 in Macrobiotics
- #2 in Ketogenic Cookbooks (Kindle Store)
- #3 in Low Carb Cooking
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About the author

AMY RAMOS is the pen name of the author behind the bestsellers The Complete Ketogenic Cookbook for Beginners and Easy Ketogenic Diet Slow Cooking cookbook (Rockridge Press). A professional chef for over 25 years, Amy Ramos is a passionate advocate for the ketogenic diet and the health benefits of a low-carb lifestyle. Her areas of expertise include recipe development, holistic health, and medically restricted diets.
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Chapter 2 - Go Keto in 5 steps. 1-clean out your pantry. Egads! No dates or peas, 2 of my favorites! 2-Go shopping and stock up on the basics- water, coffee, tea, spices, herbs, non-sugar sweeteners, lemon & lime juice, mayo, mustard, pesto, sriracha, broths, pickled foods, nuts & seeds, meats, eggs, wild caught fish, nonstarchy veggies, berries, avocados, full fat dairy, avocado oil, olive oil, butter, lard, bacon fat. 3-set up your kitchen with a food scale, food processor, spiralizer, hand mixer, and cast iron pan. 4- plan your meals, and 5 -exercise!
Part 2, the 14 day meal plan, not only gives you the meal outline for the week for breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and dinner, but it gives you the nutritional breakdown of calories, fat, protein, carbs, fiber & net carbs, it then gives you what page to find the recipe on, THEN it gives you a weekly shopping list! Bonus!

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2018


Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2018

Ramos includes basic ketogenics information at the front of the book and tips for eating away from home at the end. In between is a lot of helpful information.
The book contains a two week menu for beginners. (Face it, there's a 90% chance you won't follow it to the letter, but it does help set your thinking in the right direction.) For each individual week there's a shopping list which, by itself, will help you adjust your kitchen quite a bit. There are tips on the best sweeteners (Swerve over Splenda), the oils you'll need, produce, canned and bottled items, pantry items, and meats. Something to consider as you go along is that some items, like almond and coconut flour are expensive items to stock up on, but you'll use considerably less than non-keto recipes will use for regular flour. Do what you can afford. Just know that there are some must-have staples like coconut oil and olive oil.
The recipes themselves are divided into smoothies and breakfasts, appetizers and snacks, fish and poultry, meats, veggies and sides, desserts, and staples. Each individual recipe gives an overall "keto quotient" (how close it fits the idea balance of fats, carbs, and protein) as well as what each serving contains in calories and the fats, carbs, and protein for those servings. This makes life a lot easier if you are using a phone or tablet app to keep an eating record.
I find myself in the kitchen a lot more, but that's a good thing, especially since I'm gaining more energy and endurance from the diet. Since I live alone I've also invested in more plastic bags and containers. When I use one of the recipes I divide the finished product into the number of servings, eat one and bag the rest for the freezer or fridge.
Recipes include items like homemade salad dressings and mayonnaise in a good keto balance. Since I'm eating a lot more salad this has been handy to have. I also thought I would miss sweets but I've been using the book to make snacks with stevia products. There are some chocolate recipes using cocoa powder and oils that help stifle any chocolate cravings. The oils often melt at a little above room temperature so I put chocolate pieces in bags in the freezer and granola in the fridge in snack bags.
I have yet to find a recipe that didn't turn out well, though my tastebuds like a little more salt. Better to add it in later because you can't take it out once it's cooked. The only bad turnout I had was my mistake, assuming that coconut flour would substitute for almond flour. It won't.
There's a wide variety of tastes to help you learn your way through adapting the lifestyle to your tastes.
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I found it poorly laid out and confusing to read, jumping from text into a double spread of tables then back to the same thread of text three pages later.
The recipes are so simplistic as to be a bit insulting - a whole page dedicated to asparagus with walnuts, surprise, you griddle some asparagus with olive oil and add crushed walnuts! And a Camembert stuffed mushroom - guess how this one's made, are clearly just filler.
A part about exercise was such a throwaway and actually just advised "start doing a little more than you do now". Worthwhile content added there for sure.
This was clearly written for the author to cash in on the Keto popularity.
Don't waste your money.

However I tried to follow the weekly meal plan for week 1, and found that I simply did not have the time to prepare everything. Being a single person with a full time job and other commitments outside of work, there is no way I have time to prepare the 5 items a day (3 meals + two snacks), especially considering that recipes will always take a little longer the first time. Also doing that would make WAY too much food, and prepping it all ahead of time would only exacerbate that. I've already thrown out some leftovers because it's sat in the fridge too long.
The grocery list is a little bit too fancy for something marketed as an introduction - I'm not spending $70 on a lamb leg from my butcher just to get into this diet, even it makes 10 meals (which I wouldn't be able to go through by myself before it goes bad). It seems like the author threw her recipes together to achieve good numbers for the macros, without considering the practicality of the meal plan for a single person who isn't some kind of wizard chef with 4 hours a day available just for cooking.

