Team-BHP - Keto snacks, meals & restaurants in India (including low-carb stuff)

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Originally Posted by GTO (Post 4833408)

:Shockked: My goodness, what a find! Thank you so much clap:. Ketofy is awesome. I'm adding it to the opening post and my sister went ahead to place a big order with them.

Just be careful about the total carbs, you might get misguided:

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Originally Posted by alpha1 (Post 4829360)

Raw veggies may be 5% carbs but that is because of humongous water content.

However, for making flour the veggies are dried out. That means the carb content would easily be 50% or higher, similar to the cereals and pulses which are also dried food.

EDIT: Ah well, found it: https://urbanplatter.in/product/urba...BoCLRoQAvD_BwE
21 g carbs in 30 g of flour. That makes it 70%

Beware, there is always lot of money to be made by using buzzwords.

I would prefer eating regular wheat or rice if I wish to ingest 70% carbs. Taste wise as well as pocket friendly.

Swiggy Health Hub for low carb / keto fans :D

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Swiggy on Friday launched a dedicated healthy food discovery feature with curated health menus and dishes by select restaurants on its main app.

Currently available in Bengaluru, the ‘Health Hub’ feature with over 10,000 unique healthy dishes by over 1,000 restaurant outlets will have detailed nutritional information on macro-nutrients like protein, carbs and fats etc for dishes, the company said in a statement.

“With ‘Health Hub’, we want to boost healthy eating patterns across the country and dismiss commonly held beliefs that healthy food is bland, hard to find and expensive,” said Vivek Sunder, COO, Swiggy.

Swiggy aims to the trend of ordering healthy dishes to grow and more than double over the next six months.

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Guys. I am looking at starting a 2 meal tiffin service (lunch and dinner) of a keto meal in Mumbai for a period of about 4 weeks.

Following this I may want a further 4 weeks of LCHF 2 meal tiffin.

I have found Food Darzee and Activeat online.

1. Any other reputed tiffin services I should consider

2. Can anyone recommend which of the above two might be better or any third option that might be ideal?

Any recommendations or advise would be very welcome. This is my first attempt at Keto.

Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Axe77 (Post 4858731)

Guys. I am looking at starting a 2 meal tiffin service (lunch and dinner) of a keto meal in Mumbai for a period of about 4 weeks.

Personal suggestion = for daily meals, cook at home. Healthier, simpler, cheaper :thumbs up.

If you still want a tiffin service, check out 3sqrmeals (over and above ActivEat). I have ordered some dishes from 3sqrmeals via Zomato and they were awesome.

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Originally Posted by GTO (Post 4861264)

Personal suggestion = for daily meals, cook at home. Healthier, simpler, cheaper :thumbs up.

+1. Home cooked meals will be more reliable in case of keto. You have full control over ingredients (read: carbs), you never know what you are getting in a tiffin.

If anyone can recommend a monthly keto dabba service around Balewadi in Pune can you please post details. I am going to be moving there for a month or so and really don't have much help etc to do bespoke cooking.

Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Axe77 (Post 4878608)

A few weeks back I'd seen a FB page called "The Lean Life". Maybe you could check with them if they supply a daily Keto dabba (disclaimer: no affiliation with them, or personal experience either).

Another option is a FB group called Pune Eat Outs. It has a lot of traffic, and the odds are high that you'll find someone from Balewadi/Baner/Aundh area that can provide a customised daily Keto dabba to you.

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Originally Posted by Axe77 (Post 4878608)

I use a service called Food Darzee and have used another service in the past called 'The Kilo Beaters'

They are both very good .

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Originally Posted by Pontiac (Post 4830754)

But if you must include a sweetener, you can use monk fruit extract that has the least side effects among the sweeteners in market. (Stevia is known to induce craving for sugar). It comes in all forms.

Guys, are any of these keto sweeteners available in India ? Erythritol, Xylitol, Stevia, Monk fruit ? Any others that are keto safe ?

Also, if anyone makes keto desserts at home (in India) what is your go to sweetener that's keto safe and easily available?

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Originally Posted by NPV (Post 5397955)

All available on Amazon.

Erythritol is safe for the gut, excess can cause mild irritation and a runny tummy. I use Erythritol almost exclusively now (ice cream, barfis). I buy: https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B08...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Stevia has early studies saying that it affects functioning of the gut bacteria and hence I have stopped having anything that contains Stevia - and most so called keto foods have stevia!

Monk fruit sweeteners are great but expensive and not made in India. The Lakanto brand which is what comes up on Amazon, also includes Erythritol in the monk fruit sweetener.

Xylitol hardens the food it is used in very quickly - probably best used for things like hard candy. I havent found much use for it for the soft desserts I like and hence not in my kitchen.

One more question, this time on cream and whipping cream - the brands commonly available in our supermarkets and online are Amul, Mother Dairy and D'lecta and all of these are in fact low fat with 25% or less fat (Amul whipping cream is 30%).

Are there any heavy creams available with > 30% fat ?