Does your kitchen repertoire require a dash of inspiration?

The new low-carb, keto-friendly cookbook using simple and widely available ingredients from any UK, US or European supermarket, bursting with easy and healthful recipes designed to keep you in ketosis, is available now on Amazon.

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Tasty Recipes Inside - ideal for all levels of cooking skill

Common Questions

By now, most people have heard that a low-carb, low-processed diet is the best way to regulate one's weight quickly and safely, while increasing energy, and healing a wide range of common ailments.

We're no longer, as a society, resigning ourselves to living with aches and pains and endless prescription medications, and are opting to take matters into our own hands by improving what we eat.

But for someone new to this way of eating, it can feel daunting and overwhelming.

So, let me put your mind at ease by answering a few common questions:

My family won't like it - am I going to have to cook twice for every meal?

These recipes are not about offering you a half-empty plate with all your favourite things removed! It's about taking out foods that have been silently working against your health, leaving you wanting and still hungry, and replacing them with ingredients that work for you to leave you and your family full and satisfied.

You and your family won't need nor miss those usual starchy "bulking" items because what replaces them is nutritious, delicious, and filling.

Remember, keto is not the typical weight loss diet we grew up with where we counted calories and had a thin spread of cottage cheese and cucumber on a couple of crispbreads while our family tucked into lasagne and chips! It's about having the foods we love but just doing them differently.

I have a small grocery budget - will I be able to afford it?

Everything is made from basic supermarket ingredients rather than pricy ready-meals, and they're flexible enough to be altered to suit your budget or whatever is on special or in season. The recipes are affordable for someone who doesn't have a lot of money to spend and, because you're focusing on nutrition and therefore less likely to crave junk food, you're far less likely to be snacking between meals and are therefore likely to spend a bit less than you do at the moment!

I'm too busy/tired to cook from scratch - will I have time/energy for this?

Once you cut right down on carbohydrates and processed foods, you're going to experience a surge in energy that you didn't know was possible for you these days. You're going to feel lighter and more vibrant than you're presently feeling. Over a short time, your aches and pains will begin to alleviate, brain fog will clear, your mood will lighten, and life will feel a whole lot easier.

When we're overweight/underweight and/or in pain or sickness, life is one heck of a struggle because that it comes from malnutrition (remember quantity isn't always quality). Cleaning up the diet is a tiny investment that pays huge dividends instantly - most people (myself included) report feeling tons better within only 2-3 days, and it gets progressively better from there.

Better health = less struggle = more energy = getting more done in less time.

I'm not good at cooking - will I be able to follow the recipes?

If you're brand new to cooking and not familiar with cooking basics, I'd recommend you pick a recipe from the book, read through it, and then go to YouTube or WikiHow to learn any processes you're not familiar with - but there's nothing difficult or unusual in there, I assure you. If you can boil an egg, chop an onion, fry bacon, and operate a blender, you're good to go.

These recipes are designed for you to enjoy the process of cooking and to pay attention to what you're doing and use all your senses in the process, rather than to race through it like just another chore on your list.

When you experience the mindset shift of viewing cooking as nourishing your health (and that of your family, if you have one), preparing food becomes a pleasure instead of an annoying activity that takes up your time.

I've heard that keto is all bacon, sausages, red meat, and fried foods - how is that healthy?

In all walks of life, we hear such a lot from people who've no idea what they're talking about and parrot a load of nonsense. Those who think nothing of scarfing down a tube of Pringles, a packet of Oreos and a 2 litre bottle of pop telling us not to eat so many eggs... That broke alcoholic down the pub offering financial advice, business gurus who've never owned a business, and GPs who trained only in matching symptoms to pills and are incentivised to do so... If you want the right results, you have to go to the right source, and the right source is a person who's been where you are now and has overcome it to be where you want to be.

What sort of foods can I expect in the cookbook?

At the top of the page (scroll up, if you missed it) is a selection of photos from the cookbook. Some may look time-consuming or complicated, but they're really not! Each one is simple with minimal prep using ingredients from my local Lidl.