Using smaller dishes like appetizers as keto diet snacks is a critical aspect of the keto approach. It can be challenging to get all your calories in if you’re relying exclusively on full meals — fat is so filling that you’ll find your portions decrease and you eat less as a result (remember that each gram of fat contains more than twice the energy of a gram of carbs).
Eating less while you’re on a diet focused around weight loss doesn’t seem like it would be a problem, but remember that you can eat too little. The goal of weight loss is to eat enough to keep your metabolism high, but not so much that your body isn’t digging into its fat stores and burning off that excess weight.
©By Olexiy Bayev/Shutterstock.comSnacks offer a great way to make minor adjustments to your macros and caloric intake as you’re planning out your meals. When you create your meal list for the week and check it against your macros and find yourself a few hundred calories short, don’t add another meal (which can bump your calories up to the point where you’re no longer losing weight). Instead, just add a snack or an appetizer like Crispy Baked Onion Rings.
Crispy Baked Onion Rings
Prep time: 5 minutesCook time: 20 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment.
- Slice the onion into rings about 1/4-inch thick.
- In a bowl, combine the almond flour, parmesan cheese, garlic powder, paprika, and salt.
- In a shallow dish, whisk the egg and then dip the onion rings into it.
- Dredge the onion rings in the almond flour mixture; then place on the baking sheet.
- Spray with cooking spray and bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until crisp and browned. Flip them halfway through, if needed