Your Best Low Carb Life

Low-Carb and Keto Cheese Danish Recipe Looking for an amazing sweet treat you can enjoy with breakfast or as a delicious snack/dessert?  Give these low-carb cheese danishes a shot!  This is an adaptation of a tried-and-true keto recipe known as cloud bread, sometimes also called "oopsie" bread. When I made some cloud bread and noticed the taste and texture, I immediately thought it would be an ideal light & fluffy base for a breakfast pastry, and soon afterward I decided to prove that theory.  Here is the recipe for the delicious result! Ingredients 8 oz. cream cheese, softened and separated into 3 oz. and 5 oz portions 3 eggs, separated 1/8 Tsp cream of tartar Pinch of sea salt Low/Zero carb sweetener of choice (I used powdered Swerve and liquid stevia) Water (Optional) Vanilla or other flavor extract/emulsion Instructions - Pastry Preheat oven to 300 degrees Add egg whites and cream of tartar to a large bowl and beat with hand mixer until stiff peaks form (stiffer i...

Keto Food Hacks with Commercial Low-Carb Products We've posted before about some of our favorite low-carb/keto friendly products that replace carb-laden foods we used to eat. But now we want to share some of our favorite (fairly simple) ways to use those products, and others like them. As we often mention, we have no partnerships or sponsorships, and no incentive to mention or recommend these products. We simply enjoy them and want to share some tips that have made our ketogenic life a little easier. Low-Carb Tortillas/Wraps There are plenty of obvious ways to use a tortilla. But once in a while we get an idea that's just slightly less obvious, and actually works great. Here are a few of those! The main photo above is one of our favorites: a rigid, crispy tostada salad shell. The important things you'll need for this are a medium-sized pot that's oven safe (I used stainless steel), some good cooking spray (avocado oil spray is a great choice), a baking tray (I used a v...

Keto Low-Carb Chili Recipe Cold days, camping trips, and even a cook-off now and again -- all occasions when I've always enjoyed making my hearty, delicious chili! But when I started eating in line with a ketogenic lifestyle, one of the biggest surprises was just how many carbs are hiding in many of the foods we all love that don't seem sweet, starchy or bready. And chili was, unfortunately, on that list. Of course, there are a lot of ways to lower the carb content of a food like chili, such as making it without beans (living in Texas, that's not even optional -- chili here just doesn't have beans). But most recipes, even bean-free ones, along with most commercial chilis in a can, add a lot more that you might not expect. They may be thickened with flour, have added sugar, or simply have ingredients like tomatoes that add some under-the-radar carbohydrates. To be fair, there are some commercial chili varieties that could be considered low enough in carbs to have a littl...

Review: Chompie's Low Carb, High Protein Pizza Crust They say there's a first time for everything, and here at the Your Best Low Carb Life blog, today is our first time posting a review. We haven't been asked (or paid) to review this product; it's just something we discovered and decided to try. What is it? I guess the obvious answer is, it's a low-carb pizza crust! But to give a little more background, this is a product made by the same folks as the Chompie's low-carb sandwich bread we've written about , which we buy and use on a regular basis. Unfortunately for us, while the bread is available in our local Sprouts store, this pizza crust had to be ordered directly from the manufacturer's online store . They're actually a full-service restaurant, bakery and deli based in Arizona, but it's their low-carb bread that made us aware of them. Aside from that, looking at the label gives a few more details about what this pizza crust is. It's a prod...

Low-Carb/Keto Strawberry Birthday Cake with Banana Whipped Cream Frosting There are a lot of great keto recipes out there. But if we're being honest, there are some foods for which the "keto version" is, at best, a substitute for the real thing more so than a version of it. Birthday cake has always been one of those foods for me and my wife, until now! Ok, to be fair, there is a bit of difference with this one. The cake was a little more dense and less airy than traditional birthday cake. However, it still had the taste of a good cake, with real whipped cream! I have some ideas for improving on the texture, which may be explored in a later post when I've had time to do some experimenting.  But for now, here's the recipe for a birthday cake I made that put a smile on my wife's face, and was very enjoyable to eat. Cake Ingredients: 1 Cup Carbalose Flour * 1 Tbsp baking powder 1/2 Cup** Zero or Low Carb Sweetener Pinch of salt 1 Cup heavy cream 10 Eggs 1 Tsp stra...

In some of our recipes, you'll notice we mention a few commercial low-carb products that are staples in our home. This is just a quick list of some favorites you might also like, that aren't necessarily on everyone's keto radar. But first, a couple of important notes: We have no sponsorships, partnerships, or other connections with these products or their manufacturers, besides simply being customers who've purchased and liked their products. We don't even have any kind of affiliate program links for Amazon or other sites where we may provide links for you to purchase these products if you'd like to do so. There are some who don't think any wheat-related product should be part of a ketogenic lifestyle. They may disagree with listing some of these items. We're including anything that is low enough in net carbs to help us easily keep our macros intact. That will include some wheat-based products. And now, in no particular order, here are five of the produc...