So today I'm going to show you everything that we are doing for camping
on the ketogenic diet I have a family of four right now on the ketogenic diet
looks like an insane amount of food sometimes we do have people visiting us
for dinner and then there's some extra stuff like I got some extra hot dogs
that are just in case life doesn't work out quite as planned so so I had all
this laid out because I'm kind of going through and packing what we're doing for
camping this coming weekend and I thought I would share with you
so I'm just going to go through what we're doing so first of all we have
water bottles and this one's mine the kids have Klean Kanteens
this is the little guys and having the lids on these can really help keep them
from spilling and then we use the Berkey so even though there's potable water at
our campsite which means that the water is safe to drink I find it kinda matches
up our digestive system oddly more than a lot of different foods do so I just
bring the Berkey with me and it makes it I put at the end of a picnic table and
it makes it super easy for the kids to fill up their water bottles as needed we
also use a it's like a campsite shower that we don't use as a shower but we use
it with the spicket to wash kids hands so they're not washing their hands in
filtered water but we'll fill up that campsite shower to wash their hands
we have bubbly water of course and so that's for me
but the kids can't a while they're getting while they're waiting for me to
cook or whatever we have different peanuts that can be shelled and
sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds and those are good around the campfire sort
of as something for them to do and then they can just either spit the stuff into
the campfire or they can throw the shells into the campfire which is great
fun to do anything that involves playing with fire for kids so this is something
that's definitely keto friendly even though it's a little bit higher carbs it
takes them so long to get any of the kernels out of the shells that I don't
super worry about it the first night that we're there we have Fathead dough
then a link to all of the recipes down below so if I had know that I've made
into sort of flatbread and i'll make sandwiches
that we have organic salami from Costco or breakfast we pre bake our bacon and
this is something that's kind of some people want to make everything from
scratch when they go camping something that people want to buy like everything
just add water so there's like two trains of thought and this is sort of in
the middle where I pre bake everything possible and then we'll heat this up on
the camp stove in the morning and so while I'm heating up water for coffee
which is so important or I'm heating a pan to make eggs in first we'll just put
in some of this bacon and it's pre baked but I left like it's still pretty greasy
so it'll still release some more and some more grease as it's going and
then we can use that grease to cook our eggs in eggs are something to either be
super careful or get one of those little camping egg containers I didn't bring
one in to show you but those will keep your eggs from getting smashed because
smashed eggs over everything located ruin your cooler moving along
along to lunch we'll have some more of the salami which we can wrap in lettuce
where's our lettuce so I just like I'll rinse these and wrap them in paper
towels before we go the romaine hearts and so then we can wrap our salami or we
can wrap different like Applegate lunch meat is pretty good in that and then we
have this is chili lime mayonnaise that they've made ahead of time and home I
keep it in mason jars for campaign plastic is the way to go like a kid
accidentally dropping a glass jar in a campsite is just a nightmare and our
goal is tough happy campers not to have messy glass all over the place if
something that's just a compromise that you can do and makes everything more
enjoyable and fun for everybody epic bars I just I'm throwing in a
handful of these these are super keto friendly but I find that my kids have a
pretty high tolerance for staying in ketosis and being especially outdoors
like they're just burning so much energy that the little bit extra carbs isn't
going to hurt them this is all so I do our sausage right now I've been doing
with two parts Turkey and one part pork this is natural pork when you're
looking for pork at the store if you can't fight an organic
grass-fed like foraged pork then at least try to find the one that doesn't
have msg and so this is that I had to look through Safeway quite a bit to find
that so I'll make some breakfast sausage and again just like the bacon I'm going
to pre cook it so it's a little bit undercooked
so then all I have to do is heat it up in the pan in the morning string cheese
super easy I know lots of packaging will just bring some trash bags to throw all
the packaging away but if you've ever been camping with kids you know that
like an overzealous child because they do get excited it's a new experience can
easily dump like a whole cube of cheese in the dusty camp dirt on accident and
then the whole cheese is gone so string cheese or individually packaged cheese
is kind of the way to go we talked about my peanuts we have I'm not sure you can
see I'm just individually rough seaweed here it's not it's high in iodine I
suppose but it's not anything other than kind of a novelty chip-type
treat for my kids Coffee! so I have tried the percolator coffee before for camping
and really all I've gotten is gritty watered-down coffee that does not give
me my caffeine fix this is Four Sigmatic Mushroom Coffee I like it a lot like for
her an instant coffee it's really good so this is just instant so all I need to
do is on the camp stove heat up some water in the morning and that's like to
me the best part of camping is waking up a little bit before the kids they're
kind of coming out of the tent all sleepy and I've got my cup of coffee and
I'm looking out of the lake as the Sun comes up which we'll talk in another
video about kind of realistic expectations for how much your children
are going to sleep camping which is not much and then just in case we have cold
brew and so this is cold brew I'm making at home I'll probably transfer
this to a plastic container or I'll make take my chances with this glass one and
cold brew in there. For veggies, on the ketogenic diet you just do so much
green stuff so I've got a big pack of asparagus and asparagus is good
because it can go on the grill and it can just go right across the grates and
then you can dip it in some like the chili lime mayonnaise dressing dip type
thing is a great way to add healthy fats it's something that's easy to do on the
grill and then we also have celery which is also something easy to do on the
grill and we'll bring some cream cheese to spread in the celery and then this is
probiotic cream cheese trying to get a few probiotics and the kids as we're
going in case we catch a fish which we're definitely planning on doing um we
have some citrus that we can just squeeze over the fish and so all I do to
cook that is drizzle a little bit of avocado oil and I will bring this little
container it's plastic so drizzle a whole container or a little bit of
avocado oil over the fish after you clean it out leave the skin on
I usually chop the head off because it's like disturbing sprinkle with salt and
pepper so we definitely want to bring salt and pepper and then grill it kind
of over medium-high heat just for a few minutes on each side and you'll know if
it's time to turn because it'll turn easily if you try to turn it too soon
the skin will start coming off and it's kind of a big mess on the grill but if
you got it just right it should turn with a metal spatula pretty easily and
then once it comes off the grill adding a little butter let me see is this
better so a plastic container of butter is easier than trying to wrap up
a little cube of butter so adding a little bit of butter it gives us healthy
fats and the squeeze of lemon or lime just gives it that flavor and you'll
find that like kids that caught their own fish or you caught it and they
reeled it in they're way more likely to eat that fish than they would at home so
that's kind of something that's really fun about campaign is like kids are so
active and they're so hungry that fresh air just makes them so hungry that they
eat everything so like I said it seems like a lot of food so we've got our
veggies celery could be grilled as well it's good off the grill and it's kind of
finger food like they can just eat it as a spear instead of having to chop
everything up for them nuts and then I just get a lot of this I just get at
Costco so these are from Costco cashews are a little high in carbs but again my
kids just burn it right off like I can tell they're still in ketosis they're
fine and so these are good if we go in a little day hike I'll bring this and have
them bring their water bottle this is kind of our treat like when we get to
the top of the mountain or we get to the end of the hike or the waterfall or
whatever's they get a package of nuts and they get to choose what they get
before they go burgers so the first night were there I'm gonna use raw meat
tend to just pre cook all of my meat because raw meat when you're camping
just the kind of likelihood that it's going to get all over the cooler it
makes it for a really unpleasant camping trip so I try to precook everything or
buy it precooked like the hotdogs but we're gonna do guacamole burgers with
ground beef which is dying right now and just package guacamole
again this is from Costco so you can get
this in a big pack and it's just one less thing to do one less like guacamole
isn't hard to make but it's one less Bowl to wash when you're already
watching all of your dishes and everything after cooking and kids are
tired and ready to go to bed or they want to go back to the lake or they want
to go out on the boat and just I don't have a ton of patience for doing tons
and tons of dishes camping so we have a guacamole this is good like my kids will
dip celery and guacamole I'm not sure if that's weird they do that it's also a
good sauce like on top of those lettuce on top of that lettuce with the salami
like you can just put some guacamole and that gives them those healthy fats in
with the avocado oil mayonnaise mustard I don't transfer this to a different
container that's fine moon cheese this is from Costco I'm sure it's not all
Costco's yet but it's great it's it's just cheese and it tastes like cheese
it's it's like a perfect treat to kind of when you need to boost morale is when
I'll bust this out and then cabbage one night we are doing meatballs
again from Costco and cabbage so I'll just take a cutting board and then slice
this finely and it kind of makes cabbage noodles and then again I'll probably
make one more thing of salad dressing this is just so many healthy fats and
gets those calories that those kids need in there so slicing this up and then
frying it and the level of little avocado oil with the meatballs and then
when it's done I'm putting in a little bit of salad dressing over it's kind of
like that keto crack slaw that everybody loves but it's super easy to do while
you're camping pickles are my kids need probiotics and so I'm gonna bring
pickles all transfer these over to a plastic container just to avoid having
this jar shatter somewhere and make a huge mess we covered salt and pepper
one day we will be doing pancakes and these are coconut flour and almond flour
pancakes which I hope will premix in like probably I'm gonna get a bigger jar
than this but I'm gonna premix the batter in one of these and we'll do it
like probably the second or third morning that we're there so not we're
gonna let it sit forever but having the batter already done so all you have to
do is pour in part and a stainless skills steel skillet makes things super
easy this is our taco meat and this is from our Keto Families Class and so
it's just pressure cooked chicken that has been pressure cooked with a little bit
of paprika some salt and a cup of salsa and then I pre baked cheese shells and
so these are a little bit under baked I'm gonna bring some parchment paper and
this sounds finicky but the kids love it and so you can put the parchment paper
down in a skillet and then put these on and they'll kind of remelt and finish
baking a little bit or you could just do it as is but then they'll be warm so
this with our guacamole is for our taco night
everybody loves tacos and then we have some half-and-half that we've turned
into yogurt that is our sour cream a little bit less carbs almost done... so
these are squeeze tubes and this is something like you'll see I don't have a
ton of special equipment for camping squeeze tubes are super helpful for not
getting like this has peanut butter in it
peanut butter all over everything and this is actually because we're on keto
isn't completely peanut butter it's this peanut butter fat bombs that are on my
site and so it's a little bit sweeter and has some monk fruit in it and it has
extra coconut oil in it which has those medium chain fatty acids which I think
having healthy fats like that can actually help prevent sunburn we do use
beautycounter sunscreen anyways I have two different fat bombs sort of as
spreads to put on the pancakes and we'll put them between ever put this between
the pancakes and make sandwiches out of them as well so just having the squeeze
tube just eliminate timing to watch that knife sometimes you just want something
quick to eat and like I'm not above squeezing a little bit of this on a
spoon for my kids so just those quick quick high calorie calorie dense things
think what else do we have electrolytes I don't on the ketogenic
that you need electrolytes and especially if you're up going up in
altitude or you're not used to being outside at a time you might be losing
water and this having these in your body will help your body hold on to water and
give you the electrolytes you need so you don't get like dehydrated and your
muscles don't like start cramping up or anything so we have sea salt magnesium
which I don't put this in their water bottles I just put like a spoonful in
one of those camping cups and then I fill the rest with water and then light
salt which my kids do not take I take I'll say I'll just pour like half a
teaspoon in my hand and then take that and chase it with some water
and that has the potassium in it and they won't do that so I'll just like
extra salt their food like they're taco meat I'll just pour some more
salt on it and then they'll retain more water for keeping things cold I just buy
a couple of gallons of water at the store this is like
spring water or i think and then you pour out some so that it doesn't make a
big mess when you freeze it and then freeze this whole thing it takes a
couple days but then it keeps your cooler super cold and then if you need
to you have really cold water in there that you can drink just an easy way you
can use a milk carton if you want but it's just like your it's really hard
to get all that milk out and so I usually just buy a gallon or two of
spring water and do it with that so special equipment I don't buy a ton of
special equipment some of it is useful like the squeezy things I think are
really useful the egg thing except where we go through so many eggs that I need
like four of those egg can turn cartons but in general I don't buy a ton of
camping equipment or car camping or not like backpacking and so I'm not afraid
to just use the cooler and kind of wash stuff like at the campsite that we're at
there is running water thanks for joining me I hope that was super helpful
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you have a great camping trip thanks so
much buh-bye