Keto Meal Plan to Lose Weight: Week 35

This Keto Meal Plan to Lose Weight is my family’s meal plan that I post for inspiration each week.

The month of December passes by so quickly. We have many gatherings planned with family and friends the next couple of weeks. Since I have finally hit my goal weight, I have transitioned to mostly low carb instead of keto to give myself room in case I want to taste a bite or two of foods off plan here and there. That way I won’t worry about going in and out of ketosis during the Holidays. This Keto Meal Plan for weight loss is a great way for me to stay on track during the week so that I have a little wiggle room from time to time on the weekends.

As I have said before, I take a somewhat lazy approach to meal planning. I don’t prep a lot of food in advance simply because I don’t have the time. Instead, I have found that making extra at meals to cover lunch the next day is the most helpful step I can take. I also like to buy ground beef in bulk when I can and brown it in advance and freeze it in ziplock bags. It makes cooking dinner later so much faster. If you are new to meal planning, these 5 easy steps meal prep ideas will be helpful to get started. Meal planning can be beneficial to stay on track and to reduce your grocery bill. As always, this is a very loose plan. If I get a better offer for dinner out, I won’t hesitate to alter our meal plan for the week. continue reading…

20 Perfect Keto Breakfast Recipes

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When you need a little variety at breakfast, check out these 20 Perfect Keto Breakfast Recipes for inspiration. Breakfast isn’t just about eggs and bacon. They may be our most popular choices on the keto diet, but they aren’t the only options. This list has some delicious ideas that think outside the box. Add variety to your breakfast with these great recipes!

20 Perfect Keto Breakfast Recipes

For many, finding a variety of Keto Breakfast Recipes can be a challenge. Most start by eating eggs every day but soon grow bored of having the same breakfast each morning. Although I don’t eat breakfast most days, I do love a little variety on the weekends when I do.

On Saturday morning my hubby makes bacon and eggs while I make delicious keto breakfast recipes like Keto Frech Toast, Sausage Balls Puffs, or Low Carb Blueberry Bread. Being able to enjoy a variety of foods while following a Ketogenic diet helps me to stay on track and not to get bored.

Many of these low carb breakfast recipes can be made in advance to cover breakfast for several days during the week or frozen. One of my favorite Keto breakfast recipes is Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins. These mouthwatering muffins are amazing with a nice pat of butter on top to enjoy with a cup of piping hot coffee.

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IT’S BACK! Instant Pot 6-in-1 Programmable Pressure Cooker – Black Friday PRICE DROP!

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ANOTHER great Instant Pot Price Drop!

Woohoo! The price of the 7-in-1 Instant Pot DUO60 is back down right now – UNDER $70!! (Reg $100)

This is just about the same price as Walmart has it for Black Friday – and Kohl’s – and Target – so it’s a great deal!

So if you’ve been waiting to purchase an Instant Pot, this is your chance!

Also check out our Pinterest board on the BEST Instant Pot Recipes to Try!!!

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De’Longhi Days of Giving: Capturing The Christmas Spirit

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I like to joke with my friends and family that I have been a first-time mom twice. We have an older set of kids and a younger set of kids. Our oldest children are growing up quicker than ever, so it’s super important for us to spend time with them. With the holidays upon us, my husband and I work hard to capture the Christmas spirit with our kids. If you’re looking for ways to do this, hopefully, some of these tips help!

Read a Christmas book together

We love gathering around and reading Christmas books to the little ones. My husband, older kids, and I will all take turns reading books outloud. This helps us capture the Christmas spirit with all the kids. Plus, it gives us time to spend time together as a family, which is super important, especially around this time of year.

Watching Christmas movies together

Have you thought about the value of watching movies together as a family? We LOVE watching Christmas movies together! On Friday nights, we gather and pick out one movie to watch. I love watching the older Christmas movies with my kids. Movies like Rudolph and Charlie Brown, it’s so much fun to watch their eyes light up with excitement and delight.

We enjoy warm drinks together

The first of December is special to our family for several reasons. We sit around and ask the kids what is important to them this holiday season while drinking coffee, hot chocolate, espresso, and enjoying homemade cookies. During this time, we also plan our holiday calendar. Otherwise, if we aren’t intentional the month passes by, and we’ve missed important moments with our family. Spending time together with our family is important if you can’t tell!

This season, we were blessed with a De’Longhi Lattissima One. I am pretty sure my son was the most excited about this since he LOVES warm drinks of all types. He enjoyed frothing the milk with the help of the machine.

The best part of the De’Longhi Lattissima One is the easy features. All it takes is one touch for this single serve express machine with capsule convenience to create an amazing latte, expressos, cappuccinos, and coffees. I’m not a barista, so it’s nice to know I can enjoy a delicious cup of coffee or a warm drink, right at home.

There are six one-touch recipes so that you can make the perfect cappuccino, espresso, creamy latte, latte macchiato, warm milk, or coffee. The advanced frother also makes creating a drink at home pretty special with rich, long-lasting foam. Our little girls especially loved watching this feature.

I also found that the De’Longhi Lattissima One has a very practical design. The 19-bar high-pressure pump heats up quickly, so I’m not waiting around forever before I can drink a cup of delicious coffee or whatever drink I choose and the capsules make it mess free.

I can put the De’Longhi Lattissima One on my counter and leave it there because it has a nice sleek, compact design. Also, each machine comes with a complimentary welcome set with a range of Nespresso capsules.

Save 30% through December 30th – Today, through December 30th you can save 30% off the De’Longhi Lattissima One. This is a huge savings!

Enjoy Christmas cookies together

Now that we have our De’Longhi Lattissima One, we can also enjoy our special cookies around the holiday season. We love baking cookies together at Christmas. It is one of our family traditions that we all look forward to all year long. The cookies we made this year are a twist on chocolate chip cookies. My oldest daughter has been making homemade chocolate chip cookies for years, from one of my grandmother’s old church cookbooks.

Usually, there are a couple of cookies at the very bottom of the bowl that has very little chocolate chips, and my daughter figured out that she loved those cookies, so we made a brown sugar cookie with festive sprinkles. This cookie recipe is super easy and delicious. I especially love that my kids can make it without a lot of fuss. We don’t care if the cookies turn out perfectly shaped or even all the same size because what matters is that everyone participates from our oldest, who is 15, down to our 2 year old little. Make sure to scroll down to the bottom of this post for our recipe. I’m so excited to share with you.

De’Longhi Days of Giving

Speaking of cookies and the Christmas season, De’Longhi is giving back this holiday season.

Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is a national non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for safer, more effective treatments for pediatric cancer, the #1 disease killer of children in the U.S.

To give back this holiday season, De’Longhi will donate a portion of its delonghi.us sales site-wide to a non-profit pediatric cancer organization, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer.

De’Longhi Days of Giving is running Now – 12/19, so make sure you get in on the fun and giving.

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Brown Sugar Cookies

Prep Time15 mins

Cook Time10 mins

5 mins

Total Time25 mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Author: Kasey

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 1/4 cup self rising flour

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cream butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla in a bowl.
Add eggs; beat well.
Gradually add the flour to the creamed mixture beating well.
Drop by teaspoonfuls or small cookie scooper onto parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned.
Cool slightly, then remove from the cookie sheet.

Brown Sugar Cookies are so easy to make. All you need is a couple of ingredients you likely already have on hand.

I use a small cookie scoop and parchment paper for mess-free cookies.

Right before popping the brown sugar cookies in the oven, we add festive Christmas sprinkles.

They might not be Pinterest perfect, but I love the fact that our kids can make these brown sugar cookies together as a Christmas tradition each Holiday Season.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of De’Longhi. The opinions and text are all mine.

Silhouette Slate Grey CAMEO 3 Craft Bundle – HUGE PRICE DROP!

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Instant Pot 8 Qt 7-in-1 Back TO Black Friday Pricing!

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The Instant Pot 8 qt 7-in-1 is the lowest price on record and is currently the same price as it was on Black Friday. If you’ve been waiting to buy one, today is your day because your patience has paid off.

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Quick Keto Meal Plan: Week 34

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I share my family’s Quick Keto Meal Plan each week in hopes that it might help others to see that following a keto lifestyle doesn’t have to be hard. With simple and easy recipes even a novice cook can whip meals on my keto meal plan

Quick Keto Meal Plan

I am trying so hard to slow down and savor the Christmas Season. I want to be intentional to make memories with our children and to keep Christ at the center of all of our celebrations, but goodness gracious I am struggling with learning HOW to slow down. With many demands on my time, I want to let go of the things that are not urgent. As I look at the week ahead, we have many commitments and sometimes several each day along with a birthday for our youngest. Needless to say, this week’s quick keto meal plan is going to be very helpful.

I try to take a simple approach and make meals plans that don’t require a ton of ingredients and are easy to prepare each week in my low carb meal plans for weight loss. Also, I further simplify by doubling and tripling recipes at dinner so that we will have leftovers to cover our lunches during the week. Since I don’t have a bulk of extra time in my week, I don’t prep a lot of food in advance; however, there are a couple of things that I do that save time like browning ground beef in advance and freezing it to use later. You can find those tips in 5 easy keto low carb meal prep ideas.

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Mouthwatering Keto French Toast

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If you want a fast and delicious breakfast that feels decadent, then my Keto French Toast is the recipe for you! This is an excellent variation on the popular keto 90-second bread recipe. A few tweaks and you have a delicious sweet treat for breakfast that everyone in the family will love!

Mouthwatering Keto French Toast

This morning as I was waking up I was thinking about different breakfast items that I might be able to make Keto friendly. While I love my keto biscuit recipe, sausage ball puffs, and pancakes, I wanted to try something different today. Then, I remembered my 90 Second Bread Recipe and thought surely I could change it up to make a Keto French Toast.

My hubby usually cooks breakfast on Saturday mornings, so I got in the kitchen with him and started to experiment. I just made one at first as a taste tester to see if it was going to be good or not. My two-year-old scooted a chair from her little table right up next to the counter and kept asking for more. When she got down, she rubbed her belly and said, “It’s sooooooo good, mom!”

By the time everyone had tasted I bite, I knew I had a hit on my hands especially when they all asked me to make more, which I happily obliged. If you’d like to make a big batch of Keto French Toast, check out my family sized recipe here.

If you are looking for sugar-free syrup, I love this Lakanto Maple Syrup.

Make sure to use a whisk so that all of the ingredients are mixed up nicely for Keto French Toast.

Pop the batter for the Keto French Toast in the microwave for 90-seconds. If you don’t use microwave ovens or don’t have one, I would suggest baking at 350 degrees then check periodically for doneness.

You can make a couple of batches at once or, bake this Family Sized loaf of Keto bread ahead of time to make it easier to make enough Keto French Toast for the entire family.

Just like regular french toast, dip the bread into an egg mixture and coat it thoroughly.

I use a cast iron skillet to fry the Keto French Toast. If you don’t have one, I have this one and love it.

Powdered Monkfruit can be used for a fun topping along with berries and Lakanto sugar-free syrup. Feel free to top however you prefer.

I’m telling you, it was so good and filling, I don’t think I will be hungry for a long time.

How to Make Low Carb French Toast

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90-Second Keto French Toast

Prep Time5 mins

Cook Time10 mins

Total Time15 mins

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 352kcal

Author: Kasey

Ingredients

1 tablespoon coconut flour
1¼ tablespoon butter melted
1 egg
1 teaspoon cream cheese
¼ teaspoon baking powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon
pinch nutmeg

For the French Toast

1 egg
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1/4 tsp Lakanto Monkfruit Powdered Sugar

Optional:

Lakanto Sugar-Free Maple Syrup

Instructions

Melt butter in a ceramic or glass bowl. (mine was about 6 inches)
Add the rest of the ingredients and whisk together until combined.
Cook in the microwave for 90 seconds.
Remove from the microwave and allow to cool for a minute or two.
Cut bread in half.
In a flat dish add 1 egg and 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream and combine with a whisk.
Soak bread on both sides in egg and heavy whipping cream mixture.
Heat 1 tablespoon of butter in a skillet and fry each side until crisp.
Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon Swerve Confectioners Sugar on top and serve with sugar-free syrup. Berries are also delicious with this Keto French Toast.

Notes

I only included 1 tbsp of the heavy whipping cream in the nutritional information because most of it is left behind. You make more than you need so that you can coat the bread on both sides. Also, the sugar alcohols from Swerve are not included since most subtract to calculate net carbs.

Nutrition

More Keto Recipe Ideas

I love creating delicious keto recipes for my family. Make sure to check out all of my Keto Recipes in my Keto Recipe Index. I love making over classic recipes to be more keto-friendly. There are so many fabulous Keto Breakfast options there is no need to get bored when following a keto lifestyle. Some of our favorite Keto Casserole Recipes are a must! Of course, my favorites are these Keto Chocolate Recipes! No matter which new recipes you add to your list, you’ll love seeing your favorites remade into a low-carb and keto friendly version.

Groupon: Great Wolf Lodge Stay from $81?? (Great Family Vacation)

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Here’s a HUGE discount on a fun family getaway!

Right now Groupon is offering savings OVER 50% off at Great Wolf Lodges across the United States, and they all look like some great deals!! Get a 1-night stay in a suit WITH waterpark passes for as low as $89 (+ Resort Fee)!

PLUS – for a limited time, it looks like you can take an extra 10% OFF Groupon Getaways with code SUPER – bringing your price down to as little as $81.10 a night!

With Christmas Break coming up, these could make for a great trip. The resort looks perfect for my family – spacious cabin suites above an indoor water park? Yes please!

Prices vary widely and really depend on your location. But regardless, I think this is an AMAZING price for a hotel stay and water park in one.

Check out all the Great Wolf Lodge Locations offering specials through Groupon right now.

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Kohl’s Mystery Coupon | Up to 40% OFF for Everyone!

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The Kohl’s Mystery Coupon is a fantastic way to get an amazing deal on high ticket items or gifts that you’ve been waiting to purchase. These come out on occasion and when they show up, you want to take advantage. The best way to snag your an incredible deal on a special gift or new small appliance is using the Kohl’s Mystery Coupon!

Kohl’s Mystery Coupon | Up to 40% OFF!!

If you love stumbling upon great deals on a variety of items from clothing, shoes, jewelry, and home goods, you may want to check out your local Kohl’s department store. Even if you do not live near a Kohl’s brick and mortar store, it would be wise to check out their website, as they have even more items available for purchase online. But before you get to shopping, be sure to add yourself to their email list. Doing so will get you the email updates about current sales and clearance events, as well as promo codes for amazing savings, and Kohl’s mystery coupons!

What is a Kohl’s Mystery Coupon?

Kohl’s mystery coupons are exactly as they sound. Mystery coupons! The coupons will be sent to your inbox, and you must click on the link in your email to reveal the mystery discount amount. Once you click on the link, you will be directed to Kohl’s website where you will then be shown a personalized coupon for either 20%, 30% or 40% off. How great is that?! If you are fortunate enough to receive a 40% off coupon, it is time to cash out on those extra large purchases, for even bigger savings!

Are There Stipulations to the Kohl’s Mystery Coupon?

Absolutely! Unfortunately, in the coupon world, there is generally always some fine print to be found. Kohl’s mystery coupon is no exception. Before making your final purchase, be sure to check out the exclusions, to make sure your coupon will be valid on your items. Generally, mystery coupons exclude particular high-end brands, like Nike and Under Armour, as well as other products, like Kohl’s Cares charitable merchandise, and gift cards. Don’t worry though, if you happen to miss an exclusion, Kohl’s will catch it for you, and let you know that your coupon does not apply to your purchase.

How Many Times Can Mystery Coupons be Used?

Each Kohl’s mystery coupon is personalized, meaning that each coupon that goes out has it’s very own unique code. This means that your coupon will only be valid for one purchase, so if you were planning on sharing your code with a friend, unfortunately, you are out of luck. Either tell your friend how fast and easy it is to sign up for their own coupons, or go in together on your purchase, and divvy it up, pending on the items you purchase for yourselves. But don’t wait too long to make your purchase, as these coupons are generally only good for one day only!

Saving money doesn’t get much easier than this, so what are you waiting for? Sign up for Kohl’s emails so that you can receive your own Kohl’s mystery coupon every few months or so.

Check your email to see if you got a Kohl’s Mystery Coupon offer -for either 20, 30, or 40% OFF!