If you love bread, buns, wraps, and tortillas (and are sick of using lettuce as a bread replacement), then chaffles are your friend!
Hopefully you’ve had a chance to try chaffles already.
In the recipes – preparation week post, I included a basic chaffle recipe as a food that could be consumed during your week 6 egg fast of the 10 Week Keto Challenge.
Chaffles are a great replacement for bread/bun type products. (If you’re still eating hamburgers with a lettuce wrap, I’d encourage you to try popping your burger between 2 chaffles!)
The keto community is incredibly creative and resourceful …. and always willing to share great ideas. This explains why, when you google ‘chaffles’, a gazillion recipes pop up. I haven’t sampled many of these recipes, but the reviews always seem to be very positive.
If you haven’t already done so – and if you intend on continuing to follow the keto lifestyle once you complete the 10-week challenge (and I hope you do) – I’d encourage you to invest in an inexpensive waffle maker.
I have 2 waffle makers. I have a mini one and a regular sized one. I prefer my regular sized waffle maker as I like larger sized chaffles; bread sized. Please note that I don’t double my recipe. I just end up with thinner chaffles.
Here is a link to the wide variety of waffle makers that you can purchase through Amazon.
Side-note: Chaffles freeze well and can be heated up in a toaster. Let them cool before freezing and put a piece of parchment paper between each one.
In the visual below, Ditch the Carbs provides basic instructions for preparing chaffles.
For the record, I cook my chaffles for way longer as I prefer them crispy.
Based on the standard keto community definition, processed foods are part of a dirty keto lifestyle. This means that the zero/low carb breads, buns, and tortillas (that are becoming increasingly available everywhere), would only be acceptable if one was practicing lazy or dirty keto. I consider myself to be strict keto with a weekly dabble to the lazy/dirty side of keto. That is, I have no problems or regrets having a sandwich made from low carb breads or buns.
Side-note: Costco sells Carbonaut bread. I’m not a huge fan of it, but it’s not bad … especially if you love bread and haven’t had any for weeks and weeks. Save-On-Foods makes keto buns and bagels. They’re expensive, but worth every single penny! (I no longer hate bbq season. I happily – and with zero regrets – eat my burger in a keto bun).
There are a number of other options out there to replace bread type products. Crepinis for example. (I buy mine at Costco or Sobeys). These are those incredibly thin egg/cauliflower wraps that are sold at Costco (and some Sobeys stores). I eat crepinis all the time!
In my recipes – week 1 post, I shared with you my recipe for crepini wraps. I have these at least a few times each week. I also buy folios. These are cheese wraps (you can purchase parmesan or cheddar varieties; again from Costco and Sobeys) that you heat in a microwave and then fold into a wrap. These are great substitutes for traditional tortilla wraps. Amazon also sell some decent low carb tortilla wraps.
My belief is that the breads, buns, wraps, and tortillas that I have been speaking of are fine for us to consume. We just don’t want to over-consume these and we should stay away from those that are highly-processed. Read the labels – always! See my Week 3 – 10 Week Keto Challenge post for more information about reading labels.
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