Food & Ingredients

You don’t need a specialty health food shop to do keto in Belgium. Everything essential is available at a standard Belgian supermarket: Delhaize, Colruyt, Carrefour, Lidl, Aldi. This is genuinely useful information because there’s a tendency in keto circles to make the shopping sound complicated, and it isn’t. What every Belgian supermarket does well Eggs are the foundation and they’re everywhere. The standard eggs at Colruyt or Aldi are fine. Delhaize carries a better range including free-range and organic options at reasonable prices.

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Belgium doesn’t get enough credit for its cheese. You hear about French cheese, Dutch Gouda, Swiss everything, but the Belgian stuff is genuinely good, and for keto purposes, it’s also convenient. Cheese is fat and protein with minimal carbs. Belgium happens to produce a lot of it and sell it everywhere. What Belgium actually makes Herve is the one most people haven’t tried. It’s a washed-rind cheese from the Liège area, soft and pungent, somewhere between a strong brie and something that will clear a room.

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