The supplement industry has made keto into a commercial opportunity. There is now a product for every stage of keto: keto-start capsules, exogenous ketone drinks, MCT oil in seventeen formats, electrolyte powders in forty flavours, and various combinations thereof. Most of it is not necessary. A few things genuinely help. Here’s the honest breakdown.
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Belgian chocolate has a genuine claim to being the best in the world, which makes it either a comfort or a problem depending on what you’re trying to eat. The honest answer is: some of it is fine on keto, most of it isn’t, and the distinction is simple enough.
Dark chocolate at 70% cacao or higher has a small enough amount of sugar that moderate consumption, a few squares rather than a bar, fits within a sensible keto day.
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.
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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.
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