Stock your kitchen with healthy low carbohydrate foods to help make your life easier when getting started on your low carb diet. If you haven’t done so already, your first mission is to go through your cupboards, your refrigerator, and freezer and remove the following, many of which are staples of the low-fat diet world: rice cakes, popcorn, flour, grains, pasta, crackers, pretzels, powdered sugar, syrup, raisins, flavored yogurt, jams and jellies, and chocolate. Virtually anything labeled low-fat goes. There’s lots of recipe ideas using low carbohydrate foods in the recipes section of the site.

Keep sugar around for your friends, and for your own use in minute amounts. Flour and cornmeal get used from time to time, but in very small measurements. A handful of rice or beans can be good in soups.

Crossovers from me old diet world – and there are precious few – are cottage cheese, celery, some other vegetables (but not carrots), and some fruits (but not bananas).

You’ll be eating lots of grilled foods, salads, hearty soups and stews, stir-fries, vegetables, and – for special treats – fried foods and desserts. These low carbohydrate foods will be fresh, real food, uncomplicated and served with sauces, dressings, and marinades, which makes it important to keep a number of seasonings and condiments on hand too.