Keto Low Carb and Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What chocolate chips are paleo friendly? ›

Hu Kitchen has fully paleo chocolate chips that are sweetened with dates, with no sugar added at all. Here are the Hu Kitchen chips. Evolved chocolate has a variety of semi sweet and dark chocolate chips that are paleo friendly. These are my go-to for testing paleo recipes that use chocolate chips.

Paleo cookies by Jimmy's Cookies, LLC contains 160 calories per 28 g serving. This serving contains 13 g of fat, 3 g of protein and 13 g of carbohydrate.

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies (1 oz) contains 16.5g total carbs, 16.5g net carbs, 8.1g fat, 1.6g protein, and 138 calories.

The Low Carb Cookie Difference

With just a few ingredient substitutions, you can have cookies that you can enjoy without worrying about counting carbs. A keto cookie will often have 4 grams of net carbs or less, depending on the flavor and the manufacturer.

A general rule of thumb among Paleo dieters is the darker the chocolate, the better. Go for dark chocolate above 70% and even better above 85% cacao content. The more cacao % in a chocolate bar, the less sugar and other ingredients it will contain.

Unsweetened cocoa powder: this is just the cocoa solids. There's none of that delicious and healthy cocoa butter in here, but there's also no other monkey business, so it's a very healthy ingredient to use in recipes or for homemade hot chocolate. Paleo approved!

Because grains, refined sugars and legumes aren't permitted, the carb sources on the paleo diet are somewhat limited but not eliminated. Paleo still allows carbs from groups of whole foods such as fruits, vegetables and unrefined sweeteners.

If we take Mark Sisson's carb recommendations, which are very reasonable, one could eat between 100 and 150 grams of carbs per day for maintenance, between 50 and 100 grams for moderate fat loss and less than 50 grams for accelerated fat loss.

Because the Paleo diet is based on the diet of people living millions of years ago, it restricts many foods that are common in modern diets, such as grains, legumes, dairy, and added sugar.

Unfortunately, traditional chocolate chip cookies, unless altered, are not usually keto-friendly because of their high carbohydrate content primarily coming from sugar and wheat flour.

How many carbs are in almond flour chocolate chip cookies? ›

Simple Mills Chocolate Chip Cookie Almond Flour Mix (3 cookies) contains 13g total carbs, 12g net carbs, 7g fat, 1g protein, and 120 calories.

How many carbohydrates do you need? The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that carbohydrates make up 45% to 65% of total daily calories. So if you get 2,000 calories a day, between 900 and 1,300 calories should be from carbohydrates. That translates to between 225 and 325 grams of carbs a day.

Almond flour and coconut flour are commonly considered the best flours for baking on a keto diet. Almond flour is made from finely ground almonds, while coconut flour is derived from dried coconut meat. Both flours are low in carbohydrates and high in healthy fats, making them suitable for a ketogenic diet.

Severe carb limits can cause your body to break down fat into ketones for energy. This is called ketosis. Ketosis can cause side effects such as bad breath, headache, fatigue and weakness.

Consuming too many carbs can kick your body out of ketosis — and it takes several days to 1 week to get back into it. In the meantime, your weight loss may be disrupted.

Most kale chips use a dehydration process and no oils are used at all. Zucchini and cauliflower chips are other veggies you may see advertised as a grain-free alternative to chips; just scan their ingredient list for refined oils before buying. Another paleo-friendly chip are pork rinds.

Is Loving Earth Chocolate Paleo? Chocolate is not considered paleo friendly, however, some consider dark chocolate (in moderation) a paleo friendly option for chocolate lovers when following a paleo diet. Another option is cacao nibs.

Chocolate chips: I used dark, milk and white chocolate chips for this recipe. Dark chocolate is low FODMAP up to 30 gram per serving, milk chocolate is low FODMAP up to 20 gram per serving and white chocolate is low FODMAP up to 25 gram per serving.

Dairy-free dark chocolate is approved, with a caveat

If you're following the Paleo diet and need a chocolate fix, the rule of thumb is the higher the percentage of cacao, the better. What is this? Choose an option that's at least 70 percent dark chocolate and dairy-free.