Lots of eggs, chicken, turkey, pork/beef, bacon/sausage, fish (haddock/cod etc)

(I eat a Low Carb/High Fat diet - 60% of my calories come from fat)

carrots, onions, peppers, any kind of beans - I'm not a huge salad fan but a Caesar Salad with chunks of baked chicken is a ultra-low carb, high protein "lunch"

Multi-Grain or Prebiotic (seed) breads, real butter, natural peanut butter, no sugar added jam, any kind of "real cheese" (the processed crap has carbs), low carb yogurt

Canned Tuna is a staple - Tuna sandwich a few times a week made with Mayonnaise made with olive oil or avocado oil (no salad dressing which has carbs)

I use 18% cream in my coffee, 10% (half/half) in cereal and for cooking

There is a ton of low carb cereals out there now - all the "fiber-something" brands - just have to check labels but even common brands like cheerio's are fine if you eat a "portion" and not free pour the stuff into the bowl

I still eat some potato (but mostly a taste), brown rice (2oz cooked is sugar safe for me)

I get low carb Pasta from a couple different companies that make keto friendly pasta (and not that soybean stuff - which is still ok, and low carb - anything made with soybean, if it tastes ok is a great product for diabetics) - any kind of pasta sauce is generally lower carb (just read the labels)

Today I had an egg/bacon scramble for breakfast with coffee and one slice of prebiotic bread toast (17 carbs)

Lunch was a fried egg sandwich (weight watchers whole wheat bread), slice of real cheddar cheese, no sugar ketchup (19 carbs)

Supper will be Rib steak (6oz beef), 4oz (prepared) of brown rice (29 carbs)

Don't know what I will do yet for my "late meal" (I eat 4 meals a day) - could be nothing more than 2oz of Cashews (11 carbs) if I'm not "hungry" or could be a Tuna Sandwich (16-22 carbs depending "what bread" I use)

Do I wish I could eat pizza and donuts, sure (I can have a "taste" once in a while with some planning) but it's not like I never eat a hamburger - yesterday I worked through lunch and got a 1/4 pounder Cheese from McDonalds with a Coke Zero

No fries, no shakes, no pies, no nothing else and at 36 carbs and almost 500 calories that is all I "should have" been eating - 36 carbs is way up at my ceiling limit - like to stay below 30 "almost all of the time"

Most times the problem isn't WHAT we eat, it is how much - know your carb limits, know your calorie limits and then eat whatever you want if you can make it fit those limits

For me most of my meals look like stir-fry, eggs, soup, salads, or some combination of the above.

I am having to learn new ways to cook too. Turns out its not that different. Just leave out the carbs and sugars. Meat has been no change. Veggies is just somewhat limited. So it basically boils down to replacing the carbs. Egg and grated zucchini fried in a pan make a great pizza base. Zucchini grated lengthwise make an excellent spaghetti replacement. Radishes boiled are very close to potatoes. Cream is great to make gravy. Frozen berries with whipped cream make pretty good icecream.