Keto-friendly Finger Foods for Kids

It can be challenging to find keto-friendly finger foods for your little one, so in today’s post, we’re sharing some of our favorite bite-sized recipes.

Savory Cheese Crackers (3:1 ratio or MAD)

Almond Coconut Cookies (3:1 ratio or 4:1 ratio)

You can also make many recipes into finger foods by cooking them in bite-sized portions.

For example, you can make Bite-sized Pancakes by preparing our KetoCal Pancake Recipe (3:1 ratio, 4:1 ratio or MAD) as you normally would, but pouring into tiny pancakes when cooking.  You can also find mini pancake makers to make things easier. Serve pancakes alone or with carb-free pancake syrup for dipping!

For a savory snack, you can apply the same concept to make Cheesy Tomato Bites by preparing our KetoCal Cheesy Tomato Wrap Recipe (4:1 ratio, 3:1 ratio, or MAD) as you normally would, but shaping into bite-size circles to cook (you could try the mini pancake maker here too!). Serve alone or with a savory dipping sauce!

What are your child’s favorite finger foods? Have you been able to come up with keto variations for them? If you could find a keto-version of any kid’s food, what would it be? (Maybe our keto chef can help!)

KetoCal is a medical food and is intended for use under medical supervision. KetoCal 3:1 and 4:1 are indicated for individuals age 1 and up. KetoCal 2.5:1 is indicated for individuals age 8 and up. 

Holiday Tips and Recipes Roundup

Today’s KetoConnect post is a collection of posts from around the web with helpful tips and recipe ideas for celebrating the holidays with a child on the ketogenic diet. Please comment if you know of any other helpful posts that we should add to the list. Best wishes for a happy, healthy, keto-friendly holiday!

Tips for Celebrating Winter Holidays (Epilepsy Foundation)

Christmas:

Tips for Managing Your Child’s Ketogenic Diet over the Holidays (KetoConnect)

Christmas Survival Guide (Matthew’s Friends)

KetoCal Christmas Recipe Ideas (KetoConnect)

Holiday Baking (KetoCook)

Hanukkah:

Celebrating Chanukah on the Ketogenic Diet (KetoConnect guest blog post)

KetoCal Hanukkah Recipe Ideas (KetoConnect)

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Warm Keto Soups for Cold Days

Cold weather calls for warm soup! Try one of our tasty KetoCal® soup recipes. These recipes use KetoCal® LQ Unflavored, which is unsweetened/unflavored and perfect for making savory recipes. We made samples of these soup recipes for our office and everyone still raves about them. The crowd favorites were the Mock Baked Potato Soup and the Taco Soup.

As always, consult with your health care provider to ensure recipes are appropriate for your ketogenic ratio.

KetoCal Mock Baked Potato Soup

KetoCal Taco Soup

Cream of taco soup

KetoCal Mushroom Soup

KetoCal Tomato Basil Bisque

Tomato basil soup

KetoCal is a medical food for the dietary management of intractable epilepsy and is intended for use under medical supervision. Talk to your healthcare provider about whether KetoCal is right for you.