These 16 Pantry Staples Make The Keto Diet So Much Easier & Tastier

There are a few ingredients I recommend keeping in your pantry that will help you more easily adapt to the keto lifestyle.

Flour with gluten is a no-no on the keto diet, but there are lots of other varieties to use instead.

Made from dried coconut meat.

Almost any nut can be made into flour, though almond flour is the most popular and the easiest to find at the store.

Made from the bones of beef or chicken, bone broth is cooked for at least 10 hours and up to 24 hours. It is high in collagen and has anti-inflammatory properties.

This fat is used frequently on the keto diet, so it's good to buy the best you can afford. Kerrygold has a higher butterfat content than other butters; plus, it is free of growth hormones.

It can be hard to find sugar-free chocolate that is naturally sweetened and free of artificial ingredients. Lily's stevia-sweetened chocolate comes in a wide variety of bars, baking chocolate, and chocolate chips.

This is a protein made up of amino acids and can be purchased in powder form. It's also found in bone broth.

Adding fiber to your diet helps maintain bowel health, lowers cholesterol, and controls blood sugar. It also aids in weight loss. Good sources of fiber include chia seeds, flaxseed, flax meal, and psyllium husk powder. You can also buy unflavored fiber in powder form and add it to beverages or recipes.

If you want to add flavor without calories, a few drops of an oil flavoring can do the trick, but it's important that the flavoring you use includes only natural ingredients. LorAnn Naturals is a wonderful brand with lots of flavors to choose from.

Many bottled ketchups include sugar along with their other ingredients. AlternaSweets low-carb classic tomato ketchup is a good alternative ketchup if you can't make it yourself.

You don't need to stop pouring syrup over your pancakes. ChocZero sugar-free maple syrup is sweetened with monkfruit and uses natural maple flavor.

Short for medium-chain triglycerides, MCT is a type of fat found in oils like coconut oil and some dairy products. This kind of fat is good because it goes from the gut to the liver, where it is turned into ketones. You can buy the oil and add it to recipes to amp up the good fat in whatever you are eating.

These snacks are crunchy and delicious and a nice alternative to potato chips, which are not part of a keto diet. They are gluten-free, high-protein, and free of carbs.

I use mostly table salt in the recipes, but I also like Himalayan salt because, in addition to seasoning food, it has more than 84 minerals and trace elements that are good for you.

There are several good sweeteners available that offer all the sweetness you want without the carbohydrates and calories. When you are at the store, pay attention to the labels. Many sweeteners look keto-friendly, but they have extra processed ingredients that I don't recommend.

Swerve also offers granulated, brown sugar, and confectioners' varieties. It is a mix of erythritol and oligosaccharides. I love the taste of Swerve and use it all the time.

This is a sweetener made from the juice of a small, round Southeast Asian fruit. My favorite brand is Lakanto, which can be found at many grocery chains. It comes in granulated ("Classic" on the Lakanto package), brown sugar ("Golden" on the Lakanto package), and powdered (aka confectioners') forms and can be used 1:1 in place of sugar.

Derived from the leaves of a plant native to Brazil and Paraguay, stevia also sweetens without calories. Pyure is my preferred brand, and it offers both granulated and powdered (Bakeable Blend) varieties as well as liquid stevia.

A supplement that adds protein to your diet, whey isolates have a higher protein content than whey concentrate or whey hydrolysate, and they are almost completely dairy-free and carbohydrate-free.

This is a thickener and stabilizing agent that is often used to compensate for a lack of gluten in baked goods.

This blend of tomatoes and chilies is delicious and adds lots of low-carb flavor. It comes in original, mild, and hot versions, which will appeal to pretty much any taste. They come in cans, so you can store them indefinitely in your pantry.