The Low-Carb Snacks I Actually Reorder (Tortillas, Bread, Jam and Crunch)
I’m a whole-foods-first person on keto — my supermarket list is where the everyday eating happens. But let’s be honest with each other: sometimes you need something crunchy, or bread-shaped, or jam-like, and no amount of halloumi is going to fix it. This is my actual reorder list for those moments — the things I’ve bought again and again, plus one honest “I wasn’t a fan.”
When you need crunch: nuts
Nuts are the low-carb answer to the crisps question. My current obsession is truffle nuts — fancy enough to feel like a treat, savoury enough to kill the crisp craving properly. (Link coming once I dig it out — this is a live blog, we do things honestly here.) General nut rules: macadamias, pecans and brazils are lowest carb; almonds mid; cashews are the sneaky-high ones to ration.
Tortillas: the product I’ve bought most in my life
That’s not an exaggeration. Low-carb tortillas are the single product I’ve repurchased more than anything else, because they turn “a pile of fajita filling” into dinner. I’ve been around the block with brands, and I keep coming back to one:
- Groovy Keto Tortillas — my all-time favourite and the ones on permanent reorder. Soft, flexible, and they behave like actual tortillas rather than sad discs.
Others I’ve genuinely bought and rotated through — all decent, all workable if my favourites are out of stock:
- CarbZone low-carb tortillas — the small ones, a long-running staple of the UK low-carb world.
- Ke-Lo low-carb tortillas
- Fitbakes wholegrain-style tortillas
Pair any of them with the fajita logic from my keto by cuisine guide and you’ve solved half your weeknight dinners.
Keto bread: an honest review
I think bread is the hardest thing to make keto — the texture never quite survives the carb removal. I’ve bought Fitbakes keto bread and I’ll be straight with you: I was not a fan eating it as-is. But if you’re dying for bread, here’s how to make it work: toast it properly, then cream cheese on top. Toasting fixes most of the texture, and the cream cheese does the rest.
The jam that goes on top
And on that cream cheese toast? This stevia-sweetened strawberry jam — my all-time favourite. No added sugar, sweetened with stevia, and it turns the keto bread situation above from “coping mechanism” into something you’d actually choose. It’s also lovely stirred into full-fat Greek yoghurt.
The honest footnote
None of these are “free foods” — they’re the release valve that stops a keto phase collapsing under its own seriousness. The everyday eating is still the whole-foods list; this drawer is for the moments in between. And as ever: read the label, check the sweetener, and know your own numbers.