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If you’re one of the many people who’ve taken up the keto nutritional plan — a high-fat, medium-protein, low-carb approach to food — you know that it can be extremely rewarding. Maybe you’ve been deeply disappointed by calorie- and fat-reduction diets in the past, and the ketogenic lifestyle is helping you to make a more long-term, integrated shift in eating. Maybe you’ve finally been lost weight and keeping it off; maybe you feel sharper, happier, more energetic.

But keto isn’t without its challenges and one of the biggest is that carbs are literally everywhere. They’re in the obvious suspects, of course, but also hiding in foods we don’t think of as having carbs (such as ketchup), or ones we might normally eat a lot (such as beans).

This can make sourcing ingredients problematic, most notably in the beginning when you’re not yet a Jedi master of label reading. But the learning curve is quick — especially if you shop at Trader Joe’s.

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