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Home » Dinner Party Tips and Tricks » Frequently Used Ingredients for Special Diet Cooking

Frequently Used Ingredients for Special Diet Cooking

November 13, 2023 by Lori V Leave a Comment
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If you’re relatively new to cooking and baking for special dietary needs, you may feel overwhelmed by having to learn a whole new set of “standard or common” ingredients and how they work.  In the event you’ve been at this for a while, you are likely now more well-versed in food science than you ever expected to be.  When we first started out on our keto adventure many years ago, Scar and I thought we could off-road in our cooking the same way we did before.  Ha ha.  The joke was on us.  The rules had changed and we had a whole new set of chemistry to learn.  

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I will tell you that even after several years of such cooking, I’m always coming across some new product, technique, or combination of ingredients to try.  So whether you’re new to the special diet game or an old hand at it, I wanted to share some of the ingredients that I use either frequently or for fairly targeted purposes.  Hopefully, you’ll come across something that makes your cooking and / or baking life easier.   

I’ll try to keep the list below organized into logical categories.  If you don’t see something for which you’d like a recommendation, just drop me a line in the comments.

Flours

  • Almond Flour
    • Blue Diamond Almond Flour
  • Keto Flour
    • King Arthur Keto Wheat Flour
  • Coconut Flour
    • Anthony’s Coconut Flour
  • Hazelnut Flour
    • Bob’s Red Mill Hazelnut Flour

Sweeteners

  • Granulated Erythritol
    • Whole Earth Granulated Erythritol
  • Granulated Monk Fruit Sweetener
    • Lakanto Monk Fruit Sweetener Classic
  • Powdered Allulose
    • So Nourished Allulose Sweetener
  • Powdered Erythritol
    • So Nourished Powdered Erythritol
  • Powdered Monk Fruit Sweetener
    • Lakanto Powdered Monk Fruit Sweetener
  • Brown Sugar Substitute
    • Swerve Brown
    • Sukrin Gold
    • SoNourished Gold
  • Liquid Stevia
    • SweetLeaf Sweet Drops Liquid Stevia
  • Honey Substitute
    • Sukrin Syrup Gold

Thickener 

  • Xanthan Gum
    • Judee’s Xanthan Gum
  • Unflavored Gelatin
    • Knox Unflavored Gelatin

Syrups and Sauces

  • Jelly, Jam, Preserves
    • Skinnygirl Sugar Free Preserves, Strawberry Rosé
    • Skinnygirl Sugar Free Preserves, Blackberry Mule
  • Flavored Syrups
    • Jordan’s Skinny Syrups Sugar Free Coffee Syrup – Vanilla Bean Flavor
    • Monin’s Sugar Free Triple Sec
  • BBQ Sauce
    • G. Hughes Sugar Free BBQ Sauce Variety Pack

Chocolates

  • White Chocolate
    • Lily’s White Chocolate Style Baking Chips
  • Dark Chocolate
    • Lily’s Dark Chocolate Style Baking Chips
  • Milk Chocolate
    • Lily’s Milk Chocolate Style Baking Chips
  • Semi Sweet Chocolate
    • Lily’s Semi Sweet Chocolate Style Baking Chips

Breads, Wraps, etc.

  • Keto Bread
    • Nature’s Own Keto Bread
    • Brownberry Keto Bread
  • Keto Wraps
    • La Banderita Carb Counter Keto Street Tacos – 4-inch
    • Olé Xtreme Wellness Keto Tortillas – 8-inch

Non-Dairy Milks, Cheeses, and Related Substitutes

  • Nutritional Yeast
    • Bragg Premium Nutritional Yeast Seasoning
  • Shortening
    • Crisco Butter Flavor Shortening Sticks
    • Crisco All-Vegetable Shortening Sticks

Extracts and Oils

  • Cake Batter Extract
    • McCormick Cake Batter Extract
  • Sweet Corn Extract
    • Kitgen Sweet Corn Extract
  • Cherry Extract
    • OliveNation Pure Cherry Extract
  • Apple Extract

Miscellaneous

  • Chia Seeds
    • BetterBody Foods Organic Chia Seeds
  • Whole Milk Powder
    • Peak Instant Full-Cream Dry Whole Milk Powder
  • Squid Ink Powder
    • Black Hut Cuttlefish Squid Ink Powder
  • Crushed Pork Rinds
    • PORQ Artisanal Fried Pork Rinds Panko Crumbs
  • Keto Pretzels
    • Weight Loss Systems Protein Pretzel Twists
  • Keto Yellow Cake Mix
    • Duncan Hines Keto Yellow Cake Mix

Coffee & Tea Supplies

  • Dark Roast Coffee
    • Kicking Horse Coffee, Kick Ass, Dark Roast, Whole Bean
    • Kicking Horse Coffee, Grizzly Claw, Dark Roast, Whole Bean
    • Kicking Horse Coffee, 454 Horse Power, Dark Roast, Whole Bean
  • Varieties of Tea
    • Chai Tea
      • TAZO Regenerative Organic Chai

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