Quick, healthy meals are everyone’s dream, right? Instant pots are perfect for this. Choose your ingredients, dump them in and turn it on! Ok, sometimes you have to do a little more than that, but the keto meals in this cookbook can be prepared very quickly and easily.

The ketogenic diet is made up of low carb, moderate protein, and high fat meals. When you’re on the diet successfully, you’re in a metabolic state called ketosis. In ketosis, the liver produces ketones as the body’s energy source. This helps burn fat and provide energy. Because it’s high-fat, but very low sugar (or NO sugar!), the keto diet helps you feel full and energetic while losing fat.

There’s a whole list of foods to avoid, but with any diet, it’s easier to focus on the foods who can eat, and just try not to think too much about donuts. You can see a basic keto grocery list here.

Breakfast is the hardest meal for me to eat healthily. Mostly, I want my coffee and silence, and I end up grabbing a bodega breakfast sandwich more often than I should. The bagel or kaiser roll part of that sandwich is off-limits on keto, but this cookbook has a recipe for Zucchini Bacon Boats, with bacon, rich cheese and cream, for a nice replacement. There’s also an Almond-Chocolate Cake, because who wouldn’t be tempted by cake for breakfast?

Many people are able to stick to the keto diet, when they couldn’t manage other diets, because even though you’re avoiding grains and sugars, you can have so many other things. The dinners in this cookbook are filling and rich, like a tuna with zoodles, or butter chicken stew. You could serve these to friends, and that’s not always true for diet food.

You can pick and choose what looks good (butter chicken stew!), or follow the 2-week meal plan at the back of the book. One of the problems with any diet is that it’s easy to get sick of the same few meals. Especially with a very restrictive diet, dieters are more likely to slip up, cheat, or just give up on a diet if they’re eating the same food for every meal. This varied meal plan is a great help to anyone looking to eat good food, while losing weight.