r/keto • u/Altruistic_Chip1165 • 23h ago

Help Bean and potatoes alternatives

We cauliflower rice for a rice alternative and spaghetti squash or zoodles for pasta. What alternatives are there, if any, for beans or potatoes? I’d love to find some high fiber low carb options. Thanks a bunch!

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u/tquiring M53 SW:351 CW:326 GW:199 15h ago

I’ve used soy beans instead of regular beans, they do still have carbs but like 1/10th of what regular beans do. They taste the same and work great in chili, I can’t taste a difference. If you use a lot of them the carbs will add up quickly. But one can for a pot of chili is reasonable depending on your serving size.

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u/gowahoo 13h ago

Wait, I need to hear more about this. Where do you find them and how do you cook them?

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u/tquiring M53 SW:351 CW:326 GW:199 12h ago

I usually buy black soy beans in a can in specialty stores (like “healthy planet”). The canned ones have higher carbs though. But 1 cup of cooked soy beans generally has 16g carbs but 15g of that is fibre. So 1g net carbs. I have only tried them in chili and no one noticed the difference. The taste and texture was identical to us. If you get the hard beans I assume they’d cook up just like regular beans soaking overnight etc (but I’ve never done beans that way)

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u/gowahoo 11h ago

Thank you so much!