Avocado and Bacon Keto Breakfast: A Raw 2017 Recipe Clip
What this is
This isn't a talk. It's a 77-second unedited original from September 2017, filed among my raw phone footage. Someone else is filming, there's back-and-forth about getting a shot of the ingredients for Instagram, and I say on camera that I'll edit the talking out later. Then about 30 seconds of actually making breakfast. It's here because it's a real piece of how I ate, not because it's a finished video.
In this recording
- [0:00] Setting up the shot and agreeing to cut the chatter later.
- [0:00] The recipe, start to finish: cut-up avocado, then bacon, a little lime juice, a little sambal (chili garlic paste), mayo, salt and pepper. Stir. "Avocado, bacon, breakfast."
- [1:02] A reminder to get a shot of the food before the video stops.
The recipe, written out
No quantities are given in the clip, so these are the ingredients and the order I added them, not a measured recipe:
- Avocado, cut into pieces.
- Bacon.
- A squeeze of lime juice.
- A little sambal chili garlic paste.
- Mayo.
- Salt and pepper.
- Stir it together and eat.
It's the same avocado dressing I described in my long 2017 beginner Q&As: sambal on avocados and bacon (video xyEZL0HuejI), and a version with sambal, a little soy sauce, lime, cilantro and mayo (video cTGYIFOTPl8). In the first of those I pointed out that sriracha has a little sugar in it, and that sambal comes from the same company (video xyEZL0HuejI). That's the hidden carbs habit in action: check the sauce, not just the main ingredients.
Watching this in 2026
This is about as "keto made easy" as it gets. No special products, a handful of ingredients, and it holds up as a breakfast. Two notes I'd add now:
- Calories add up. Avocado, bacon and mayo are all calorie-dense. That's fine, but if weight loss stalls, this bowl is a place to trim, maybe less mayo or more avocado and less bacon. In 2020 I was steering beginners toward leaner proteins for exactly this reason (live IMG_0998).
- Why avocado earns its spot: fiber and potassium, which I made a separate short video about (live IMG_0994).
The clip itself would need editing before it's posted anywhere; the setup talk is most of it.
Key points
- An unedited 2017 recipe clip, not a talk.
- Avocado, bacon, lime, sambal, mayo, salt, pepper. Stir.
- Sambal over sriracha to skip the added sugar.
- Calorie-dense: adjust portions if you stall.