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Having issues with Keto Chow Clumping? We have some solutions for you!

In version 2.1.1 of Keto Chow, we changed the protein powder to one that tastes a little better but does not have lecithin in it. Lecithin slows down how quickly the protein absorbs water making it more forgiving to mix. In version 2.5.0 we are/will be going back to a lecithninated/instantized protein powder. If you have v2.1.1 or 2.1.2 and are having problems with clumping, here are some tips to help you mix easier.

  1. The most effective way to handle the problem is to go straight for using butter as the fat source.

    Because you are using warm water and melted butter, all of the issues with clumping simply go away. On top of that, you get all of the additional benefits of butter:

    • Butter costs less than Heavy Cream or Avocado Oil. Using pricing from my local grocery store I get $1.229 per 1000 calories for HWC, $0.981 for AO, and $0.796 per 1000 calories for butter. That same 1000 calories of butter have 0.08g of total carbs compared to 8.35g for the HWC.
    • Butter does not contain any controversial carrageenan or other emulsifiers you find in Heavy Whipping Cream. Personally, I don’t care about them but some people get quite “excited” about them.
    • Butter has a better impact on my blood markers.
    • Butter is easier to store, it freezes exceptionally well and is compact.
    • Butter is easier to transport. The salted variant is quite stable without refrigeration for a good amount of time, it won’t spill (unless you get it too warm =), it’s not in a glass bottle that will shatter. Should also be noted that TSA currently doesn’t care about butter, unlike a bottle of oil.
    • Butter tastes amazing. Personally, I prefer the salted butter because of the additional sodium and salty taste, especially in the chocolate flavors of Keto Chow (Chocolate, Mint, Toffee, Peanut butter, etc…
  2. Avocado Oil tends to be more difficult to mix than Heavy Cream, if you want to use Avocado Oil you’ll likely want/need to use either a blender or an immersion blender
  3. When you go to mix Keto Chow, if you’re using a blender bottle, you need to have the water nearby so you can immediately mix it. You need to add the water and begin vigorous mixing within 2-3 seconds of adding the powder to the bottle. This is covered in rather exhaustive detail on the “How to Prepare Keto Chow” page and the accompanying video.

 

By |2019-05-24T12:32:53-06:00May 24th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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Spicy Taco Soup ?? now available!

Spicy Taco Soup; it’s not super spicy, just enough for most people. If you like it spicier you can always add more! Try it with some ground beef, maybe a little onion and some avocado chunks? The Taco Soup works well with just about every fat we’ve tried including: butter, beef tallow, bacon grease, duck fat, heavy cream, avocado oil, and more! We’ve already tested a batch to make sure it mixes up correctly and tastes right, so you can order it RIGHT NOW!

In case you missed it last week, we also received the Beef Soup Base. With the Beef Soup Base, we were experimenting around with different flavors: Clam Chowder, Beef Stew, Hot and Sour Soup, and more. We realized that rather than have it with a flavor, why not just leave it unflavored and let people use whatever they like?! So make soup, use it to bake, throw in some ground beef, go really nuts and mix it like a hot shake =); think of the Beef Soup Base as a blank canvas waiting for you to have fun. Without anything added it still has a nice beef flavor thanks to the beef bone broth protein. Works well with just about every fat we’ve tried including butter, beef tallow, bacon grease, duck fat, heavy cream, avocado oil, and more! It’s also passed QA and ready for ordering.

By |2019-05-23T12:29:23-06:00May 23rd, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , |0 Comments
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The Fate of the Top Secret Product

To start off: the RTD and the regular Chocolate powder you mix from the bag are EXACTLY the same thing – just one was mixed with 41% heavy cream and pasteurized. Frankly, I like it better mixed by me with salted butter.

Keto Connect just did a review of the “Top Secret Product” prototype we had manufactured back in November 2018. For those unaware: it was a “Ready to Drink” version of Keto Chow with the fat already mixed in, shelf stable for a year, 50% of your daily nutrients in each bottle, cool stuff. We had it made by a local(ish) company but they only had two sizes available:

  • Teeny tiny juice box size – would give you 1/6 of your daily nutrients
  • Massively gigantor 32oz size – half a day’s nutrients

With a ketogenic diet, it’s simply better to eat fewer times during the day – small frequent meals and/or snacking can stall you out and only serves to keep insulin elevated throughout the day. We decided on the big bottle with 1000 calories in it since it more closely aligns with what I would consider a better eating pattern.

I want to pause for a second and point something out: a 1 quart container of regular 2% chocolate milk has 780 calories with 95g of sugars, 19g of fat, 30g of protein. I think it’s odd that most people would think there’s nothing weird at all about someone drinking a 32oz bottle of chocolate milk, but just about faint when they would read the nutrition info on the RTD bottle of Keto Chow. Odd.

So, we had the prototype batch manufactured. We stuck labels on them, so they would look decent, and started sending out free bottles to people that ordered over $200 (and therefore qualified for free ground shipping). It was a good learning experience. We learned how to ship liquid without people knowing what the surprise was, or expecting a certain level of service so when (not if) something went wrong, they were generally super chill about it and just excited to get the bottle. We decided we wanted to do an actual production run and have them come in cases of 6. So I contacted the manufacturer so we could get the packaging printing (in Spain!). And waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Finally, we learned that Tetrapak, the people that make the multi-million dollar aseptic packaging machine, had discontinued support of that machine and it was being sent back to Europe. Dang. So now we’re looking for an alternative solution. Dry powder is still our core competency and WAY less expensive to manufacture and ship; but we want to have an RTD product. It took nearly a year to get the last prototype ran, I expect it’ll take that long again to find another place to do it; ideally in a mid-size package so it can be 3 a day instead of gigantor massive bottles.

As for the original prototype run? They’re all gone. I sent some of the final ones we had left to Keto Connect, mostly because every time they review Keto Chow they seem to mix it up wrong ? – wanted them to try it the way it’s MEANT to be!

Here’s our Facebook Live from March 27, where we explain the issue and such (in thinly veiled terms). I’ve fast-forwarded it to the point where we talk about it.

By |2019-05-16T10:34:57-06:00May 14th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |3 Comments
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Most Popular Flavors of Keto Chow – Leaderboard Update

I did a post back in January showing the most popular flavors of the large 21 meal bags – seasons change and so do buying patterns. Here are the current standings for most popular flavors based on sales from January 1 to May 7, 2019.

Of note: last time we had not had the samples available for quite some time so there was a possibility the numbers were skewed towards more “known” flavors. The “Seasonal” Flavors (Pumpkin Spice and Eggnog) showed higher sales percentages.

Anyhow, thought you’d all be interested.

Update: Here are the sales for the different flavors over time, the top 8 sellers in the first image, bottom 8 in the second.

By |2020-03-30T14:27:12-06:00May 7th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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Recovering, Editing, Experimenting, Answering… ?

We finished up the Keto Salt Lake show on Saturday. That was a lot of work but insanely awesome, I have a bunch of pictures I need to post when I get the time. Lately, I’ve been swamped with a few things:

  • Editing the recordings of the Keto Salt Lake presentations.
  • Answering the (thousands) of questions on the Facebook advertisement with the new video.
  • Doing experiments with different ways of mixing Keto Chow.

At Keto Salt Lake we had two different cameras running that were recording the presentations in UHD4K (3840×2160@29.97p), I also had an audio recorder plugged directly into the microphone feed so I could get a clean recording of the presentations. In all, approximately 34 hours of video (17 on each camera) were recorded. It ended up being 1.07 TeraBytes of data! I had to put it on my spinning hard drive because the SSD is only 953GB, it’s like living in the past! =)

I have the editing for Friday completely finished and I’m rolling right along with getting at least 2 presentations done and uploaded to YouTube each day. All of them go into the 2019 Low Carb Salt Lake Recordings playlist so they are easy to find and watch.

The commercial has been an astounding success. It’s been pretty frantic around here shipping out orders and answering questions. I see every question from someone as an opportunity: it means they want to know more and put forth the effort to ask. Even if they have the same question that I’ve answered a few dozen times, that means they want to know (and I can use my answer templates for a bunch of them =). The coolest thing is: for every “keto is dumb, you suck, die in a fire” or “sucralose will make your hair turn blue and isn’t as good as eating twigs and bark” comment, we get several dozen comments from people that think the ad is funny, are interested in trying it, and are excited that there’s something that can help them on their keto journey. We are also getting a lot of our customers that answer people’s questions for us. Seriously: that’s super cool! One person asked how many bots we have on there making it look like people like the product. I replied that you only have to do stuff like that when you’re trying to trick people because the product sucks. We don’t “astroturf” (no need) and the product is awesome.

I also had a conversation with a certain person that’s noted for their work treating Alzheimer’s patients with keto, coconut oil, MCT oil, and exogenous ketones. I asked if they see a marked improvement with people supplementing coconut oil – she said they do indeed see a substantial improvement in most cases. I decided to try applying the technique for mixing Keto Chow with butter and use it to mix regular Costco coconut oil (which was quite solid in my cupboard). I used 50g coconut oil (melted) and mixed it up with Keto Chow and warm water. Let it chill in the fridge and there is no separation (see the image at the top of this post, the bottle on the left with the grey lid was refrigerated overnight). It does have a pronounced coconut flavor that I think goes well with regular chocolate.

I also tried mixing up a full meal of Keto Chow with unsalted butter with a LOT less water than typical – the finished volume was 14oz (about 380ml). It was quite thick but still very pleasant – makes it possible to fit in a far smaller container if necessary. That’s the bottle on the right side with the blue lid.

By |2019-05-03T14:05:24-06:00May 3rd, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |2 Comments
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The Keto Chow Commercial is LIVE!

If you didn’t get a chance yesterday to watch the premiere of the new commercial, we got you covered! Here’s the full launch video complete with the “behind the scenes” footage:

If you want to see JUST the commercial, I have 8 versions for you! (I know, it’s a little excessive but whatever man!)

  • widescreen vs. square
  • captions vs. non-captions
  • 60 seconds vs. 4 minutes
Captioned Widescreen Square
full 4 minute https://youtu.be/hZjsLy9O-NY https://youtu.be/f5BYl2gckpI
60 seconds https://youtu.be/r3v8qHAz-o8 https://youtu.be/EgMdFagiuN4
Uncaptioned Widescreen Square
full 4 minute https://youtu.be/lpSsfZJI3iE https://youtu.be/GgWVw3BI_Sw
60 seconds https://youtu.be/3M61TS_07cU https://youtu.be/Kxvd06GVebM

According to Jamestown Films, here are the credits for the production:

Chief Creative Director— James Dayton
Director & Director of photography— Ben-ji Allred
Producer— Christian Darais
Producer— Merik Richardson
1st AD— Willem Kampenhout
Production Assistant— Mario DeAngelis

Cam Op— AUSTIN GREEN
1st AC— Austin Haack
2nd AC— SPENCER GOFF
Lead Writer— Brandon Cummings
Writer— Shawn Zumbrunnen
Writer— Ryan Powell
Writer— Amanda Byrom

Gaffer— Ryan Hannah
Key Grip— Josh Contor
Grip— KARL DANIELSON
Art Director— Sandy Bee
Set Dresser— JOE DECICCO
Hair and Makeup— Mikaela Kester
Hair and Makeup Assistant— BRITLYN GORDAN
Wardrobe— Sandy Bee
Wardrobe Assistant— JACOB SCOTT

Editor— ANDY MATTHEWS
Motion Graphics— AARON THARP

Sound— Jared Jaynes
Craft— RICHARD TAYLOR
Set Builder— NAT REED

Witch— MELANIE STONE
Gretal— ELIZABETH BIRKNER
Hansel— SPENCER ADAMS
Knight— Eric Wood
Villager 1— ROURKE ALLEN
Villager 2— LENKA BECZ
Villager 3— NICK BOLL
Villager 4— JACOB PETERSON
Villager 5— AMY EMERY
Villager 6— MARK GORDON
Wizard— Shawn Zumbrunnen

By |2019-05-03T08:34:15-06:00April 30th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , |7 Comments
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?‍♀️? The Keto Chow Commercial premiere ? ? ? ?

We’ve been dying to show everyone and the day is finally here! (or at least it will be in 13 days) Be one of the first people to see our new commercial! Join us on Monday, April 29, 2019 at 6 PM Mountain, 8 PM Eastern.

Sit-tight as Miriam and Chris introduce the video, talk a little about how the process for getting the commercial made started and then we all get to watch the commercial together. Following the commercial premiere, you’ll get a little more from Miriam and Chris talking about the actual production and filming of the video. Finally, you’ll get to see some of the behind-the-scenes footage we recorded at the shoot!

UPDATE: so I’m not sure how this happened but the video got deleted. So… with 5 minutes to go before the premiere, I’m re-encoding it at 720p and uploading it again to a new location. Give me 15 minutes or so and we’ll have it. SIGH.

Update 2: here’s the new link:

By |2019-04-30T07:35:41-06:00April 16th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|1 Comment
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Poop Talk: It’s a Keto Thing, Right?

Since I’ve been doing keto since 2017 I’ve probably googled or talked to other keto people about my bowel movements more times than I ever did before my keto existence. Then the past few months I started introducing intermittent fasting and I was right back to my regular inquiries of the internet to learn what I was possibly doing wrong or my body was lacking to cause my irregular bowel issues. It’s a strange thing, because on one hand it’s a little awkward to bring up and on the other hand completely normal for keto-ites to have a conversation about how their poop is coming out for them and what they’ve learned about adjusting their electrolytes, fiber or another intake to help avoid the common issue of constipation or diarrhea.

A friend came to me recently and said, “I’ve heard people on the keto diet have all kinds of problems pooping.” It’s true, it is commonly known that the high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet can lead to constipation and diarrhea. But we can all agree, we don’t talk openly about this without non-keto friends.

But like you, I was relieved (literally) to learn that I am not alone in this. In fact, a recent search on google trends shows an increase in the past five years for the search of “keto constipation” and “keto diarrhea”. And if you’re on Reddit, the groups on there often have threads that discuss at length what people are eating and how to help with either of these two keto bowel issues.

Google Trends Keto Constipation Keto Diarrhea search

So if you’re new to keto and concerned about your infrequent or frequent bowel movements, the color or the consistency of your poop based off the Bristol Scale (yes they have a chart of that), no worries, it’s perfectly normal.

Bristol Stool Chart NPR

Credit: NPR

Here are some articles I found to be helpful in that answer some of the questions of these common keto bowel issues:

Keto and Poop – Something We Need to Talk About

The Scoop on Poop: Bowel Changes on the Keto Diet

So with all of that said, it’s just another one of those KETO things that reminds of me of that saying. “It’s a Keto thing…You wouldn’t understand.” 

By |2019-02-13T23:28:50-07:00February 8th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|0 Comments
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Soup-er Keto 3 Giveaway with Carrie Brown & Real Salt

We are very excited to partner up with
The Real Carrie Brown and Redmond Real Salt for a
SOUP-ER 2nd Giveaway this month.
It started earlier today
and ends on 2/1/19 at 11:59pm MST.

Remember as always it is
3 companies, 3 prize packages, and 3 Winners!!

Keto 3 Giveaway – Jan 30-Feb 1 (Soup)

Winners will be selected at random through the 3rd party app Gleam following the close of the contest. Winners will be contacted directly and prize package shipped by Keto Chow out of Utah. Winners may be posted on any or all of the participating company social media pages by Monday, February 4th.

[Fine Print: No Purchase Necessary. The number of eligible entries received will determine the odds of winning. This contest in no way is sponsored by Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. Another winner will be selected if the prize packages are forfeited or unclaimed. Keto Chow has the right to obtain and publicize the winner’s names and likeness. Void where prohibited by law. Winners will be notified via email and given 24 hours to reply to the email to claim their prize. If a reply is not received within the time period than a new winner will be selected.]

By |2019-01-29T22:58:22-07:00January 30th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |1 Comment
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Higher shipping costs for 2019, thanks USPS!

I’m just about done updating the shipping prices for the new costs that will go into effect on Monday. I’ll be putting those up as soon as we finish shipping Friday’s orders since anything that comes after will ship out using the new rates. If you’re wondering why shipping costs more than your past orders did, that’s why.

For the curious, there’s a post on stamps.com that details the price changes, it’s around a 6% increase on the majority of the packages we use.

By |2019-01-25T11:03:32-07:00January 25th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |2 Comments
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