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Cheap & Easy “Simple Scrambles”

If you want next-level awesome, prepare some of the Keto Chow Savory Drop Biscuits by Amanda Balle and put your eggs on those!

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Cheap and Easy “Simple Scrambles”

You may be familiar with the "Jimmy Dean Simply Scrambles," which are fantastic but rather expensive. The first time I opened one up I thought, "Hey, I can prepare this myself!" Here is our recipe that we like to use, though I typically do 3-5x as much at a time as is called for in the recipe. You can easily store these in the fridge or the freezer (and then the fridge to thaw) for later use.

Prep Time5

Cook Time20

Total Time25

Course: Breakfast

Recipe Creator: Keto Chow Community Recipe

Servings: bags or cups

Calories: 683.89kcal

Author: Chris

Ingredients

The meat and cheese mix - prep in bulk for later use.

1 pound bacon ends and pieces
1 pound ground sausage
1 pound grated cheese

Used to actually make the cups

20-30 large eggs
10 each snack size bags
10 12-16 oz paper cups for hot drinks

Instructions

Pre-Prep of bags

Cut up the bacon into smaller pieces.
Add the sausage. (I'm tripling the recipe in these photos FYI.)
Cook it all together.
If you're a wimp (or rather if your kids can't handle the amount of fat), you can drain the meat.
Let the meat cool, best to use the refrigerator so it doesn't get gross. Put about 1/2 cup of the meat mix into snack size bags
Add about 1/4 cup of grated cheese to each bag
Seal them, you can get out most of the air so they store smaller.
Admire your work. You can put the smaller bags into a larger bag and store it in the fridge or even the freezer.

To use the bags to make breakfast

Get the eggs, a large paper cup for hot liquids, a fork, and the meat mix.
Crack 1-3 eggs into the cup. We typically use two eggs.
See, eggs!
Add the meat and cheese mixture.
Stir it with a fork. Microwave (without the fork) for about 1 minute on high.
Stir it again. (You can use the same fork, don't be a sissy.) Microwave again for 30-60 seconds.
Check and see if it's done. If it's not: nuke it some more!
If you're feeling awesome, make some of the Keto Chow Savory Biscuits and eat your breakfast in style!

Nutrition Facts

Cheap and Easy “Simple Scrambles”

Serving Size

236 g

Amount per Serving

Calories

683.89

% Daily Value*

Fat

52.62

Saturated Fat

21.35

133

Trans Fat

0.45

Polyunsaturated Fat

6.91

Monounsaturated Fat

20.33

Cholesterol

497.28

166

Sodium

1529.23

Potassium

544.21

Carbohydrates

2.84

Sugar

2.25

Sugar Alcohol

0.03

Net Carbs

Protein

47.47

Vitamin A

927.78

Calcium

397.45

Iron

2.49

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Photos by Sarah DeYoung Photography

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The end of an era and anniversaries – all the 1.9 is mixed

This entry is part 89 of 131 in the series Ketogenic Diet

I’ve been mixing Keto Chow (and People Chow before that) since January 2015. Yesterday, 29 months later, we mixed up the final batch of Keto Chow 1.9. All the Dymatize protein is used up and the front room and “dining room” of my house are no longer storage rooms for supplies and equipment. I’m not going to lie: I was pretty gleeful going around with a vacuum cleaning up all the powder that has defined a large part of our lives for the last 2 1/2 (almost) years. It tends to settle on every surface in the house, even upstairs. I even took the computer our and blew it out with the air compressor (I think there was 50g in there!). The ironic thing is we’ve been waiting for the end of mixing to start a remodel on part of the house, specifically the aforementioned front room and dining room. Drywall work starts Monday. Guess everything will be dusty again! =)

Early next week we should start getting the remaining flavors of 2.0. They’re all mixed (and I’ve tested them to make sure we won’t repeat the problem with Vanilla) And hopefully, we’ll get the samples soon after that.

Fun story: 17 years ago I married my amazing wife. I proposed 2 1/2 weeks after we met because I waited a week, concerns about the ring and all – turns out you can propose without a ring and let her pick one later (crazy, right?). The night before we got married, my wife’s bridesmaids did a sleep-over at the apartment we were going to be living in (I was still living in my parent’s basement) and the morning of our wedding, May 6 2000, they were frantically getting ready. In the midst of all the commotion, the bacon that was cooking for their breakfast was forgotten and started to burn. There was a lot of smoke. When I saw my soon-to-be wife and embraced her for the first time on our wedding day, I said the 4 words that have come to symbolize so much in our relationship:

“You smell like bacon…”

I’ll never live that down =) Makes for a great story though, the kids think it’s funny and so does she – she just likes to rib me a bit, especially when I cook bacon and it smells like our wedding day all over again. Holy cow we looked like little kids! I do weigh less now than I did back then though =)