New week, new flavor on sale! This week it’s 20% off all the different sizes of Cookies and Cream. This is one of my favorite flavors and what I was drinking most of last week.
On a side note: we did decide to make some additional day packs because we ran out pretty quick and Keto Chow 2.0 isn’t quite ready yet (hoping we can start production later this week).
Yesterday we picked up the large “week” bags from the printer and delivered them to the manufacturing facility.
At this point, there’s very little left to do to get going:
I’m hopeful we can get full production going this week or next week. While we were there, I snapped a picture of the mixing machine they’ll be using, ladder for scale:
New week, new flavor on sale! This week it’s 15% off all the different sizes of Strawberry Blast. Of all the flavors I personally think strawberry has one of the more mellow flavors – lends its self to adding other flavors quite well.
This week we have a sale going on Vanilla, the week size is 15% off, we’re also continuing our $10 sale on the day packs. With the impending arrival of Keto Chow 2.0 and the retirement of the 3-meal Day packs we decided after the new year we wouldn’t replenish stock. We’re planning on keeping the sale going until we run out of each flavor, so far we have ran out of Cookies and Cream in the day packages.
One of my main New Year resolutions is not to eat anything until AFTER I have it entered into a tracking app. In the past I’ve used MyFitnessPal (hereafter referred to as MFP) – it works fine, has pretty good social sharing so friends can see what you want them to see; and they have a massive user-contributed database of foods. The website and app are free (though they hit you up pretty hard to buy the premium membership). It’s kinda like the wild west so far as their food database is concerned, though: anybody can add any food with any information. If you look in MFP for “Keto Chow” you’ll find several dozen entries, some that I made =) MFP does have some serious shortcomings though. First and largest is that user-contributed database, it has a lot of good stuff in there but it also has a lot of junk: entries with incorrect or incomplete information, duplicates, and more, including linking barcodes to incorrect products. Sure there’s an entry for food X, but you have to verify the information – it’s about the same as entering it yourself anyway, advantage lost. MFP also doesn’t know how to track net carbs, only total carbohydrates (including fiber). There is a Chrome browser script that you can use to add net carbs to MFP but it doesn’t work with mobile and is a bit of a hack.
By comparison, there’s Cron-O-Meter (hereafter referred to as CM) – free via browser, paid as an app with barcode scanning. The biggest difference with CM is the food database is curated – it only has validated, correct entries. It also has a lot more detailed information. You can add your own foods and recipes that combine foods together – if you buy the “gold” membership you can share foods and recipes with friends. CM also added a Ketogenic Diet mode back in March 2016 (I even posted to /r/keto about it =) – it’ll help you track net carbs and other nutrients. Set your macronutrient targets and go! I recommend CM over MFP for these two features alone. The problem becomes: How do you get custom foods into CM? I have the process for getting Keto Chow officially added to the database going but that could take years! The solution is to add it yourself with some handy information I’ll give you.
To start off, you’re going to want to add an entry for just the 50g of Keto Chow powder. You can refer to the entry I created for Keto Chow 1.9 Rich Chocolate. If you add new food, there’s a gear icon on the far right that you can import a JSON file with the nutritional information so you don’t have to type it all.
I was excited to find an entry already in CM for “Darigold, Whipping Cream, Heavy Classic 40%” which is the stuff I get from Costco in 2-quart packages. BUT the entry was missing a key element: the 0.48g of carbs per serving I know are in there. The solution was to find the USDA entry for “Cream, fluid, heavy whipping” and edit a copy with the specific values on the Darigold label (since the Darigold has more calories and fat at 40% fat instead of the standard 36%) see here for the complete entry I created.
OK, so you have an entry for the powder and the heavy cream. You can enter the powder and cream separately every day (tedious) or you can bundle the heavy cream into a “recipe” with the powder. I created a recipe that includes the powder, heavy cream and MCT oil (since I use MCT oil, I’ve been at this 2 years =) – you can check it out here. Now every time I want to add Rich Chocolate Keto Chow the way I like to mix it up, I just add 1 full recipe of “Keto Chow 1.9 Rich Chocolate plus 50ml heavy cream and MCT”. What about Chocolate Peanut Butter? Since it’s my #1 favorite flavor of all time you gotta know I have a recipe for that too! I made a custom food entry for “Peanut Flour Light Roast 28%“. I cloned the Rich Chocolate recipe and added 10g of the peanut flour to give me “Keto Chow 1.9 Peanut Butter plus 50ml heavy cream and MCT“. In case you’re curious, here are the entries for KC2.0 Chocolate+heavy cream and MCT and the corresponding KC2.0 Chocolate Peanut Butter. Finally, make sure you are getting your Ω-3 fatty acids – here’s an entry for the new Keto Chow Fish Oil pills .
One thing to note about CM: If you edit a food entry you created, the change will propagate back to previous days. This is handy for fixing an error you discovered but sucks for revisions. The solution is to edit a copy of the food, then “retire” the outdated one. The existing entries will remain unchanged and the old food will not show up as a suggested entry when you add food to your diary.
Here are my entries for yesterday (January 2, 2017):
The target values were derived from the Keto Macro Calculator coupled with some details I got from my DEXA scan last year.
This week we have a sale going on Chocolate Fudge, the week size is 20% off, we’re also continuing our $10 sale on the day packs. With the impending arrival of Keto Chow 2.0 and the retirement of the 3-meal Day packs we decided after the new year we wouldn’t replenish stock. We’re planning on keeping the sale going until we run out of each flavor.
Speaking of Keto Chow 2.0 – I got confirmation that the printed bags will be ready January 17. I’m hopeful that we’ll start the sample sizes before that and be all ready to go for the week packs when that becomes available.
It’s the week after Christmas, that means a bunch of people are going to be looking at ways to make their New Years resolutions a success. Losing weight is the #1 resolution but it’s one of the harder ones to achieve, unless you have a way to “cheat” – which is what I consider Keto to be =). Changing over to keto is the only thing I’ve ever tried in my life that has had such a significant and lasting effect on my weight and health. For those of us that don’t handle sugar well or are diabetic – eliminating sugars in our diet is the sure-fire way to succeed. How can you tell if you don’t handle sugar properly? I tell people I’m allergic to sugar & when they ask what it does to me I say “simple: it makes me fat.” If you weigh more than you (or your doctor) would like, chances are you have insulin intolerance or metabolic syndrome – Keto will help with both of those. Keto is awesome, but often times, doing nutritional ketosis can be difficult – which is why I make Keto Chow: to make keto simple and attainable. Figuring out what you can and can’t eat, getting proper electrolytes, and more become simple and effortless with an Engineered Staple like Keto Chow.
So, If you’re thinking of trying keto, let me make it simple: I’m putting all the different flavors of our “Day” (3 meal) packs on sale for $10 each. You can try all the flavors, see which ones you like and (hopefully) attain your goals! We’re also putting the 21 meal “week” package of Snickerdoodle on sale for 20% off. It’s yummy!
We finally got our custom packaged fish pills in! We were down to a single bag of the Costco ones so it was perfect timing. The new pills come in a Keto Chow labeled bottle and have better nutrition numbers for DHA and EPA Omega 3s. You can still buy fish pills from another source if you like but you’ll need at least 1300mg per day of omega 3s, most fish pills you find require 5 or 6 pills per day to reach that level, these ones are concentrated Omega 3 so you only need 2 per day.
We’re experiencing difficulties getting the Dymatize Elite Rich Chocolate right now. It’s a temporary problem and I expect that we’ll have the normal stuff soon (we’re just waiting on shipping thanks to the impending holidays). In the interim, we’re using Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard 100% Whey “Extreme Milk Chocolate”. It comes quite close to the same flavor but it is slightly different, tastes a little like the chocolate fudge we have – though not much. It’s a higher quality protein, and it’s significantly more expensive, but we’re going to leave the price of the Rich Chocolate and Chocolate Peanut Butter the same. You’ll be able to tell if you got one of these packages by the 1.9.1 version number on the package.
This week (Dec 19-26) we’re having a sale on Cookies and Cream, all of the different sizes are 20% off. A week is $64, a day is $10.87, and a sample is $4.80. Aside from Chocolate Peanut Butter, Cookies & Cream is my wife’s favorite flavor – which means we end up having it rather frequently =)
This week we have a sale going on on Gourmet Vanilla. It’s not the fanciest flavor but it’s a crowd pleaser none the less. You can also mix in other flavors and you can even try adding in sugar free jello!
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