Keto Chow

Flavor of the Week December 4-December 10: 10% off sale on Vanilla 2.0 week packs

Yep, I realize we recently had Vanilla as the flavor of the week, but it’s the flavor we have the most on-hand! For the next week, you can get 10% off the 21 meal “week” size of Vanilla 2.0. Check out the reviews of 2.0 Vanilla!

Speaking of reviews, you should check out our store reviews on Google, and the reviews of Keto Chow. Here’s a “taste”:

Keto Chow is the best keto meal replacement product I have ever tried. And I’ve tried my share. I now need to look no further. These meal replacement shakes are customizable to an individual’s dietary needs, which is very important to some people. The instructions and options were a little overwhelming to me at first but the product was worth it and everything seems so simple now. Keto Chow is my go-to meal every time.

Here’s another, should be noted that I publish all of the reviews that come in – bad or good – as they are, typos intact. The only ones I remove are spam posts from people wanting you to buy pills to “enhance performance” and such:

My doctor has been trying to get me to go ketogenic for health reasons for over a year but it seemed too complicated. Keto Chow makes it possible to go keto very easily. I have been on keto chow for 3 weeks and have lost 20 pounds so far. I have more energy and feel great. I could not have stuck to a ketogenic diet so easily if I did not have my keto chow shakes! I’m very grateful. As a plus, they taste great!

By |2017-12-04T04:28:00-07:00December 4th, 2017|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: , |0 Comments

Sample *ALL* the things has Chocolate Peanut Butter again

We just received a bunch of samples, among them we finally now have Chocolate Peanut butter back in stock (it’s been out since September 7, which is sad). That means that the “Sample all the things” bundle really is ALL the things again! For any that are worried: I did raise the price back up to account for it having 8 samples again. If you got a sample bundle between September 7 and now, you didn’t accidentally pay for a sample you didn’t get. That would suck.

By |2017-11-29T13:20:47-07:00November 29th, 2017|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: |0 Comments

Sample availability update, after thanksgiving mayhem

TL;DR: More samples should be available on Thursday.

We’ve had an interesting few days! Our Black Friday sale went quite well, much better than last year, and Saturday and Sunday the orders kept coming in… then Monday happened.

One of our Keto Chow users (and the guy that started me down the rabbit hole that is using avocado oil) posted to the /r/keto subreddit some pictures of himself and his girlfriend and their transformation doing Keto. He also did a shout-out to Keto Chow which he says has been instrumental in helping him do keto effectively.

The thread went a little nuts, traffic to our site went a little nuts, orders for Keto Chow went a lot nuts. I posted on the thread:

In case there was any doubt that /u/JohnnyRockets911 is NOT shilling for Keto Chow: there’s no way I would have told him to post this on the day we were doing free shipping plus a sale on the sample bundles =)

Problem with all this is, now I can’t tell what’s the result of Cyber Monday, what’s the result of the Reddit thread, and what’s a combination of the two! Yes, it’s a good problem to have =) By 2:00 pm, the 8 foot bed of our pickup was completely full and orders were still coming in faster than we could ship them. So we called it a day and will ship the rest that came in today.

Now, as for samples: The “Sample all the Things” bundle sold out last night, it was based on the number of Chocolate samples we had remaining. The bad news is that it can take weeks or even months to get more. The Good news is: I ordered more a few months ago and we are supposed to be getting them on Wednesday afternoon. As soon as we actually for realsies have them on a truck I’ll mark the samples and the sample bundles as back in stock so they can start shipping out on Thursday.

By |2017-11-28T07:43:32-07:00November 28th, 2017|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: , |2 Comments

Flavor of the Week November 27-December 3: 10% off sale on Salted Caramel 2.0 week packs

Our Cyber Monday sale may have come to an end, but the sale on Salted Caramel is still going. For the next week, you can get 10% off the 21 meal “week” size of Salted Caramel 2.0. Check out the flavor reviews of 2.0 Salted Caramel!

Speaking of reviews, you should check out our store reviews on Google, and the reviews of Keto Chow. Here’s a “taste”:

I was iffy at first about this produc before tasting it, but one sip and I immediately ordered a week bag and several other flavors to try. I will definitely order again.

Here’s another, should be noted that I publish all of the reviews that come in – bad or good – as they are, typos intact. The only ones I remove are spam posts from people wanting you to buy pills to “enhance performance” and such:

Very easy to order. Shipped immediately and arrived promptly and in good condition.

By |2017-11-27T21:59:09-07:00November 27th, 2017|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: , |0 Comments

N=me experiment, final results – Dave’s making me do it again =)

OK, I got the blood test results for my final week back – you can see all 5 results on this spreadsheet. I haven’t done a thorough write-up on the results of the experiment yet because I have indeed convinced Dave Feldman to give me his thoughts. The short version is: my week 3 results (pure avocado oil, spiked my triglycerides, tanked glucose, etc…) got Dave pretty excited. Something about hypothesis validation or other =) He asked me if I was willing to go back and try it again. For Dave? Absolutely.

So, I took a week off experimenting and I’m going to start it right back up again: this time I’m going to do a week of Keto Chow only with 1/2 of the fat from avocado oil and half from heavy cream – the idea is to see if I hit a half-way point relative to the lunacy of my 3rd week results. Then I’ll get a blood test, do it for another week, and another blood test.

Meanwhile, Dave has promised to analyze my results. It may be a week or more as he’s busy with family and I don’t want to call down the wrath of his wife upon me =)

By |2017-11-27T13:42:18-07:00November 27th, 2017|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: , , |3 Comments

2017 Cyber Monday sale is live – 10% off Salted Caramel, free shipping, and more

OK, I just turned on the 10% sale on Salted Caramel! That part of the sale will continue for the rest of the week but the other sale items end today!  Whether you’re stocking up your own supplies, getting something for that crazy person doing keto, or getting ready for your New Year resolution to lose weight – this sale is for you.

  • November 20 – 26  we had a “flavor of the week” 10% off sale on Vanilla weeks, that sale ended just now…
  • Starting on “Cyber Monday” we will have a “flavor of the week” 10% off sale on Salted Caramel weeks.

Here’s what we got going on – Black Friday, November 24 – Cyber Monday, November 27:

  • Sold Out! The first 100 orders over $100 get a free Keto Chow “food pyramid” T-shirt (while size supplies last, we have limited numbers of the various sizes).
  • Sold Out! The first 50 orders of 4 weeks get a free Keto Chow HydroFlask insulated bottle
  • “Free” USPS Shipping. You just need to enter the coupon code SHIP17. USPS Priority Mail (usually 2-day) shipping within the United States is free with a coupon. We aren’t doing free FedEx shipping, nor are we doing free international shipping; but you still get the same $17.50 discount on shipping: just add the coupon code. Note that you’ll want to order 4 or fewer weeks at a time to get the discount (if you order 8 then it puts it in 2 boxes and you’ll only get the discount on the first box). You can use the discount code more than once so feel free to get a bunch!
     There are 2 places to enter the coupon code, either on the shopping cart page, or on the checkout page. You HAVE to enter the code to get the discount.
  • 5% off ALL week bags of Keto Chow.
  • $10 off “Sample all the Things!” a sample of every flavor (except Peanut Butter, we should get those in a few more weeks) – comes with a Keto Chow branded Blender Bottle.
  • $5 off the “Base Powder” week size – handy for customizing Keto Chow with your own protein powder/flavor/sweetener – plus it’s WAY cheaper to ship internationally – I can fit 5 “weeks” in the same flat rate envelope I use for a single full week.

Head on over to the Keto Chow store now!

By |2017-11-27T04:26:26-07:00November 27th, 2017|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: , |0 Comments

2017 Black Friday sale is live

OK, it’s been live since I enabled it at midnight but here’s a handy reminder just in case you forgot. Whether you’re stocking up your own supplies, getting something for that crazy person doing keto, or getting ready for your New Year resolution to lose weight – this sale is for you.

  • November 20 – 26  we are having a “flavor of the week” 10% off sale on Vanilla weeks, that sale ends Monday morning…
  • Starting on “Cyber Monday” we will have a “flavor of the week” 10% off sale on Salted Caramel weeks.

Here’s what we got going on – Black Friday, November 24 – Cyber Monday, November 27:

  • The first 100 orders over $100 get a free Keto Chow “food pyramid” T-shirt (while size supplies last, we have limited numbers of the various sizes).
  • Sold Out! The first 50 orders of 4 weeks get a free Keto Chow HydroFlask insulated bottle
  • “Free” USPS Shipping. You just need to enter the coupon code SHIP17. USPS Priority Mail (usually 2-day) shipping within the United States is free with a coupon. We aren’t doing free FedEx shipping, nor are we doing free international shipping; but you still get the same $17.50 discount on shipping: just add the coupon code. Note that you’ll want to order 4 or fewer weeks at a time to get the discount (if you order 8 then it puts it in 2 boxes and you’ll only get the discount on the first box). You can use the discount code more than once so feel free to get a bunch!
     There are 2 places to enter the coupon code, either on the shopping cart page, or on the checkout page. You HAVE to enter the code to get the discount.
  • 5% off ALL week bags of Keto Chow.
  • $10 off “Sample all the Things!” a sample of every flavor (except Peanut Butter, we should get those in a few more weeks) – comes with a Keto Chow branded Blender Bottle.
  • $5 off the “Base Powder” week size – handy for customizing Keto Chow with your own protein powder/flavor/sweetener – plus it’s WAY cheaper to ship internationally – I can fit 5 “weeks” in the same flat rate envelope I use for a single full week.

Head on over to the Keto Chow store now!

By |2017-11-24T11:29:21-07:00November 24th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |0 Comments

2017 Black Friday, Cyber Monday (plus Saturday and Sunday) sale

It’s time for our annual after Thanksgiving sale! Whether you’re stocking up your own supplies, getting something for that crazy person doing keto, or getting ready for your New Year resolution to lose weight – this sale is for you.

  • November 20 – 26  we are having a “flavor of the week” 10% off sale on Vanilla weeks, that sale ends Monday morning…
  • Starting on “Cyber Monday” we will have a “flavor of the week” 10% off sale on Salted Caramel weeks.

Here’s what we got going on – Black Friday, November 24 – Cyber Monday, November 27:

  • Sold Out! The first 100 orders over $100 get a free Keto Chow “food pyramid” T-shirt (while size supplies last, we have limited numbers of the various sizes).
  • Sold Out! The first 50 orders of 4 weeks get a free Keto Chow HydroFlask insulated bottle
  • “Free” USPS Shipping. You just need to enter the coupon code SHIP17. USPS Priority Mail (usually 2-day) shipping within the United States is free with a coupon. We aren’t doing free FedEx shipping, nor are we doing free international shipping; but you still get the same $17.50 discount on shipping: just add the coupon code. Note that you’ll want to order 4 or fewer weeks at a time to get the discount (if you order 8 then it puts it in 2 boxes and you’ll only get the discount on the first box). You can use the discount code more than once so feel free to get a bunch!
     There are 2 places to enter the coupon code, either on the shopping cart page, or on the checkout page. You HAVE to enter the code to get the discount.
  • 5% off ALL week bags of Keto Chow.
  • $10 off “Sample all the Things!” a sample of every flavor (except Peanut Butter, we should get those in a few more weeks) – comes with a Keto Chow branded Blender Bottle.
  • $5 off the “Base Powder” week size – handy for customizing Keto Chow with your own protein powder/flavor/sweetener – plus it’s WAY cheaper to ship internationally – I can fit 5 “weeks” in the same flat rate envelope I use for a single full week.

Head on over to the Keto Chow store now!

By |2017-11-27T04:27:46-07:00November 20th, 2017|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: , |0 Comments

Going all-in – quitting my “day job”

Well, it’s been a long time coming, and likely should have happened quite some time ago. January 19th, 2018, will be my final day at my soon-to-be-former “day” job as a SalesForce admin for a non-profit. I’ve held off this long for a number of reasons (insanely good health insurance, I like the team I’m working with, I’m helping people) but it’s gotten to a stage where I really have no other choice and it’s time to move forward.

This should alleviate much of the work my awesome wife has been taking on, and I should be able to move stuff forward with Keto Chow better. It should also mean our fantastic customer service will be even better AND the warehouse in South Jordan will be open for longer hours. Same-day shipping cut-off will be later too, so you may be able to order as late as 1 or 2 pm (mountain) and still get your order shipped out that same day.

Exciting times!

By |2017-11-15T11:30:40-07:00November 15th, 2017|Categories: Keto Chow|Tags: , , |2 Comments

N=me experiment: 4 weeks of *ONLY* Keto Chow – 3rd week tests back

This entry is part 108 of 131 in the series Ketogenic Diet

I have the second-to-last test results from my experiment back. To quickly recap: I’m doing a test where I’m only eating Keto Chow and only drinking water. Nothing else. No snacks, no diet soda, no gum, no nothing. I am taking the Keto Chow fish oil pills as they are required to get the right EPA and DHA Ω3 fatty acids, and I was taking a magnesium malate supplement (I need more than normal) but I recently stopped that because the version of Keto Chow that I’m testing (v2.1rc2) has additional magnesium malate in it and the supplement I was taking had a gram of dextrose (which sucks). Here’s my complete food log and information from Cron-o-meter for the experiment so far, and here are my blood tests, updated with the results of my latest blood test.

The week proceeding this test was interesting. The short version is: I was at a tech conference with no refrigeration so I was using avocado oil instead of heavy cream. Because of this, I was getting around 2g of net carbs (or lower) A DAY. On the test, my insulin was low, my glucose showed in the red because it’s so low, my LDL-P is below 1000 and my triglycerides are higher. It’s almost like my body is using lipoproteins to transport energy (adding another data point to Dave Feldman’s hypothesis).

The last 5 days since this blood draw, my ketones have come down from the 4.5-5.5 range to the 3.0-3.5 range and my weight loss has slowed a bit too. I’m guessing this is due to using heavy cream as the fat source. Starting today through the end of the experiment, I’m switching from all heavy cream to half heavy cream, half avocado oil. Avocado oil is OK but not nearly as yummy as heavy cream, so I’m hoping that by splitting it I can get the good taste plus lower net carbs. Even with 100% heavy cream, I was still under 10g net carbs though. Protip: heavy cream has half the calories as oil for the same volume. If you’re replacing heavy cream for oil you use 1/2 as much (roughly).

A few days ago a post showed up on the Keto Chow Subreddit: Full month on KetoChow – 13 lbs lost and loving it and this showed up last night: Week 1 with Keto Chow and not much else . . .– looks like I’m not the only one doing this, N=3 then =)

 

On a final note, I’d like to illustrate one of the interesting challenges with this experiment. The evening after I got this blood draw, I was in charge of preparing the food for a neighborhood game night (I was also in charge of bringing the Raspberry Pi with the 4 player arcade version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). I had previously prepared a brisket with my sous-vide (recipe and more coming =) so I just needed to smoke it, along with the chicken legs and the bratwurst. I also made pulled pork using the InstantPot. It was a truly glorious sight to behold once it was all done.

I didn’t eat any of it.

I had thought about eating some before, but I decided that there were too many variables shifting around (coming back from a trip, switching back from avocado oil to heavy cream, etc…) plus I wanted to keep the inputs clean. I fully intend to do a press release after all this is done announcing that I lived for 4 weeks on JUST Keto Chow and I didn’t want to have to add a little asterisk footnote: “*except that one meal where I pigged out on brisket” (on an aside, anybody know how to do a press release? =) Really, it was just like cooking any other meal I didn’t eat these last 3 weeks (like the CavemanKeto chili I made Sunday). Once committed to this course of action, I just keep going. It’s a little like fasting in some respects. I’m not the only one cooking though, my awesome wife has been feeding the kids some really great keto meals too.

Don’t worry: I put a bunch of the meat in the freezer for lunch on Friday after my final blood draw =)