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Super awesome review of Keto Chow

This entry is part 75 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

Every few days I check my web stats and see where people are coming from. Got a fun surprise today: http://www.insignificant.info/blog-native/2015/6/24/ketochow-diet

Includes quite entertaining commentary (make sure you click the numbered notations, I missed them the first time, they’re really funny), along with a super official “Appendix” where he ranks the different flavors. Personally I think he’s wrong about Rich Chocolate (it’s one of my favorite flavors and my biggest seller) but that’s a matter of personal taste =)

By |2016-10-13T07:28:08-06:00June 25th, 2015|Soylent, Ketogenic, Keto Chow|1 Comment
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Revised labels

This entry is part 71 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

I changed the Keto Chow labels to include a 3 columns: no cream/oil, 50ml of heavy cream, and for 119ml of heavy cream, representing approximately 454, 1300 and 2000 calories/day (3 meals) respectively.

Here are the new labels, you can expect to see them appearing on packages probably around the time I get back from vacation:

Here are the macronutrients for just 50g of keto chow powder with no oil and no cream:
Keto Chow - just 50g powder

By |2016-10-13T07:28:09-06:00June 16th, 2015|Soylent, Ketogenic, Keto Chow|2 Comments
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Tried the PB2 powdered peanut butter in Keto Chow, yeah it’s awesome.

This entry is part 45 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

Last week I posted about my disappointment with Dymatize “Gourmet” having too many carbs because it would hinder me from trying their Peanut Butter Chocolate flavor. I decided then to grab a 16 ounce jar of PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter (they also make a much smaller 6.5 ounce container it’s nearly the same price as the 16) and try that. Putting 12g adds 3g of net carbs, bringing my total net carbs for Keto Chow up to 31g if I drink 3 a day. That’s doable though it doesn’t leave much room for snacks. It also adds 45 calories to each one, not a big deal.

I really like peanut butter, so far I’ve tried Strawberry and Rich Chocolate (because I am drinking strawberry this week) and both were excellent. I’ve just been adding the 12g of powder to my other powder/cream/oil when I’m mixing it in the blender bottle. I’m not sure what adding it when mixing the powder of Keto Chow would do. It might work fine or the additional oil might cause nasty clumping. For now this works fine to add a bit of extra flavor.

By |2016-10-13T07:28:18-06:00March 16th, 2015|Keto Chow, Ketogenic, Soylent|Comments Off on Tried the PB2 powdered peanut butter in Keto Chow, yeah it’s awesome.
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Checked out the Dymatize “Gourmet” flavors, prolly won’t work for ketosis.

This entry is part 44 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

I got a message asking what the difference was between the Dymatize Nutrition Elite “Gourmet Vanilla”
and Dymatize Elite Gourmet “French Vanilla” – In a nutshell: the difference is carbs.

I freaked out and got super excited when I saw that the “gourmet”line has peanut butter chocolate flavor. I almost ordered some right then and there but then I checked the nutrition label and compared it to the “elite”.ELite_Whey_Vanilla_2lbs EG-2lb-FV

The “gourmet” ones have 6 grams of net carbohydrates per “serving” compared to 2 on the “elite”, so 3x as much. If you put 110g of the gourmet into Keto Chow, it will contribute 20.72 net carbs making a grand total of 24.62g net carbs (compared to 13 with the “elite”). Now, that’s actually doable depending on your activity level and not eating anything else with carbs in it during the rest of the day but you will have a harder time staying in ketosis.

Dangit, I was looking forward to trying the chocolate peanut butter. I guess I could always grab some PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter, it has 3 net carbs per 12g serving. OK, you’ve talked me into it, I’m going to get some and try 12g in a blender bottle of Keto Chow.

By |2016-10-13T07:28:18-06:00March 12th, 2015|Soylent, Ketogenic, Keto Chow|2 Comments
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Had a bit of a flavor party last night

This entry is part 38 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

I ordered a bunch of 2 lb tubs of the various flavors and mixed them up into Keto Chow last night: Chocolate Fudge, Pina Colada, Smooth Banana, Cookies and Cream and the staple Chocolate Mint, Strawberry and Vanilla.

Bunch Of FlavorsNot pictured is “Rich Chocolate” – I got the 10 lb bag of that one. I then mixed Rich Chocolate, Pina Colada and Smooth Banana up in blender bottles for today’s food. I did a quick taste test this morning. The Rich Chocolate is significantly more chocolaty than the mint chocolate (like really, really chocolate). The Pina Colada tastes like what it is: Pineapple and Coconut. The Smooth Banana is a bit odd: It mixed up really thin, almost like there’s no xanthan gum in it. It doesn’t look like I messed up on mixing the powder but I’m going to try doing a smaller 1-day batch tonight to double check. It could be it’s got some enzyme or something in it that prevents the xanthan gum from thickening it up. It still tastes good.

EDIT: So I planned to drink the rich chocolate for breakfast and somehow grabbed the banana instead. Drank it. Yes it’s still not quite as thick as the other flavors but it’s not as thin as I thought it was, I don’t think it’s going to be an issue.

 

By |2016-10-13T07:28:18-06:00February 4th, 2015|Ketogenic, Keto Chow, Site or Store Stuff, Soylent|5 Comments
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