Keto Chow

15% off sale on Strawberry (weeks, days and samples)

OK, this is apparently going to be a weekly thing (that’s what my wife said so I’m doing it). Today the sale is a day late because we went camping for Labor Dabor Day and didn’t get back until late Monday. This week there’s a sale on Strawberry Blast – all the sizes are 15% off (Samples, Weeks and Days).

One caveat: the discount doesn’t apply to the bundled packages (build-a-month, build-a-week or sample-all-the-things) – I can’t get the normal 5% discount for the bundle to work with the 15% discount at the same time.

Super awesome gorilla photo by Peter Kaminski

By |2016-09-06T06:02:18-06:00September 6th, 2016|Keto Chow, Site or Store Stuff|Comments Off on 15% off sale on Strawberry (weeks, days and samples)
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Pumpkin Spice Keto Chow Mod

Saw this on Instagram. The TL;DR is: Regular Snickerdoodle Keto Chow with 30g of puree pumpkin and some spices (I’d just use the “pumpkin spice” blend but I’m lazy like that).

By |2016-09-02T13:05:07-06:00September 2nd, 2016|Keto Chow|Comments Off on Pumpkin Spice Keto Chow Mod
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Why I make Keto Chow

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

I want to help people change their lives… and help them not go nuts in the process.

Nutritional Ketosis (aka “Keto” or “Ketogenic Diet”) can be highly effective but it’s daunting, especially for beginners. Keto is the only thing I have ever tried that has had any lasting effect on my health and my weight. I consider it like the “Konami Code“: a cheat or hack, because of how effective it has been in turning around my life (and the lives of family, friends, and former strangers =).  I’m committed to helping others get into the Keto lifestyle and Keto Chow makes doing Keto easier; not only for beginners that are just starting out, but also for grizzled veterans who have been doing keto for years.

My first introduction to the ketogenic diet was when our oldest son started having seizures. After trying most of the common anticonvulsants (with no success) the neurologist sent my wife home with some information on a dietary treatment to control the seizures. He told her that if they didn’t have success with a medication soon then we would need to try a ketogenic diet. Glancing through the information he provided, my initial reaction was “holy crap, that sounds impossible!” all of the dietary restrictions and rules were more than we could handle. We would be like this family. The next medication worked and I all but forgot about the ketogenic diet. Years later it came up again when I decided I needed to lose weight.

When you first start doing Keto, there is a lot of information to be learned. There’s new vocabulary, new science, new lists of things you should or shouldn’t eat. It can actually be a bit dangerous if you don’t do sufficient research and don’t know that insufficient electrolytes will make you feel terrible (it’s called “Keto Flu” and it isn’t any fun) – that was one of the mistakes I made when I started Keto. I also started keto using a meal replacement shake that was loaded with coconut flour, chia seeds and other gritty stuff.

My goals in making Keto Chow were:

  1. Make figuring out Keto easy. Easy on your brain and easy to prepare the food.
  2. Keep people from running into electrolyte deficiency (the aforementioned “Keto Flu”).
  3. Make it tasty enough that you’ll not just tolerate it but honestly, actually, for realsies, enjoy consuming it (and want more).
  4. Make sure people are getting the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients they need to be healthy. Likely healthier than ever before.

Here’s the honest truth: I completely and entirely believe in this product and the Ketogenic diet. It’s not the end-all, be-all answer to everything in the world and I don’t eat it all day, every day for every meal (because: bacon and cheese). But I do have it for most meals.

I made Keto Chow for myself, it just happens to be the sort of thing that other people like too. It’s easy to prepare meals and I don’t have to worry about missing out on weird vitamins or minerals. I hit my macronutrient goals. I’m getting my electrolytes and it’s REALLY good tasting – like I’m always sad when my Chocolate Peanut Butter is empty. I mix up a couple days worth at a time and am able to just grab containers out of the fridge on my way out the door. Let me give you an example:

Last weekend our family went to help some friends cut wood. They use it to heat their home during the winter and you can get a permit to take dead pines (either that or they eventually fall over and block the road; the pines, not our friends =). It’s insanely cheap to get the permit ($5 a cord, 4 cords minimum – a cord is a really arbitrary measurement). We had to leave by 6 AM to get down to the place at the time we wanted. While I was packing the cooler with food for the kids I threw in several “blender bottle” containers full of Keto Chow… and that was it! I drank one on the drive and the other in between chopping up the tree. It’s easy, it’s effective and it’s tasty. I even brought along Keto Chow to Disneyland.

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So I use it myself, how about other people? PrimitiveOrigins posted that he had lost 100 lbs on Keto Chow, complete with before and after pics. I asked him for a full review, here it is:

About a year and a half ago I was having a bunch of medical issues and it seemed my diet had to change and I needed to lose some weight. So after trying diet after diet nothing worked. A lot of this had to do with the nature of the diets themselves, I’m very “black and white” as a person and the diets I was attempting were very just avoid carbs at night or try to eat vegan for breakfast and lunch. That is fine for some people, but since these diets gave me an inch I became a ruler. I needed something as strict and rigid as myself, I stumbled across keto. It seemed very easy for me to do. Want pizza? Nope, can’t have it: carbs and sugar. Want a pineapple? Full of sugar: nope. So I went forth with this idea and it was fine for a while, but I soon realized I disliked cooking and eating; only keto gave me a realization that I was only eating for fuel so I started looking for something that would fit that idea.

I found Soylent quite quickly and marveled at the idea; this was exactly what I was looking for, but soon realized it wouldn’t work for me as weight loss was my goal and Soylent doesn’t really provide efficient weight loss. So I started looking for keto version of soylent and discovered […] Keto Chow. I placed my first order of a months’ worth of rich chocolate.

I explained to my wife what I was planning on doing, she was skeptical to say the least (amplified by the fact that the order came in a ziploc bag lol.), but I pressed and she agreed if anything was going to work it would be this. I got my order and mixed everything up and the next day I would have my first meal.

I had my first meal. Taste wise, I did not enjoy rich chocolate at all, but again I was drinking it only for fuel so I pushed through it. I drink 2 a day as it works for my schedule better, one at around 6am and the other at around 6pm, I have done this for about a year and a half now.

The toughest part was training myself out of eating socially, that took about a month to get used to. Once that was over it was smooth sailing, I started mixing my own.

I didn’t see any weight loss, but I got a scale and I was reading it on the scale, so something had to be working. It was insanely motivating and frankly addicting. When people would offer me food or soda my gut reaction was like: “Are you insane? I’m not working out and I’m losing weight at an aggressive rate, you couldn’t pay me to stop this!” My friends all thought I was nuts for the first month or two then after I dropped my first 50lbs or so they were very interested and I had at least 4 friends try it. None of which could stick with it as aggressively as I did/do. It’s a wonderful meal replacement, but real weight loss takes dedication and I was determined.

I’ve “cheated” on Keto Chow by, now and then – maybe once a month, getting plain meatballs from Noodles&Co. or having scrambled eggs and bacon and that was great while it lasted, but I was having some stomach trouble from that so I gave it up.

Overall my plans for the future are: Keto Chow until I cannot anymore. One of the reasons I’m going to be doing keto chow the rest of my life is because I had undiagnosed absence seizures. For the longest time, my wife and I just thought I’d get mixed up when speaking because of my stutter and forget what I was talking about. I’d have really bad headaches and get randomly tired throughout the day. I was going to the doctor to make sure I wasn’t losing weight too fast and that everything was going smoothly. It was, but one day I happened to “cheat” and grab some Noodles&Co. meatballs before my Dr. appointment; and I had an absence seizure right in front of him. He noticed and we started testing for epilepsy. Apparently I have a good deal of food allergies that also trigger seizures, but apparently I was an undiagnosed epileptic for some time and thanks to you I’ve been seizure free for almost 2 years. (Minus the forced ones.)

It’s so cheap, it’s so simple. I see no reason to ever change my diet at this point. My wife and my friends are all used to it; it’s a bit strange explaining it to new people, but the results speak for themselves. Overall I’ve never been happier or more healthy and it’s all thanks to Chris.

Seriously, that’s just awesome. This is why I make Keto Chow.

By |2016-10-13T07:27:32-06:00September 2nd, 2016|Weight Loss, Ketogenic, Keto Chow, Site or Store Stuff|3 Comments
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15% off sale on Vanilla (weeks, days and samples)

When will the madness end? =) This week there’s a sale on Gourmet Vanilla – all the sizes are 15% off (Samples, Weeks and Days).

One caveat: the discount doesn’t apply to the bundled packages (build-a-month, build-a-week or sample-all-the-things) – I can’t get the normal 5% discount of the bundle to work with the 15% discount at the same time.

Super awesome gorilla photo by Peter Kaminski

By |2016-08-29T09:08:01-06:00August 29th, 2016|Keto Chow, Site or Store Stuff|Comments Off on 15% off sale on Vanilla (weeks, days and samples)
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Keto Chow mentioned in a Vice article

There was an article posted on http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-diy-forums-that-put-the-people-in-soylent today regarding the DIY site. Along with other things they mention that Keto Chow is currently the number 1 recipe on the site, it’s been that way for quite a while. I’m not sure the criteria used to decide “relevance” (the default sorting method), probably a combination of popularity, update frequency, reviews and other factors. Anyhow, it’s cool to be king. One note: the DIY site rewrites all ingredient links to have the Amazon affiliates code for Nick. I personally prefer people use the recipe at https://www.thebairs.net/keto-chow-recipe/ but that’s me =)

By |2016-10-13T07:27:32-06:00August 24th, 2016|Site or Store Stuff, Keto Chow|2 Comments
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25% off sale on Cookies & Cream (weeks, days and samples)

Last week we had a sale on Snickerdoodle, this week it’s Cookies & Cream – all the sizes are 25% off (Samples, Weeks and Days).

One caveat: the discount doesn’t apply to the bundled packages (build-a-month, build-a-week or sample-all-the-things) – I can’t get the normal 5% discount of the bundle to work with the 25% discount at the same time.

Super awesome gorilla photo by Peter Kaminski

By |2016-08-22T10:31:33-06:00August 22nd, 2016|Keto Chow, Site or Store Stuff|Comments Off on 25% off sale on Cookies & Cream (weeks, days and samples)
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Found a fun review of Keto Chow

This entry is part 138 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

I routinely check my web site logs for info on where people are coming from, sometimes it’s normal stuff like people coming from the Keto Chow subreddit. Other times it’s a bunch of people coming from somewhere new. Yesterday “Girl Eats Keto” published a review on Keto Chow: http://girleatsketo.com/index.php/2016/08/19/keto-chow-review/ She also has a more general “here’s what I’m doing to start Keto” post up. Overall it’s shaping up to be a nice blog! Image at top is from her review.

By |2016-10-13T07:27:32-06:00August 20th, 2016|Ketogenic, Keto Chow, Site or Store Stuff|Comments Off on Found a fun review of Keto Chow
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Random Photos and Fun (plus an update on KC2.0)

This entry is part 137 of 139 in the series Ketogenic Soylent

We went camping over the weekend. As usual, we ate a lot of bacon, sausage, and eggs (with hash browns for the kids, who aren’t doing keto). We were at Willard Bay, a freshwater reservoir that was built adjacent to the Great Salt Lake by erecting a dike – essentially a dam around the entire area. The water is relatively warm and it’s not very busy. The main thing is: it’s close to us and since we were taking a camp trailer PLUS wave runners (super awesome 1996 Polaris ones I got for cheap on Craig’s list – hey, they work) I didn’t want to go very far. I had Keto Chow for lunch at the water (which was far more tasty than the sandwiches the kids were eating), as did my wife (see photo above).
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Last night my wife pointed out a box one of my kids has drawn on. Apparently, he thinks we need to introduce a new flavor. I especially like the logo and the QR code.

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This morning my “daily movie quote” calendar was full of awesome. Soylent Green is people; Keto Chow is ground-up low-carb hippies.

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Finally an update on Keto Chow 2.0: Yesterday I went to visit the co-packing place to pick up a new batch of flavor tests. Overall they’re excellent. Vanilla, Strawberry, and Chocolate are awesome (strawberry needs some more pink color which is unrelated to taste but whatever). The Cookie and Cream flavor was buttery tasting with not enough “oreo” aspect, maybe needs some chocolate? It’s still good though, more like a butter cookie. The Chocolate Peanut Butter is interesting.

The Chocolate Peanut Butter is interesting. The facility has an employee that’s allergic to peanuts. This means that using actual peanut flour at that location isn’t an option. The first solution is to have a different facility do the packaging of the Chocolate Peanut Butter, we’re looking at that. The second solution is to use a peanut butter flavor that doesn’t contain any of the problematic proteins. We tried some of that and there was a slight hint of peanut taste but nothing like what we currently get with the chocolate peanut butter flavor using real peanut flour. With this being my #1 favorite flavor you can be assured that I will not compromise on anything less than “this is yummy enough to drink for a month straight, I want MOAR!”. He also gave me a mocha (I think coffee anything smells like burnt toast so I got a guy testing it for me). The Snickerdoodle flavor wasn’t ready yet, I’m thinking about adding a Salted Carmel and maybe a Banana flavor – dunno. In all, it’s a definitive step in the right direction!

By |2016-10-13T07:27:32-06:00August 16th, 2016|Site or Store Stuff, On Tour, Keto Chow|1 Comment
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25% off sale on Snickerdoodle (weeks, days and samples)

Last week we had a sale on Fudge, this week it’s SnickerDoodle – all the sizes are 25% off (Samples, Weeks and Days).

For those that aren’t familiar with SnickerDoodle – it’s a type of cookie that’s covered in cinnamon (I say this because one guy thought it was “Snickers” flavor) – see the image above.

One caveat: the discount doesn’t apply to the bundled packages (build-a-month, build-a-week or sample-all-the-things) – I can’t get the normal 5% discount of the bundle to work with the 25% discount at the same time.

By |2016-10-13T07:27:33-06:00August 15th, 2016|Keto Chow, Site or Store Stuff|2 Comments
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Sale of Chocolate Fudge “week” packs

We are having a sale on the week packages of Chocolate Fudge – they’re $20 off. Get them while they’re… powder? It’s possible we might do this with other flavors in the future but we don’t have a specific plan for that right now. One caveat: the discount doesn’t apply to the “build-a-month” bundle – I can’t get the normal 5% discount of the bundle to work with the $20 discount on the fudge at the same time.

Super awesome gorilla photo by Peter Kaminski

By |2016-08-22T10:31:19-06:00August 8th, 2016|Site or Store Stuff, Keto Chow|Comments Off on Sale of Chocolate Fudge “week” packs
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