| Serving Size (g) | Fat (g) | Carbs (g) | Protien (g) | %Fat Calories | Ketogenic Ratio | |
| Bob Evans Precooked Link Sausage | 45 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 69.23% | 200% |
| Jimmy Dean Precooked Link Sausage | 68 | 24 | 2 | 9 | 83.08% | 268% |
Next Time I'll pick Jimmy Dean.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Picking a Breakfast Sausage
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Bean Feast
| Product | Servings | Fat grams per serving | Protein grams per serving | Carb grams per serving |
| Refried Beans | 2 | 4 | 7 | 16 |
| Salsa | 5.00 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Colby-Jack | 4.00 | 8 | 6 | 2 |
| Total Calories | 712 |
| % fat Calories | 51% |
| Ketogenic ratio | 70% |
At home this dish is served with fried onions, peppers, ground beef, and sour cream, but when cooking at your desk one must simplify. Higher carb than my average lunch, but sometimes you just crave a little comfort food but you don't want to totally jump off the bandwagon and buy a sub sandwich.
Refried bean selection is tricky, but if you look carefully you can find a brand made with lard. Look first at "Authentic" brands and not "Fat Free" or "Vegetarian" varieties.
Salsa doesn't traditionally have fat or sugar in it, so most brands are seed oil free , corn sugar free, and grain free.
I have to be careful with my shredded cheese selection because I'm allergic to one of the common preservatives, but most folks won't have a problem with any of the traditional cheeses. Beware of "taco cheese" and other convenience blends that may have vegetable oil in it.
I have to admit, I further blew my Kotogenic ratio on this one by having orange juice with it, tanking at 41% ketogenic. Hopefully I can stay away from the other fruits I bought for a couple hours until I'm done metabolizing the lunch carbs. (Sometimes you just get in a mood for fruit/veg that are high carb.)
Assembly: Half a can of beans, 1/3 a jar of salsa, half a bag of cheese into a bowl, stir, microwave.
Serving Suggestions:
- Eat with a spoon.
- I've tried serving on tortillas, but the store tortillas don't have the sturdy scooping capacity of homemade ones.
- Chips would be nice, but I've not found any seed oil free chips in the store, and the attempt to bake some with olive oil in the company toaster oven was a dismal disappointment.
The bonus with this one is that you have enough ingredients to do it again tomorrow.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
A Real Sneeze
For years, I've been known for my ineffective sneezes. They have been called "cute", "tiny", "kitten sneezes". My husband was convinced he could teach me how to sneeze "properly". But even when I tried to go with the sneeze, the best I could manage was a heavy breath along with the sneeze, which didn't really clear anything up.
Seemingly unrelated... I've had issue with my rear molars for years. I have a small mouth, and orthodontic work pushed the molars back further than they were meant to be, and I was always getting cavities in them. One was removed because it was in too rough of a shape to save, and that quadrant of my jaw felt an incredible release of pressure that I lived with in the other three quadrants of my mouth. Next time the other molar needed filling, I asked the dentist to pull it, and he assured me it could be saved and should be saved and did the drill/fill routine instead.
Recently, that tooth started hurting real badly. I'd just moved and had not picked a new dentist yet, and was driven into a nearby office. Between the delays of getting my records copied over, and the dentist being out of town for two days, I couldn't wait for an appointment and went to the emergency dentist in town. They also refused to pull my tooth, and instead drilled out my old fillings, drilled out some decay forming under the filling, and put in a temporary patch, recommending I have my regular dentist put a crown on it. It was still sore, but nothing like the pain that was making me sweat while on multiple pain killers.
I finally got in to see my new dentist. Dr. Dupre was wonderful. We had a consultation, and agreed to give the tooth a few weeks to heal from the emergency work before making a decision. After the healing period I got a cleaning, exam, x-rays, the works, and had a chat about the situation, and he referred me to an excellent surgeon to remove the tooth. The specialist was quick, efficient, and as painless as possible. (The needle itself hurts, not the procedure.)
The day after my procedure, I sneezed. Not a "kitten sneeze," but a real sneeze. This felt very strange to me. For a week I had real sneezing, I was slightly worried about the possibility of this being the beginning of some strange side effect and went back for a follow up check. The dentist examined my socket and tested my sinus integrity and declared all to be well. His suggested that I may have had a cracked tooth jutting up into my sinuses causing perpetual irritation and sinus infection. If that's so, I've had that cracked tooth for years.
So the take-aways? One, listen to your instincts, insist on the medical care you need unless you can find a doctor that can give you a good reason why you're wrong. Two, this may be an alternate explanation to the amalgam filling theory of fibromyalgia. Some people have gotten fibromyalgia relief from having teeth pulled, and attribute it to the mercury in the fillings, but they may have had cracks under those fillings causing infection in sinus or bone that was a constant source of inflammation.
It's allergy season for me, I'm struggling with the same runny nose and post nasal drip issues I have every year, but the sinus congestion is totally gone. I can breathe out of both nostrils most of the time, and when I sneeze it seems to actually clear things out. I'm grateful for my new sneeze.
Seemingly unrelated... I've had issue with my rear molars for years. I have a small mouth, and orthodontic work pushed the molars back further than they were meant to be, and I was always getting cavities in them. One was removed because it was in too rough of a shape to save, and that quadrant of my jaw felt an incredible release of pressure that I lived with in the other three quadrants of my mouth. Next time the other molar needed filling, I asked the dentist to pull it, and he assured me it could be saved and should be saved and did the drill/fill routine instead.
Recently, that tooth started hurting real badly. I'd just moved and had not picked a new dentist yet, and was driven into a nearby office. Between the delays of getting my records copied over, and the dentist being out of town for two days, I couldn't wait for an appointment and went to the emergency dentist in town. They also refused to pull my tooth, and instead drilled out my old fillings, drilled out some decay forming under the filling, and put in a temporary patch, recommending I have my regular dentist put a crown on it. It was still sore, but nothing like the pain that was making me sweat while on multiple pain killers.
I finally got in to see my new dentist. Dr. Dupre was wonderful. We had a consultation, and agreed to give the tooth a few weeks to heal from the emergency work before making a decision. After the healing period I got a cleaning, exam, x-rays, the works, and had a chat about the situation, and he referred me to an excellent surgeon to remove the tooth. The specialist was quick, efficient, and as painless as possible. (The needle itself hurts, not the procedure.)
The day after my procedure, I sneezed. Not a "kitten sneeze," but a real sneeze. This felt very strange to me. For a week I had real sneezing, I was slightly worried about the possibility of this being the beginning of some strange side effect and went back for a follow up check. The dentist examined my socket and tested my sinus integrity and declared all to be well. His suggested that I may have had a cracked tooth jutting up into my sinuses causing perpetual irritation and sinus infection. If that's so, I've had that cracked tooth for years.
So the take-aways? One, listen to your instincts, insist on the medical care you need unless you can find a doctor that can give you a good reason why you're wrong. Two, this may be an alternate explanation to the amalgam filling theory of fibromyalgia. Some people have gotten fibromyalgia relief from having teeth pulled, and attribute it to the mercury in the fillings, but they may have had cracks under those fillings causing infection in sinus or bone that was a constant source of inflammation.
It's allergy season for me, I'm struggling with the same runny nose and post nasal drip issues I have every year, but the sinus congestion is totally gone. I can breathe out of both nostrils most of the time, and when I sneeze it seems to actually clear things out. I'm grateful for my new sneeze.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Boursin Stuffed Peppers
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| Boursin |
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| Mini Sweet Peppers |
 |
| Receipt |
| Product | Servings | Fat grams per serving | Protein grams per serving | Carb grams per serving |
| Boursin | 4 | 12 | 2 | 1 |
| Peppers | 2.75 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Total Calories | 546 |
| % fat Calories | 79% |
| Ketogenic ratio | 167% |
Use pocket knife to cut off the top of the pepper and remove the seeds. Use a disposable knife to stuff the peppers (unless you have time to clean your good knife.) Easy-peasy.
This meal defeated me. I only ate 4/5 servings, and I wasn't on any kind of time constraint that day. It is time consuming, I recommend keeping this by to snack on in the moments that you are sitting back to think about your work rather than trying to cram it into a half hour lunch.
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