Bittersweet Chocolate Chips - Fooling Myself

So I did an analysis a bit back on chocolates, and found 70% cocoa a reasonable ketogenic ratio.  I found bittersweet chocolate chips at the warehouse club at a very reasonable price, and thought I'd found an inexpensive way to indulge in dark chocolate.

Nope.

Here's the comparison:

Product	Servings	Fat grams per serving	Protein grams per serving	Carb grams per serving	Fiber grams per serving
Bitersweet Chocolate Chips	1.0	4.5	1	9	1

Total Calories	77
% carb calories	42%
% protien calories	5%
% fat Calories	53%
Ketogenic ratio	50%

Product	Servings	Fat grams per serving	Protein grams per serving	Carb grams per serving	Fiber grams per serving
70% dark Chocolate	1.0	19	3	17	3

Total Calories	239
% carb calories	23%
% protien calories	5%
% fat Calories	72%
Ketogenic ratio	105%

Back to expensive chocolate for me...

As a wandering side note, this analysis of 70% dark Lindt bar differs from my previous one.  I've added some new fields to my calculator and wanted to include those, but it seems that the values have changed since my last analysis.  This change was favorable, but it is a lesson to be wary and keep checking labels even occasionally on familiar products.  I've definitely noticed this before when familiar products changed to more watery formulas, necessitating changing some old favorite recipes.  This watering down of some canned/frozen products is why I use dollars per calorie as a measure of value between similar products.  Water is really cheap per pound/volume, and the devaluation of the watered down brand is only reflected in the nutrition information panel.

Blisters - The other gait instructor...

Twelve years ago I tripped over a shoe.  It hurt pretty badly, I called up my friends and told them the dinner planned that night would depend on a couple of them coming over to help me cook so I could get off my feet some.  I didn't have health insurance at the time, and the treatment for broken toes isn't much different from the treatment of sprained toes, so I just self-treated it, immobilizing it as much as I could and staying off of it.

It never healed quite right.  I've called it my weather toe, as it acts up when a storm is coming.  As I've gone more minimal that toe has not gained as much mobility as my other side and has not straightened as much.  It has bothered me less when the weather acts up, but even my more roomy moccasins sometimes are sometimes uncomfortable when the weather is changing.

On the same foot I had a thick callous on the pad below the fourth toe.  (Right where your weight would fall if trying to walk with the big toe elevated off the ground.)  As I went minimal, most of my callouses went away except this one, and one in the middle outside of the damaged big toe.  (Once again, if trying to elevate the big toe but failing, the pressure would land in this spot rather than in the center of the big toe.)  For a while I blamed a wart I eventually found under the callous, but that's been gone for months now and there's been no reduction in callous.

So yesterday I was fed up with the callous and pared it back a bit.  Today I took a half hour walk with co-workers.  Guess where I feel a friction hot spot?  The body is not stupid, it forms callus in response to friction to protect itself.  If I kept going like this I'd likely develop a blister.

The good side of blisters is that if you keep going at a slow pace, they are wonderful teachers.  They immediately tell you when you are repeating the bad behavior and to please stop it.  I was able to get considerable relief from my hot spot by consciously engaging that bad toe.  It's been 12 years, you've had plenty of time to heal toe, time for physical therapy for you!

Salmon with Pimentos and French Onion

Product	Servings	Fat grams per serving	Protein grams per serving	Carb grams per serving	Fiber grams per serving
Salmon	1.0	4.5	21	0	0
Canned Pimentos	1.1	0.3	1.1	5.1	1.9
French Onion dip	3.5	4.5	1	2	0
Milk	2.0	8	8	12	0

Total Calories	635
% fat Calories	52%
Ketogenic ratio	83%

Not quite 60% fat, but more protein than carb, in a good range for target calories, and it tastes real good.  Substitute sour cream and a little spice if you can't find a good French Onion dip.  I ended up compromising on the dip just because I wanted the smaller container.  (As it is I only used half.)  The salmon was an individual 4oz portion, which I microwaved for a couple minutes, topped the edges (that were turning done early) with the pimentos, then finished microwaving.  Canned salmon might be easier.  Sour cream, on top of that, and a spritz of salt.  Milk was served on the side, the liquid in the bowl is from the fish and pimentos.

No wonder I'm hungry

I've not really been cooking a ton lately, so I've run out of leftovers dishes in the freezer.  For my work lunch the other day I grabbed a bit of meat and cheese and called it lunch.

I was curious how ketogenic Kielbasa is (some sausages have bread fillers) so I looked it up.

Product	Servings	Fat grams per serving	Protein grams per serving	Carb grams per serving
Polska Kielbasa	1.8	16	7	3
Colby Jack	1.0	9	6	1

Total Calories		431
% fat Calories		77%
Ketogenic ratio		203%

It's so ingrained in us that high fat foods have lots of calories, it didn't occur to me to check that I had enough calories when packing my lunch.  431 is well under my target of 600.  Must resist rebalancing at the vending machine, where I'll only find corn chips and candy bars in the gluten free category.  (There are also corn-onion puffs, but they have sulfites in them, which I'm more allergic to than gluten.)  I'll be much better off waiting until supper and having something extra then.