Sorry for my lack of food posts these last 2 weeks… but anyone that even noticed has also been bombarded with semi-regular updates on my Slow-Carb experiment. Since I have yet to receive any complaints, I assume you are either enjoying my diet related ramblings or are kind enough to just ignore them so I don’t have to figure out how to separate my feeds by category.

For the remainder of this experiment, I will be posting three food related posts per week. Two of these recipes will fit the Slow-Carb lifestyle and one will fit the sh*t food cheat day. In between these posts I will continue to spam you with diet/exercise updates and progress reports.

To the chicken!

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I had everything planned out perfectly. I bought a fresh pineapple for dirt cheap, timed my schedule to align my slow-carb cheat day with game night, and had an hour of free time the day before to bake.

Unfortunately, the food gods did not share my desires for greatness. I found a recipe that had an amazing looking picture and a handful of decent reviews and jumped right in. What I should have done is use my standard cheesecake recipe with some slight modifications (some sort of coconut w/ chopped pineapples on top)… but I guess it’s important to try new methods right?

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Last year, while unemployed, I decided it would be a good idea to get healthy… since I had all the time in the world.

Being only slightly overweight I’ve never really felt the need to restrict myself to an actual diet… I usually just ate food that seemed healthy and tried to limit my cookie intake to a reasonable level. Considering I’ve never been obese, I feel like my methods were a relative success. Although, eating this way was never going to push me down into the weight range that I wanted to be in.

Cue Tim Ferris and the Slow-Carb diet. By following his (easy) principles, I managed to go from 195 lbs to 170 lbs in about two months.

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Hopefully you aren’t getting tired of chicken parmesan yet… because I still have at least one more variation left in my foodbank before I can move on. This particular version was brought to my attention by Alicia, who found it on one of her favorite blogs: Sweet Tooth Sweet Life.

By now, you should know that I’ll try anything that involves chicken breast (and cheese)… so it did not take much convincing to turn this from a thought into a meal. This burger was a hit in every aspect that I care about: quality, cost, and simplicity.

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During my struggles to learn how to cook, I realized that I have been neglected one important cooking method… The Grill.

I’ve always left the grilling to those with more experience, so up until now I’ve probably accumulated about 10 man hours of experience with this grill contraption. I’ve (fortunately) gained enough experience to feel comfortable that I won’t cause an explosion when I click the ignite button… as for the actual cooking, my comfort level with the grill is non-existant.

This is the year of change, and it all starts with a burger and some onions.

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