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Foodie Fridays: Another From my Faves – Alpine Aire Foods: Apples

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I am an apples fan! These bad boys are great! My dad had a can from way back when, but they’ve since redesigned their insides and outsides. The original batches of the stuff were better, but this new can is almost as good. The apples are in pieces and great for sprinkling over yogurt or eating plain. They are sweet. I like that they are diced because more of them fit in the can. The price runs just under $30 and this #10 can is worth the spend!

Foodie Fridays: Another From my Faves – Chia Pods Chia Pudding

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I took my first taste and I wasn’t sure that I liked it. Are there ever any foods where you eat some and you don’t immediately have an opinion? CHIA POD was it for me. So I took another sip/bite and another and what do you know I loved it! It is smooth but has a crunch to it from the chia seeds. It isn’t too sweet, but it has a very unique texture. I call it my “goop.” At only 160 calories per container, it makes a great breakfast, snack, or dessert. It only has 4 ingredients! Chia Seed Gel (Filtered Water, Chia Seed), Coconut Milk, Vanilla Bean Paste. This is a special treat everyone should try and try again to form an opinion on the fascinating “goop” of a texture.

Where did I get it? Costco!

Where can you get it? Check out their website’s map!

Foodie Fridays: Food Challenge aftermath

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Here is what I normally eat:

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Here is the Goliath Challenge from last week:

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Here are some stats on calories for you: Goliath Burger features:
• 1 1/3 lbs beef with diced fresh habaneros (1288)
• 1/2 lb barbecue pulled pork (~600)
• Bacon (~86)
• cheddar and pepper jack cheeses (~200)
• home-made habanero relish (??)
• 4 onion rings (~275)
• 1.5 lb fries (~1700 calories)

~4139 calories in the challenge, I was saving calories all day (only ate ~250 in preparation which consisted of a peach, matcha urban remedy tea, a bite of crème caramel urban remedy, and a few bits of granola as well as lots of water)

Keep in mind that a person my size, weight, and height only needs to eat 1700 calories per day.

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I dressed up and made the challenge a meet up and invited anyone to come join or watch and two of my friends came, one even joined in the challenge.

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Here’s how I did:

I couldn’t weigh the food beforehand because the scale only goes up to x weight but I weighed the plate with the remainders and subtracted the wight of an empty plate

 

Plate weighed: 2 lbs 14 5/8 oz.

Food weighed: 3.5 lbs.

My plate remainders weighed: 1.09375 lbs.

the other challenger left: 1.3125 lbs.

Foodie Fridays: It’s a Big ‘Un – The GOLIATH CHALLENGE

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I’ve wanted to check out this local bar for a while, ever since finding out that they sponsor a food challenge… June 5th is National Donut Day. What does this have to do with Lucky 7 and a Burger Food Challenge? I’m writing a book with food challenges and donuts as themes and I’ve decided that Donut Day is the day I will publish the book (next year), but I wanted to do some research into a real food challenge. Come join me as I try out the challenge. Anyone’s welcome to join me in trying to conquer the Goliath. If you can beat the Goliath Challenge, I’ll even double your winnings. Lucky 7 also features a full menu, with pool, and darts.

The Goliath Burger Challenge
http://www.lucky7barandgrill.com/goliath/
non within 25 minutes by yourself and it’s on the house! (
Eat this 3.5 lb phenomenormally $25.00):

For centuries, man has conquered everything in its path to achieve greatness. From the engineering of the pyramids to landing on the moon, mankind has faced grueling obstacles and triumphed in every realm we have sought to subdue… that is until now. A new opponent challenges our reign in the ultimate showdown of hunger and perseverance. A fearsome warrior once defeated, Goliath has been resurrected in meat form to take his vengeance on all those who deny his omnipotence. He has no fear and knows no pain. Do you?

Goliath Burger features:

1 1/3 lbs beef with diced fresh habaneros
1/2 lb barbecue pulled pork
bacon
cheddar and pepper jack cheeses
home-made habanero relish
4 onion rings
1.5 lb fries

 

For event info: Facebook event description; Meetup event description; Blog event description

Come down after 6PM and join me or watch me suffer in burger and habanero!

Introducing For the Love of Donuts Series:

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Foodie Fridays: Love with Food Subscription Box Review

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Price $19.95 for a month-to-month subscription.

Shipping is included and tracking is through DHL, it arrived on the early side of their window (April 14th when the window is April 15-24)

You can see that there are multiple items

I have never tried any of these foods before and was excited to check out some new snacks

So far I’ve tried the Pasta Chips (excellent), the PopCorners Cheddar (pretty good) and the PopCorners Kettle Corn (Very delicious) and the Liz Lovely Chocolate Moose Dragon Cookie (Disgusting and seems to be flavored with alcohol?) and the Wild Garden Hummus and Crackers Snack Pack (Crackers tasted like cardboard but were improved with the hummus)

Conclusion: Totally worth it, like a buffet of snack items, I already signed up for the 6 month subscription (only $18 a month including shipping).