A perfect Saturday Feast

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I am a passionate eater. I love it salty. I love the good stuff, the fatty stuff (think: McDonalds, …). And yes, I know it is bad for me. Come on, judge me. I can take it. It is okay.

But, I am currently on the Slow Carb diet, which works great for me. I like that it is simple to follow, with well-adjusted rules and the idea to allow for cheat days. And oh lord is this a rabbit hole to jump into. I had no idea. There are stories of some epic cheat days out there.

Once I discovered this, I thought “thank you for the inspiration!”. When I feel a craving in the middle to end of the work week, seeing cheat day is coming near I always write down the thing I have a craving for in a little note on my phone. And when Saturday arrives I am as happy as a young boy on Christmas.

Slow Carb Rundown

The slow carb diet made popular by Tim Ferriss, which propose simple rules that are hard to mess up. The idea being eating high volume food with low categories (spoiler: high & good protein sources help a lot here). It also focusses on controlling blood sugar spikes (Insulin). Here are the rules:

• Avoid white carbs: That means no bread, pasta, rice, potatoes or anything refined. This means legumes (beans, lentils) are your friend for carbs
• Same meals on a rotation: Varieties in your meals comes from swapping proteins and veggies. Sounds boring at first, but think of it: Your diet now also has the same meals but you do not think about it (for most people their breakfast is the same)
• No fruit: Tomatoes and avocados are okay, berries in moderation (if not sure it is a clear NO). There is a debate about fruit and I get tired to justify for it, but I believe humans do not need any tropical foods to survive
• Have one Cheat Day per Week: Go wild here, it really helps psychologically, too. If you think you cannot survive without some fruits, this is your way out :smile:

Breakfast

My mornings are very plain (read: simple) under the Slow Carb diet: 3 eggs, spinach, some beans or lentils. When I am not following the Slow Carb diet I am skipping breakfast.

Those are the cases which are not interesting for the sake of this post. Let’s see what makes a great breakfast on cheat days. There are two modes that work for me:

1. Sweet and warm (no ice cream allowed here)

My new favourite for sweet and warm breakfast is Kaiserschmarrn:

It is easy to make and blasts to eat.

Honorable mensions: crepês, some variation of pancakes and overnight oats.

1. Bread (I prefer wheat) with cold cuts (savory) and end with something sweet (mostly a croissant with some red fruit jam)

When having bread for breakfast it must have this badboy on there:

Any variation of french cheeses are fine too. And as mentioned: At the end a nice croissaint.

Lunch

• Smash burgers (thin fries) looks like this:
• Maggi Fix Toscana balls looks like this:

Dinner

• Chicken Wings incl. coleslaw (KFC) looks like this:

Snacks

• Salty Pistaccios (whole nut)
• Dark chocolate with nuts (almonds preferred)

Bonus: Calories (estimated)

Let’s better not talk about it.