|     |  

What I ate: June 15, 2011

Breakfast: Waffles (freshly made this time) and 3 slices of bacon (previously frozen and reheated in a sauté pan).

Lunch: Spicy vegetarian chili .

I went kind of crazy cooking this morning. That's a new batch of chili, seven 12 oz. servings, of which six are vacuum sealed and frozen. The thing about this recipe is that involves a pretty crazy amount of chopping. That's a 12" x 18" cutting board!

A fresh batch of homemade barbecue sauce . Five 4 oz. packages, all but one vacuum sealed and frozen.

Food on the grill: 3 burgers, 2 filet Mignon steaks and lemon, lime and chile marinated grilled shrimp. All vacuum sealed and frozen. The burgers and steaks are only seared; they'll be finished in the sous vide.

And finally three servings of baby back ribs with homemade barbecue sauce, just out of the smoker.

Snack: 0.8 oz. potato chips and dip.

Dinner: Baby back ribs, corn and a whole wheat and oat roll . And a Saranac Lager. I didn't eat two of the ribs as they were much meatier than I anticipated. And very delicious and tender - the dry rub, sous vide then smoke technique really works well!

Weight at beginning of the day: 109.0 lbs. Weight at the beginning of the next day: 108.6 lbs.

  |     |