One of my brothers is visiting from Arizona for ten days. He is moving up here for his first young professional job in about six weeks. We are excited to have him back in the North Country for good. The other night, we decided to work on a recipe for another healthy lunch option after recently posting about the Rob Special–another cheap, macro-rockin’ lunch option. We made an updated, healthier version of my main chili recipe. We called this version: Lean Muscle Chili. The name Lean Muscle Chili is a rip-off from my real chili recipe. In 2014, I won a chili cook-off (so what if there were only about ten entrants?) using my original Muscle Chili recipe. The real recipe contains copious amounts of ground beef and some venison. Right now, I have no venison (I passed on my one good shot at a buck in 2017, wahh!), and ground beef is so calorie dense that I’ve started using ground turkey as a replacement. More than just calories, I’ve been making a concerted effort to limit red meat these past few year because my blood pressure gets high sometimes. Limiting red meat, sodium, and alcohol has really helped my blood…Continue reading Lean Muscle Chili–a winter delight with great macros for just $1.73 per meal

Eating healthy lunches while working can be tough. Healthy options–like Chipotle when done right, for example–are expensive and time-consuming. I’ve figured out a way to eat a week’s worth of lunches for under $10 with near-perfect macronutrients. Over the course of the year, using this and other similar recipes, you could spend just $520 on work week lunches. A year’s worth of Chipotle lunches costs $2340 without a pop or chips. That’s an $1820 savings in a year. Plus, you don’t have to go wait in Chipotle’s line. And we all know that a Chipotle jaunt around lunch time takes 45 minutes at a minimum. Recipe like this could save you 45 minutes per day Monday through Friday. That’s 11,700 minutes in a year–or 195 hours! For a lawyer or other professional billing by the hour, that’s a huge savings. At big law firms requiring 1900 hours billed per year, 195 would cover about five week’s of billing. And while no one would actually eat every single meal at his or her desk billing for an entire year, the point remains; using this recipe (and others like it), you can save a bundle of time and oodles of money. My…Continue reading “The Rob Special”–a protein-packed meal with perfect macros for just $1.99