CrossFit FTW "Paleo Chili Cookoff"

My suggestmentation: Feb. 13, that way it will a treat/feast for ourselves for completing the 6 week challenge. What do you think? Or is too long of a wait? LoL

I am in!! I say we make it the mid way point. Our fun party for being half way there! I will bring Matt's chilli that you will love and it will help clean u out! So may be the 2nd to last week this month? I say either lunch on a Saturday or dinner on a week night?

I would like to volunteer as a judge. ;-)

As D said, everyone might have something they can't (won't) give up. I don't know if it is lazy...or just practical with two little kids running around - but I have tried and am still dependent on protein shakes for snacks. They are so easy and thoughtless. So, I am one week...caveman eating...excpet for protein shakes. Are you sure God didn't say "and let them drink protein shakes while they have two little needy people to take care of?" I'm just saying... :-)

I will volunteer to be a judge as well. For the lack of cooking skillz that God bestowed on me, at least he made up for in cleaning skillz. My name is Chad, and I am a protein shake addict. It could be worse, right? :(

So funny about the chili blogs....I realized over the weekend ( when James was making chili,) that it was an "acceptable food item"....used to be one of the things I would avoid I guess because of calorie content. Anyway, we will have deer meat soon ( big handsome hunting man I married!) so thinking it is mo' better for me than 10% fat, beef chili...I shall watch the updates about the cook-off.

Uumm.. i volunteer to eat I mean taste the chili. And dear NOT (Deer) Todd to make one of his famous chilis. THANK YOU GOD for making Spaghetti Squash - finally something i can eat with the meat sauce! O, and thank you Paleo people for blogging your ideas. I am addicted now to Spaghetti Squash!

Hi, I'm Corey and I am also a protien shake addict. One receipe I found on the Zone website (so it is ZONE friendly) is to put 1 cup water, 1/2 apple OR 1/2 cup of grapes, 1/2 scoop of your protien shake powder, and either 3 or 4 almonds OR a teaspoon of flax oil. Had it tonight for a snack and its good.

You should actualy use pure protien powder to be truly zone friendly, but I use my shake powder.

Corey - what is the difference between shake powder and pure protein powder? I drink EAS Whey Protein Powder w/8oz of cold water and then hunt and gather...he, he...for a carb in the fridge. I just suck it down fast, it's easy!

The protein shake I have right now has a lot of other things in it that I probably shouldn't drink like artificial sweeteners/flavors and such. A good protein powder would have very simple ingredients, no artificial or chemicals, maybe sweetened with stevia if anything at all, and no lactose. I know EAS has some good products, but I am no expert. You should probably have D-man look at the ingredients and give you his opinion.