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Are There ANY Decent Protein Bars Out There?
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Why phase out protein bars?
00:00:01
Christian Yordanov
Every once in a while i' have ah a new client that's eating some kind of a bar, ah like a protein bar, it's like a daily snack to kind of hold them over between meals and such and most of the time i would recommend them to phase the bars out. Obviously in the immediate term there's so many other good things we do with clients that improve diet and and supplementation and such
Analyzing protein bars by influencers
00:00:27
Christian Yordanov
and stress. that it's not number one on the agenda, but every single time that I have reviewed a bar a client has been eating, I'm never impressed. So today what I did was i just kind of looked searched around for some bars by you know health um personalities and influencers and such.
00:00:49
Christian Yordanov
And I'm kind of going to go over some of them and their ingredients and just kind of explain to you my rationale for why I think, you know, you probably are better off finding something else than a protein bar to keep yourself satiated and to meet your protein level.
00:01:08
Christian Yordanov
needs in a
Alternatives to protein bars
00:01:09
Christian Yordanov
day. there is There is way better ways. And a lot of the time, um it obviously, it's healthier, but ah it it the price-wise and convenience-wise, it's not such a huge difference. you know And I'll get into some of the things I kind of do sometimes. And I'm not i'm not like...
00:01:28
Christian Yordanov
So I'm just going to give you examples of what I do. I'm not saying you should do it because, you know, people have different tastes and um I suppose embarrassment levels. Like I don't have any problem like popping a freaking little tub of cottage cheese in the middle of a place and eating it, you know, with a spoon I brought myself. Like things like that. Some people don't want to do that. Like in an office environment, you may will not want to do it You can bring some of these things on a flight and such. So you have to just kind of use these ideas as a sounding board.
Convenience vs. nutrition debate
00:01:58
Christian Yordanov
But i would start first with the whole idea of why are we eating these protein bars in the first place? So we know that protein is good.
00:02:11
Christian Yordanov
where Many of us don't get enough protein. So we are like, okay, this is good. It satiates me. It's better than a candy bar, better than a Snickers and whatever other... stuff is on offer at the the you know the stores that we might see on our commutes and travels and so on. um So that kind of makes sense. But um sometimes I'll i'll i'll talk to to my clients and a lot of people, you know, they wake up in the morning, they don't feel like eating a full meal and they don't have a lot of time to cook like a proper breakfast, sit down and eat it. So some some some of them might like, you know, get out the house, have a maybe coffee, get out the house and have that protein bar. either on the commute or when they get into work or just to kind of hold them over until their first proper meal. And I kind of get it, but this, I, as much as I kind of want to support people with their lifestyles and demands, I always have to like push back a little bit in the first place. It's like,
00:03:12
Christian Yordanov
What, like if, how to put this, ah if you have to run out of the door in the morning and don't have time to eat,
00:03:24
Christian Yordanov
um and or in any other kind of time of day, if you don't have time to eat clean and well, ah that's a problem. Because like diet... is the more one of the most important pillars of health, right? So clean, good, nutritious diet is super important. As much as some influencers out there will argue against it that exercise is more important or whatever BS they're spouting, it's the diet and I think most of us know that.
00:03:54
Christian Yordanov
um So the the point is if you're like so stuck to get ah a little meal in or like prep a little bit of food ah for for work or for for whatever the commute or or have a little bit of clean food in the morning before you leave the house so you're not at the behest of you know sandwiches at the freaking cafe and Starbucks cupcakes and croissants, well then i that is an opportunity to rethink ah this whole thing because if your health aka ye eating clean at various times of the day is not one of your highest priorities then I think that's a priority issue because like you know yeah if you if you want to if you're listening to this podcast you want to improve your health and longevity which means there are certain things you have to prioritize and if you're not prioritizing food like a clean fresh whole food for the most part um that's a problem so that's that's already like a piece that and i'm ah I'm not preaching to you what to do you know obviously you can do whatever you want but with my clients I sometimes have to say you know we have to like think about you know like this is this is a huge pillar of health let's figure out how to make it work rather than saying it can't be done
00:05:12
Christian Yordanov
you know How can it be done? Because there's always where there's a will, there's a way. Like ah I remember a great saying i heard is if you um if you want something, you'll find the time. If you don't want to do something, you will just find an excuse. So if you really want to be healthy or you want to restore your health from health challenges, like this is...
00:05:32
Christian Yordanov
numero uno, eating clean. And when I say clean, like people this is this is what really kind of gets me, like with some people, not everyone, of course, a lot of clients that come to me, they're already eating clean for the most part, that they really truly understand what eating clean
Critique of health influencers
00:05:49
Christian Yordanov
is. But you know some people think that eating a protein bar is eating clean.
00:05:55
Christian Yordanov
And I'll just give you an example of a very prominent one. They just, this was back um on the back of the scandal with Peter Attia. So he's like a, he was chief science officer at this Davidprotein.com company.
00:06:10
Christian Yordanov
um And I think Huberman is also involved with the company. He's one of their experts. And so so people like them are pushing these protein bars because they're huge proponents of eating enough protein. And that's that's basically the extent of, you know, Peter Atiyah's dietary ah recommendations as, you know, Medicine 3.0, doctor expert extraordinaire, which is laughable. But so there are a lot of people out there
00:06:43
Christian Yordanov
are basically being influenced by these big health influencers that eating a protein bar like this is a clean way to get your protein. And let's have a quick look at ah the ingredients list here on one of their David protein bars. So this one is the peanut butter chocolate chunk.
00:07:05
Christian Yordanov
Okay, sounds tasty. But already if something has peanut butter in it, you know that's not a health food. That's not a health food. And I know we used to think that back in you know the 2000s, 2005, 2008, we used to think peanut butter is healthy and it was healthier than other options available to us at the time, they like chips ah you know cooked in sunflower oil and stuff. So it was maybe a step up.
00:07:34
Christian Yordanov
Less processed and whatnot. But peanut butter is not a health food. Okay. It's probably one of the worst frigging things you can put in your body. ah So anyway, 28 grams protein, 150 calories. And they're huge about the calories. This is another thing that is so pathological. It's like mental illness, obsessing about the calories in these things. And of course, 0% sugar because it's the that's the problem. That's what's killing everybody.
00:07:59
Christian Yordanov
Right? Not the seed oils. Seed oils are totally fine. ah don't be a conspiracy theorist, so let's look at the ingredients here, let's see, okay, where are we?
00:08:11
Christian Yordanov
um i thought ah I thought I had them ready to go here, apologies. Here we go. Nutrition facts. Okay, so let's look at the nutrition facts. So total fat, 2.5 grams.
00:08:26
Christian Yordanov
Saturated fat, 2 grams. Sodium, 200 milligrams. Total carbs, 12 grams. Okay. Sugar, alcohol, 7 grams of those 12 carbs. Okay.
00:08:38
Christian Yordanov
And then the protein is 28 grams. So then the ingredients, and I love how they've ah categorized the ingredients, so the protein system is milk protein isolate, collagen, they don't specify what kind of collagen, a bit of a red flag here, but okay, let's move on, whey protein concentrate and egg white, okay, so let's just pause for a second, so milk protein isolate, so if you during the day are going to eat
00:09:11
Christian Yordanov
Any milk-based product, dairy, um ah you know yogurt, cheese, things like that, you will get some protein from those foods, obviously. And maybe whey, depending on what kind of milk or dairy product you're eating. then the egg white so if you know you're gonna you're gonna get some if you eat eggs you're gonna get the egg white right so you can get these proteins from the food that you eat and it might not be as cheap you know but uh let's one of these so a box of these bars is 39 bucks right so 39 divided by 12 is 325 let's say for 325 ish
00:09:52
Christian Yordanov
three twenty five let's say per bar so for three twenty five ish um here at least in my neck of the woods in south of Portugal I can get not a not a half dozen of eggs because it's it's about that much 350 in euro so maybe it's like four dollars but you get like four eggs four four to five eggs depending on on the the vendor for this amount of money and then four to five eggs will be something like
00:10:24
Christian Yordanov
I 5 times 4. I mean, it would be like 20, maybe between 18 and 26 grams of protein, depending really on on the size of the eggs. But, you know, we could say roughly 6 grams of protein per egg. So 4 eggs is 24 grams of protein, you know.
00:10:49
Christian Yordanov
So 4 eggs would get you this amount of protein. Okay. ah So the the question is, you know obviously, can you do that? i mean, it's it's not as convenient just unwrapping bar, but ah youre with you have to remember that with the eggs, you're getting a ton of other nutrition, minerals, vitamins, B vitamins, fat soluble vitamins. you're getting some healthier fats, obviously some omega-6 fats and stuff which is inevitable no matter the how good the quality of those eggs are. I mean there is low poofa eggs but they're not that cheap.
00:11:24
Christian Yordanov
And then you're getting um ah just you're getting a ton of nutrition, you're getting real food, okay, that's fresh food, not egg white that's been you know dehydrated and turned into a protein, not milk protein isolate which is a powder and whey powder, you know, like you're getting real food.
Real food vs. processed snacks
00:11:42
Christian Yordanov
And then the the question of, but can you take it, you can't cook it up in work or on commute. Well, you can't, that's true, but you can cook it up quickly, like frying some some eggs on the pan. It takes minutes and then yeah eating it takes, you know, minutes.
00:11:59
Christian Yordanov
So you can do that at home. You know you can add another 10 minutes to your morning routine, ah maybe sacrifice another area of your of your morning routine to to do that. Or you may already be eating or or doing some some other prep. Just kind of do that while you're doing the other stuff. And that gets you that that gets you there in terms of that protein. Now, the other thing, not my personal thing, I don't really like... um eggs that have been um hard-boiled because i I really just kind of cook them as little as possible. i want to do as little cooking of the fats of the eggs as possible just to not damage the fats and stuff you know.
00:12:39
Christian Yordanov
um but like some people like it like my wife likes and then my daughter they like ah hard-boiled eggs and you but you can take take those you can take them peeled unpeeled yeah you could take them anywhere you know and they they will last all day long they won't go bad or anything you know so that that's a that's another option okay so like the the this protein system is just like They're not even saying any of this stuff is organic. This is the other thing. Very few bars out there are actually certified organic because they don't care about that. They don't care about quality. They care about getting as much slop into a bar for as cheaply as possible and then using the the dollars they have to to market it so they can you know get get that ah ROI, the return on investment. That's how these businesses work. you know
00:13:28
Christian Yordanov
So the actual base product on supplements and and these products like this is very, very minimal. like I was talking to some um supplement contract manufacturers last year and um I asked them, like you know certain supplements, I was kind of thinking of designing certain blends of products eventually at some point. And when I saw the prices, and those weren't the cheapest prices, you know, I talked to guys that have had been vetted that are they they have really good processes and a lot more trustworthy than many brands out there. They will give you very very, even lower prices. But then, of course, you can get in trouble with all their cutting corners stuff. But anyway, so you're talking like...
00:14:13
Christian Yordanov
A bottle can cost, let's say a bottle of a product that will, you know, 90 caps or whatever in plastic that you might pay, let's say, 20, 30 dollars for, that bottle could cost...
00:14:29
Christian Yordanov
um $5 or even less. You could probably bring ah the cost down to maybe $2-$3 and potentially even less with bigger orders, cheaper ingredients and and so on and so forth and and certain like using certain methods that make the whole process cheaper and and faster, right? So very very cheap and then yeah then they're selling it sometimes 10x the cost basis. so That's kind of how it works but of course there's a lot of other costs beyond just manufacturing the thing but in this case it seems like all these big influencers and so on they have to get a cut, they have to get paycheck, all this marketing to make this thing so big, that's where the money is going. you know It's not going to make the best product for you, okay for your health. Now the binding system, geez man, like we coming up with this stuff. It's all about having a system. If you don't have a system, you're just a jabroni with a glorified powder bar, you know, so you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you know, come up with a system. So the binding system is multi-tall.
00:15:37
Christian Yordanov
Allulose, glycerin, soluble cor and fiber soluble corn fiber, tapioca starch, and soy lecithin. Okay?
00:15:52
Christian Yordanov
Then their fat system is modified plant fat EPG, which let me just bring up this. This is basically, i talked about it in the previous episode. This is some canola oil fat.
00:16:06
Christian Yordanov
Let's see, fat. So this is esterified propoxylated glycerol. It's a fat replacement ingredient that mimics the creamy texture of fat but contains significantly fewer calories, contributing about 0.7 calories per gram compared to 9 calories per gram from traditional fats. It is designed to pass through the digestive system without being absorbed, which raises some concerns about its long-term effects on health and digestion. So they use this to lower the calorie content. So I think the one of their their spiel is...
00:16:45
Christian Yordanov
to pack as much protein in as few calories as possible. Which, think about it, isn't that stupid? That's really stupid. It's a stupid gimmick because like it's if your if your life and your diet is reduced, to eating eating is as much protein as possible but getting as few calories as possible. I mean, obviously they're theyre the demographic they're targeting is people that are like more conscious about how they look, they want to lose weight and stuff like that. And maybe Jim Brose, I know that one of the investors in this company, he's like a bodybuilder and stuff.
00:17:23
Christian Yordanov
So I get that part, but like if you're just like, not just, you're basically kind of training people to obsess all of this stuff. So they're like, this thing has a lot of protein, very few calories. So this is like what people then compare this to other, oh, but this other thing has more calories. So this is better. the At the end of the day, you're eating food to provide fuel and nutrients for your body to do its jobs survive thrive hopefully repair ah replenish so like life shouldn't be about getting as as much protein as possible with as few calories as possible it should be getting the most amount of nutrition
00:18:10
Christian Yordanov
with within kind of the the the parameters of how much you need. Just a dumb example, i know but let's say you eat four pounds of total food in a day.
00:18:23
Christian Yordanov
my Personally, my goal is to get as much in that two pounds of actual volume and weight, to get as much quality nutrition so carbs, quality fats, the right fats, not plant fats and stuff um and and and high quality protein and along with it vitamins and minerals as much as I can in that weight or let's say that those amount of calories you know so that's at least again it's my not my view but this is what we should be doing so let's just another kind of very off-the-cuff example If you have 2,000 calories a day is your, let's say your guideline from your coach or practitioner.
00:19:08
Christian Yordanov
we are the goal is to get RAMPAC as much quality nutrition in there, right? So even though these guys are able to RAM in 28 grams of protein with under, you know, with 150 calories in there, that only covers the the, it ticks a box in terms of protein, that's like whatever, you know, one quarter,
00:19:38
Christian Yordanov
of your protein for the day, 28 grams let's say, um but it just ticks the box because it doesn't tick the more important box of the nutrient quality because again you're getting powdered slop, milk protein isolate, the collagen could be good, could be the cheapest crap they got, whey protein concentrate and egg white, right? And then you get maltitol, allulose, which is like of a sugar that's lower in calories and whatever, sweetener. Glycerin, you know, like this is like just fillers to to make make the bar, the bulk of the bar and the crunch and the texture with little care.
00:20:18
Christian Yordanov
Is this actually nutritious for you? Is it real food? No, they don't care because soluble corn fiber That's not gonna feed you. It's not adding nutrients to your body. Tapioca starch, I mean like, you know, there's not a lot of it, but you know, but maybe that adds some carbs and stuff and soy less than, you know, that's like an emulsifier they use. And then this modified plant fat there and a little bit of coconut oil actually, but a tiny amount.
00:20:42
Christian Yordanov
ah But the the modified plant fat is in there to give the texture, the creaminess, all that stuff of fat But by lowering the calories. So personally, what I would say is what would be better. I'm not sure if it would be cheaper, but I would just kind of use more coconut oil or more more kind of like healthy fat, maybe MCT oil or whatever, something like that.
00:21:05
Christian Yordanov
like Dave Asprey does or he used to do with Bulletproof, they'll put like MCT oil, I'll do something that's actually usable to the body, it will raise the calories but at least it's something that's valuable inside there and that can still contribute to taste, texture, whatever, consistency, mixability, whatever the case is. and then the flavor system, look at this, unsweetened chocolate, salt, Dutch processed cocoa powder, natural and artificial flavor,
00:21:37
Christian Yordanov
peanut flour, peanut extract, sucralose, and acesulfame potassium. That's hard one to pronounce always.
00:21:49
Christian Yordanov
So two artificial sweet sweeteners, peanut extract, peanut flour, natural artificial flavor. What the hell is this trash?
00:22:00
Christian Yordanov
This is trash. how are these How are these companies getting so big? and these products getting so big and people are like eating this glorified toxic slop trash well it's not toxic technically like toxic is like you know snickers and whatever this is a step above sure but this is absolute absolute trash
00:22:29
Christian Yordanov
on board is working today um Okay, so that's David Bar and ah they they have ah fudge brownie, they have other flavors, but you know, the core ingredients are always going to be the same.
Marketing of protein bars by big personalities
00:22:44
Christian Yordanov
It's going to be, let's have a look here. So...
00:22:47
Christian Yordanov
um Again, milk protein isolate collagen whey protein concentrate egg white and then the binding system, the fat system and then the flavor system is probably the different thing here. So in this case,
00:22:59
Christian Yordanov
um unsweetened chocolate, Dutch processed cocoa powder and yeah so of course nothing organic here yeah so they like honestly i don't i mean i understand why these things are so big because big influencers that's that's kind of one of the perks of being a big influencer you say anything and people immediately click buttons and then they look at marketing copy and they're like okay i need something convenient and it is convenient again it is it is a convenient way if you want powdered
00:23:34
Christian Yordanov
powdered milk protein isolate, whey protein concentrate, egg white collagen. here But here's the thing, here's the thing, here's the thing. This just came to me. If you want the protein, because it's just protein here, right?
00:23:46
Christian Yordanov
Then why not just get a protein powder? pretty easy, as still not as convenient as a bar but cheaper, can just mix it with some water or whatever you know maybe juice or whatever you like or milk even if you prefer, ah you can get collagen protein, you can get whey protein concentrate or isolate and you can even probably get egg white protein so you can do this
00:24:09
Christian Yordanov
in a cleaner fashion and still do this, get this protein. So I guess this is it must be the the fact that people also don't want you don't want to carry like a shaker, they have to rinse it out and then if you leave the shaker for a few days in your car or in your gym bag and it's like that little bit of protein you didn't drink, that starts growing its own like ecosystem and then you know weeks go by, you remember about it and then you either throw the shaker out if you're like a civilized human being
00:24:40
Christian Yordanov
Or you open it and then bam, we have now Ebola or COVID 2026 coming out and infecting everybody and shutting the world down again. so obviously the only civilized and proper things to do is just let it make that sort of gooey, foamy thing.
00:24:58
Christian Yordanov
slimy you know organism and then just throw it out and then let the third world deal with it when the trash you threw out ah is sent there to be you know incinerated. you know ah So that's kind of the the David bars. Now, in terms of, there's another guy, he's a kind of a well pro bodybuilder,
00:25:22
Christian Yordanov
guy he's has funny he's a funny guy has like two plus million um uh subscribers on youtube but he's he's like a big sort of drama queen greg doucet he does like a lot of like exposing fake natural bodybuilders and that are taking a bunch of you know steroids and and you know he's a bit of like he likes to um kind of stir up stir the pot great controversy but he's like always been promoting his Seco bar as like really good so let's have a look at it I've never actually looked into what it contains but so this is um ah harder than last time is the company Greg Doucette HTLT is the company so let's see ah
00:26:08
Christian Yordanov
We have the ingredients Isomalto oligosaccharide syrup, whey protein isolate, white chocolate coating, sugar, vegetable oil, palm kernel oil, hydrogenated palm kernel and cottonseed oils, nonfat dry milk, glyceryl, lacto esters, fatty acids, soy lecithin, salt and artificial flavor.
00:26:36
Christian Yordanov
Peanut butter, peanut sugar contains 2% or less of fully hydrogenated vegetable oils, cotton seeds, soybean, rapeseed,
00:26:47
Christian Yordanov
dextrose.
00:26:49
Christian Yordanov
salt molasses and monoglycerides date paste dates whey crisps whey protein concentrate and cornstarch cookies and cream has the sugar enriched wheat flour wheat flour niacin reduced iron thiamine mononitrate b1 riboflavin folic acid palm oil soybean oil cocoa invert sugar 2% or less of the following. Corn flour, cornstarch, salt, baking soda, natural flavor, and soy lecithin. So this is trash.
00:27:23
Christian Yordanov
Trash. um and it's $3.99 US dollars. u dollars So he's always like, ah I mean, I watch him kind of when I'm not bored, but I'm kind of sick of serious content and and stuff. And like he's like, just kind of screams into the mic and just it's a great way in the evening. Sometimes when I'm walking my dog, just to listen to him rant and just forget your worries for a few minutes. But he's always pushing this bar is so good and blah, blah, this is trash.
00:27:56
Christian Yordanov
um But of course body buildil many bodybuilders, like guys that just want to get jacked, they don't care so much about health, it's about getting um you know, Swobraham Lincoln, that's kind of the goal. quick ah What about Quest Nutrition, that's that's a huge one right? So let's see, Protein Bars, Pumpkin Pie, that's let's look at a chocolate chip because that's probably something more people would would buy.
00:28:22
Christian Yordanov
so the chocolate chip protein blend milk protein isolate whey protein isolate polydextrose which is in brackets prebiotic fiber almond water unsweetened chocolate erythritol erythritol yeah glycerin cocoa butter contains less than two percent of the following natural flavors sea salt lecithin sunflower and or soy stevia sweetener sucralose okay so sucralose we know is a um artificial sweetener so for four in the box
00:28:56
Christian Yordanov
you paid $11, so of them is divided by so it's two sixty six per bar and you get total fat nine so ah nine grams which only two point five is saturated so plenty of you know
00:29:19
Christian Yordanov
22 carbs of which 12 is dietary fiber. Sugar alcohols is 6. They're obsessed with these sugar out like alcohol type sweeteners because of because sugar is so bad. Let's just use sugar alcohols. you know It's just...
00:29:34
Christian Yordanov
it's just
00:29:37
Christian Yordanov
obfuscating the whole thing but and then protein is 21 grams okay um and you actually get a little bit of potassium 140 milligrams so this is this trash yes it's trash but it's definitely less trash than the the previous one and probably less trash than the the david bar i would say you know But i would i would I ever buy this?
00:30:04
Christian Yordanov
i mean if i was really stuck, like if it was in another country, i was really stuck. And it was all like chips with soybean oil and you know, that's kind of really all the options. I'll definitely grab this if I was dying of of hunger.
00:30:23
Christian Yordanov
um But would I ever buy it on my own here? No, absolutely never. Absolutely never. um bulletproof of So the Bulletproof, I actually, back in 2018, I actually bought a few boxes of the Bulletproof stuff, the the Bulletproof bars.
00:30:37
Christian Yordanov
And actually, they were really they were really tasty. I remember the vanilla shortbread was super tasty. And which else did I... Oh, the lemon cookie was also really nice. yeah So they actually all taste really good. I think I tried them all.
00:30:49
Christian Yordanov
At least whatever was available at the time. So they're really tasty. uh but the thing about it is nowadays the so the the main the first ingredient here in this these at least in the the vanilla shortbread is cashew butter right so this is the main ingredient so nowadays i wouldn't i wouldn't eat cashew ever like for no reason like i mean not that like if If there was like a ah a dessert with cashew served to me, it's not like I would turn my nose at it, you know, I'm not like that kind of militant about it But I wouldn't be buying cashews, I wouldn't be eating cashews, I wouldn't be making things with cashews ever.
00:31:28
Christian Yordanov
Or most nuts for the most part, most of the time. ah So that's why I would never buy this, the bulletproof one, because of the nuts.
00:31:40
Christian Yordanov
Sure, cashews may be less problematic than other nuts, but it's still nuts are not good human food.
00:31:51
Christian Yordanov
You know, they're they're good as like if you're stuck somewhere and that's all it's all the or options you have. I mean, yeah, okay, then you can maybe have some cashews. But so cashew butter, hydrolyzed collagen. So what I like is that he has collagen in here. I would much rather get collagen than some kind of whey protein concentrate or some other kind of nonsense, egg white protein. i I would rather get those things from real food but the collagen is hard to combine in in regular food. you know they has inulin which is sweet, it's ah it's a prebiotic fiber but it is sweet so probably he's adding it as a sweetener more than anything. and he adds MCT oil, caprylic acid and and capric triglycerides which is you know good good fat saturated but still like the the total fat is 12 and the saturated is 5 so you're still getting some PUFAs and monounsaturated fats in there so still
00:32:51
Christian Yordanov
I, not not a lot, ah but i I still wouldn't eat it, you know, because um I'd rather get my poofers from places that provide a lot of other nutrition like eggs. You're going to poofers in your eggs, even if they're organic, but at least you're getting a ton of other nutrition in there, you know, so that that's a good, that's an okay hit to take, at least in my opinion.
Transparency in organic labeling
00:33:15
Christian Yordanov
then tapioca dextrin cashew meal and sunflower lecithin and then looks less than 2% of safflower oil or sunflower oil vanilla extract sea salt ground vanilla beans organic stevia leaf extract natural flavor so even although this is another thing that kind of is a little bit frustrating is these guys and gals that are so against poofers and stuff but then when it comes to products that they produce they don't they don't mind that it has you okay less than two percent of some safflower sunflower oil and all the other stuff it's not a lot but still like
00:33:58
Christian Yordanov
if you're so militant about it, at least sort of just, if you're gonna put products out there, don't freaking have safflower or sunflower oil in there, you know what i mean? Like it's, it just, to people that care and look into this stuff, you just, you're gonna, you're gonna look like ah a little bit of a hypocrite, you know?
00:34:17
Christian Yordanov
and So that's kind of what I would say there. um So let's see, 190 calories per serving, 12 grams fat, like I said, carbs is 12 grams of which eight is fiber, two grams sugars, and then 11 grams protein, right? So not as much as the David Barr, but you know i'd rather again, I'd rather get my my protein from collagen and I'm sure the cashew butter has some protein as well that they're counting towards it.
00:34:46
Christian Yordanov
But, ah okay, not not a lot of protein, but it actually tastes nice and it kind of, you don't feel gross eating it. like probably ah Maybe I've had a Quest bar once or twice, maybe ah my maybe i think my wife had them once or twice when we were flying in her bag and I ate one or two. But ah if you feel gross eating that stuff, you know, like, ugh, it's disgusting.
00:35:09
Christian Yordanov
ah But this with with ah ah the the Bulletproof stuff, it actually is is really tasty. And it's kind of like from the MCTs, it's like, I'm getting hungry. I think I must be hungry. It's very kind of like, it is short bready. And it is like kind of like um ah ah fatty as well. And a little bit sweet. It's really nice.
00:35:30
Christian Yordanov
um What the hell was I talking about? Getting hungry looking at these bars here. ah But still would I buy this because look at look at the price and I think they're definitely... okay they' so they're $36 for $12 but actually if you buy it now ah you can get it for $25 even as a one-time purchase and then you can lock in 30% off with subscribe and save so Actually, for $25, it's way better because you know back when I was buying them, it was similar price maybe, still $36, maybe a bit more. but But then you have to pay like shipping and and taxes and a bunch of stuff. and
00:36:14
Christian Yordanov
it That cost me a lot more. But if you're in the States, this is this is reasonable. But would i would personally, would I recommend it to clients? Or if a client was on this and they came to me,
00:36:27
Christian Yordanov
Would i tell them keep eating it or would I tell them let's phase it out and find a better option? i will of Obviously I'll do the latter. I'll be like let's figure out some real food you can eat and the cost might actually be less for more protein and other nutrition. Like in the case of the eggs. Actually I'll pause here looking at bars for a second just to kind of give you an idea. so Here for me, I can get 200 grams, which is I guess about just under 7 ounces of fresh cottage cheese.
00:37:01
Christian Yordanov
um It's 2 euro 90, which let's see 2.9 euro to USD. That's like three. Okay, $3.40. Okay.
00:37:15
Christian Yordanov
for a tub of organic cottage cheese which is probably not it's probably cheaper in the states but for this for this price uh i think that you get i think it's like 10 11 grams of maybe more even now i forget now i haven't looked at the the the label in a while but it was over 10 grams per 100, so you're getting at at least twenty twenty two grams of protein per tub, and then you're getting some you know dairy fat, which is good, you know and obviously some vitamins and stuff like that in there, and and of course calcium and stuff. so
00:37:56
Christian Yordanov
i You couldn't eat cottage cheese every day, probably, most of us can't, but like maybe two, three times out of the week you could do that. And actually with a little bit of salt on top, you pop it open, bit of salt on top, you kind of you know, um throw on a little of that, mix it it's really nice. It's a great little snack, you know. And you're eating real food, you know?
00:38:18
Christian Yordanov
This is the thing. And then so other, just looking again at this, this is the organic store we buy our food from. So you get mozzarella, 100 grams for 220, which is 220 is like 260 USD.
00:38:36
Christian Yordanov
um And again, a lot of these things are probably cheaper in the USA, in many places at least. So that for 220, 100 grams of mozzarella, that's also like, I think it's like 20 grams, 20 to 22 grams of protein and ah about 10 to 15 grams of ah fat. And then all the other vitamins, minerals you're getting with cheese, you know.
00:38:59
Christian Yordanov
So that's ah that's another option. And obviously the mozzarella comes in a watery bag, so probably you couldn't take it as a snack, but the cottage cheese you can. And I've been known to take like a packet of, you know the sliced cheese.
00:39:10
Christian Yordanov
You get a pack of that for like 150 grams is like ah five ounces. And it's 28 grams of 22 to 26 grams protein, up to 28 grams of fat, that kind of ah fat that kind of range and for 440 so five bucks and you're getting 150 grams that's you're getting like 40 grams of protein and whatever fat so that that's definitely portable you know um and then with the mozzarella maybe you want maybe you can just kind of chop it up a little bit in the morning and eat it with some something else there's your protein for the for the first part of the day and then you can that will hold you over until lunch or you could you know you could do that at home you might have had a a lunch get your protein at lunch do that at home so there's always like point here is there's always like ways to quickly grab a snack that has protein
00:40:08
Christian Yordanov
um ah and it and it's real food and it's healthy and it's good for you now of course Some people don't like dairy or don't tolerate dairy or in some cases, like in our case, when we do the food sensitivity test, sometimes dairy is off the menu for some clients. So this is just something like I can do because tolerate fine.
00:40:31
Christian Yordanov
um a feta sorry Feta cheese is another good one. I just saw it on the screen here. But there there is other ways, you know like I said, eggs. um it's another one you can quickly whip them up like uh scrambled uh sunny side up whatever you know it takes minutes it takes minutes to do it and there is there's ways to do it now the the other so the other option so something i've been doing um is i get these fruit
00:41:03
Christian Yordanov
fruit bars that have like dates and and mango and and maybe a bit of like coconut flakes or and some of them have like they're basically like chocolate balls with date uh kind of ground up and made into like balls and stuff and i have like three or four different flavors of this on this mango i had the the packet somewhere here i was going to talk about them so i have like ah chocolate chocolate and cherry mango and they're just coconut one that's mostly coconut so it's more fat and tiny amount of carb so they'll have like ah like date as a base that's add sweetness chocolate for flavor and then man the mango one will be like you know dates mango and some kind of
00:41:48
Christian Yordanov
um ah maybe a bit of coconut it flakes or in in another way, just to kind of you know make it into one thing, into like little blocks and and balls and stuff. So they they't they're not, honestly, they're not cheap.
00:42:00
Christian Yordanov
Like they're not as cheap as these bars. There's like, um I get them from a store here, they're like five bucks in USD terms, roughly per hundred grams, 3.5 ounces. But you eat that, it's going to be between, some of them are between 360 calories and and and more. So, you know, it's it's a decent snack to hold you over until like ah a proper meal coming up, let's say getting home or in the morning coming up to lunch or eating at work or whatever the case is in your case. So things like that and fruit bars, you can get like, especially, and the the reason these are five bucks is because they're organic, obviously. They're not like, I don't think I would buy a lot of fruit non-organic in any way, knowing what I know now about the pesticide use. But like there's, there's companies that do
00:42:59
Christian Yordanov
20, 30 ingredients nonsense bars companies, i would just, I would do like some kind of fruit bar instead. yeah And this is actually now, we were just in um in Egypt with with my family in Cairo to see the pyramids and I had a ton of these.
00:43:14
Christian Yordanov
I had like maybe 10 of these things and had some in the morning, before the flight, on the flight because you know I just airport food is just as you know it's horrific you know unless you get like in a bigger airport you can get actually like steak or whatever uh but uh so i ate them like on the plane kind of just kind of tied me over until until we have somewhat of a good meal coming up so in that case what happened was we flew through italy and then in italy we're like oh we're gonna get some gotta get some pizza i'm sure even airport pizza should be good and it was phenomenal the the airport pizza we got it was
00:43:55
Christian Yordanov
but you know um but but bupi type uh great pizza but obviously not not optimal but at least it was good pizza not that kind of way but then i had these these um like date and and chocolate balls and and and my kid loves them as well which is handy so she doesn't get into like a catabolic rage if she doesn't eat for a long time i have something to give her then you're dealing with a little bit the after effects later of the chocolate can be stimulating, know, the theobromine. But that's like that it's better to deal with hyperactivity from a bit of chocolate than from, you know, hangry four-year-old kid. You know that's, you don't want to deal with that. uh but so it like through the week we were away at specific times these things were very handy because like the food was so bad in in cairo that um we couldn't find anything in the store that i would eat like i got some dates and like bits and pieces but like the best juice we found was uh uh what these were the ingredients i remember water
00:45:01
Christian Yordanov
sugar and and like I think 10-12% juice concentrated in some other ingredients like whatever it was forget now ah it was bad like 10-12% concentrated juice that was their premium premium highest quality juice I could find there in in Egypt so i was like damn this really sucks got some yogurts there were 7% fat that tasted okay but i'm like Man, I just don't that i just don't know where – because fat can accumulate persistent organic pollutants that are lipophilic, you know.
00:45:34
Christian Yordanov
So I'm like, how diggity. had one of these. I'm like, I don't want to give these to my kid. So luckily I had these chocolate balls and coconut sort of rectangles and mango triggers just to kind of make sure we're not like going too long without food and getting into like a mega stress cortisol response.
00:45:56
Christian Yordanov
until we get to like ah a restaurant that has decent enough food to eat so that really helped a lot and for the next trip to Mexico I have a similar strategy so I can kind of get through basically 40 hours of travel through like trains and taxis and three airports and whatnot I can get through probably most of that with with just kind of bringing certain like organic bits and pieces So I don't have to eat airport food. Although, you know, if I find like some steak or something, that should be all right. So that's kind of the strategy, you know.
00:46:31
Christian Yordanov
um So that's what I would do. And there is there is companies that do that. do that Now, not again, not optimal. But if you need something in times like times like that, where you're like stuck for better food or let's say you commute every day in your car or whatever, and you need something and you can't can do gross stuff like, you know, start peeling eggs on the train or whatever. There is, there's always ways that are cleaner than, again, these protein bars. So just as an example, sometimes on some clients, I'll tell them, you know, even like beef sticks and beef jerky and, and, um,
00:47:13
Christian Yordanov
Biltong, you know, that that kind of stuff. that That's probably better than than most of these protein bars. Probably, again, not optimal because like if like with with aged meat, there's things like histamine and tyramine that can be, depending on the person, they can cause issues. I actually had one client last year.
00:47:37
Christian Yordanov
she she started eating these beef sticks. I'm not sure if it was from the same company I kind of recommended to her, ah but she was kind of getting headaches, and she i think she stopped them, and they went away, and then she tried them, and then they came back. So then we we looked... No, she actually did this herself. She looked at her food sensitivity test where we actually... That that lab actually looks at things like... um certain chemicals that can be found in the food supply not just foods so things like you know msg caffeine and capsaicin and even things like uh tyramine is one of those things so her tyramine was not super reactive but it was like higher uh on the reactivity scale than optimal so she kind of
00:48:27
Christian Yordanov
She had a pretty good hypothesis that it could be the tyramine that she's sensitive to, which some people are. like Similar to like the way people can have a histamine sensitivity or issue. you know So that's kind of one of the issues with the the aged ah and the dried meats. So that's why I wouldn't... like i wouldn't if you can have real meat i'd probably try to do that and wait until then hold get just hold hold over tie yourself over somehow until you can actually have like a steak or like real meat or real food but that i would much rather honestly i would much rather
00:49:05
Christian Yordanov
use something like for example Paleo Valley they have these 100% grass fed beef sticks and it is so shipping handling is 8 bucks 25 bucks for the actual box of sticks and I'm just trying to see how many sticks how many sticks you get here so first of all one stick is 28 grams ah total fat 5, saturated fats 2.5, carbs none, protein 6 grams, so not a lot, that that's the thing, it's not a lot of protein, so if you have to eat two sticks to get similar to like the vasper is 11 grams of protein, but it's probably going to be more bioavailable protein because that protein was based off
00:49:51
Christian Yordanov
the collagen and also the cashew butter has protein. So probably, ah you know, that that kind of ah is to be added to the equation. But i think I think that's what I would do instead. So let me see. I just, hold on a second.
00:50:07
Christian Yordanov
Why don't they say how many sticks you get though?
00:50:11
Christian Yordanov
One, two, three.
00:50:14
Christian Yordanov
I still don't understand for the $25 how many sticks you're getting.
00:50:19
Christian Yordanov
Bro, white wired why does it like basic information? why Why do people not like things like supplement facts and stuff? Like, why don't you make it more prominent? This is just very annoying. So if you get seven you seven or more packs, you get free shipping.
00:50:41
Christian Yordanov
Four plus, one, two, three, four, 20. Oh, okay. Oh, you have to click choose flavors. Ah okay okay. So one pack has 10 sticks.
00:50:55
Christian Yordanov
and that is costing me 25 bucks plus 8 bucks shipping but you get discounts if you buy more so if you get like a few more so let's see so at base price with shipping it's like three bucks per a bit over three bucks but if you exclude shipping because you can actually if you get enough of them let's see choose flavors let me just click a bunch of these let's do 10 of these So that's 100 sticks. 10 packs is 100 sticks.
00:51:23
Christian Yordanov
That'll be 247 bucks. You save 50 and free shipping. So that's, it works out. So it it it can be as low as $2.47 per stick. So not cheap. That's that's the thing still.
00:51:38
Christian Yordanov
It's not not a cheap way to get six grams of protein because think about it this way. Let's say you get, let's say you buy eight of these or 10 of these and you get them for 247.
00:51:49
Christian Yordanov
um
00:51:51
Christian Yordanov
let's see, 2.47 times 4, that's 4 sticks would cost like let's say 10 bucks and that's how you get 24 grams of protein which okay not too bad, however you're gonna be pretty constipated and your farts are gonna be pretty damn smelly okay that's that's gonna be a problem for your partner and your commute cocon
00:52:23
Christian Yordanov
co-commuters and or office workers and or pets depending on your situation so 988 for four bars so i don't know like how much it costs you to buy meat but for me right now i can have my two best options for beef is like 12 for 300 grams 320 grams or about $10 for 200 grams of you know ah a fifth of a kilogram or how about slightly less than half a pound um so for that amount of money I can get 200
00:53:04
Christian Yordanov
a two hundred grams strip loin steak fresh frozen but you know fresh um ah and so a hundred grams of that meat would roughly probably be excuse me about twenty twenty four grams okay so
00:53:25
Christian Yordanov
what i would prefer to do is i would prefer to eat to get that steak get that meat and then have it and then you know that's 40, 45 up to let's say roughly speaking okay it has fat so maybe let's let's just say it's you know up to 40 grams of protein because there's some of the cuts have quite a lot of fat on them So I would rather pay those 10 bucks or so to get the the real food, the fresh meat, than these beef sticks, grass-fed, which are grass-fed, I should say.
Preference for real meat
00:54:04
Christian Yordanov
um
00:54:05
Christian Yordanov
Because the the ingredients, although not terrible, can ah it's still not not perfect, like not not optimal, so okay 100% grass-fed beef, water, sea salt and then organic dextrose from tapioca used to initiate the fermentation process, celery juice powder, I'd prefer not to have that in there, organic black pepper, red pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, coriander, or all organic so far, lactic acid starter culture from non-GMO beets, stuffed in a dye-free beef collagen casing. So, you know, like, they're doing a great job of, like, that's the original one. The other ones have, like, other stuff like teriyaki and certain other bits and pieces that, you know, or get, like, mustard seed and whatever else, you know, teriyaki-style seasonings.
00:54:56
Christian Yordanov
which you may or may not want you know because of certain things ah that you may be sensitive to you know so sometimes like some of these things we we can test them and like for example cayenne you could be reactive to or garlic or or coriander so we know like sometimes these things are not good for certain clients that would be reactive to some of these even though small amounts of these um things, ah flavor enhancers and so on, it's still not optimal to to include it if you know you're reacting to it. But again, this company is doing a great job in terms of like making these things, but they're not cheap.
00:55:31
Christian Yordanov
And again, the the convenience is awesome. And I think they have venison as well, venison sticks. They also have some superfood bars which have nuts and stuff in them so I'm not not even gonna look into them um because I'm not not definitely not ever buying that stuff you know.
00:55:49
Christian Yordanov
ah but ah the You know, they use organic ingredients or grass-fed ingredients and stuff. So they're doing a good job. So if you're really stuck, you can definitely do that.
00:56:00
Christian Yordanov
um But nothing will compare to trying to... What I would do personally, instead of this stuff, I'd buy the meat, the fresh meat. it's but In the States, you get really good meat, as you I'm sure you know.
00:56:13
Christian Yordanov
um I'll have the meat and then if I can't have the meat in the morning or whatever i would just kind of like whenever I can i would have the meat and then during the rest of the time I'll try to like hold myself over with with other um organic ah bits and pieces like already gave you some examples with the eggs the the various sorts of dairy and and stuff like that you know so that's kind of what i would do because i could keep going through some of these ah protein bars but really they're just all it's like this reminds me of that skit in Family Guy when there was like two a son and a daughter
00:56:57
Christian Yordanov
arguing over which who is the worst child. It's like, no, i'm I'm worse and I'm the worst child. No, I'm the worst child. And the dad just kind of breaks them up. It's like, kids, kids, kids, you're both just terrible.
00:57:11
Christian Yordanov
Both, you know? So, like, I could go on looking at these bars, but they're all just terrible. just terrible you know like for example built.com not not sure much of of anything about this company but their their bar is 20 so this is 25 euro so they know i'm in the european union so maybe i can even get them in the european union so 25 euro for 12 peanut butter cookie chunk puffs that sounds amazing 15 grams of protein 160 calories 8 grams of sugar
00:57:46
Christian Yordanov
And then it's premium collagen protein blend. Wow. Oh, hold on. Premium collagen protein? but So partially hydrolyzed whey protein isolate? That's not collagen protein.
00:57:58
Christian Yordanov
That's a lie. And collagen, comma collagen. So that's kind of premium collagen protein blend.
00:58:05
Christian Yordanov
is not what this is, this is a blend of proteins partially part of which is collagen but okay sure you're i guess whatever like most people would just say see the word premium collagen like oh this this is probably good peanut butter cookie wheat flour great amazing yes i just am looking for more ways to add wheat flour into my life dark brown sugar a palm kernel oil, glycerin by the way whenever you see glycerin, glycerin is sweet but it's non non-nutritive I mean like you can actually technically you can turn glycerin into various things in the body you know like maybe fat and even even glucose depending on kind of what you know how the body chooses to do it there's some pathways it can be used but really what it's used for is
00:59:00
Christian Yordanov
as to to add volume and and sweetness without calories type thing in in many cases and it's sometimes it's like a carrier for supplements or or or or it's also like a not a filler but like it's used in various um um ah cosmetic products you know so peanut flour yay like that's really yeah just thank you thank you guys peanut flour with wheat flour is is this is it my birthday yay tapioca syrup peanut oil
00:59:35
Christian Yordanov
This must be my birthday and Christmas on the same day that that I stumbled upon this company. Salt, natural and artificial flavors, xanthan, gum, potassium sorbate, preservative, baking soda.
00:59:46
Christian Yordanov
Glycerin, again, ah sugar, water, palm and palm kernel oil, cocoa processed with alkali, gelatin, whole milk powder, natural flavors, cultured dextrose, soy lecithin.
01:00:01
Christian Yordanov
I mean... and look at the scrolling down reviews, first is Kate, verified buyer, best protein bars out there! Amelia, so yummy, I wish they would bring this back in stock, I don't think Bilt can keep up with the orders that they're getting.
01:00:18
Christian Yordanov
Donna verified buyer one of my favorite puffs, Kim my new favorite flavor please bring it back okay so you know what's funny but when i went earlier to the David protein
01:00:32
Christian Yordanov
a website I scrolled down and there was picture of Andrew Huberman and then i I can't remember where but there was some reviews and I think the very first review I saw was also from a lady called Kate that just must be like coincidence I don't think there's people out there that that their career is reviewing protein bars on the internet.
01:01:02
Christian Yordanov
I think it's just coincidence. not Lots of people called Kate. It's just it's the problem when you're you know when you watch one too many conspiracy videos and podcasts you're immediately trying to pick holes and and and and angles here but yeah so that's that's built so built different built different it's oh my goodness and look it kind of looks a little bit like a Snickers i think that like if you're a candy bar eater like if you're really like a standard americans you know western diet sort of buzz this is probably a step in the right direction but uh not much further uh then two fit brands chocolate peanut butter protein man what's what what is everything in peanuts like peanuts
01:01:58
Christian Yordanov
are terrible and don't get me wrong i ate a lot of peanuts especially as a kid my mother would um cook them up she'd burn the shit out of them a lot of the time but like she'd cook them in the like in the thing in the in the oven and man i would like go through i just couldn't stop eating them you know and i was always like that with peanuts i mean when i used to work as a barman like They had dry roasted and and salted peanuts. That was basically the only snack you could get there. A couple of other things later on. But like I would have like packets of them instead of food because you know you're working long hours. and So i love I used to love nuts. But like now knowing what I know now, it's like, oh my goodness, how much garbage I've eaten in my life.
01:02:40
Christian Yordanov
And you think you're doing your your body good. Oh, it's just peanuts. It's real food. So let's see. ah Oh, look at this organic peanut butter. Chicory root fiber, pea protein, non-gmo, soluble tapioca fiber, organic organic cashew butter, pea protein crisps, pea protein rice starch, in those organic 100% cacao chocolate chips, sunflower less than natural flavors, stevia
01:03:13
Christian Yordanov
Total fat, 10 grams, only 2% saturated fat. So a lot of PUFAs and stuff in there, you know, like, ah and monosaturated fat as well. 18 carbs, 12 fiber, 2 sugars, protein is 13.
01:03:26
Christian Yordanov
um So I'm just like floored that they have organic ingredients here. $28 12. Okay. Would buy this ever?
01:03:40
Christian Yordanov
okay will i buy this ever Never. Not ever. Ever. que Okay, Quest, we looked at. I mean, is there, like, I'm i'm sorry. Like, you you your time is valuable.
01:03:53
Christian Yordanov
Like, I'm not just gonna waste another five ten minutes of your life blabbering on about other trash protein bars out there. moral of the story eat real food eat more real food you get plenty of protein there and then the rest of the time when you can't if you if you're really stuck like i'm i'm kind of stuck i'm i'm gonna be traveling 40 hours in two directions and then be in mexico for like 10 days so you know like i have to prepare to like whatever weather those trips with but um um again i'm using organic fruit based coconut
01:04:31
Christian Yordanov
uh based uh dates uh based type um snacks that you know won't be very high in protein but i can that's the thing you're not gonna die if you don't eat protein for a few hours you know this sort of there's a oh I feel like I will waste another five minutes of your time. The whole nonsense around like you can only absorb twenty twenty five grams of protein at one time doesn't make any sense. How does it make sense that you know imagine you don't eat for days back in back in the day.
01:05:03
Christian Yordanov
Imagine you don't eat for days. and then you find some carcass where you catch an animal or or whatever, trap an animal and you eat a bunch of that animal, you know, because you've been starving. Does it make sense that the body would like, oh, sorry, you know, I'm just going to absorb 25 grams, poop the rest out and then you shit out of luck until you find another gazelle or rotting carcass to devour on the side of the, there is no side of the road in the savannah, but you know what i mean? So that the you you'll be fine
01:05:35
Christian Yordanov
for a few hours if you can't get a really good source of protein. But again, there's always ways. And that's what I always tell people. I'm not trying to preach to you or anything, but if you're too busy, it's like, I don't remember, ah it what's the name of the guy? He's a very funny comedian.
01:05:50
Christian Yordanov
Very clean comedy. he Very sort of um um kind of physical comedy. Like he would make like faces and stuff. Very funny guy. I forget the name of the guy, but he had this this skit about like Pop-Tarts and he's like, do know that now you can get, apparently you can microwave Pop-Tarts?
01:06:12
Christian Yordanov
And it's, kid you not, it says like microwave on high for three seconds. Because, you know, you just put them in the toaster and whatever, one minute. it's like yeah He was like, how long does it take to, ah you know, get a Pop-Tart ready? you know, a minute and a half if you like them dark, you know? it's like So he basically ended that kind of segment as like saying, look, if you're up and you need to be eating within three seconds, you got to loosen up your schedule, you know? Like, you got to loosen up your schedule. Because at the end of the day, remember, like...
01:06:44
Christian Yordanov
this isn't about being self-involved and like, ah it's you know, if you take 5-10 extra minutes for yourself in the morning to like eat some something real, substantial, some protein, whatever,
01:07:02
Christian Yordanov
uh it's you're not a bad person you deserve to do that like this is one of the most important acts of self-care that you can do is feeding yourself good clean organic well-sourced food and nothing in a packet for the most part will ever come close to that you know and um just allow yourself a little bit of time to eat properly. So many people have this problem and it becomes...
01:07:32
Christian Yordanov
and I've been there multiple times, that that's why I kind of speak from experience, it it it becomes habitual where you're like, oh, I'll just grab a bar, I'll grab whatever, an apple, and then it'll be fine until, but then you're eating for weeks and months and and sometimes years, and then you're eating foods with 20, 30 ingredients and ingredients and it's little things like that can add up that's kind of you know oh it's it's just one product that's not organic you know um shampoo or whatever and this is and and that and it adds up that's why like we we just have to every once in a while take and i do this myself as well like you have to take stock of okay what is
01:08:17
Christian Yordanov
What have I been doing now?
Reassessing organic choices
01:08:18
Christian Yordanov
What am i kind of... Where am I comfortable and sort of happy with this and that? and for Just as an example, like um at one point i was getting these organic...
01:08:30
Christian Yordanov
um Basically like salsa, like mild salsa that you would you know use with like tortilla chips and stuff. It was nice because it just allows a little bit more variety in terms of taste. But then when I...
01:08:44
Christian Yordanov
when i buy it i'm like oh man like now uh i'm like damn this has like soy stuff uh in there for like whatever flavor and texture and amount of dextrin like just like several ingredients i'm like do i just to get a salsa and also it's not cheap because it's organic it's like four bucks or whatever and for 250 whatever grams so i'm like it's not even cheap it's mostly tomato based with some some flavors um it's like uh just like not buy it so now now when i ah one of the stores i buy my food from i'm like i try to do it as quickly as possible i'm just gonna go online and just click add the cart click the veg first i go meat always so it's always meat fruit vegetables because my wife obviously you know she she's not she likes some vegetables and stuff and we do use some vegetables
01:09:36
Christian Yordanov
um and then kind of other bits and pieces. And that's that's like phase one. And then as I'm kind of checking out checking making sure everything I've added, and haven't forgotten anything, this is where I sometimes, like, ah, you know what? I could do without this.
01:09:53
Christian Yordanov
You know, this is not... this is not that good remove and then oh you know what i don't need as much of this because the last time we didn't like like potatoes oh the last time we had to like throw them out because we didn't eat them in like a month or whatever it was warm so that's kind of my my last a little mini review it's like do i do i really want this product so it's it's kind of it's a nice little the way kind of the the checkout process at least if you shop online it's a nice little way to just kind of review oh do i do i do and actually this is interesting um there was one uh uh organic pizza sauce and then they had this uh organic tomato based uh bolognese sauce so i added both of them
01:10:40
Christian Yordanov
ah two of each just to try them some time ago and I went to the checkout and then i was like hold on hold on hold on wait wait how many times have I done something like this with organic products because you're like oh it's organic can't can be bad and then I've been like oh my god this has carrageenan or sunflower oil or some other bullshit you know So I clicked on both of them. just Let me just quickly check the ingredients. So as it turned out, the the pizza sauce, which can actually basically similar, same thing, you can use it in spaghetti, dishes, whatever, but on it um the pizza sauce was good, just mostly, you know, tomato and some but like vegetables and like herbs and stuff.
01:11:23
Christian Yordanov
But then the Bolognese sauce, it actually had ah sunflower oil. So I'm like, oh, so good that i actually looked, had a second look here. Because we we get into this sort of false sense of security. Oh, just because you're getting it from, let's say, Thrive Market or or this organic store, it's all good. And that's absolutely not the case. You can have soy in these things and other like sunflower oil, whatever.
01:11:49
Christian Yordanov
And in the States, you have to be extra careful about these things, of course. So I was like very happy to catch it. And then I was very happy that actually the the bolo the the pizza sauce, I made some kind of, not wheat spaghetti, you can buy like spaghetti that's not a rice paste and stuff. But I made like pasta with that sauce and it worked perfectly. you know So um I was happy to not, because if if I would have gotten that, I would have been pissed at myself.
01:12:18
Christian Yordanov
and I probably wouldn't have used it and then maybe months would have gone by, maybe I would have thrown it out after it quote-unquote expired or my wife would have just seen it and cooked with it. ah then i would be like ah it's just like little It's again little things like that.
01:12:33
Christian Yordanov
that over a lifetime can add up and that's kind of and the unfortunate thing is that that's the modern environment we don't have a choice right now we have to be a little bit more look at ingredients look at like cosmetic products you know toothpaste so always like just look a second time before you actually purchase the damn thing because like how many toothpaste I bought over the last 10 years or so or slightly less that had fluoride and it's organic I'm oh bollocks why didn't I just like look for a second without uh uh you know before I actually bought this thing and see I would see it has fluoride now again because I do most of my shopping online to save time it's a little bit easier but the problem in Portugal because it's like
01:13:18
Christian Yordanov
yeah it's like Portugal unfortunately some some things were way behind like some of these companies they don't like you can't look at the ingredients it's you buy the food and you can't actually look at the label so that's how I screwed myself a few times i bought these um yogurts for it was for my kid to you know diversify her palette with because she's sick of the same yogurts and then these damn things would have like really crappy ingredients for organic products like one of them had carrageenan and some other nasty sort of um gums and stuff so i was like really really annoyed because you trust because it's organic but then ah you know these companies here they haven't upgraded their freaking tech and websites and and product images to where you can actually see the ingredients or like add text description not not a problem for most most sites now but just it's some everybody has different challenges so that's when i was like oh crap like it just have to have to double check everything you know before you you you
01:14:24
Christian Yordanov
you can't and so point of the story is here is like if you do that if you do it properly it doesn't take a long time and you do that for these protein bars and you know a little bit about ah what should and should not go inside your body you will very quickly see that all of these protein bars are trash and although convenient you're probably better off saving your money and then spending it for better food, higher quality food, and then figuring out other ways to get convenient ah you know protein and just convenient nutrition from organic, certified organic sources. That's kind of the moral of the story here. I know it took me like 75 minutes to get here, but hey, you know, brevity is not my strong point. So I hope that you got some value out of this episode and I will see you on the next one.
01:15:13
Christian Yordanov
Thanks.