I love the King.
No, not Elvis, the Burger King.
I love his Turbo coffee and I love his flame broiled burgers but, most of all I love his sausage, egg and cheese biscuits. Breakfast with the King is my downfall.
The sausage, egg and cheese biscuit at burger king has 37 grams of carbohydrates and only 15 grams of protein while packing a whopping 40 grams of fat! For somebody like me who is very sensitive to starchy carbohydrates (just looking at a baked good makes me retain water) keeping a proper balance between carbohydrates and protein is very important. So long as I consume as many (or more) grams of protein as the number of carbohydrates I consume, I won’t gain weight. Sounds simple, right? This is where my engineering comes in.
Why should I have to give up a great meal simply because the King’s cooks make it all wrong for my body? Yesterday, I spent about 45 minutes (total) preparing and individually wrapping a dozen sausage, egg and cheese biscuit sandwiches. (All at a fraction of the cost of eating at the King’s table!) The best part is that I will have absolutely no guilt while eating them for breakfast because each one contains exactly 22 grams of protein and 22 grams of carbohydrates.
Here is how I did it:
Pillsbury Ready to Bake Biscuits – from the freezer to the oven and done in 22 minutes.
Jimmy Dean Sausage (roll) made into 12 two-ounce patties and cooked on a George Foreman grill. (No need to keep that extra fat.)
One dozen eggs cooked in a microwave egg poacher (no cooking fat necessary and they come out in perfectly shaped rounds. They cooked two at a time at 1.5 minutes cooking time for each pair.
12 slices of Kraft American Cheese.
I assembled the sandwiches assembly line style on squares of plastic wrap and put half in the fridge for this week and half in the freezer for next week.
The King may call, but my answer is waiting inside my refrigerator and only needs a minute in the microwave. With a little creativity and a tiny amount of time, you can engineer your junk food too. Yes, you can have your biscuit and eat it too!
What’s your pleasure?
Drop me a line and we’ll engineer a diet friendly version!
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