Feerlessfood's Blog

Has anyone ever seen “Healthy Decadence with Devin Alexander” on FitTV?  The show is a nice concept, showing how to make lower calorie and versions, but….its sucks.  I’m sorry, but she is incredibly annoying and a lot of the times, she is just wrong.  I don’t know if she is a nutritionist or anything, but some of the things she puts out there are just wrong.  Here is an all too familiar quote, “Now we’ll just use the egg white, we don’t all the fat in that yolk.  By leaving out the yolk, we just saved five grams of fat!”  Ok, Devin, anyone who can actually credibly speak about nutrition know the benefits of egg yolks–how they are packed with vitamins and have been shown to no impact of cholesterol levels. 

Or here’s another, “We’ll use reduced-fat peanut butter to lower the fat content even more!”  Have you ever read the nutrition label, babe?  Reduced fat peanut butter has the exact same number of fat grams as regular (really!)  Instead, some of the fat has been removed and replaced with hydrogenated oils and sugars.  Soooo…. basically, the healthy fats we eat the peanut butter for get removed and unnatural ingredients added…. 

Well anyways, I do get some ideas from her show.  She did a BBQ beef sandwich that got me thinking.  Of course, first I had to get a slow cooker…which I finally did!  I had literally been waiting months to try this recipe and here’s how it finally came together: 

• 1 Lean London Broil Steak (trimmed)
• As much BBQ sauce as you want to add
• Onions
• Seasonings; such as liquid smoke and some garlic

I let it sit in the slow cooker for like 12 hours!  I put it in before I left for work and didn’t turn it off till I got back from the gym that night.  I simply shred it with a couple forks and have been eating it on everything from rolls, baked potatoes, and tortillas!