Week 6, Are Flavor Intensifiers One of the Keys to Losing Weight?
I’m a flavor junkie. I don’t like muted, subtle flavors. I like rock ’em, sock ’em, kick-you-in-the-head flavors. Foods like bacon, aged cheese, aged steak, cheeseburgers, and sausage pizza make my heart sing and my stomach satisfied. But it doesn’t take a diet guru to look at the aforementioned list and see red flags everywhere. This week I have started figuring out how to make long, deep flavors work for me on my diet. I now lead the nation in grater use. I grate terrific, full-fat, aged cheese every day and use it judiciously on just about everything, and I think it’s gonna work for me when I get on the scale. I have discovered Oscar Mayer real bacon bits in a bag. I use them on sandwiches and in salads. Grated cheese and real bacon bits pack big flavor in tiny portions. They’re flavor intensifiers of the highest order. Flavor intensifiers, I’ve decided, are going to be one of the keys to losing weight and sustaining the weight loss. For breakfast, I grate some terrific Butler’s Rot
