Hey Reader!

In the 77th issue of The MF Kitchen, you'll slice into the details of:

• Recipes for my Jalapeño Popper Hot Pockets and Fruity Pebble Cereal Milk Protein Ice Cream!
• New macro friendly pizza!
• The real reason behind restaurants giving you bread before your meal...
• Here's what I eat every day...
• Arguably my favorite summer snack (100 calories for a LOT of food)...

Preheat your ovens…

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Weekly Recipe Roundup 🍽️

Jalapeño Popper Hot Pockets These jalapeño popper hot pockets are NEXT LEVEL and only 244 cals 🙌 Highly recommend just meal prepping the filling to add to sandwiches for the week. Click below to download the recipe and make it easy yourself: ​​​Jalapeño Popper Hot Pockets.pdf​

Fruity Pebble Cereal Milk Protein Ice Cream A WHOLE Pint of Fruity Pebble Cereal Milk Protein Ice Cream for 284 Calories with 36g Protein! ​​Click below to download the recipe and make it easy yourself: ​​​Fruity Pebble Cereal Milk Protein Ice Cream.pdf​

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Recipe Recreations Of The Week 🤌

The FDL Pizza 🍕

Macros for the WHOLE 12” Cheese Pizza:​
647 Cals, 73g Carbs, 15g Fat, 55g Protein

Here's the recipe:
👉 https://www.instagram.com/p/DKfG-5pso84/​

I made a new version of my FDL Pizza Crust and I need your help!

My goal is to bring pizza reimagined back into as many people's diets as possible.

So now they can eat pizza and reach their goals 🍕

If you have made a bunch of the FDL Pizza’s, I am crowd sourcing pro tips!

I am using the comment section of this post.​

So it’d be soo helpful if you could comment your pro tips so we can not only give a ton of pro tips on how to crush the recipe.

But also, give them the confidence to make their first pizza!

Thank you a TON in advance 🙏

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Zach's Beats 🎧

Always hoping Young Money Wayne will come back but am always let down 😭 This album has more his style of beats but the lyrics are really corny lol Or am I trippin and I'm just a boomer now? 🤣 ​Tha Carter VI - Lil wayne​

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This Week’s Flavor 🎥

New macro friendly pizza crust! I've been working on a new variation of my pizza recipe and I'm happy to say I can finally share it with you! ​Click here to watch the video.​

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Weird Food Fact 🤓

You get to a restaurant and you're STARVING.

Your mouth is watering as you look through the menu.

Soon enough, the waiter asks if you'd like some bread for the table and you can't say yes fast enough.

Has anybody ever said no 😆

A few minutes later, warm bread arrives and you couldn't be happier.

But have you ever wondered why restaurants give you bread?

You might think it’s just hospitality, but there’s a sneaky little secret behind it…

You see, bread is incredibly cheap for restaurants to make/buy.

But more importantly, it’s a genius distraction.

Keeping your hunger at bay so you don’t notice how long your meal is actually taking to arrive.

Because let’s be honest, when we walk into a restaurant hungry, every minute waiting for food feels like an eternity.

Those warm, buttery rolls (or crispy breadsticks) calm your inner hangry monster.

This buys the kitchen extra time and the servers some breathing room.

But there’s another sneaky twist...

Bread’s carbs and salt actually stimulate your appetite just enough to make you hungrier and order more food.

You’re satisfied at first (sure), but by the time the main meal hits, you’re somehow ready to eat even more.

And if you're ever debating whether or not to eat the bread because of the calories and carbs that come with it, remember:

You're better off being a little less perfect if it means you're happier.

One roll will not throw off the whole day.

Enjoy it!

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One FAQ ❓

Answer: This is a question I get a lot.

I totally get it.

Everything I make tends to look and taste like you are “cheating” on your diet.

The paradox with all my recipes is that the standard is delicious and macro-friendly.

And we tend to associate boring/restrictive/hard with a diet working.

So eating the foods you love, having them fit your macros with ease, and losing body fat along the way feels like cheating.

Eating pizzas, ice cream, burgers, fries, cookies, brownies, etc on a daily basis.

But here’s the kicker...

Normally eating like this would absolutely destroy your health and fat loss goals.

But we are recreating them with a macro makeover.

They are now 1/3rd of the calories with at least double the protein thus allowing us to eat a lot of it while also hitting our macros.

I just wanted to cover that in more detail before covering if I ever eat “boring” lol.

YES, I do LOVE to eat boring!

But it’s not really that boring.

Here's what I eat usually:

• For breakfast I eat a protein cookie dough/brownie batter variation with fruit and cereal on top.
• I eat fries every single day for lunch as my main carb source and vary my protein source in the form of chicken tenders, burgers, etc.
• I eat a big burrito bowl variation with tons of veggies every single night for my dinner. I vary the sauce all the time (aka any of my homemade low-calorie sauces).
• I eat a pint of protein ice cream a couple of times per week when I am craving it!

And all through that normal style of eating for me, I am constantly R&D’ing new recipes every single day.

That gives me a ton of variety as well.

So I do crave simple a lot of the time because I already have to think about food 24/7 with what I do for a living!

My point is, I feel like I eat boring most days but my boring might be extravagant for others.

And if you CAN eat boring every single day, DO IT!

That’s an incredible asset to have.

And when you do have cravings, just know that I am almost positive I have an easy recipe to tackle that craving while still hitting those macros!

Hope that makes sense!

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Serving Surprise 😮

I'm back on my watermelon kick!

It's getting way to hot again and this is my go-to snack.

There are not many things I love more than watermelon lol.

And so this is how I feel buying my first watermelon of the season!

It’s actually insane how much watermelon you can eat for 100 calories.

Once a week, I cut one up and keep it in the fridge as a quick grab-and-go snack.

This is what half the watermelon cut up looks like.

So this is your sign to go and get your first watermelon of the season!

And if you’ve ever struggled with knowing how to pick an amazing one, use this chart!

You want:

• Uniform Size
• Orange Field Spot
• Large Webbing
• Dark/Dull Color

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I am about to be corny as hell lol.

But my college basketball coach used to say this and it’s always stuck with me.

“Be grateful for the L’s.”

And then he would keep going explaining,

“Taking an L doesn’t mean you lost. It means you have the opportunity to learn.”

That reframe (as corny as it is) changed my life.

An L was only truly an L when I decided not to learn from it.

Quitting truly is the only failure.

Your fellow L collector,​
Zach

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