If I make a large quantity of zone chili for my whole family, how do i divide it into zone blocks or how do i know how many blocks i am eating when i fill my bowl ?

Determine the number of blocks of P, C and F blocks you put in the entire recipe and divide by three to determine how many 3-block meals is makes or divide by four for 4-block meals. If you make a recipe containing 12 P, 12, C and 12 F in the entire recipe, this will yield three 4-block meals or four 3-block meals. If you have a recipe containing 12 P, 8 P and 12 F, you have three 4-block meals of 3P, 2C 3 F each. Add a bowl of berries to this scenario and you'll have 4 Zone balanced 3-block meals.

Typo, I left part of the sentence out in the last post. It should read: If you make a recipe containing 12 P, 12, C and 12 F in the entire recipe, this will yield three 4-block meals of 4P, around 2 C and 4F or or four 3-block meals of 3P, 2C 3F each.

You'd add the berries for balance whether you divided that last scenario into either 3 block or 4 block meals.

Robyn, I usually figure out the total # of blocks for the recipe, then I divide it up into servings to figure out the blocks per serving.

Okay, I'm totally lost. New to this and trying to figure out what blocks are. Where on the website do i find that information?

1 block (serving) of Protein contains 7 grams protein. Typically 1 ounce of meat.
1 block (serving) of carbs is 9 grams.
For each block of Protein you balance with a block of carbs and some fat.
For each serving of Protein you eat 3 grams (2 Fat blocks) of healthy fat.
Fat blocks are doubled, because 1 fat block is 1/2 serving of Fat to allow for the fat in lo-fat protein sources.
IF, your protein is fat-free, then you double the fat intake to 2 fat blocks or 3 grams fat.

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