How is chocolate and peanut butter keto? Those two things sound very sweet and devoid of real nutritional value. Stick to blueberries and real whipped cream. Change your taste buds and cravings or you'll be right back on the fat ass train.

I've been evangelizing the recipe like an idiot ever since I used it Thanksgiving 2019 to replace an old Chocolate Peppermint Mousse pie that included stove-top melted chocolate (I got tired of timing the mixture with the cool-whip - it can fail faster than you can say soufflé and require a restart) and wanted to come up with something fool-proof, quick and hyper-easy for dessert emergencies.

I also like to bring it up for no reason other than it's really 3 cups of stuff (little more on the milk) and the mix and the shell. Done. It's totally memorizable if you're looking to impress a foodie or while gabbing in line at the grocers off the top of your head. I mentioned it to a retired Marine cook literally yesterday and he was finishing the recipe in his head before I was done.

It's a Southern Comfort food fave - but most variants get too fancy with extra ingredients and steps. I took the simplest one and knocked it down even further (you can condense a lot of stuff with pudding mixes etc - saving on powdered sugar and other nonsense).

My philo is if you're going to make something it should be half price or less than store-bought and taste better. The more ingredients - the higher the cost. Mine is pretty cool insofar that most people already have 2 or 3 of the ingredients - so the cost can drop as low as 1.99 for the crust and 49 cents for the pudding mix.

Pro-tip - measure and add the peanut butter last for the mix for faster clean-up. Soak everything in the mixing bowl with soap for a few minutes and it's ready for the dishwasher.

The funniest feedback was telling it to a saleswoman at an auto-dealership. She texted me that it was a hit that night (fastest feedback ever).

Edit - I just researched Keto - interesting stuff. I'd been looking for high-protein diet solutions (unless my planned treadmill / audiobook / podcast regimen does the trick). I'm shopping around for lofts that have exercise rooms with at least 6 of them to offset my home-office lifestyle. Being the designated cook for friends and family also has been a weight-gain factor. Not tragically overweight - but I want to get it off again. And this one is very interesting. I'll admit I still love carbs (rice and pasta particularly) so I'm pinning some hopes that getting more steps will do the trick. It did when I had to walk everywhere in the city because the price of parking was insane the previous decade before I moved.