Tag: meat

What’s In Your Fridge

May your phone never run out of battery and your refrigerator never run out of food.

–Ancient Cathodic Blessing

Here’s what’s in mine after a month’s meat order arrived and two weeks of grocery stocking:

  • Coconut milk–1 gallon
  • Mascarpone–2 pounds
  • Creme Fraiche–35 ounces
  • Greek yogurt–25 ounces
  • Coconut oil–.5 quarts
  • Soda water–10-15 cans
  • Eggs–94
  • Bacon–4 1/2 pounds
  • Beef in steak, ground and roast forms–22 pounds
  • Leg of lamb–5 pounds
  • Chickens–8.3 pounds
  • Goat’s cheese–2 pounds
  • Cow’s cheese (different kinds)–2 pounds
  • MCT oil–20 ounces
  • Butter, salted and unsalted–3.5 pounds
  • Lettuce
  • Onions
  • Bell peppers
  • Mint
  • Tomato
  • Cilantro
  • Cucumbers
  • Strawberries
  • Dill pickles
  • Pepperocinis
  • Apples
  • Coconut–a
  • Lemons–many, many lemons

I’ll also be eating some chocolate, some pecans, some macadamia nuts, a little peanut butter, cocoa powder, and the occasional raisin. But what’s in the fridge is pretty much it.
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly III

Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

― Criss Jami

We’ve looked at the good. We’ve looked at some bad. Now…the ugly.

  • Eating protein will kill you in middle age, and then somehow–magic, I think we can assume–becomes protective after age 65. Variations of this article came out all over the news about two weeks ago. It was such a headline that I had several people ask me about it. It took me about a week to get the time to find the actual study, and then more time to get around to writing about it. But here we go.

As you probably already guessed from the idiotic statement that the same protein that will kill you if you’re 64 will suddenly protect you from death once you turn 65, this is a load of baloney. This contention alone ought to be enough to put every reasonable person on alert. Continue reading The Good, The Bad and The Ugly III

Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary

Eat butter first, and eat it last, and live till a hundred years be past.

–Old Dutch proverb

What to do about dairy? Some people love it, some people hate it, everyone wants it on pizza. Vegans won’t touch it while Paleos claim it’s too new a food to safely eat. Some are sure it makes them gain weight or at least feel temporarily bloated, yet many Europeans consume it like candy and seem to enjoy both good health and healthy body weights regardless. Some people groups, such as the Chinese or Vietnamese, have rampant lactose intolerance; yet some societies–like the Mongols, Tibetans, and Masaai–have or do subsist largely on dairy and are strong and healthy. Some scientists claim that it will give you cancer and cause gut leakage problems, while others swear that it’s the best and healthiest way to get your Vit D and calcium, and may even protect your from cancer. One study tells you it will spike your insulin and derange your metabolism; another will tell you that it protects from diabetes.
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Everybody’s Different, Part 2

[Think] of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place . . . Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.

― Steve Grand

Just a thought about how we are so much more than our atomized stuff, before we talk about that stuff.

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And The Winner Is…

Grass fed beef.

Yup, sorry, but it is.

Back home in Asia, I can order grass-fed beef and lamb directly, in bulk, bypassing the middle man. That enables me to afford it. Just. Sometimes I have to compromise and get some grass-fed and some grain-fed. It’s just cost.

But since I’ve been back in America I have not been able to eat one bite of grass-fed meat in about six weeks. I’ve also not been able to find any grass-fed butter. I’m sure I could if I was in one place for long enough, but in six weeks I’ve been to ten different states. So I’ve had to subsist on “organic” butter, which though it is from cows not fed weird things, it is from cows fed grain.

Back when I first started doing this, I wondered aloud how important the grass-fed, grain-fed argument really was. There seems to be evidence to suggest grass-fed is the superior nutrition, but the reality is that it is more expensive. It’s out of the reach of many people and eating even grain-fed meat is still better than eating a lot of carbage and calling it healthy.

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America

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

― François de La Rochefoucauld

I haven’t been able to post as much due to being on the road in America for weeks. Either I have no internet, ala the World’s Worst Hotel, or I’m just not in one place more than a night or two and am trying to catch up with friends I haven’t seen in years and won’t see again for more years.

Oh, and I’m eating.

Everything.

In sight.

You see, Americans have this habit of eating constantly. Since I hopped off the Blood Sugar Express myself, I don’t need to eat like that. In fact, I actually prefer not eating a lot of the time.

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Meow Chow

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

― Garrison Keillor

Last week the Roommate’s colleague rescued some kittens out of the trash. The poor little things were so tiny that anyone could see they were way too small to be taken from their mother. The lady had heard them crying in the dumpster.

She pulled the pathetic things out of the garbage. The garbage was behind the local restaurant…which didn’t bode well for Mother, I should say.

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A Mess of Greens

I don’t want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

–Doug Copeland

I’m going to say some things about vegetables now. It might hurt their feelings, but I’m not going to say it to their faces. I’d appreciate if you wouldn’t repeat it to your asparagus, either. Hang on, here we go:

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The Best Laid Plans

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

–J.R.R. Tolkien

Especially if dragons make good eating. I’ll have to check on that.

I’ve gotten a few requests to be more specific about what I eat and especially to discuss the proportions and “how to” of it all.

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Further Questioning Revealed…

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

–Galileo Galilei

Today I trot out a couple more questions that I commonly hear after I reveal that I’ve stopped eating the Food Pyramid and started eating what’s healthy.

In case you’ve just joined us, that means I stopped eating whole grains, excessive amounts of fruit, and very low fat foods and instead started chowing down on animal fats and meats.

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