So, the UK, in all it’s devolved aspects, as
united farmers’ unions…said that a dozen (12) eggs would have to rise by .£0.12 to curtail an even greater sharp rise in the autumn (fall). Today.
This is a direct result of the war in Ukraine. The elephant in the room.
When will we wake up?
@coopdawg I will still be buying eggs whatever price they go up to just like I am still buying petrol!!!
@VirginiaEdie I am surprised so many people don’t know what chilblains are… I remember getting them as a child. My feet would get so cold and then I would get a hot water bottle and warm them up on it. It was that cold to hot process that makes them swollen and on fire and itchy and painful. I should remember to just warm them gradually. Just recently it was the tops of my all my toes and the pinky and big toe on the outer sides. They were so sore that wearing proper shoes, such as my work shoes which are not the most comfortable anyway would absolutely slaughter my feet. Even my CrossFit trainers…doing burpees and slapping the tops of my feet down as I dropped to the floor ouch and lunges ouch!!!. Nithing to do with covid., I haven’t had it touch wood.!
@Ketodaisy I’ve been carni for over 16 months so I doubt it will get rid of mine unfortunately. I think it has to boil down to management lol
I didn’t stop eating at the 4 rashers of bacon…I followed that with 3 scrambly eggs in butter. That did the trick. Always hungry when overtired. That little lot made up for the smallest of portions at midday.
Yeah. So will I.
I just want to people to wake up to the inflation that is about to hit us.
Well 1040 kcal sounded bad and I had a headache and I could ate so I ate 3 more eggs. And then a scotch egg too as I barely had anything but eggs today.
My numbers are better, I am perfectly satiated again (headache is still here) but my just raised meat intake is still only 132g… Just like in the last 2 days. It’s quite unusual, even I eat more meat than that. Not now, apparently.
And I just can’t get bored of my eggs as my record breaking days show. Today it was about 13 and I barely had other food.
Me too, usually. And cold as well.
My lobster and crab legs are off my usual list. I hope your bacon doesn’t go there for ya! Many prices are so warped on everything now out there.
Hey we all have to cope with the prices skyrocketing and the world resetting again. Happened many times, will happen again.
No one, I am pretty sure, is blind to what is going down 
ugh
I raised over 400 hens for decades. I ain’t doing it again! When the farm biz closed I got SO over them damn chickens! heehee…
Great posts to read on the board as usual!!!
and Azi’s pool pic, omgosh so inviting, I am coming for a swim!! LOL
I hit the grocery. chicken legs on very low sale, grabbed 2 packs. hubby loves them. only 2, cause they put up a sign, 2 packs of chicken limit—there is a chicken shortage. oh come on…
but I did indulge me. bought 1.5 lb crab legs at a ‘on sale’ price but still SO much higher but I said screw this, I want them, I will buy them. They will not be a weekly occurrence like they were back in my other zc years, can’t afford it but when I want something bad enough, yea I threw the money to this.
today is first meal. 1.5 lbs of crab legs with butter
second meal, I might eat some of those cheap chicken legs LOL We shall see.
I buy pork belly and make my own nitrate free bacon. Cheapest way there is and purest as well.
I can’t raise hens here, I have a big slope with trees and other bigger plants absolutely everywhere. And foxes visit my garden often 
And dogs. Once there was a small herd of sheeps… I lack fences, you see.
But it’s a chore anyway and when even 40 hens decide not to lay enough eggs, I would need to buy them anyway… I should be able to get more money with the time and effort…
Though own eggs are nice. But I still buy perfect eggs. I surely will keep buying many even if it price doubles. But I will do my best to eat more meat.
Hell, I feel I need to do my best to eat more meat NOW, I wrote about my <0.3 pound of meat a day in the last 3 days in my previous comment. I don’t know why I feel irresistible desire to eat 13+ eggs a day but I don’t argue. My food cost for yesterday still was about 940HUF/$2.8 with (slightly) more expensive eggs so it’s pretty good from me If I stay around $3/day on most days, it will be just fine.
Of course, the egg prices may complicate things but I don’t worry at all
I should quit coffee though, it’s money, time (I can drink them forever in the kitchen when I feel too zombie/moody) and it does nothing good to me. It’s just nice.
Oh you got that too. I still find the “maximum 2 kg pork thigh” here an outrageous thing. But if they sell nice priced pork chuck, I can deal with it. But it’s NOT just. 10kg sugar vs 2 kg pork thigh. That’s meat, food, full with water, we need much of it…
I wonder what the limit is for chicken frames, I saw nothing… A single big soup requires multiple and it’s half bone… But maybe it’s not such a popular thing (except among poor ones who know how to cook).
I wonder if smoked pork belly IS bacon… Just in one piece… Well, it surely works for me but I still will buy bacon for the frills My 1000g a year isn’t such a big deal (I never ate that much bacon in a year but now that I discovered the joys of pork covered in pretty bacon…)
@coopdawg I don’t think anyone is smiling about the rising prices. I will be interested in seeing how your homemade nitrate free bacon turns out. So if it is good then we would all like your recipe please 
there i am smiling now 
oh and I would love to have some hens for eggs. I wouldn’t be able to kill them though no matter how high the prices go! 
@Shinita yes I am exactly the same, I get very cold when I am tired hence I drink a lot of hot drinks during the winter. Hopefully it won’t be too long before it is just cold water weather!
@Fangs I bet you savoured those crab legs, hope they were worth the cost. We haven’t got any restrictions on how much we buy of any meat products here at the moment. Only in The Company Shop do they restrict and thats only on the half price stuff. I can handle that. When I got my last shop it was restricted to 6 of each of the half priced products so I don’t think that’s too bad eh?
Well a not quite so bad as the last few nights sleep last night! I had alarm set for half 8 but was awake before 8. I got up did my stair runs and went to CrossFit for a weights training session and gassy cv/weights workout. Really enjoyed it.
Decided to make a pork meatloaf with hard boiled eggs inside. Following in everyone’s footsteps lol. I had bought a pack of pork mince and a pack of turkey mince when I was at Lidl end of last week. The turkey needed to be cooked as yesterday was the use by date so I pan fried it, chucked in 2 teaspoons of chicken spice and because it was only 7% fat (i got the one with most fat) chucked in some heaped teaspoons of Duck Fat to flavour and add fat and oh my it was tasty. Will definitely cook that again. Better check my pork meat loaf! … not ready yet. So 500g turkey mince as brunch, just going to have the second bowl to finish it off. Pork meatloaf later for dinner.
you are such a good carnivore person great meat pics!
it is cool you guys aren’t limited tighter yet, I would take a limit of 6 any old day on any meats I needed definitely!!
I think the ‘Tyson Company’ bird flu issue is affecting alot along the poultry path to stores and is part of the issue.
plus with beef and more going SO high, more are going ‘chicken’ for survival.
gonna be wild and wooly out there I think!
I asked Alvaro and he thinks too that the pork from the local shop isn’t as tasty as our usual from the city hypermarket… It’s pretty much edible, it’s just meh. Maybe that’s why I eat so alarmingly tiny meat lately… (And because eggs are awesome. Maybe I subconsciously want to enjoy them galore before they double the price… I always have egg phases but it never was THIS heavy.)
I will compare them later. I need to use the local shop tomorrow (unless the cheaper butcher will be open). Price matters a lot, it’s not bad at all, looks fine, good nutrition, I can spice it if it’s a bit meh - but I can eat meh but not bad food anyway (in moderation unless I focus on it)… It’s just not so enjoyable as the other one. I think.
I had a tiny lunch, leftovers, mostly, my last scotch egg and the bacon+pork thing. And some PSMF bread but it’s fully carnivore 
The PSMF bread threads are still hot and one version barely had plants and they were optional… My carni PSMF bread is almost just fried egg white but it is fun in small amounts. I baked bread for Alvaro today (a real beauty as always! and not I eat that inferior eggless stuff ;)) and my “bread” fit next to it. I love when whipped egg whites get brown and crunchy on the top… Less than they get wet and stay white on the bottom but the taste was good, it was like boiled egg whites and I love them too for some reason. I used some homemade egg powder anyway so it wasn’t fully white. Just almost. I made mistakes but not too bad ones and only a part of it got gelatine but the dose for the whole thing… It became different and funny, in a good way. I don’t know what gelatine does in a baked thing, it did about nothing this far but now it turned out… Interesting. Not sure I need it, though.
A large doggie kennel set atop cardboard makes a splendid hen house, in one’s basement or garage. Just sayin’.
Pork belly is pretty easy to cook. I put it the oven at 285 Fahrenheit for 2.5 hours (with around a 6-7 pound “half” pork belly. Normally I wrap the sides with tinfoil so just the top skin is exposed. I cover in an oil (to hold the salt in place) and then salt liberally. At about 1 hour in, I remove and tighten up the tinfoil around the sides of the pork belly. After about 2.5 hours I increase the temp to 385 F and crisp up the skin some (for maybe 30 minutes). I like it just a little firm, but you can leave it for an hour if you want crispy crackling skin (add more salt then too). Fresh out of the oven it is soooo good. I normally slice off THICK slices (like 5-10 normal bacon thick) and eat a half to a whole slice in a meal along with whatever else (eggs/salmon or whatever). I do freeze and then reheat the thick slices as required.
Well the turkey mince was the tastiest food today. The pork mince meat loaf with hard boiled eggs cooked very well and all stayed combined without adding any other ingredients but I must admit it needed a little je naise se quoi so I think if I do it again I will add spice of some sort to it when I get my hands into it to squeeze it into shape. I definitely had to add a little salt and pepper before eating it. It produced a bit of jelly too and I enjoyed that. I used to love the jelly in the pork pies. I made the eggs harder, I didn’t really fancy them soft and runny. Might have been okay if I had eaten it hot but didn’t fancy runny eggs cold.
Prior to the pork meatloaf and shortly after eating the turkey mince i made some crispy bacon in the oven.
It was nice fatty streaky bacon and crisped up very well. I ate that fairly slowly and felt quite full when I had finished it.
@Fangs I forget you have had bird flu issues! I can remember when we had salmonella poisoning problems with eggs followed shortly by problems with chickens, the mad cow disease and the pigs were having issues …all in short succession and thats when I chose to go that ‘V’ dirty word 
just so glad they resolved the issues and I hope they get your bird issues resolved pretty quickly ! Of course no one seems that bothered when it comes to plants and all the chemicals and toxins… I am sure peeps don’t wash them carefully enough and now when I think about what I was putting inside me … all that poison 
Had my pretty small dinner… (Seriously now. I am only not worried as I ate more last night, still borderline low-cal day but not so bad and lots of protein.)
Meat soup, PSMF bread just like at lunch (can’t help it, I love fried egg whites so much now and my egg powder is super fun in it)… And a little not fully carnivore ice cream, but at least it helped with my calories.
I felt satiated before eating but I thought I need some food in me and the soup is a great gateway dish.
Guesstimation is 1366 kcal, 60% fat.
But I went over half pound of meat, it’s something…
Tomorrow is vet visit, Snugglepie’s surgery is earlier than planned! She’s so young, she probably will be fine soon. The young kitten, Tofu had it easy, the 4(?) years old Caroline Aida Cloud (Cloud is her winter name, she still has her full winter fur, it’s AMAZING to touch!) was a bit out of it for a day and picked at her belly for days (the vet said we should put her belly into a big mutilated sock. I wonder if they ever saw a cat… Caroline is a gentle, lovely soul normally - don’t ask the nearby rodent population though - but she was NOT cooperative there).
And it will be 3 days since my ankle sprain so I expect to be near fully healed. It’s not a bad one and I am not patient when it’s about my mobility.
@Karen13, nice looking bacon!!! Yum. Crunch.
How pink meatloaf… It happens when one forgo all that paprika and black pepper I used?
Yeah it does look pink in that photo, it wasn’t as pink as that in reality and it was definitely cooked right through. It was so easy to throw together but not quite as quick as a good steak thrown in the fry pan lol. It made a change and a change is as good as a rest … so they say 
