But it’s not for a single meal 
I plan to make new scotch eggs but not from the pork in the local shop…
(I still have a half… I take a little break after I eat it tomorrow. I want a roast again. I always eat them in proper amount, at least on the first 2 days!)
All Animal April
Shinita
#101
Septimius
#102
The UK currently has it too - I had a letter from DEFRA the other week about it, and all of the eggs here now have to be labelled barn eggs because the birds aren’t allowed to roam free (as I always buy free range).
The awful practices here in the 80s meant that you couldn’t have eaten carnivore safely back then - it really did seem like one thing after another. I didn’t eat beef at all as a consequence, and continued to abstain until my late 20s.
No wonder I have eaten so much steak in the last 18 months. My body is evidently making up for lost time.
Ketodaisy
(Daisy)
#103
omad sorta 
: had an appetizer of bone broth jello. Then I made burger patties and beef bacon with raw beef suet. About 25 minutes later, I was still hungry, so I made a small ribeye. My daughter had a track meet after school (over an hour away), so spent most the evening there. They changed her event last minute so she was one of the first events. We stayed for about an hour after for support, then ducked out before the rain got too bad!
Shinita
#104
I slept very little (stupid wrong call in early morning when I went to bed 3 hours earlier… I can’t sleep back easily anymore), maybe that’s why I already ate 2 eggs at noon. My early meals are super tiny but enough. I feel much better. And still in love with scrambled eggs, I don’t even understand, this is a long phase.
Pie is meowing and is confused… It will be so good to get this whole desexing stuff over with… Poor cat. I can’t even imagine not drinking for almost a day… I know it’s no big deal under normal circumstances but I am a super thirsty type and “no drinking” immediately makes me want to drink a ton… And when I don’t drink for 4-5 hours in the evening, even drinking doesn’t always help immediately, it’s a bad feeling. Never had to keep from drinking in my life, fortunately.
But she is a cat so she naps a lot. It will be fine. It’s STILL a burden on me, I am too empathetic, it interferes with my hedonism.
But we will be fine. I hope. It’s a young cat so it’s close to 100% she will wake up and will be fine in no time, right? Right. And then she cops all the benefits. First of all, soft food in aspic, she loves it to bits, it was her last meal last night too, it even has a big water content so if she didn’t drink right after, she still will be fine. My cats drink extremely much. Cats are allegedly bad drinkers… Not these. ALL drinks a ton, I need to refill the bowl every day and they have 2 bowls outside too (stupid dog often comes and drinks it… it’s a free range dog - not stray, we know the owner - and we lack fences. probably young as almost acts like a pup).
JJFiddle
(Judy Thompson)
#105
Whew, so much reading! That will teach me to miss a day in here. Virginia is always so busy for me, life is just not as simple even though I have the same amount to do. Monday and Tuesday teaching online days keep me busy but walking the dog as opposed to just letting her out on the land in TX, also time consuming. In TX we don’t go anywhere most days, just go to town once a week - but here everything is nearby so we end up going out more for errands, meals, appointments. And here, there are so many people who want to get together. But we’re both surprised that it’s nice to be back and our little house is comfy and intimate. And the TV is on all day! In Texas we watch 1 show a day.
@Naghite THANK YOU for the pork belly recipe! I tucked it into notes on the phone and will probably do it in June when we’re back in Texas. I have a big smoker there, I’ll try that too. Bye bye commercial bacon, yippee!
@Shinita first, good luck to your kitty on her surgery. It’s a big deal! Secondly, how do you make the egg powder? I’ve bought it but of course I didn’t bring it. I have a dehydrator here though.
@Fangs Bird flu! I had that in Jan 2018, it was a pretty rough one. You get it from eating infected chicken? I guess I never thought about how I got it. I heard it was on the rise now. Tysons. I’ll avoid it.
Having gotten back Saturday night, I’ve hit the store once for minor stuff and dog food ingredients but we’re running out and I need to go to the commissary on the base to get my good prices and better meat. When will that be? This week is full of appointments including taxes which means also doing them… Guess a rotisserie chicken will have to do for today. Maybe Friday afternoon… Ugh, traffic.
The last of the scotch eggs I made in Texas had harder yolks and I wasn’t looking forward to them but with ghee and salt, microwaved for a minute they were quite yummy. I can see keeping these around for a snack.
Monday afternoon I fed hubby but had a hankering for some raw hamburger, so just grabbed half a lb of grass fed burger and flopped it into a bowl, put salt in another bowl and dipped it at the table while we watched a movie. My first non-sinky tartare! 
I finally came out. Proud of myself.
Lastnight hubby’s assembling his crackers and peanut butter (how do you white that out, I love that) and I grabbed the rest of the lb of hamburger, the last of my cooked travel bacon and the last 3 eggs and threw them in the electric pan. A far better “snack” than his! Lol
Lastnight, a student’s mom stepped into his camera and said, “Judy, you look fantastic! I think getting away from here has been good for you.” Later hubby said, why didn’t you tell her it’s because you’ve been eating raw hamburger for the last 6 months?
Fangs
#106
Love this!!! You are now like living 2 worlds and 2 lifestyles with the big diff. between TX and VA Glad you are enjoying your home tho.
ya know peanut butter is like a staple in every home in the entire world and I never buy it ever. No one in my home likes peanut butter LOL
---------------loved reading posts.
fast one tho, errands to handle and this and that. But never got to my crab legs yesterday and it seems today I won’t get to them.
came home later in the day and thougth I AIN’T messing with those legs, I AM so hungry. Did a super fast fry of 3/4 lb. burger with melty cheese and that stuck well with me and then I finished off some fatty pork ribs I had in the fridge. Done deal.
This morning tho woke up hungry. Ain’t got time but when I get home I will fast fry 2 big chicken breasts and reheat a burger a tad (will be a sinky eat while I get that chick into the fry pan fast) …good meal…then dinner? no idea just yet or if I will even want it.
But tomorrow, maybe? maybe? I can sit down and crack crab legs and enjoy my overly expensive treat? We shall see LOL
near 80s today, omg love it so come on and get into the 90s fast!!!
chat up later, gotta get moving and do all the crap I gotta do LOL
Carnivore strong in April for all!
FrankoBear
#107
I was wondering about the body’s counter mechanisms against conscious healthy changes. The obvious one that people know is the weight loss plateau, or the body weight rebound.
If we become too set in a routine then our body adapts, as well as our micro biome adapts. Then we can hit a frustrating plateau. I think it’s handy to know oneself. And by that I mean knowing one’s bio markers. For example, if a person observes they are in a weight loss plateau, not to focus on that single measure. But opt to triangulate with other known measures. The obvious one is clothes fit, or height to waist ratio. Often a weight plateau is accompanied by fitting in to smaller sized clothes.
Another bio marker I find handy is motivation to be physically active. I find the deeper I am in nutritional ketosis the more I want to get up and move. Again, take the big “Neil Armstrong” step off the body weight scales and “triangulate”, as engineers say, using other bio markers, or measures.
I’m staying on plan. The COVID epidemic remains at its height in the city. The autumn weather is sunny and the most perfect weather imaginable. So, I can’t sit still at my computer. NoFun, 2MAD, 2 coffees a few hours apart. Egg and bacon breakfasts. Beef dinners. Rarely some cheese. Some seafood. OMAD 2 days per week. My instincts are to vary the carnivore foods a bit. But for now, I’m still a bit gut reactive from last Friday’s processed food mistake. Gut reaction is a bit of 3am GERD, and the kaleidoscope tour of abdominal aches. No “Big D”.
Billie the Labrador turned 2 years old. A surfing friend of mine died too young today of kidney cancer. It wasn’t a shock. We knew it was coming and took some time last month for farewells and saying what needed to be said. And a meaningful hug. He was a smoker and a vegetarian and belligerent. He didn’t like seeing doctors and didn’t take their advice anyway. He was 65 years old.
Karen18
(Karen)
#108
Oh yes i know about the free range eggs , my friend rang me up the other day just to tell me because he knows I generally buy those but there doesn’t appear to have been a shortage like our overseas friends are getting xx anyway i have been buying the extra large eggs in Lidle as they are really nice and I get quite a few double yolks which is an added bonus 
Fangs
#109
so sorry for your loss of your friend.
but that would be me also! I am very much like your friend in that I would fight tooth and nail til the options ran out and then I would exit in dignity and grace and go to that next plane as natural life intends for all of us. It is ok to leave this world if we can do it on our terms thru our personal life, there is never anything wrong with just that. It shows character and strength of knowledge of what ‘real life’ is all about, well it does to me personally! No one wants to go there but everyone goes there thru life but at the same point, living life daily on one own terms and being cool with that is priceless and a life well lived! (this is really just my personal opinion and thoughts on it. I know others will vary)
Billie is 2! I remember the PUP PICS!!! Ahh
Karen18
(Karen)
#110
@JJFiddle when I was on Keto for those few months prior to moving on to carnivore I used to make my own peanut butter. Riskee lol far too moreish. I just used to shell some peanuts and chuck them in my nutrabullet and yay perfect peanut butter with absolutely no additives. I would sometimes use almonds but they were a lot drier so had to add coconut oil. As i said far too moreish especially for those of us who have an addictive nature like moi! Haven’t hankered after any of that stuff since going carnivore though thankfully.
@FrankoBear so sorry to hear about your friend passing. So glad you manage to leave nothing unsaid. Lovely photo again x
@Fangs please stop teasing us with your fast rising temps … I have my fleecy fur lined jacket on over the top of my nice warm jumper and t shirt today… and I feel blessed with 10° and wind chill today
Horrid tossy turny night, legs in legs out again and about 6 trips to the loo 🥱🥱🥱
100 stair flights run when I got up and could feel the achy quads from all the squats yesterday. Occupational therapist rang me this morning for 6 monthly review of how I am since stroke with plenty questions then went to pick up Raymond and took him to the cafe for breakfast. Then I went off and did his shopping before collecting the car from car park, picking him up and driving him to his hospital appt. I am now sitting in the car waiting for him. I will treat it as a rest and catch up all the carnie posts time! Hahah
Not stressing and seem to be managing the stress pretty well these days.
Breakfast at the cafe was doable. 2 fried eggs 2 rashers of bacon and 2 cheapo sausages. Eggs and bacon were okay and only had the sausages to fill me, may regret them later. As you can see in photo they don’t look too handy!
The OT caught me in the middle of dead heading but the very first of my bulbs is opening 
i planted late autumn so wasn’t expecting them to come up any sooner and I also probably buried them too deep… my first attempt but voila a beautiful tulip beginning to open … gives hope 
Fangs
#111
so pretty on bulbs.
my kiddo wants to plant like 20 Glads and I know they take work to ‘keep them up’ so we are making the bed against the horse pasture fence and we can then rope them to standing. Should be inpressive display if it all works for her like she wants
I AM SUCH a flower person, with allergies, but the colors and designs of them make them such a plus to life! I wanna choke them and adore them totally at the same time, ha
Karen18
(Karen)
#112
@Fangs there are an awful lot of beautiful plants that don’t cause hay-fever. Its only the plants where the pollen floats into air but there are lots where the pollen drops, I think because it is heavier so it won’t effect any allergies. I watched a lot of garden rescue and a few of the gardens were for people with hay-fever who couldn’t sit out amongst the pretties cos of their allergies.
Never knew dead heading could be therapeutic lol as soon as I got home later this afternoon I was out there to finish what I started this morning. Weather is quite changeable at the moment. It’s calm now but a few minutes ago it was dead windy and my palm was rattling against the kitchen window. Cant wait for sitting out weather again. I am really missing my quiet times out there. Mind you kids are off school for 2 weeks so it isn’t quite so quiet.
Soon as I got home I had yo yuck into a couple of slices of the pork/egg meatloaf and it was tasty, in fact I think it tasted better than it did yesterday! While I was eating that I had my home spiced chicken wings in the oven. So easy having already portion packaged and ready spiced them. Nice to know what is going in them instead of buying them already prepped with all those added stabilisers and colourings etc. I think they were spiced with the unknown spice but they were flippin delish and I will enjoy them again. I have another 3 portion packs in the freezer.yum. I think I counted 6 or 7 wings and they were reasonably big too, bigger than the prepped shop bought ones. All round better tasteeeee!
Shinita
#113
@JJFiddle: I have not much experience yet but I just dry out and ground some of my sponge cake muffins… They produce very little but I use very little… I make it again tomorrow, today I made sponge cakes again. After all the PSMF things I am back to eating them proper, using all the yolks. Nice.
@Karen18: Pretty tulip, mine aren’t early, aren’t late (my plan to get some more that blooms later, I always envy a bit a garden with late tulips and very pretty ones!), they will start soon but not yet… I have grape hyacinths now My magnolia tree is almost blooming too.
Hi guys, Pie will be well, I am super tired and had to wait forever to eat my turkey, finally. It felt so, so, so amazing. Until then I ate eggs, leftover half scotch egg, little dry sausage and in the late afternoon, quark.
We spent a bit below $11 in HUF in the supermarket, got about 8 pounds of meat as I bought nice cheap stuff and a little quark. I am very pleased, they even had the turkey wings again (the closest to the torso part. they are so nice, way bigger than a chicken drumstick with a single bone, tender enough, soft… It’s cool if they continue to keep this, I really love it.
I roasted 2 turkey pieces and all the tiny pork thigh piece (2 pounds, I never bought such a little one before. but it’s enough especially if we are right and the meat from there isn’t as good as from the city). So I have plenty to eat tomorrow (though my own, way bigger turkey piece is almost completely disappeared. but I have my pork).
My super eggy phase ended, it seems. That was crazy.
I bring photos tomorrow (flowers and meat alike).
VirginiaEdie
(Edith)
#114
@Karen18, It’s seems to strange to me that your RHR is so low, but you have high blood pressure. In my mind, that logically doesn’t make sense. (Of course, I’m not a doctor.)
Where is Virginia are you? I am in Northern, VA.
I’m sorry to hear your sad news. I found that with my father-in-law, even though we knew it was for the best that he passed on, that didn’t make it easy when he did.
coopdawg
#115
Are you Hungarian my friend?
If I were you, I’d start getting hens to lay as much as possible…you never know what is round the corner,
:-/
Ketodaisy
(Daisy)
#116
I apparently accidentally deleted today’s photos but it was almost identical to yesterday but with 4 bacon burger patties and no ribeye.
JJFiddle
(Judy Thompson)
#118
@FrankoBear so sorry about your friend. What a shock. 65 isn’t old. Nice what @Fangs said about moving on.
@Shinita thanks for mentioning the egg muffin ingredients, I looked up how to make egg powder and I think I’ll try it next week in the dehydrator with some raw eggs, 12 hours at 150°. Hubby liked the loaf of psmf bread I made in January. I’m glad I wouldn’t have to make it low fat anymore and can use whole eggs.
We went to the mall this afternoon and had hamburgers. I was pleasantly surprised that a bunless bacon cheeseburger hit the spot.
Back at home tonight, I broke out the last food in the house, a small pkg of aged grass-fed cheddar.
I wrapped dog food for the freezer and listened to a Dr Chaffee podcast about having babies while carnivore, and the babies developed larger and much more quickly, were born early and then walked at 4 or 5 months. Goodness.
With my son I was vegetarian, with my daughter I ate SAD. They were about the same, same (high) weight, both very low blood sugar at birth, 6 years apart. It would be interesting to see the result of a carnivore pregnancy.
Shinita
#119
Yep, I am Hungarian, living in Hungary Even all my anchestors I know about lived here especially from my Mom’s side as they were peasants with some super precious land with high quality soil in an eastern village of Hungary.
My life hardly can get worse at this point (okay it could but I don’t believe in such things) but I CAN’T keep hens. My tiny property is a big slope completely filled by trees. I don’t even have place for a garage. Elevation is pretty serious, I have stairs everywhere. I have a few flat places, there is where raspberries and tiny veggie gardens are. And many trees. Theoretically I could sacrifice my bigger veggie garden (in the place of the old pool) for a tiny place for hens but they couldn’t have a proper place without lots of fence (even one neighbor and us don’t share one due reasons, we share a well and the blackberries are at the border so we need to go to them to pick from that side) but that would be dangerous too. We would need some more expensive place to keep out raptors, foxes and dogs… It’s work and commitment for long and food for the hens isn’t cheap either, sure they would eat lots of green and whatever little animals they could find but they would need a lot of feeding still… And if I would buy enough to give me enough eggs when it’s top productivity, I would need to buy eggs in a big part of a year I imagine especially when they stop due to heat or something (there was one such year, I couldn’t buy eggs as the hens everywhere didn’t lay eggs, only extremely few. winter never was a problem, interestingly but Mom said autumn eggs spoil less quickly anyway).
I rather do something way more productive with that time, that should bring way more money if I stop being the loser I am lately.
I thought about keeping hens before, it has nice great moments and anyway… But I see the cons and I really don’t have even place for them.
@FrankoBear: Sorry for your friend 
I never find some proper, meaningful words in times like this…
@JJFiddle: Oh whole eggs tastes so much better! Even so, I liked my egg white experiments. As long as I don’t really mix anything in, it’s firm enough, not deflating and perfectly white inside… Too bad it’s just fried whipped egg white I try to figure out to combine the too, I don’t need a huge taste for something I eat with very flavorful and fatty meat or salmon spread , I go for some great texture… But it needs more work especially if I want to keep it carnivore. At least mostly. I won’t put a ton of fibers into it for sure. So now comes my use of MORE egg powder. Even if it’s more work. Grinding up my precious not firm sponge cakes instead of eating them with sausage slices… Oh well, I have many of them
I cook or dehydrate NOTHING for 12 hours, that’s where my patience run out even if I don’t need to do anything I have a dehydrator I never really use anymore (last week I made some dried fruit sheet from some leftover canned fruit, raw vegans would cry ) but my new mini oven can go to… Never figured out how many Celsius, its first number is 90 but it has a LOT of space between that and the minimum. I use the unknown temp at 3 o’clock (90 is at 5?) to dry walnuts. But that only needs a little time, drying out wet stuff happens in my dehydrator, it blows air in all the time, that surely helps… If I don’t care about raw things, I can use its highest temp, 68C. lowest is 35 but 40 is still okay for the raw vegans, I always used that except in the beginning when the wet stuff handles more… I bought the dehydrator in my slightly raw vegan phase. I made some raw vegan dishes and they were cool. No idea how anyone can get satiated on that diet though. I need, like, food for that. Proper and much. And some nuts just won’t cut it. There was a… erm, raw vegan frikadeller, does this help? I miss the Hungarian word. I made the lil balls, they were great and ate all the batch. Raw vegan blogger said they are super filling and their family ate it for days. Sure. It was a cute appetizer with almost no calories (from my viewpoint).
Certain food bloggers have these “oh my big heavy physical worker husband could eat only 2 from this almost no-cal, no-volume thingie and he got full” things. It’s usually a bit subtler but I truly saw the above as well. They NEVER worked for me, not surprisingly. I need lots of calories, protein and fat. Even more if carbs are involved, at least plant and maybe dairy carbs. And my family members are the same, they need a proper amount of food. There is no magic involving fibers and water and coconut flour and who knows that. Anyway, a smart body realizes the lack of nutrients.
But maybe it’s part of some dieter self-brainwashing? I dunno but the biggest raw vegan blogger in Hungary didn’t need dieting… And she ate plenty of fat, of course but not THAT much. And anyway, fat doesn’t satiate me, I need my precious protein and lots of it and with the right amino acid profile…
Erm sorry I got carried away.
Next time I will be more careful.
Shinita
#120
But isn’t the meatloaf a bit boring without spices? Or did you use some, sorry, it would take forever to go back to see what it may contain and I don’t remember. I don’t even read every word anymore, these threads became mosters (sorry for my contribution, I try to change. still will write a lot but in less words, maybe?).
Ours are always heavily spiced, very much paprika, pepper, even garlic that I omit but normally it’s a very important part… I never ate them pale.
Really good, tasty meat could help though I suppose… But I am very used to our spiced things so maybe not enough for me. It’s always interesting to me that I heavily spice my frikadellers/Stefanias/scotch eggs (well the meat I bought last time needed it) while I strongly prefer my roasts with salt only and definitely nothing else. Except for fowls, maybe.