Am I the only Ketoer that rarely eats bacon?

(Jane Srygley) #21

I am not cool with nitrites/nitrates and I don’t eat pork. If I eat turkey bacon, it’s organic and nitrite/ate free.

(David Cooke) #22

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    June 19

Can you explain this more? What cut of pork? Does the butcher cut it to slices for you?

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    June 19

We buy 2 -3 Kg of pork a month which I then turn into bacon. Just use table salt according to the traditional recipe. I stopped roasting it in the oven or smoking it long ago, 5 to 10 days in the fridge, turning once a day.For those that don’t like chewing on fat directly you can take pork loin… tha…

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(David Cooke) #23

I got my info using google, you can too. My first try was unnecessarily complicated, using 6 ingredientss, I now just use salt, no pink salt.
Use whatever cut you like, I use pork loin.
I learnt to sharpen knives and cut every morning.

#24

Turkey bacon is organic? :joy: i know, i know, just a little bad joke :wink:

(Ethan) #25

I don’t eat pork–so I don’t eat bacon.

(Bob M) #26

I usually eat low fat ham (gotta get one with low sugar) instead. I will have bacon if my wife happens to make some while I’m eating. Otherwise, I’ve switched to lower fat meats in general.

And there are more nitrates in plants than bacon.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #27

There isn’t a significant difference between regular bacon and “uncured” bacon. They both contain nitrate salts. The only difference is that the uncured bacon gets it’s nitrate from celery instead of a nitrate salt, either mined or manufactured. It’s still cured but food laws don’t allow food that doesn’t contain actual nitrate salts to be called cured. Two ribs of celery (healthy right?) contains 100x’s of times more nitrate than a whole pound of bacon. Vegetables naturally contain nitrates, a vital part of our body’s required chemical make up and they are crucial to many of our bodily functions. They are actually manufactured in your body if you’re healthy. The cure for a heart attack is a nitric oxide pill. We breathe a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen and need both although oxygen is the less of the mixture we cannot breathe pure oxygen. Our body’s cannot function without nitrates, it could even be considered an essential nutrient or at least a compound that’s essential for your biological function :grin:.

The whole “nitrates are bad” is right in there with saturated fats, salt, MSG, and the cholesterol-cancer myths surrounding those foods. The evidence that these are bad was bad science based on weak evidence. If you really are afraid of eating nitrates you had better give up most vegetables and stick with a carnivore WOE without anything but fresh meat, which will also has some nitrate because of the biological functions of the animal you are eating.

And if you want to talk MSG for a moment there’s no such thing as a glutamate salt allergy, the whole MSG scare was a racist slur against the Chinese started in the 60’s by an ignorant NYC doctor who wrote an article for the NYT based on total anecdotal speculation, no scientific studies at all. If you think you have an MSG allergy and were eating just about anything you buy in a grocery store you have been eating boatloads of the MSG, here’s a list of the names that are used in the food industry to hide the “wicked MSG” content in food from you.

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As you can see there is MSG in Campbell’s Soup, canned chili, spice mixes, Doritos, Flavored Potato Chips, sausages, etc. not to mention the naturally occurring glutamates in meat, eggs, cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes, beets, seaweed and seafood, and many more “natural” foods that people who claim to have MSG allergies eat regularly without any reactions. I would challenge anyone who claims to have an MSG allergy to go in a grocery store and look at any savory food or snack they’ve eaten and not find something from this list in a food that have been consuming for years without a reaction.

Sorry about the rant, but knowledge is power and it’s time to consider the truth instead of weak science like LFHC being healthy. If nitrates caused colon cancer we’d all have it, and if people were really sensitive to glutamic salts (sodium and glutamic acid , an essential amino acid) they would get a reaction from most foods natural or processed. :cowboy_hat_face:

(Jane Srygley) #28

Yes Wegmans sells organic turkey bacon made from thigh meat. It’s actually pretty good.

#29

Seriously, I have only ever heard wonderful things about that grocery store and this just adds another :blush:

#30

I haven’t read any of the comments above, but just wanted to say when you DO cook bacon, DON’T FORGET TO SAVE YOUR BACON GREASE, PEOPLE! Strain it, put it in a jar and keep it in your fridge! Cook your veggies in it! Make baconnaise! If you’re not going to use it, give it to an elderly neighbour! Ship it to me! :bacon:

#31

When you see a recipe that calls for pork rinds that you otherwise like, what is the first thing you think of to substitute for it? Trying to find a crispy substitue to suggest to a friend that doesn’t eat pork.

(charlie3) #32

I love bacon but stopped buying because it’s not filling enough.

(Ethan) #33

My son of substitutes almond flour. As a carnivore now, I don’t use ingredients

(Shayne) #34

Thank you!!! I was thinking it but didn’t want to take the time to type it up and now I don’t have to!

(Shayne) #35

Me, too… as I was painfully reminded this weekend. :hot_face:

(Full Metal KETO AF) #36

Try this kind, you can slice it really thick and cook it without loosing all the fat to the pan. Super filling.

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Six pounds fresh out of the sousvide bath yesterday. I froze two for later pre cooked. :cowboy_hat_face:

(Bob M) #37

My problem is that fat is less filling than protein. I can eat a ton of bacon and still not be full. By contrast, higher protein fills me up. I know this is heresy, but there you go.

(Susan) #38

I think by now we have all figured out that everyone is different, and our bodies all lose weight, lose fat, build muscle, etc. different ways, so whatever works for you, and is Keto, then that is great =)

#39

I find myself making it a little more often after doing this for 5 months, but it doesn’t do much for me either. (And by more often I mean having it with a meal once every two or three weeks instead of almost never.) I do enjoy eggs though!

#40

Don’t worry about the nitrates so much. The no nitrate stuff is actually a bit of sleight of hand. Dr Berry on youtube has a good video on this if you have a few minutes. https://youtu.be/8Ygs2j0v0sU

On topic, I agree with some folks that no particular food is required to be keto. I, however, love bacon and am currently eating it whenever I want to make up for those years I was mislead into thinking it was awful.