Hello everyone! I went to shopping, almost died from the heat but we only visited 2 supermarkets (well one was a hypermarket, my usual that works so well for meat… they got even more hyper, they sell second-hand clothes now… what.) and have sooooooooooo many things to talk about!
I had problems with locating the tinned fish so I still don’t have sardines or sprats or even info about them. I longingly looked at some pickled fish but they are full with sugar AND some oldschool sweeneter (it doesn’t matter to me if it’s oldschool or not, I hate them all except sugar alcohols. of course, even the latter shouldn’t touch my meats under normal circumstances) since AGES. Sigh. They do it with pickled vegs too but I don’t care about that.
But we bought a little catfish 
We have no idea how to make it yet, maybe we just fry it. How to make the most from a tiny amount without introducing plants?
It won’t be as great as smoked mackerel as that is just super awesome and this is fresh fish but I don’t even remember to eat catfish, surely I did at some point but it was eons ago and I can’t remember anything let alone the taste.
I looked at the prices in the huge meat part of the hypermarket (it’s an Auchan. IDK where they are in the world but we have Auchan and Tesco here as hypermarkets. Tesco has small supermarkets too. well smaller than the hypermarket, it’s bigger than most supermarkets). So I know more than before. And there were nice sales as always
So. We have the cheap meats here, chicken, turkey, pork. Hake is here but it’s more tasteless than cheap chicken…
After some gap there come the cheaper ruminants, beef leg, deer, whatever. Rabbit too I think. Some fish are here, at least on sale.
We can double or triple or quadruple this and we are still in this ruminant and fancier fish territory. Crab would be here if we had that (it’s possible to find some, somewhere but I didn’t see any now, it isn’t kept in the main meat fridges)… And duck and goose is here too especially the fatty livers of them. Veal starts super high, 7 times the pork I normally eat.
The most expensive I saw was some fancy steak and smoked fish, probably red tuna. Maybe sturgeon too?
I bought something cheap for a ruminant, fortunately there were some lovely tempting options 
I found a little beef in the -50% section and we will try something NEW!!! Mouflon I never saw mouflon meat on sale! And I don’t even see the animals, only Alvaro does as he often goes through the wildlife part before 6am. I am lucky to see some wild piglets during the day, it’s super rare too but mouflons? Nope, never. I often see deers though, they are so many and everywhere and they aren’t THAT shy.
The little mouflon meat packet was labeled ragout and they are right, I probably should make a ragout soup from it. IDK if ragout soup is a thing elsewhere, it is in Hungary and I like it but never made it. Actually considered trying it lately. It clearly doesn’t need plants or maybe just a tad? Meat, water, some dairy (sour cream is a normal for a ragout soup according to my almost zero experiences but I liked that. surely cream would work nicely too), vinegar, spices and herbs should be enough. That fits my carnivore-ish nicely.
But we will see.
I visited the HUGE dairy section of Auchan too… They have many meters for fruit yogurt alone… It doesn’t mean I found more than ONE whipping cream there. The whole “cream and pitiful substitutuions” section is small but half of it is plant based and half of it is 10-20%. I totally remember them keeping 2-3 different whipping creams there last time 
BUT! The one I found was 35% fat! You may not now what it means. I NEVER ever ever ever saw anything above 30% here. The companies do their best to stay as low as they can because of profit, even some “whipping creams” can’t be whipped as they aren’t actually 30%.
And now we have 35%. Wow. I don’t even need this but still 
Prices are interesting. I have memories 1-2 years ago (I am so bad with time… maybe 2).
The price doubled, no surprise there BUT even the 10-20% creams has as expensive as the 30% ones. They were way cheaper before… The 35% costed the same as the 10% stuff and no idea what the plant-based things too, they probably can pull it off cheaper BUT the fanciest ones don’t. Oh I saw margarine more expensive than the butter I bought… But usually margarine is way cheaper. And now so many brands have “with butter” versions. Isn’t is pathetic, bragging about containing BUTTER when it’s margarine, it has the feeling that “butter is so much tastier but still buy us pretty please? I throw in a little butter, okay?”. Maybe I see it wrong but it’s such a weird vibe if you ask me. And I am an experienced one who knows that a good stuff mixed with a bad stuff makes a bad stuff, it works even for taste alone.
But let’s talk about nicer things.
I can pack wonderfully if I am motivated. And I am that if it’s about putting all my meat into the freezer (except the part we will eat soon. another big roast is coming and we will eat catfish ~. and the sausages and pork belly. the hypermarket had dozens of different grill sausages and I was braved and bought multiple kinds of a cheap one. but I never was particularly disappointed before and the total amount isn’t big. it’s just a little variety, it’s nice to have some easy to eat fun processed stuff if I end up eating my normal meat and it’s not enough. oh I didn’t look at the ingredients… the dry sausage was somewhat expensive but it’s my fav, 150g meat was used for 100g and it has NO dextrose. It’s remarkable these days though my way cheaper, still good, softer sausage has no added sugar either if I remember correctly. sausages are easy to find without added sugar, other processed meat items are trickier).
So. Now I have:
- 4.8kg pork chuck (it was on sale. tiny difference but still good).
- 1.5kg pork ham/butts (+1.7kg that I will roast today). oh and 910g “fried”, more like cooked as the first part of frying is that, it releases a lot of water and I keep the lid on. so it’s all pale but it will be little time to fry into perfection when the need arises!
- about 2kg, probably a bit more 70/30 pork, great to make lard and those lovely fatty crunchy bites I like and had today.
- 2 turkey legs (the lower leg part, it’s only 900g but it’s a nice variety, I don’t use it as a staple. it’s maybe 400g meat per person, always forget how heavy is the bone… definitely not enough for a meal for me, fowls aren’t substantial enough. but I like turkey, it’s cheap and tasty and adds variety)
- a lovely rabbit!
- 2x500g chicken liver
- 2 soft sausages, the kind I love, a bit too fatty but that’s what my 6:3 sponge cakes are for (6 egg whites and 3 yolks for 12 muffins, good along with some too fatty/salty/rich food)
- 500g mouflon (yeah, it’s tiny but still :D)
We even bought 30 eggs on the way home (Alvaro checked all the zillions of different kinds of eggs in Auchan and they either had the wrong code or nothing at all on them). Not many but I barely use a few a day now.
Of course we bought dairy and I have 3 packets of grill sausage and my lovely expensive dry sausage, enough for a month with my eating speed (I would eat it slower but it would spoil. actually I don’t know if it lasts for a month when opening the package. it’s very dry and not the worst quality either so it has chances? even my softer, cheaper one lasts for weeks every time. normal, dry sausages are supposed to last long, they had to survive almost a year when people made them for themselves in the ancient times… one month is nothing. just for these modern things in a fridge. I don’t even have a pantry. my Grandma had no bathroom, not even water on the property, the house actually lowered the value of the land it was on but she had a small pantry maybe I can have a pantry cupboard one day, hard to find the corner for it but possible. not like I really miss a pantry but it’s a thing one should have if you ask me).
So… I feel pretty much stocked I have some tinned fish too.
Finally I stopped my eating all day. I started after 2pm (not considering the tiny milk in my coffee in the morning. it’s a comfort thing for my throat and soul or something). I had my leftover fatty pork bites (yum. not much as I ended up having some at night. I was hungry. it’s my new, sickness hunger… it deserves a better need. so, when I totally don’t focus on food, I am busy with other things but some hunger still reaches me in its distant surreal way. it’s a new type of hunger for me and I already had quite a few) and 2 eggs and my tiny leftover broth. Some sponge cakes. And I just run out of things to eat and I wasn’t so hungry so I just had an eggy coffee. I stop the coffee when I fully heal. I am sure it’s my last day.
Now I should focus on something else, food was too much on my mind today but it was our big city shopping and I got excited too.
Oh forgot to say that if some marinade touches some meat slices, it immediately doubles the price while lowering the meat content and adding sugar and whatnots to it. Soooo not worth it. Chicken thighs become higher priced than deer hamburgers (oh yep we have them now, just the patties. but the mouflon was called “ragou” too and it’s only the meat… maybe it’s a thing now).
We took back the piggie, got Italian things from Alvaro’s Mom (and I got a book of minerals with many pics, yay! I love minerals. fossils are mentioned too)… I really don’t know why she gives us 400g candy packs (no fat or protein, just carbs and water)… But then Alvaro promptly consumed half of it (then run to brush his teeth)… Wow. He has abilities… He hates added sugar and wouldn’t use it but eats it in gifts. Quickly. Before a nap. Oh well, he will use it up later.
But I didn’t want to talk about that or the other, slightly better candy (as it has other macros too) but the thing I tasted. Not carnivore but not bad for me, cheese filled pickled capsicum in olive oil. It was so nice (I ate the runt of the bunch, it was spicy so it was enough for me), I will help him to eat it before I can wrap this odd time before some almost pure carnivore. I have no big problems with my diet right now, it’s nicely low-carb, all my normal meals are carnivore with very very tiny extras added to my day, my body has no complaints but it’s still not as good as it could be. I just had circumstances but they won’t last more than maybe a day now.
I LOVE smoked taste! Oh and I forgot but we found 2 different smoked cheese! It’s exciting, sometimes our food just calls for smoked cheese and it’s sad not to have it.
Alvaro’s cheesy whipped egg white muffins (it’s such a mouthful when the dish has no proper name and I even try to say it in English in an informative way) used to have smoked cheese but when they got too expensive or the cheaper one changed for the worse, we started to using our cheap, not smoked cheese (Gouda. it’s actually not a cheap item but for cheese, it is. prices do odd things. slightly aged Gouda costed almost the same as newer Gouda but then it suddenly got WAY more expensive. so cheese being on the same price level travelled far from each other. and Gouda works just fine but a smoked cheese still have its roles). It worked but I am sure it will be nice to make it with smoked cheese again.
brand new, still wrapped in bubble wrap, she bid £4 and won it! She didn’t measure it though before bidding and when she thought it might be a good idea to do so she found she had already won the bid 
too excited, surrounded by the foods ya want in your home and SO many options, yea I been there.