Any use for a blender?

#41

My go-to recipe is basically:
~1.5 cups of water/ice and some heavy cream (guess you could use a bit of almond or even dairy milk if you do that stuff),
little splish of MCT oil (ups the fat and fullness factor, stops the shake from getting too frothy),
a scoop of collagen powder,
1-2 tablespoons of hemp seeds (and optionally a little scoop of pure golden hemp protein if wanted),
flavourings as desired - I tend to just use a shake of vanilla extract and a couple of teaspoons of raw cacao powder or ordinary cocoa, but some ground nuts or nut butters would be nice too,
a tiny bit of sweetener or a few berries might be needed for some folks’ tastes - I don’t like my protein smoothies very sweet, prefer the nuttiness of hemp,
a spoon or two of acacia might be useful if extra fibre is wanted.

Blend away with a stick blender!

I’m following this thread with a little interest, as I too have a completely new and unused bullet blender just sitting in my pantry for ages, that I don’t know what the hell to do with. I was thinking of simply taking it into the office and leaving it in the kitchen in case anyone wants to make smoothies or fancy drinkies in the summer. Or nick off with it, I don’t care. I can’t see that it will do anything that my beloved stick blender (which has a number of other useful attachments like a whisk and blade too) can’t do just as well.

#42

follow your heart path on this one.

real fresh normal from the earth food never requires ‘processing’ in a blender :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

now if more ‘Chef type’ and ya want blitz’d rinds for coating or ya want protein shakes to drink vs. just eating real meals then???

who are ya NOW? I know I am a minimalist type and I am ‘never a chef and hate cooking in the kitchen type’ so I am jaded on this one. Send it on its way to one who wants it. Clean out the kitchen to suit your eating needs now ya know. AND IF in the future you wanna blitz some rinds, plastic bag and a hammer. Believe me that works to pulverize just the same as that gadget sucking power and space from your kitchen HAHA

do you on what ya think best. I gave you my personal info on how I roll, now find how you roll and go for it as you need!!! :100:

#43

It’s the same here in Hungary except when it’s unusually hot, they truly stop then. We used to get all of our eggs (about 70 a week) from a single house, now it’s not enough (the egg lady says feed became too expensive, I wonder if the huge rise in egg price solved it… maybe not. she seems to focus on raising more rabbits, that’s a fine protein source too, I just can’t live without my beloved eggs) but we got them all year round (I had this with all of our egg sources). Good as my body wants the same food and amounts all year round too and it seems my SO is the same.

Egg size is about 63g each, I always get that size from everywhere so I consider it normal size. Of course there is variation, 45g and 76g happens… But almost all are about 52g without shell and 63g or a bit less with shell.

#44

same here in the UK. A friend at work keeps 3000 chickens. His chicken feed has almost doubled in price over the last 3 years

#45

That’s still an adorable inflation in my eyes, so many of my very basic items doubled their price or more in the last year here… Every shopping is a shock.
I just don’t understand why pork didn’t do that yet. We even had a serious drought this year and it obviously affected crops… People start to realize plants don’t grow without water… It seems this realization comes later in Hungary :frowning: Hopefully they change their ways as our climate change won’t go back.

#46

I feel for him.
about 10 yrs ago my ton of feed for my Boer goats doubled and the ton of chicken feed doubled and my ton of hog chow doubled. We got farm sticker shock like no tomorrow and it was overnight these prices jacked. That is about when we decided to cut down the goat herd and get out of that biz and just keep the layers and hogs. A ton of chow was like 180 or ? if I can remember right and then it doubled and we truly were shocked since we went thru tons of this stuff very fast :slight_smile: I can’t even imagine the cost of what it is per ton right now…bet it will knock your socks off. I am happy we are out of the farm biz now. All business are sure getting slapped and then sending on the jacked prices straight to us…yikes.

(Allie) #47

I’ve had to change the feed my bids have to a much cheaper type as I get through four sacks a month.

#48

Ended up using the blender quote a lot this weekend.
Having a skirt eating window I’ve struggled to get my calories in but this shake has saved me.

First I used ice, I’ve nicer done that before but gives a really nice texture.

Ice,
Almond milk
Chocolate protein powder
1 large egg
20g of frozen fruit
Teaspoon of almond butter
1/4 -1/2 avacado

Double cream if needed.

I have been making it total 500 cals with 33g protein and 33g fat and about 10g of carbs, 4g of which are sugar.
So not 100% ideal, but I can buy better ingredients over the next few weeks and get the carbs down

(Bob M) #49

We pay for 2 chickens every 2 weeks for a number of weeks in a row, 10 chickens. The price has gone from $150 to $175. I bet that’s the cost of feed.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #50

And here I had no idea skirts were keto! The things one learns . . . :grin: