I almost panic below 40!
(We have 100 all the time now. The egg lady gives us 40 every week and we eat about that much since I seriously dropped my egg consumption. But I still cling to my eggs. I canāt imagine an egg fast without at least one yolkā¦ How on earth did I do 5 plant-based days several years ago - my personal record and I hardly will do it better. I donāt even know if I had a meatless day since years. probably yes but few and they almost surely werenāt vegetarian ones. I may skip meat extremely rarely but lard? 
- and 1-2 eggless YEARS (the smell turned me off for a while) way before I donāt know.)
My fat fast day plan is ready, it will be lovely, most probably.
I still donāt know why it is called that. But I am clueless about lots of our pork terms tooā¦ Pork belly has the epithet āemperorā, thatās nice, we have āpriest sliceā and āchainā, spare ribs has ātinā (I have just learned it yesterday) and I forgot the rest.
And if itās fowlā¦ Popeās nose is ābishopās biteā for us and I wonder if bishops had an odd taste or people hated bishops. That part goes to the cats, I would never eat it. Well maybe in very serious starvationā¦ Ew. Itās mostly fat. I am not super choosy, I would taste all of @Geezy56ās grilled thingsā¦ Well they seem good stuff (I never ate a kidney I liked though but I only avoid lungs, they were bad while kidneys were meh. never ate testicles but they are allegedly good so I would expect a nice experience and heart is always lovely!). But I have my problems with a few things. I never want to taste tripe either. Animal parts with a low meat content rarely have good chances, maybe with some processing, curing, smoking and the like.
We have folktales where the poor peasant gets the role to distribute one or more chicken among the noble family and himself. He always makes sure he gets the vast majority of the meat but he explains why Like the head of the household gets the head, the girls get the legs to be able to dance betterā¦etc. When there are 5 chickens, things are better, every group will contain 3 persons+animals, 2 nobles with one chicken and the peasant with 2ā¦ Our folktales often are about peasants outsmarting nobles and especially devils. (I donāt think the devils are so stupid.) But sometimes they just kill innocent witches, giants and dragons, I was pissed off because of that. I am a dragon, after all. Itās still my year. It doesnāt feel like that yet but I still have timeā¦ 
I will try that. Well it wonāt be an old brie as no way I forget I have a fresh brieā¦ I usually have Camambert though but I am not a gourmet enough to tell them apartā¦ I do buy brie sometimes.
I always just ate it as it is. Never tried to fry it.
My fried cheese but it was with eggs (and flour. no breadcrumbs though). It was nice but I almost never bothered with it. Cheese is already perfect. I do love melt it a bit, thatās fun. Or nuke it but I do it to cheaper, more meh cheeses most of the time. Except when the spicy Camambert was too ripe and had to reduce the flavor as I wanted to eat it all alone. Alvaro considers eating cheese alone wasteful but I donāt eat much and carbs arenāt an option for me. And any other thing isnāt much cheaper than the cheese.
By the way, cheese sales continue, it seems the prices go a bit lower again? Itās high time, Alvaro says people go to buy cheese and other food to nearby countries and not only if they live next to the border. Slovakia allegedly have better cheeses for half the priceā¦ Our dairy prices got bad since the war unlike in other countries. And they went down a bit but itās still super high. Itās no fun when you already spend the majority of your income on food and then one highly important food group gets 200% or more more expensive in 1-2 years. Itās still not so great for cheese but the butter went down to 160%. Meats kept their price WAY better but we had those price caps too and maybe they made a difference in general.
Grains got WAY more expensive too so simply all food got way expensive. The counted inflation may be modest (for Hungary. we always had it pretty high. I only remember a few items from my childhood but we can buy one for IDK, 200 times more money now?) but for food, itās enourmous. I donāt even understand how we still can buy enough foodā¦ Though the pretty stable meat prices helped. Of course salaries didnāt have any significant raise, why would they.
I couldnāt help it and canāt delete it, the last part will compare meat and plant prices and my frustration about some of my fruits came out too. So this is your warning.
I entertain myself with looking fruit prices sometimes (not specifically, I go for carni items but I see other things in those supermarket ad papers, whatever is their name)ā¦ They are just crazy, the local ones in their actual season, I mean. I saw blackberries for 1.6 times more than our maybe-ribeye was. I donāt even like blackberries, violent bothersome stuff and we have a lot every year. Sigh. Alvaro is attached to them. They even need repairing their bearing often, I just looked at that. More work for those things not liked by me. Oh well. Life has such things sometimes, you donāt wanna do it, you donāt feel itās justified but one of your loved ones find it important and there is a reason why to do it instead of them. So itās still justified in the end but it comes from somewhere else.
I deleted the rest of my fruit complaint talk. Not fully complaint, some trees and other plants are cute enough not to bother me with the need of canning 
It gets bothersome quickly and Alvaro has his fruit eating limits (thankfully. it wouldnāt be healthy even for him to eat a ton all the time). I donāt help particularly much since several years and it changes every year and in the logical direction.
So I still think some carbs are the expensive stuff, not animal food. Of course, there is very expensive animal food too but I donāt need them to eat well.
And arenāt grains supposed to be cheap? Not so valuable, not so expensive. But they are, now. My chicken is significantly cheaper (and I count it without the bone) than Alvaroās rice flourā¦ Okay, the chicken has much water but much more protein and nutrients too and I can get cheap calories (and the chicken has a lot too as it has so much fat). Well yes, thatās why I buy the chicken and he buys other things, their usefulness is vastly different for us. There are times when I bake something and consider it wasteful for him as he is fine with the cheaper, carby options and probably wouldnāt even like my version as much. We already talked about that regarding eggs in baked good. Some needs it, clearly but Alvaroās bread and pizza has none while mine loses flour way earlier than eggs (they NEVER lose the egg. the best example is my carnivore bread, 100% egg sponge cake buns. Good stuff for sandwiches. Floury breads canāt compare. But they are two totally different things. My sponge cake has no crunchy crust. Crispy for some minutes but not crunchy. I love crunchy crusts. Can I cover them with cheese somehow I wonderā¦? I will try!) Sometimes we donāt even get nutrients just joy (or not even that). See my coffee. I think about it sometimes but I still canāt stop drinking it. But I should as moderation doesnāt work either. I binge drinking coffee. Sigh. I need to hide all the coffee again and suffer the discomfort in the beginning. Purely mental discomfort, thankfully.
ā, says the greengrocer. We have a saying āDo it the person with six mothersā when there is some outrageously difficult/bothersome thing we are very much NOT willing to do. Itās me and drying out poppy seeds (when I have zero problem with cooking things to begin with).
Not always but some are. Or a lot of any kind I suppose.
We eat them slower than the speed the egg ladyās hens provide them with. We always buy all the available ones, since many years. We never ate them slower, needed lots of extra. In the past, I ate 50 per week and Alvaro ate 20. We were pretty stable regarding this, eggs are lovely, versatile, wonderfully nutritious and we didnāt eat meat (except a few times a year).
) make bad cheese whisps but the too flavorful ones arenāt perfect either (they are lovely alone or on eggs, I need them for that). So I buy some cheap but nice and mild cheese to make my crunchy darlings and itās good as the base cheese in pizza too (I do use flavorful cheeses as well but an okay just mild tasting cheese is good for volume. we like our pizza very cheesy. mine is more like an omelet, whatever, the same applies, lots of cheese on top).
thanks, old friend
