Carnivore 31-day Challenge - Can't Tell A Lie Carnivore July 2024!

[beannoise]

Need a t-shirt that has this on it

Yes!

[JJFiddle]

We went down to the Riverwalk in San Antonio with dearest friends from the east coast yesterday, took the guided boat tour and heard new info about San Antonio that I didn’t know before. My friend’s granddaughter graduated Air Force basic training yesterday morning, this was her big town pass!

Lunch was a at a Mexican restaurant and I did what I’d always hoped to do - steak fajitas, and gave away all the wraps and sides. I did use the cheese on top. (I’m not ready to go there!) oh my it was so tender and good! And the sides were happily gobbled up by everybody else. My friend from way back is still vegetarian but can’t eat many things, on this trip she’s eating mostly clear miso soup. I had her take the tortillas, at least she’ll have something.
I got something called “sweet cream” ice cream to split with hubby. Sugar but otherwise only milk and eggs, they said. That’s my break for 2024- was very good and my blood sugar didn’t even go up (according to my very cool watch). It was very hot out there!
For the 4th we are joining friends in the late afternoon, they’re grilling steaks; then later, out to the Fredericksburg airport to watch fireworks over Lady Bird Johnson Park with our DJ friend.
Lastnight, bacon and eggs.

[LizinLowell]

I have one that says Body by Bacon

[Karen18]

Wednesday back to CrossFit and it was a hard grind.

I ran to the CrossFit Box and back and went to a local afternoon tea dance which we ended up leaving after an hour… we should have known better but never mind.
After the very long … too long… tea break my legs and hips just siezed up! They have recovered overnight and with an extra bit of time in bed this morning

Today has been a ‘not done a lot’ kind of day. Raymond suddenly got chest pains when we went into Sally Army for a cuppa and brunch so we left and i took him home to rest. It is his 87th birthday tomorrrow so he is hoping he will be good to go dancing at Lichfield in the afternoon.

I went to Asda and got some cakes for him just in case he is well enough to dance … fridays always sees cakes at the break time there is always someone with a birthday and if there isn’t then our lovely friend Barry will have one… he has maybe 3 or 4 birthdays a year! of course the treats are for all the other dancers as i don’t eat them. They all think i have amazing will power but when you are on this woe i am just not interested in them.

I had gone to The Company Shop first to look for any treats … there weren’t any but there was too much temptation in the way of belly pork and steak… i bought 4 packs of belly pork … soooo nice just like pulled pork when done and 2 packs of 2 big Rump and Sirloin steaks, a couple of packs of cooked and sliced turkey of which i ate one for brunch and a pack of chicken sausages…still in fridge for another day.

For dinner i had one of the packs of belly pork that was left from last time i bought them it was scrumpscious!

Steak and eggs were yesterdays meals and the jelly was from the belly pork when i opened the vacuum pack as it is cooked already. You pop it in oven for 40mins so it is so much quicker than cooking a pork shoulder.

[beannoise]

Helped my mom tidy her picture sorting room and finished sorting my mother in law’s clothing. I’m still on antihistamines so it was a good day for it between the strongly scented fabric softener on the clothes and the dog hair dust bunnies at mom’s. I’m up almost 5 pounds, at least partly from the antihistamines, and quitting coffee won’t work until I’m off of them.

Sadly, I think eggs are my main trouble (although we had an extra dog this last weekend, hmmm). Anyhow, I’ll drop yolks for the rest of July.

Fresh side for dinner

Chicken chaffles and chicken muffins earlier. No egg in this batch. It required xanthan gum, which is technically a bacteria (so not a plant, lol). I tried gelatin, and was a complete failure.

[LizinLowell]

Finally remembered to get a pic of my grilled ribeye before I snarfed it lol, all natural beef & pork hot dog for an appetizer

Still didn’t stop myself eating whole milk Greek yogurt afterwards, meh. A habit I’d love to overcome.

Anyway. As I tell my 90 year old disabled mom after something we try doesn’t go well: “Every moment is a fresh start”

It was hot and muggy but since my husband had the day off we took an hour long walk. We went up in a neighborhood I call Turkey Hill and indeed we saw 5 lounging in someone’s yard

[Geezy56]

I had to spend the all day yesterday and through the night at my father in law’s house so I went into town and picked up some brisket and ribs from the only bbq place around that rivals my own (according to my wife). Definitely top notch.

Then after I was able to get home today it was just some eggs and egg white bread toasted.

[FrankoBear]

Rib steaks the last two nights. Carved them myself. Unnervingly beautiful sunshiney winter here when we are supposed to have rain. There is a storm and cold front brewing for tomorrow. The surf has been perfect.

3 or 4 chicken egg breakfasts sometimes with bacon or a spare cooked lamb chop. I feel good. Chopping wood. Transplanting and planting trees. The sunshine is a treat on the skin and a winter tan! Pale people around us, sheltering inside and complaining about the cold weather, are catching winter colds.

Mrs Bear, the Labrador, and I are heading off on a 4-hour drive to our forest farm with a car full of tree seedlings. We will race the cold front coming in from low in the Southern Ocean. We’re off to plant a forest like the proper hippies that we are (except for the vegetarianism).

Here is a postcard I’m sending to y’all.

[JJFiddle]

It required xanthan gum, which is technically a bacteria (so not a plant, lol).

I didn’t know that, thank you. I use xanthan gum with butter, cream and broth to make gravy. Egg yolks take too long and are unpredictable. Now I know it’s not a plant!

[Geezy56]

Fried up a mess of venison burgers today. With venison being so lean I added about a pound of chopped bacon to the venison.

[Icandothis]

Sadly I’ve never eaten venison. I don’t know where to buy it in Iowa. I’ve had elk however and bison of course. I just finished off a can of snails. They’re good too with lots of butter and garlic.The burgers look delish.

[Icandothis]

Egg white bread? I’ll have to look that one up. I was wondering if that was toasted regular bread and thought…wait a minute…I’m new to all the weird keto foods.Hungry now. Ribs look good too.

[Geezy56]

Yeah I don’t know where one might buy any venison. I hunt my own and try to keep my freezers stocked. I can’t speak for your neck of the woods but here in Texas we can’t sell venison. We can give it away but that’s it. A restaurant that buys commercially raised venison is the only way I know of getting it.
I have heard of people paying processing fee for venison that wasn’t picked up and payed for at a deer processing place but I’ve never tried doing that.
Egg white bread is pretty good stuff. There’s a lot of good utube videos about it. I’ve started making it and trying to perfect the recipe because when I make ice cream I only use egg yolks and I need to do something with the leftover egg whites.
This channel here is very good for her recipes.

[beannoise]

Cooking and hiking mostly this weekend. Still recovering from having a houseful last weekend. Just finally got off the antihistamine… and am up 6 pounds, which actually puts me up to where I was a year ago. I lose weight very slowly. Hopefully I’m not starting over. I’m still not completely sure what I was reacting to.

I was chatting with some friends-of-a-friend who do some regenerative farming, hoping to buy some beef from them in the fall. I did a “yield test” since they didn’t know what the fat % was for their ground beef and do get asked. It’s too lean for me (92% lean for “whole steer” ground). I’m guessing it was an injured animal, though.

I butchered one once that was grass-fed and had broken its leg before reaching market weight. We ground the whole thing, it was very lean like venison. Anyhow. I’m dehydrating it. I would have to add too much fat for it be a regular thing for me, but might work in one-off batch of pemmican that doesn’t need to have the nutrients perfectly preserved. The beef is cooked too hot for that, but it will be interesting to play with dehydrated beef crumbles. Edited to add note to self: ground beef in the combo air-fryer/ dehydrator results in a ground beef snow storm inside the air-fryer. Do not advise, lol.

I’m also rendering some beef trimmings from last weekend’s brisket. I just stuck them in the freezer because my house was too chaotic at that moment. Hopefully, I’ll get some “meat chips” out of them in addition to the fat. I’m not a fan of pork rinds. That gives me 100% yield from brisket, which is a win. It was under $4/# at Costco.

I also did up 20# of chicken quarters. I might post some pictures on another thread. Might be helpful for kitchen novices. ETA here: 10# Bags of Cheap Chicken Leg Quarters- How To Guide for Kitchen Newbies

[Karen18]

Well i don’t know where i am now will have to check my pics!

Raymonds chest pains had subsided by Friday and we went to the Tea dance at Boley and he had a thoroughly enjoyable time being centre of attention on his 87th birthday everyone enjoyed the cakes i bought for them and i brought 2 packs home to give to my son the next time we took him out…which turned out to be today, Sunday…an off the cuff kind of day.

Saturday morning i went to CrossFit for a Pairs workout a bit of a puffy one!..what’s new?

Last night we went dancing in Cranwell near Sleaford and had a brilliant evening…we ended up doing a demo waltz, off the cuff, as we were asked to start it off for Raymonds birthday but no one joined in… must admit it was great to have the floor to ourselves!

Today i picked up Ben and met Sian and baby Freddie at a local bus rally. We had a perfect day with good weather, happy ‘boys’ and great service when we went to Tescos to get something to eat. I just had 2 fried eggs and 2 small sausages.

Oh Friday morning i had an annual review at the Doctors surgery. All my bloods were perfect when i had them done in Feb this year but she took some again just because… never felt a thing and no mark where the needle went in…she was good lol. She asked if i wanted to have my weight checked and as i only ever get weighed in these annual reviews i said okay. I said i was about 58/59kg but was actually 60! So i have put on 4 kg since last year. I am guessing that is mostly the muscle i have regained since all my illness last year and when i was so inconsistent with CrossFit. And i do recall being very surprised that i was only 56kg last year! My clothes feel great and i now know i have some wiggle room to lose a couple of pounds or so if i want.
Food and dance pics from Friday and Saturday. I can’t seem to put videos on here so i took some acreen shots from videos others took of us dancing.
Foody stuff…

Exercisey stuff

Dancey stuff

[robintemplin]

Oh my goodness…. The lady in red! You look so happy and healthy and having fun. That’s living!

[Karen18]

Aww thank you Robin. Yes i am having more fun than when i was at the Prison day in day out. I didn’t realise how much i needed retirement! I passed close to the prison i worked at today when i was driving Ben from his home to the bus rally…it made me actually shiver at the thought of working there all those years and i felt immense relief that i never had to work there again. Amazing to feel that after being nearly 2 years retired!
And it is good to feel healthy now after being knocked down with everything last year. When my mojo is knocked out of me it makes me feel so lethargic and miserable so it is great to have it back after what feels like such a long time. X

[Icandothis]

I think most places can’t sell it. Commercially raised not sure about. I’ve seen it in beef sticks.
Thanks for the video. Interesting. Im not a bread eater in general. I only ate bread and baked goods and hot cereal, etc. when I was poor. More of a tator and meat girl. The idea of egg white bread got me curious. Does look yummy with those eggs though.

[Geezy56]

I butchered one once that was grass-fed and had broken its leg before reaching market weight. We ground the whole thing, it was very lean like venison.

We always add fat to ours just like I do my venison. When we have one butchered we are always asked what fat ratio we want. I like 70/30.

[beannoise]

Were you grinding in kidney fat from the same animal? I see some mail order places that have the 70/30 grass fed and wonder where the fat comes from. I know grain finished beef has fat to waste that would make that easy, but I never handled much grass finished. I was mostly teaching culinary students, so we only did maybe 10-15 steers a year.