Not food @Shinita but wanted to show you how the flowers are growing so fast as I know you like to see the pretty ones.
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I can smell my chicken wings so I am guessing the foody pics will be back up very soon lol
Carnivores March into March :)
Karen18
(Karen)
#304
Haa o bought the peacock and a few others so long ago before the garden had been transformed from the jungle but only now been able to put them outside. The wood pigeon, I have to admit was a purchase a couple of days ago when I took my friend to the g/c for a cuppa… I didn’t buy any plants though 
unlike today 
I couldn’t help myself when I walked along to Lidls … I got another climber, a British honeysuckle … heaven knows what nationality the other one was that I bought in the last mad batch! This one is bigger and I have put it straight into a container as I won’t get chance to do it tomorrow with a full day at work.
Just enjoyed my buffalo wings, also bought today from lidl. Not what I went there for, I just wanted some more bacon to make some crispy snacks for later. I got that too lol along with some packet sliced cooked meat and some cans of corned beef, mackeral and tuna to keep me going over the weekend at work. Dont want to end up hungry as I won’t have time to eat much when I get home on those days. Being prepped is so the key!
So buffalo wings, very tasty, I enjoyed them. I also have a couple of lamb ribs in the oven now but they won’t be ready till later. I will probably be hungry by then with only having chicken but its only just gone 4.30pm so thats not too bad.
Shinita
#305
Wow amazingly stunning flowers, thank you! 
I simply like everything I see
I kind of regretted I didn’t buy a red primrose when they were on sale… Oh well. I have pansies and all the spring flowers common here
But I guess it’s easy to get primroses anyway… So maybe I will! I like them.
I like gladiolus the best but can’t have it as it doesn’t survive frost and the chore to getting the bulbs out is one thing but I can’t store them well, my cellar is very humid. Maybe in sand? It’s always an open question, the temptation is big, they are gorgeous, I love those 2-color kinds… Like purple and white, that looks amazing.
But I love black (very very deep purple) flowers too My black tulips died quickly.
I ate around 6pm and it was tiny. I just… Got full with not much. What. I was looking forward to my 340g pork shoulders (I am the one who managed to eat 1000g twice, not in one sitting though, more like two. even though it’s not one of my big favs) - and I left A LOT. And barely touched my eggs.
I probably will eat later, I am glad I ate this late so it probably won’t be 3-5 meals but one can never know.
It would be nice to have remotely similar days. I am no robot and changes are fun but I have way too big differences. It could be worse, though, my macros tend to be in their okay range on carnivore with some notable exceptions, the 4100 kcal day was lol And no problem as it only happened once… I am careful with pork shoulders now though…
But my macros vary a lot, that’s fine, I don’t like that I have OMAD and 5 meals days, sometimes I eat a ton, sometimes I eat a decent sized meal and get super hungry in 1 hour and sometimes I am satiated until the evening and can’t eat more than a few bites. It’s not convenient. But hopefully it will get better in time. I am still nicely satiated and chill and content now. Getting meat is a relief, it was very unusual, going to shopping and not getting the meat I prefer and then it wasn’t convenient to go to the small town for some reason either… It won’t happen often but preferably ever.
Karen18
(Karen)
#306
I love the very dark purple flowers too. I saw some lovely bulbs in that colour buy i have enough bulbs planted and they are popping up. I put them in layers so some will come up later. I am just very pleased that my fingers are somewhat green as I thought i would kill off everything I tried to plant. When the garden was just a jungle i pulled up all sorts cos I didn’t know what they were and thought most were weeds. Pruning and weeding??? Haha I would drag stuff out and break off bits that looked dead … how it ever grew again the next year I will never know. This time round, because I have been able to start from scratch and spent many an hour watching the garden programmes learning what soil/compost to use and where to plant and what was hardy and what was fragile the efforts are fruitful. I have so much to learn as we start going through spring but hopefully it will carry on being a pleasure and not become a chore ever again! 
Shinita
#307
My anchestors were peasants and I planted onions when I was maybe 2… But I am not a diligent one. And like to just let things be… So me and pruning… I actually did that 2 days ago but it’s difficult for me I am NOT gentle with the blackberries, it grows back anyway and it has thorns so I am not in a very loving relationship with it… So that one is okay but everything else? I prefer freedom. But stupid fruit trees has their stupid ideas sometimes… At least the upper pear tree looks absolutely awful, I barely touch it, it wouldn’t help It got chaotic before we bought the house.
The flowers are nice, don’t need anything except maybe the roses but they are so hidden, I barely notice them. Sometimes I go and cut off most of them… No idea how to do it right, I just do whatever seems okay… It worked well enough this far.
I don’t complicate my life with soil… I buy black one and manure and use compost… But it doesn’t matter, the vegs don’t like the soil while the fruits mostly LOVE it. The flowers can be choosy, I already mentioned the diminishing crocuses. The other spring flowers are wonderful with zero care. The leanders are the biggest princesses but they get a ton of water all year and some nutrition in summer and they are pretty enough.
And some flowering plants are impossible to kill so we will have them forever, no matter if we want it or not…
My garden isn’t a prettiest but I have zillion interesting plants. Once I was very determined and optimistic and planned to weed the raspberry field (there is some other word for it but forgot), it’s not small but not huge… But it’s very hopeless. It’s amazing how many stubborn little weed fits even a single square meter and that place has many.
But the raspberries are very happy even in the grass (they multiply, love the grass because it keeps the soil wetter… and I am bad with discipline) so it’s just aesthetical thing so I just gave up at some point. I do some weeding there, sure, not even a tiny bit considering it’s me but I don’t stress myself when it’s still very lacking.
And I have some plants covering the ground at one place. Sometimes I go and cut out a mountain of it and it doesn’t really show… Gardens are complicated and it’s a small one…
WHILE I see properties where the owner comes once a year or decade, with the most perfect grass with wonderful flowers… Sure, most abandoned gardens aren’t like that at all but one place has that… Maybe they did something effective once… I have okay parts and weedy ones.
But my garden looks the worst when oxeye daisies(?) come and I realize it late (every year) so I can’t cut the grass until their bloom is over. I try to tell myself they are everywhere so some cute patches will be enough but I like them being everywhere… That’s early summer I think, with rain and warmth and sunshine so every weed does its best to grow high at the same time and it’s a bit messy
Oh it’s spring again, garden work came and I definitely don’t like that but I enjoy having a garden and a not very boring one at that. Lots of plants, slope, many stairs, a wall… Something is always happening when it’s not winter. We have zillion thorny and many extremely determined plants that want to rule the whole garden… It’s a war I can’t clearly win but I do what I can (with my “I don’t want to pull out plants” attitude. “they are thorny and I don’t need them here but they are PRETTY…”) and don’t worry about the rest.
Fortunately all the accidentally grown trees are at an okay place (unless one walnut tree eventually destroys the wall and/or the electric cable, it’s a tad close to them, we would never plant a tree there. oh no, they are all sturdy, I am sure they can coexist).
I had TMAD today (IF 22/2), had certain appetite and joy problems but it was okay enough. Tracked but I drop it again, I have NO idea about the macros of pork shoulder. And it’s such a chore and I gain little, I am merely curious as always. But I guess I ate about as much as my energy need and it’s good on a walk+little workout day.
I don’t like the fried mincemeat, the roast is moist inside and much better. And quark saved the day, a fine one was on sale.
Karen18
(Karen)
#308
Weeds are only weeds if you don’t like them but i am sure the bees and butterflies are very happy with them growing. Thats what I used to say anyway. I just got tired trying to hold back the damn invasive brambles and ivy! I had some lovely tayberries that my dad gave me and they didn’t need much work, they grew back every year, I just pulled out the dead woody bits that didn’t bud and the rest grew back thick and lush with lots of fruit that grew in batches about 3 times over before winter set in again.
Karen18
(Karen)
#309
So I ate the lamb ribs, nice but got a bit icky with the grease. I’m in bed now as I have to be up at 445am. oh I hard boiled 6 eggs ready for work.
JJFiddle
(Judy Thompson)
#310
@Karen18 @Shinita gorgeous flowers, what a treat!
@Ketodaisy feel better soon!
@Fangs I love how you think, all that food ready for anytime!
We’re off to the country bar to play but wanted to chime in and say hi, I’m always reading!
Azi
(Linda )
#311
@Karen18 your planters are lovely loads of colour
Today was 2,meals I started feeling sick last night headache chills fever and sore thoat so I when I finally woke up I had bacon, sausage and some steak 2nd meal later was sliced brisket And a couple of pmsf buns with butter.
But im hungry and sto.ach I s grumbling so I may have more steak
Fangs
#312
@Azi, eww hope ya feel better fast! I know tho if I feel sick in any way but I can eat very well, I ain’t gonna kick the bucket LOL
------------------well my first food of the day was a lb. of bacon. Yes we know that changed how I ate the rest of the day. Waiting on my chicken wings in the oven, got hungry and said, bacon. That lb of bacon satisfied me so well that all I had later was 4 chicken wings and a tin of sardines.
Now I got my meatloaf and more to finish off eating plus leftover wings.
house loaded with zc for me. zc for me is always a good thing but darn, a lb. of bacon…just yum when ya want it.
March is wrapping down, hold on tight and into April we will be going…any good April names?
SecondBreakfast
#313
The pup is now 6.5 months old…a 62 pound black German Shepherd. I’ve asked the vet and the breeder if she’s overweight, and they just hold her paws- chuckle, and say…“no, you’re just going to have a REALLY BIG dog!”
I have to say, for all the nonsense and mischief she instigates, she is the BEST bodyguard for my daughter. Once the kid is home from school, that dog will not leave her side. She even takes naps with the kid- in her bed. Very protective. She is smart, loving, protective----but still has that puppy sense of curiousity. Absolutely love her to bits!
Shinita
#314
Things turn bad in my household. The inflation that is just the beginning, they say egg price will double (pork still doesn’t show any sign of getting more expensive, yay. I don’t think I bought it cheaper 2 years ago. wait, 1.5, I am not sure I was willing to eat common meat 2 years ago yet. it wasn’t easy to do carnivore without that, even for short periods but I was determined and I allowed chicken liver and processed meat… and had some miserable below 0.25 pound meat days… I feel pretty lucky right now but I am an optimistic hedonistic one with strong self protection)… And Alvaro suddenly wrote on the chat that he plan to fast/starve 2 days a week. NOPE. I rather will eat once a week, he needs his energy, he is SLIM! Okay, he has a tiny little extra fat but that’s it. NOPE. He already is hungry hours every day! (He gains fat is he doesn’t.)
While I am a hedonistic one who could enjoy the hell out of eating less and not just because I would inevitable smoothly lose fat.
He eats tons of very cheap carbs anyway. It’s obviously up to me. Oh and I am the main cook…
So we will have some interesting times, I just hope he won’t have those bad thoughts, I will be just fine. Well, not fine but not worse than before, in the contrary, I need some strict times regarding many, many things. It’s spring, that helps tremendously. I just can’t feel not cheerful (eventually) when the sun is shining and it’s not hot yet!
So I will incorporate some chicken frame, it’s fine, soup (pork will help, mere chicken soup isn’t good from not super good, well raised and therefore very expensive chicken) and spices galore and anyway, Alvaro probably will handle it better than me but I will make a valiant effort myself. Not liking chicken when I can eat pork is one thing. If chicken is a must, I will enjoy it. Well, I will enjoy the fact I can eat, at least and won’t throw up? I still need at least 5/10, I probably spit out anything below. Or gag or don’t even try. 5 isn’t bad just not good. It’s old beef liver, super well done level. Pork liver is below 5. Chicken liver is 5-9, it gets worse with time and in bigger amounts.
A pound of bacon… Still so surreal to me. We can eat a quarter on it in 2 months Definitely not at once. Bacon is very fatty and salty and intense, it requires very much lean meat or eggs along with it in our case.
But we are all different and it’s some fatty meat so of course it’s theoretically possible to eat it galore, even in practice for some
I am determined not to eat before 5pm and after 8pm now, I soooo survive that and desperate times, you know I must spend less money on food and I need to eat less anyway (I found my fav summer pants, just a bit too tight). It’s a very very logical and nice range for me anyway, I just have this “indiscipline/rebellion/sudden craziness, whatever overpowering hedonism” thing sometimes (too often). One would think my hedonist self is strong already, it has the most power all the time but nope, some other parts STILL can do stupid things. My hedonist self is the sane one that has right, no wonder as doing the right thing is what maximizes joy. At least eating wise. Mostly. No, totally as not eating perfectly is better than doing it if the latter cause tiny mental problems. And a too high level strictness probably does it to me.
I won’t be hungry, I can’t with this very proper range and being me. I don’t do hunger. But I rarely feel a proper hunger anyway.
(And I don’t swear anything. If I NEED food, I eat but honestly, with my body I just don’t need to eat outside of those hours. I can handle waiting a bit. Not doing it was mental and determination helps with that.)
So I don’t do extreme things like Alvaro is planning (I so will talk him out of his stupid ideas when he comes home. I read his idea on the chat we have with @KetoKoala). I just get more hedonistic, finally.
And play a bit more with chicken. If I will hate it, I give it up eventually but a tiny bit smartly here and there should be fine. I have times when I consider my pork 5/10 or below too so I lose nothing then. And I plan to mix chicken with eggs and maybe pork, that helps too.
FrankoBear
#315
Up in the city. Doing the work. My boss is down with COVID. I’m trying to convince people that does not make me boss. They can save their gripes, or go up a level as there is a lot of middle management that are used to dishing out work, rather than doing it themselves. There must be an inoculation against the “Give the work to the busy guy who is not coughing nor sneezing” disease.
This dang WOE seems to be keeping me healthy while all around me they fall ill. Mrs. Bear has told me that I’m not allowed to catch the bug. I say I’m trying, I’m “licking door handles”, as the saying goes, I’m chatting to the people with cold and flu symptoms who should have stayed home, but the bug seems to keep missing me. I’ve been in contact with COVID positive students and staff over the past few weeks. It’s the height of the first wave of the epidemic here and I’m in a germ soup being a student facing teacher. But I’m feeling fine at the moment. I know I’ll change my tune when I get sick. The odds are stacked against me.
OMAD. Coffees in the morning. Beef bone broth as a drink with the baked beef ribs. Ate two this week, as compared to one last week. That means two for leftovers tomorrow OMAD.
There is a cyclone that will be a rain bearing depression when it gets to the coast on Saturday. Rainy weekend, and a few days after, predicted. Currently sunny and 36’C. Summer won’t quit. It’s great for Vitamin D boosting.
All Animal April starts in a week. It’s almost the end of the March. Getting ready to check some waist measurements. Work pants are baggy.
JJFiddle
(Judy Thompson)
#316
@Azi Feel better soon!
@SecondBreakfast OMG what a great dog and how lucky your daughter is to have such a good and protective companion!
@FrankoBear with the immunity your body’s building up right now, if you do get the international scourge it will be mild and you’ll get over it fast. Nothing to fear.
All Animal April. I love it!
Smells!! OMG. At the gig lastnight, busy country bar, I was so aware of the strong garlic and spices on everybody’s breaths. Do carnivores’ senses of smell get sharper? I wanted to run outta there just to get some fresh air but finally calmed myself and said “it’s only garlic.” like watching a horror movie and telling yourself “it’s only ketchup.” also starches metabolize badly on some people. Hubby ends the day with a couple dozen crackers with cheese or peanut butter and in the night his breath gets unbearable. Not sure if that is new with my woe but it’s certainly more noticeable.
Anyway, fresh air here this morning and just finished a clover design of eggs and ham. Beef short ribs come out of the sous vide in about 4 hours, they’ll be seared for our main meal.
Later I teach one student for an hour, then choir practice and our guitar player will come over to play. And bring deer sausage! That must be why the puppy loves him so much
Redrobins
(Heather)
#317
YES! YES! YES! I was always sensitive to garlic breath, now the smell of it makes me want to gag 
!
I was honestly grateful (briefly) for losing my sense of smell when I had COVID. I told the rest of my family they could eat garlic until my smell came back. It was crappy to not be able to taste things, though.
Karen18
(Karen)
#318
She sounds like a wonderful dog. Shepherds are very protective and can be soft as … my friend has always had German Shepherds and all of hers have been soppy sods! Vicious dogs are made not born …
Karen18
(Karen)
#319
Last night wasn’t too bad a night surprise surprise! I took a couple of sleep tabs ( herbal) that normally don’t touch me but I drifted to sleep bout an hour after going to bed, so must have been a sleep by bout 8/9.30. Woke several times for loo but drifted back to sleep okay oh and it was a covers in covers off night 
Up at 4.45am and in with stair runs, bath and of to work. Not too bad a day, was on my own listening to prisoners harp on on the phones so I was able o have the speaker on rather than headphones which was all round for my head. No interruptions either. I got in early so calculated my time at work from 7am and worked though my lunch so was able to leave by 6.45pm instead of 9pm. Off tomorrow bu back in Sat Sun and Mon. Good today wasn’t very good. 2 packets of sliced ham, 1 hard boiled egg and some corned beef. Ugh I had an earl guy tea in the morning and that immediately it my stomach bloated! Havent suffered with bloating for I don’t know how long!!! I have got home and had to cook some diced turkey thigh that I started defrosting yesterday so was desperate to be cooked, wasn’t sure I fancied it but I did eat some and it was really nice. Put half in the fridge. Felt a biy better after that thigh meat. I just think the days of snack eating like today… bits of nothing… have to be over. I will take better, real food in to work over the weekend or nothing at all and definitely leave the earl greys at home!
robintemplin
(Robin)
#320
I was pretty nonchalant about getting covid/omicron. Fully vaccinated and boosted, I wanted to get it over with and be part of the Endemic. And when I did, it was just like a bad flu, and I got over it. I am still slowly regaining taste and smell.
Also, experiencing brain fog. I’m 67, I can deal.
But now it’s also big chunks of missing short term memories. That part is not so funny. Reminds me of my alcoholic years, waking up in the morning with no memory of the night before. I’ve had some rip-roaring debates with my husband that start with me adamantly denying something I did or something I knew. I get good and offended. Then find out he was right. Dang it!
It’s too early to know if this will improve like taste/smell. Most of the brains they’ve examined have been deceased or hospitalized. Milder omicron folks like me don’t go to the doc. We just quarantine.
Feel free to tell me I am repeating myself. Or make up some far fetched shenanigans to accuse me of…. you gotta laugh, right?
