Ferocious Fix February - Carnivore Challenge (Fit it In - Fit in It! ) Feb 2022

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(Karen) #502

When I first went keto and then moved on to carnivore I always used a few spices, especially on my steaks. I don’t bother now and tend to eat meat plain, not even salted since my stroke. I went off spice a little bit. Mind you I am happy to eat it like at the Brazilian restaurant recently. All the meats had been marinated or basted in some sort of spice and the taste was delish. Also the pork loin chops i pick up at lidls are basted (but don’t have excess sauce or juice in the pack so they don’t even look as though they have been basted) This morning I cooked some chicken thighs in the slow cooker and I did think about putting some spice in with it as they were skinless ( they were reduced price and I knew they would just be a brunch or snack) but decided against it and they were really quite nice just plain so I was glad I didn’t bother. Taste really has changed dramatically since going carnivore and I am guessing since not adding spices I have let go of a lot of food related issue… just eating to live. This Morning programme cookery bit were doing one of my old favourite carby desserts and I did think to myself … I could just taste that (but not literally lol, I am so passed that) … but I know it was the root of all evil for me as when I had one, I would then have to go on to eat the lot then I would be angry with myself for eating them all !

I had a crap night last night, woke at 3.30 and took a couple of hours to return to sleep. At 5.30am I cancelled my CrossFit slot and thought :thinking: I should be able to get back to sleep now … and I did! Just shows when things get on you mind during the night … they say either write them down or at least sort them out so you remove them from your thoughts … feeling like you’ve dealt with it makes such a difference. I had bacon after the tuna last night with still being hungry and I am certain that was the bogie in the night!

So up and stair running even though I felt tired, my back was stiff from lifting all the bags of compost yesterday afternoon so it eased that off thankfully. Chicken thighs into the slow cook pot and left to get on with it. I never eat brunch till between 11-1 so wasn’t in any hurry. I was surprised they were cooked just right 2.5 hours later, by 11.30 so I ate 3 and I have 2 left in case I am hungry tonight before bed. It is a rare thing for me to feel hungry at that time…I think when I eat at that time it is usually because I just fancy something and not through hunger but last night I knew I needed to fill a void in my tum.

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They don’t look too appetising and I find it strange that I prefer skin on now especially after years of removing it! As I said earlier my taste has changed and keeps changing … my foody evolution !

I have taken a ribeye and pack of 2 rumps out of the freezer for later.

#503

I eat to live AND to enjoy the hell out of it, of course, it never should change!
Meat and spices, it’s an interesting thing. Sure, spices can be interesting here and there but as I have read about too much food related things from vegans and ketoers and everyone else, it seems that people consider meat with spices tasty while plain meat not so much? It’s odd to me (unless the meat is an inferior tasteless thing) as the real flavor I very much appreciate in meat is meat flavor. And it has it either way. So adding spice rarely makes my food better. Maybe it adds variety, I like that but it’s an occasional thing, not needed every day when I just want a 8-10/10 meal without any fuss. (In rare cases I am fine with 7, I am just hungry and joy is less important as I almost always have it anyway, skipping it for 1-2 meals is fine.)
I always thought vegans don’t know meat or only met bad ones or too used to plant flavors, it was later when I met ketoers being into marinades and gravy and whatnot. I just don’t understand why I would put work into it when it doesn’t make my meat better… But they are clearly different.
To me, the changes in the oven or pan are the thing that enhances my meat. I rarely like boiled meat but if it’s fried or roasted very, very well and it gets not just tender but colorful… Oh that treatment is great for meat and vegs alike. I even loved my scrambled eggs brown in the past but now I enjoy them moist.
But I still dislike meat without salt. A lot of it nowadays. I start to feel even my eggy sponge cakes need salt as the second ingredient now… Though I rarely eat them alone so it’s not a serious problem. I still think this is due to my seriously reduced processed item consumption (I almost never eat any cheese either).

It’s a YT channel for us, history and food, mmm… I totally wanna make some, not that old recipe as the texture isn’t what traditional here but a similar but nostalgic one (with raisins as Alvaro told me he always had it with raisins. the traditional recipe has NO raisins at all but we learned that there was an old british version with raisins, wow, I never knew that was a thing!). It’s a training and I think it is pretty harmless. I am very very very used to baking sweets for Alvaro without touching them. It’s trickier with rare stuff but I have a momentum now and I don’t feel any desire to eat it, just an irresistible desire to make it. Just like the cake today, I just had to do it but Alvaro was fine with it.

It’s a new thing, feeling some mostly harmless compulsion to bake something without eating it. I didn’t have it years ago. I liked experiments and while my curiosity was the drive, I still wanted to eat it too. I used to say, I only can cook food I am willing to eat. It changed when our diets got way too far from each other but not just willing to cook something I won’t eat but feeling a desire to do so… That’s moderately new. I like baking bread but it still wasn’t a desire, I just didn’t mind despite the more than minimal work. I still don’t cook some proper food using more than a few minutes unless it’s my food too. Baking is different.

(Robin) #504

For years, I had trouble staying asleep. And so I always jot down things that are on my mind, before I go to bed. it’s like I tuck my worries or daily details in for the night so I don’t have to worry about them. It would be funny to go back and read those lists now. It would also be a great realization of how short my lists are since retiring. Last night’s list consisted of ‘return library book’ and “buy meat”. Lolol

(Robin) #505

I understand enjoying cooking something you won’t eat. I love to cook something ‘naughty” more my husband. The only difficulty is not sampling it for seasoning or taste. Not even a nibble. No can do.

#506

Oh I am used to cooking without tasting. I have the recipe, I measure everything so it will be fine.

Our tastes are slightly different anyway. He needs a bit more sweetness (just a tad. we feel sweetness about the same but I don’t expect my desserts to be really sweet all the time. unsweetened coffee or chocolate? just fine) but I already wrote in the parentheses that he expects his cake to be sweet. And he is just fine with lots of rice flour while I don’t like the taste of starches… And while the poppy seed cake is pretty much low-carb (with the obligate raisins. it’s super hard for a cake to get away with NOT having it. sugar musn’t be present. flour is totally optional for a cake. raising are a must for all), it’s dry and I don’t consider it right. So taste tests wouldn’t be useful. But with the same recipe, nothing can go wrong unless some ingredients aren’t always the same. But he can handle some quality wavering even then and I take notes if I know the problem. So it works just great without anything tested :slight_smile: I only taste certain new things and it I want to be very good, things with lemon juice as their sourness varies a lot. But usually not. I like more sour things anyway :smiley:

A nibble wouldn’t be a problem for me though. Or even a slice, there are still some optionally tempting simple cakes (they are fruit cakes, obviously. certain things never change like my love towards fruits). And off days. I don’t touch them now :slight_smile: I just baked a nice big one again. Just a quick thing, I enjoy it, he enjoys it and the vast number of jars on my cupboards gets decreased. It’s an important mission, I need all his fruit eating skills not to get flooded with them.

Erm sorry, I go away now and won’t come back here… I hope I promised not to talk about fruits in the March one, not here…