@Karen18: Those meat slices shining with fat always get me 
Or the pretty eggs… But shine on meat is special.
I am perfectly aware of that. I merely wondered if I ever can eat little eggs and dairy.
Carnivore isn’t THAT scary (well it is long term, I don’t plant to go there) but mostly meat is.
(There is nothing wrong with eating fruit either if I want it, IMO (as the amount is naturally little enough in most times. eating a ton wouldn’t be good, not even for Alvaro who is thriving on high-carb. but he merely eats fruit frequently, not in huge amounts. that would bother me and I would be vocal and we hate arguing about food. but it’s important. so it’s great we have similar views. even if we need very different diets. but not opposite ones, thankfully, that would make my cooking way harder), I know I try to do a way more stricter diet I need… It’s one reason I fail so much. Well I don’t necessarily consider it fail… Just when it goes very much against my plans… Like now. I am determined and not even miserable and vulnerable now - but a select few items can wear me down. I need multiple factors at play at once but it happened. So I have a close to carni but still just keto weekend now. I go strict tomorrow and that is one factor less. The tiny extras bit. I still like that bit sometimes, I wrote it may help, other times it’s just inavoidable for me but it has its risks. Not alone, with other factors like having an old irresistible food around, after a long time and a harmless and still desirable one. I don’t even have regrets, I ate very well, merely not according to the February plan. I am bad with plans. And my average is still the most important thing…)
Oh fish as a side dish is perfect for me, I don’t want much just some and preferably some tasty fatty one. I really like those. I enjoy the unusually soft flesh too, I love when my food has different textures at different times 
Sunshine and walk (it was so windy but the now very big lake was pretty! we saw coots swimming, barely any ice is left as the weather is warmer now), no pasqueflower leaves anywhere but daffodil ones in my garden! Spring is coming!
I hope the boring lean hake fish got better in the fish soup I just made The cats are all excited, this fish has plenty of nice bites for them, fishbone with meat, organs…
My IF today is well, non-existent. Weekends may have this. It started with Alvaro sitting down to eat lunch at 10am… Of course I didn’t have a proper meal then but a creamy coffee and half a boiled egg (with the whole white) happened. And a bite of pork. Lean pork is so great for hungry me in small amounts I can eat it all that way, eventually.
It’s 1:30pm now, sometimes I eat a bite of pork but I am waiting for hunger. I have appetite as I have good food (and had a bigger walk, it often helps) but that isn’t enough reason for a meal.
I will have fish soup and pork, I have lean and fatty alike, it’s the best.
I still have half of my jellied fluff dessert. I didn’t like it yesterday. Maybe I didn’t have a long enough time without truly sweet things… But the texture wasn’t right either. It always have 2 layers, the jelly underneath and the fluff above. Very very rare that I manage to make a more uniform one. I added more gelatin to have enough to jelly the upper part but I just didn’t stir it frequently until it started to set so I had a too hard bottom layer with a not jellied fluff. But I remember using much gelatin once and it immediately made a pretty homogenous thing, there wasn’t a need for waiting and stirring again… Something important must have been different. Making food has its tricks 
I just want a nice jellied fluff and not scrambled egg-y sponge cakes. And maybe a crunchy biscuit…
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I had one proper meal today… A bit before 3pm as I just couldn’t wait. My hunger was soft but still insisting… So I had my early lunch while Alvaro had his quite early 2 course dinner. Fish soup with lots of fish, lean pork, fatty pork, eggs, tiny Greek yogurt… It was quite satiating! I haven’t tracked my last 2 days yet…
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But now I did. I had below a pound of meat (a significant part of it was fish today) but I did have eggs and obviously dairy… Guesstimation says 180g protein on Saturday, 150g today. Fat is 110-115g (or totally not, this macro is the one I can’t really guess but it can’t be very far from that…) for both day so I definitely didn’t overeat, yay! Especially that I had exercise both days. I am more satiated today (the smoked pork hock with my leftover sponge cakes in the end made me really full after a little time. oh and I had almost OMAD, that helps), yesterday night I had the usual not fully satiated state but I didn’t eat. Except a boiled egg with only half of the yolk… Nice stuff. And it did the trick and that feels nice.
Oh and while I only did keto (though closer to carnivore than normal ketoers), my carbs didn’t went up much. As I ate less lactose. Hence staying keto.
Okay so I go stricter now. I thought about it and my fish soup was so tiny I want a soup again but without meat so it won’t be fully carnivore but it’s condiment level. I basically only will use spice. And lard, obviously, I need flavor too. I always liked my super thin soups, warm water is half success 
While Alvaro almost omits water… It never was easy for any of us to make a soup that we both accepted. It’s even worse now. He just can’t handle meat alone, be it a roast or soup. I find those quite nice so why would I overcomplicate my life and add carbs needlessly? His Mom cooks wonderful veg+meat soups, that should be enough from that kind - except when I really feel sorry for Alvaro, not to have meat soups. Even the one at his Mom has only the flavor but little meat itself as the used meat is bony and I eat it up every time… We get the mere liquid, vegs in a separate bowl, meat in a bowl, pasta in a bowl… It works very well especially that really, no one wants the meat except me and the base liquid is super good, a bit even better than pure meat soup though that is perfectly fine for me as well.
Not surprising, I see that here too. Not THAT empty shelves ever, fortunately but sometimes it’s apparent what people bought up and what (almost?) no one touched…
By the way, I never understood how can many plant-based stuff be so very bad tasting while plants tend to be delicious… At least the (very, very numerous) good ones, not each and every one… Mystery.
I suppose those are bad, I don’t know it about most items, I just read opinions and tasted a few at some point. Though reading the ingredient list, many must be quite bland… Spices may help to a little extent but they are just spice, they can’t save them.
I did would eat the remained stuff in deep starvation. If I couldn’t buy any more food, I quickly would need to depend on our (very, very tasty) plant proteins at home (stupid tiny freezer and normal sized fridge, well it’s okay as long as I can go shopping…). But we would survive for quite a few months.
Those things in the supermarket are probably drastically worse but as long as they have some protein, they would be of some use. Unless I couldn’t stomach them at all.
I can’t do much with those… What was it? I am curious and read labels sometimes… Some horrible idea for fake cheese? That has nothing even remotely to do with cheese macros. It was starch, water and oil… But it can’t work… So, I wouldn’t touch those, I need protein. And as low-carb as possible but I can survive on HCHF for a while if I must. HCLF (with enough protein, that’s quite important) is hell but everything for survival… But I have fat (probably not enough to give me enough energy though. and I hate being starving anyway), I need protein, first of all. We have a quite significant amount of plant protein in the house. But it couldn’t last for super long. Oh well, it would take so much time for me to lose all the muscles I can live without… Even if I don’t have much. I still have some.
Why these apocalyptic scenarios interest me so much I don’t know. But I never can resist thinking about it, again and again when someone mentions it…
Many nutritious plants have the great advantage of easy storage of huge amounts. Hence our multi-month emergency food* is mostly plants. I know canned meat is a thing but well, I have little of those and I don’t wish to change it without knowing I will need it. And I don’t buy egg powder either.
*It’s not primarily that. Big shopping is rare and it’s smart to buy a decent amount on a sale, we have the space, Alvaro has the appetite and need… It’s comfortable to have plenty of food, I like it.
He is even worse than me, sometimes his “grain drawer” is hard to move, fully packed and about 20kg… I don’t even have a drawer. I have a freezer though. And an egg cupboard but we both eat meat and eggs though I eat more.
Multi-language sites with simple translation always mess that up.
So lovely colors. I like my meat less fatty but it takes away nothing from the aesthetics (and I have my bigger fat percentage loving times too).
) - and now the edited, more right numbers: 98g protein, 147g fat. And higher carb (I mean, over 20g, still very very safely keto for me), mostly lactose, maybe I should be a bit more careful with milk. I blame the coffees (I used ice cream for the first one but I run out of cream and Alvaro wanted to use the milk anyway…).