Has anyone actually MOVED somewhere with better food options?

(carl) #1

I know that if I discovered keto in a food desert, I’d probably move. Has anyone had to do that?

(TJ Borden) #2

I can’t imagine how tough that would be. I panic when my Costco runs out of pork belly.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #3

I would stay put! Bunless Big Macs - what more do you want out of life?

(Jane) #4

I live in a food desert and keto can be a challenge sometimes! But I will retire here so moving isn’t an option.

Amazon is my best friend… and when I travel to larger cities I take a cooler and stock up.

I am in Houston this week and when I order a burger w/o a bun they ask “bowl or lettuce wrap?”

When I tried that where I live I got a blank stare, long pause… and finally… “I don’t know how to do that”. * sigh *. I mumbled “never mind” and removed the bun after I received it.

(TJ Borden) #5

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

#6

I guess I’m blessed that I live in California, where our food selection is pretty amazing! One of my sisters moved to DC and she complains all the time about the lack of food options. I have yet to eat out, but am planning to attend a birthday lunch next week w/ some friends. Don’t know what the restaurant will be; I told them I am on a low carb diet and need protein and fat!

#7

In my imagination I have moved to a nice 5 acre plot with; a food forest with only berries, lemon and lime trees, and a variety of green leafy vege; a few chickens for eggs and a cow for cream; a salt water lap pool to get my vitamin d in the morning; a couple of dogs and cats so I remain sociable (no one says people are the requirement); and finally a cute little architecturally designed shack to fall into the arms of morpheus once the sun goes down. Oh, I almost forgot there is a farm nearby where I buy my meat, conveniently the farmers moonlight as fishermen fishing once a week bringing back a haul of salmon.

A girl can dream.

#8

Couldn’t do it - I loooooove where I live! I’m actually living about 75% of your dream @crickette - got the acres, the cute shack, the veg & citrus & the nearby farms & fishermen. Also have a very chatty cat but no dog or chickens (yet :wink:) No salt water lap pool either but 10 mins from the ocean & 10 mins from the hills. Ordering stuff online is a price I’m happy to pay :smile:

(Troy) #9

Keeping it real simple works for me
No huge need to move and stress about food
As long as there is a Grocery Store and perhaps a Convenience Store
Sure or no doubt …meat market or a produce farm or fish market - a bonus I guess sigh

I can make due easily😄
And cheap
It’s not like I’m eating 6-8 times a day :joy:
That’s the best part of the WOE
just “ simple and savory ”

(Bunny) #10

Mutiple ocean side ranches with mostly grass-fed cattle and organic non-gmo only farming communities? …ah paradise!

I can dream can’t I?

#11

Aww, sounds like perfection, you don’t happen to need a muse to move in whilst you paint landscapes from your porch?

#12

Yes. I moved my bed right into the kitchen beside the fridge.

(Jane) #13

I know, right?

I think she didn’t know how to package it since she had only been taught to wrap a burger in paper but still…

I asked for a taco salad w/o the shell at a Taco Bueno and got the same blank look and long pause. They have other salad bowls in plastic bowls but they didn’t have the ingredients I wanted. I just said nevermind again.

Now Houston is hip to keto… no doubt about it… except one grocery ran out of Kerrygold and it was the only butter out of stock. Small price to pay…

#14

I’ll get the dog/chook situation squared away then petition his lordship for a muse - that could well be the only thing holding me back from a brilliant & successful career as an artist!

(Brian) #15

Not yet. But we really don’t eat out that often anymore.

(Bacon for the Win) #16

I call it a culinary void. Just nothing here. But I like living in the middle of nowhere so we make do. We don’t eat out often but when we do it’s a good hour drive to some place decent. The closest supermarket is 30 minutes away. There are some nice family farms where we can get grass fed beef and produce, but we have a very short growing season. Neither of us eats a lot of veg any more anyhow.

So no, I wouldn’t move. I moved here to escape the rat race and am very happy in our culinary void.

(Brian) #17

You sound a lot like us, only we have a little longer growing season, zone 6b.

Thing of it is, there have been very, very few places to go where they actually have better stuff to eat than we eat at home. Most of the time it’s more a matter of convenience not having to make something or just something different than our normal routine. But like you, it’s a hefty drive to anywhere. Closest decent grocery store is about a 35 minute drive and the best restaurants around would be a Cracker Barrel and an OK Mexican place, neither of which are exactly gourmet dining. True gourmet would be at least an hour and a half drive one way.

Like you, though, I like being away from the rat race. Having cows for neighbors isn’t so bad at all. :slight_smile:

(Jeff Gilbertson) #18

What area of the country? Pacific Northwest?

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #19

If I lived in a food desert, I would move because I am a foodie, doesn’t matter if keto or not. I like my options.

One of suburbia’s joys is you have enough room to grow some things like tomatoes, herbs and lettuce. Then you have a variety of grocery stores that have organics and often offer up grass fed beef or wild meats.

(Bacon for the Win) #20

I think we are living the same life. Usually when we do go out we end up saying “we coulda done that better.” There is a place pretty close that has wings. Been there once. Mine are better LOL

Our neighbors are moose, bear, turkeys, rabbits, deer, porcupines and a possum or two. I’ll take that over the rat race any day