I have never been so happy to go grocery shoppping in MY LIFE


(April Harkness) #1

SO I already preordered my offal- sweetbreads, beef heart, kidney and brain.

I go pick my items up this THURSDAY!

can’t wait to share my food on “what did you keto today” thread.


(Lisa) #2

Hi, April. I’m curious if you started out liking/being fine with organ meats, or if they were an acquired taste for you. I know they are incredibly nutritious, but I haven’t yet been able to get up the nerve to try them. Any tips on preparation?


(Katie) #3

Try head cheese first. I have always liked the flavor. Great with eggs in the morning.

Do you like liverwurst? There is a huge variety of wursts out there…check out some of the others.


(Lisa) #4

I’ve never tried liverwurst. Thank you for the suggestions!


(April Harkness) #5

My mother is from the third world. I was introduced to nose to tail from conception before all the hip carnivores started doing it, thus i never had to acquire a taste for it. I ate it from early on. I still remember my classmates teasing me about my food and being embarrased bringing my friends over when my mother was cooking. Now i know she was ahead of her time. My mom states she ate liver DAILY with me in the womb! My moms fav dish? Listed below but she als0 mentioned she sometimes ate it raw when she was preggers with me as well as another fav- dinuguan( pork offal simmered in porks blood and vinegar! )
Below is one way i cook my liver. (http://www.panlasangpinoymeatrecipes.com/chicken-liver-saute-guisadong-atay-ng-manok.htm?fbclid=IwAR1Zfs4Mvn4ftz6Czxtt025LEtC1k2cJR9YSJXuvnzW8mxXXLyyjQfFQCt0


(Lisa) #6

Thank you!


(Parker the crazy crone lady) #7

Nice, I appreciate the recipe. I always always overcook liver. It’s a failing. Such simple ingredients means I can whip this out without stress. I’m not going to overcook it!!! :crazy_face::crazy_face::crazy_face:


(Bacon is a many-splendoured thing) #8

No more than ninety seconds on each side, now—I’m keeping time! :rofl:


(Parker the crazy crone lady) #9

Dang. I’m normally a decent cook, but liver has been a struggle.


(Dirty Lazy Keto'er, Sucralose freak ;)) #10

I wish I could eat that stuff. I know it’s my Keto weakness not to. Also, I am concerned about getting all of the nutrients I need without them.

So I consider supplements in pill form, but some folks say that doesn’t work… Or at least work well. I do have a hard time believing though, that a person could be deficient of, let’s say, Vitamin C, and they could take vitamin C, and their body does nothing with it ? Hmmm.


(April Harkness) #11

Going to pick up Balut at a Filipino super market,after hitting up Paulina meat market. Will eat it as a side to my liver! Nose to tail eating way before it became popular amongst current ketoers! i still remember ppl teasing me and telling me how disgusting it was when my fellow americans found out about balut and asked if i ever ate it. ( hell yes. Delicious!). (if you don’t know what it is, google balut! Nowadays, sadly, People in this country think liver and other offal is disgusting, so not suprising people think balut is “gross”. Their words, not mine. SOOOOO glad the carnivore way is picking up and now the way I ate in the past is no longer embarrassing. It’s actually made me proud of my culture again. I think back to the movie “My big fat Greek wedding”. Their is the scene when Toula gets made fun of for bringing in a greek dish. Same thing happened to me. I remember it clear as day. My favorite dish of all time is dinuguann. We had left overs. My mom packed me a lunch and I was so happy to eat my dinuguaan (pork offal stewed in pigs blood) at school.

And then being made fun of for what I was eating, I never brought it again or I’d toss it and beg my mom just like Toula to make me a sandwich with the bread in the polka dot package like the other girls in my class (wonderbread! UGH!) .

Crazy that now one of the boys who made fun of how i ate is friends with me on facebook and is all about paleo. I sometimes want to to smack him through facebook and remind him of how he used to tease me and my food choices.


(April Harkness) #12


(K-9 Handler/Trainer, PSD/EP Specialist, Veteran) #13

Brings back memories. Crack the shell… drink the Sabao.
It’s just not the same… without the old man pushing his wheelbarrow down the road… selling Balut… with the singsong “Baaaluuuuut!” as he walked by.

No… I’m originally from Hawai’i… but I spent time there TDY as a young airman before and during Pinatubo.