I tried Carnivore, not for me

(Ashley) #41

That’s what mine would look like if it was just me, take care of my dad and my brother lives with me atm. Neither are keto so have a lot of carbage. My dog I get like $100 worth of food at a time. Which is 2lb bags of all natural gently cooked food. 8 bags minimum. So 16-32 lbs of dog food alone which means my freezer is basically packed with just her food.

(Ashley) #42

Only one small kitchen freezer for me :(. Lucky duck on the gift cards! Hope you score some good stuff.

(Ashley) #43

I’ve also had to do that with a couch lol, my garbage men were thankful though since we were allowed one large item thrown away a month.

(LeeAnn Brooks) #44

What we wouldn’t do for our pooches.

(Ashley) #45

Yes! The ingredients are mostly keto real food as well. No grain. Expensive but she wouldn’t eat dog food and I don’t blame her, but she loves her new food.

(LeeAnn Brooks) #46

Where do you get it and how expensive is it? I’d like to get my dog eating a more whole food diet. He gets a lot of my leftovers as no one in the house does Keto but me, but I don’t have enough to feed him all the time. More like a treat for him than his meals.

(Ashley) #47

http://www.allprovide.com , my dog is 14lbs and it cost me about $50-60 a month. But there’s a lot of options on there so you could play around with it and see what works. I feed the gently cooked chicken and she loves it. It costs me about $100 per 8 bags and about $50-60 of that I use monthly so it lasts me about 6 weeks I would say, maybe slightly more or less. Even if you did half and half would be a huge benefit.

(Ashley) #48

If you wanted to do the raw, you could mix regular in with the raw and probably be cheaper.

(LeeAnn Brooks) #49

My dog is 94 pounds. I don’t think I can afford that.
Maybe just slowly start buying/making larger portions of my meats to share with him so it won’t be such a huge $ increase all at once.

(Ashley) #50

Yeah at that weight no way I could afford that, you might want to google it though, I see a lot of people do a raw diet way cheaper than it would cost you otherwise. Like I said even half raw and half regular dog food is way way better for them. It cuts down on chances of cancer and all sorts.

(Ashley) #51

Even eggs and things like that cooked and fed daily is a nice benefit to them. I used to scramble eggs all the time for my St. Bernard and she loved it. And cheap

(LeeAnn Brooks) #52

Now that I have a good stockpile of bacon grease saved up in my fridge, when I make meats now, I pore any extra juices over his dog food. He’s in heaven when I do that.

But it’s still over his regular dog food which I know it’s the healthiest, so I feel guilty. Truth is I never thought about his nutrition much before I did Keto. It’s really making me rethink a lot.

(Ashley) #53

Same here, when I went keto it made me change my pups food. Although I’m lucky she’s small too. I’ve saw some really great inspirational lectures on dog food and how just 1/4 or 1/2 their diet being chance dramatically decreases chances for all sorts of things. So that made me switch.

(Shayne) #54

I checked it out and there is one nearby but they say I have to be a restaurant or non profit to buy from them. If that’s not the case, how are you doing it?

(Katie) #55

I have learned that drinking a lot around a meal is not a good idea because it dilutes the stomach acids, thus disrupting the stomach’s ability to digest.

(Chris) #56

Couple ways

  • You only need a business tax ID. It doesn’t matter if you are a restaurant.
    -The Kansas City BBQ Society has a membership perk that is essentially unlimited one day passes. each time you go, you just get a temp # (KCBS is 35 bucks a year and there are other perks)
  • In my neck of the woods, RD built a store and some bizzare city code said they couldn’t be a member only store so it is open to the public though its not advertised well.

RD is an odd place. near zero customer service. Ive never seen anything like it. you may get run over by a fork lift. But it is a foodies palace. Essentially every single thing you see in a restaurant can be bought there.

(Shayne) #57

So if I’m a buyer for a semiconductor manufacturer, that’s good enough?

(Chris) #58

If you want to sign your company up for account, yes :slight_smile:

or just get a KCBS membership

(Doug) #59

Chris - GREAT MENTION! :sunglasses::clap::star2::rainbow:

Had never heard of Restaurant Depot before, but wow - looks fanstastic.

(Doug) #60

Restaurant Depot - in reading about it, prices are apparently often 30% less than Costco or Sam’s Club.

I registered with the state of Georgia (my home state) to get a Tax ID number. ‘Sole Proprietor’ is how you want to go - not as an LLC or a partnership. A sole proprietorship with no sales will not have to file anything later on.

It was free and all done online. It was a two-step process. Yesterday it was ‘Register a new Georgia Business.’ That was accepted and today it was ‘Register a new tax account.’ Once I filled out the online form and submitted it, my tax ID number appeared instantly.

I signed up for membership at the Restaurant Depot website. They sent a confirmation e-mail with my new membership number and I’ll take that and my tax ID number to my local Restaurant Depot store, and they’ll give me my membership card.