Pork shoulder joint with crackling. Always makes me feel like a queen.
March - What Did you Keto Today?
never2late
#28
My lunch. I challenge you not to get envious.Pork shoulder joint with crackling. Always makes me feel like a queen.
Pork shoulder joint with crackling. Always makes me feel like a queen.
Janie
(Jane)
#30
Eggs cooked in cream, bacon and a small salad.
Second batch of eggs turned out better as I didn’t cook as long. Will cut back a bit on the cream next time. Was good!
robintemplin
(Robin)
#31
Thanks for the follow up and pics. I wonder if this would work in a little ramekin… in the oven or an or fryer? I bet so!
Shinita
#33
@never2late: Nice but I had fried pork, even better for me 
Though I can’t surely tell from far away. Last time I tried to make pork with crackling, it didn’t end up that well. It was nice but not as nice as my usual pork. I wonder what was the problem, probably both the meat and my non-existent skills at making skin crunchy. In the end (using my trusted pan) it was crunchy but hard. So the cats got half of it.
And I had rabbit stew as well 
No need for me to be envious.
And in a few days I will get meat from the very good local pig farm! 
Sadly they run out of pork chuck in no time but I got some other cuts. It’s good I have multiple favs though chuck is the best.
@Janie: How lovely colors…!!!
My photo isn’t as nice, as usual, I don’t mind, I can photo flowers better (but I should level up) and that’s what matters to me!
The beginning of my lunch (the thing in the metal bowl is egg pudding with goat milk, clove and vanilla):
I also had rabbit, more coffees with egg and milk, 3 pancakes and half a tin of sardines as well. And a bit of sausage. Stayed borderline hungry (actually, part of me said it’s barely satiated, part of me said it’s starving but I didn’t believe that), 170g protein, 100g fat, should be enough. For today but definitely for lunch! Seriously now…
never2late
#34
Shinita, now I’m the envious one, I would love to eat rabbit stew. That looks by the way like a fab OMAD meal. I’d surely have a go at it🙂
Shinita
#35
Rabbit is nice but mild. I prefer deer or pork for stew BUT rabbit is variety and we can get home-raised young rabbits multiple times a year… 
So we use the chance. It’s half as expensive as the cheapest beef. It’s less substantial too, similar to (some tasty) chicken…
It has many tiny bones and it makes the cats quite happy 
I like to play with bones sometimes myself. My SO goes for the hind legs, I find them boring, I rather eat the bony parts We are a good match at rabbit eating. He loves the lean breast I dislike too!
Janie
(Jane)
#36
No pics but I love to plan what I will eat when I break my fast. Only the smell of food triggers my hunger.
I get stuck in a rut making the same things over and over but when I am fasting I go back over my recipe folder on my laptop, looking for something I haven’t made in a while - or ever.
I made some green salsa out of roasting fresh tomatillos and some of my pickled garden peppers from last year. Turned out really good so I think I will use my instant pot and make some shredded chicken thighs and use low-carb wraps to make sour cream, green chili chicken enchiladas tomorrow for dinner. Better put Monterrey Jack cheese on my shopping list LOL.
It is still soup weather here (right at freezing this morning) so going to try a recipe I have for instant pot Rueben soup using the soup function. Never made it before but it has cream cheese, corned beef, sauerkraut and swiss cheese so I don’t know how you can go wrong with that combo!
Shinita
#37
Oh. I think every weather is great for soup but I am a Hungarian, we ate soup each and every year as it’s traditional… Nowadays I don’t do that because it’s work but I miss soup easily and quickly after I run out. Last time I started to miss it the next day but it wasn’t serious yet.
My last soup was bone broth mixed with rabbit stew jelly It was great! It wasn’t good without the rabbit stuff despite one of the bones had much meat on it. But not enough, apparently.
I have problems with imagine cheese in soup as I never ate such things but looking at the ingredients, yep, it sounds tasty
And I still don’t know what cream cheese is… One day I buy some but it’s something expensive I think. I rather buy mascarpone, that’s expensive too but not nearly that much (and it is used for different things I suppose)… I think we only have Philadelphia as cream cheese, at least I didn’t see anything else.
By the way, IDK what is with mascarpone prices, I have read and heard multiple times from people at other countries that it is something oh so expensive. It is not here. More expensive than whipping cream but it’s way more fattier and luxurious too… It’s significantly less expensive than any butter (and while that’s even fattier, it’s just a fancy fat, I can use way cheaper fats most of the time).
While Philadelphia is one of the most expensive dairy items, around the price of fancier butters.
(Of course one can buy expensive mascarpone, everything can be bought for a high price, after all but it’s normally not so expensive and quite good, I don’t want a better kind.)
Janie
(Jane)
#38
I am always amazed too at the difference in prices between countries. I learned to make my own Halloumi cheese because it was $8 for 8 oz - crazy!!!
Yes, Philadelphia cream cheese is the common variety but we can get generic brands a bit cheaper. Philly is $3/8 oz and generic is $2/8 oz.
I don’t know if I did the conversion right (using Google) but 226 g (8 oz) of the generic would be 696 Hungarian Forint.
Shinita
#39
When I looked it up before (maybe there are very different prices elsewhere but probably not), that was waaaaay more than that. Mascarpone is way cheaper, still expensive and I only have a few recipes for it so I rarely buy it. But it must happen a few times a year I only make desserts with it.
Our dairy prices doubled last year and even the war didn’t explain it so there was some riot and now the prices went down a little, at least for butter and cheese. Just slightly. Mascarpone kept its about 50% higher price but 50% is adorable, lots of our very basic food items doubled their price.
And we thought we are used to the high inflation of our country It was on another level after a war broke out in our neighbourhood. It’s a tad better now but if the food prices would keep raising, the poorest people would start to starve… Doubled prices for too many staples are no fun when the majority of your income (and not by a little) goes to food already and there is not much room to cut the costs.
No photo and it’s not a pretty dish anyway but I fried chicken liver today. A decent amount, 1000g. Why to work with less? It fits my pan nicely. There was a gallbladder but I noticed it and it was intact so all is well. I fried it in chicken fat and lard. That will be my SO’s lunch tomorrow. I never could eat just liver for a meal but my meals are even bigger than his and I don’t eat a bunch of carbs with it and a dessert afterwards… Well yes I eat dessert(s) afterwards but they are tiny and sometimes just a creamy coffee
Janie
(Jane)
#40
Sorry to hear that and makes me sad.
Food prices are up here also, but not as much as you have experienced. Pork is still one of the cheapest meats so I buy a large pork butt/shoulder and grind it up for sausage. I can get a ton of meals out of one pork butt! Eggs are way up so thankful for my hens.
Shinita
#41
Pork is something special. It barely went up and one kind (fresh ham, I like it though not nearly as much as chuck) has a price cap so it keeps its price. Beef doubled so it went from a rare treat to “no way” - but I still can buy deer here and then
Chicken legs on sale tripled. It’s still a cheap meat just not as insanely cheap as they were sometimes. Okay, that was very occasional even then but happened…
Chicken frame has a price cap so it’s just ridiculous It costs basically nothing, cheaper than ANY cat food… But it’s not so great. I buy it sometimes, I have 4 hungry cats who appreciate it…
Eggs went up, yep (and then they got a price cap) but they are still so precious, totally worth the price. People buy all kinds of stupid things, overprocessed treats, cigarettes, bad quality booze, extremely overpriced sugary coffees, I couldn’t afford or justify THOSE! I still eat 7 eggs a day as always but I just can’t imagine not to. Eggs are needed in every dish, basically. From my viewpoint… Even when I don’t want eggs and basically avoid egg dishes, they just add up.
Even grains are very expensive now, good thing I don’t eat them… Pasta went up more than 100%. Once cat food went up 100% in weeks. There was a time when we went to shopping, again after 2-3 weeks, saw many prices 30% up from last time and thought, oh, that’s expected, good thing it’s only that little… Those were dark times and my mental state suffered at each shopping.
I NEVER knew what is a good price for anything and I needed that to make decisions! So we assumed that 30% more than last time is a great price…
It’s good it stopped. And what the butter and cheese did, that was the first case in my life where prices actually went down. They don’t do that here. Just now, due to the very very aggressive rise before. So we buy cheese for only 50-80% more than a year ago. Wonderful.
The very expensive things (except beef) didn’t go up so much so now we have the interesting situation that the fancy-schmancy things often got close to the cheapest, on sale prices for items of similar type. Or even not similar like vegan not-cheese and not-meat to proper cheese and meat. Vegan weirdo items were always so very expensive compared to them but now they are close (well the few I actually looked at. I am a curious person and the supermarket papers are full with vegan stuff lately. people don’t really buy them but the shops want them to, something like that). I still can’t justify trying them as I am very aware they are bad in every way but one day my curiosity may win.
I saw an article about it and yep, the fancy, trendy, expensive diets (like vegan, keto, paleo… for some reason the article writers always imagine something very different than what I did. MY keto diet surely isn’t nearly as expensive, what do they think a ketoer eats? oh yep, almond flour, $30/kg or a bit less? I don’t follow it, never bought it expect once on sale and wasn’t impressed. and maybe they think that one keeps at 800g a week even when swap to erythritol? once I have read the average person use 800g sugar a week. I got shocked as I had waaaaaay less even with my sweets all the time!) got way closer to normal diets cost wise. While they costed 2-3 times as much before (due to the insane items one totally doesn’t need to use).
Booze didn’t go up much either. We think, I asked my SO who just came into the room. We drink very, very little (I am good at trying to pour a generous amount and end up with 14ml. and even he never drinks a whole bottle of beer. he could do it with a .33l one though). But as far as I saw, the prices are fine.
Janie
(Jane)
#42
Not pretty but tasty!
Low carb wraps (mine were half that size - street taco size)
One was filled with shredded chicken, cilantro, green onions, sour cream, Monterrey Jack cheese and homemade green chili sauce I made from roasting fresh tomatillos.
The other was filled with shredded cheese, green onions and red sauce I made from my garden tomatoes I put up in the freezer last summer.
eta: yes, there are a couple of bites gone out of the green chili one 
Shinita
#44
Part of my lunch though I haven’t eaten all the fried pork shoulder (and I better won’t as I already tracked 155g protein or what. my fat intake is anyone’s guess, pork shoulder data is all over the place and I used some fattier part of the slab that already lost most of its visible fat last time…):
Chicken soup with egg (but the soup had so very many pig bones and some skin that it made a pretty good aspic but I melted it), fried pork shoulder (from the nearby pig farm! 520g in raw weight, sounded a decent amount but as I can’t stop eating other things, it’s too much), cheese whisps, fried chicken skin, smoked ham (0.1% carbs as a proper ham should be if you ask me. and it’s a mere supermarket thing) and a tiny cheesy egg (about half an egg? it was leftover).
I had my usual 100% egg sponge cakes buns, sour cream and milk too.
I barely was hungry but it doesn’t mean I can eat little. Even if I start eating when very satiated (but it’s mid-afternoon or later already), I almost never eat little.
never2late
#45
My lunch today: grassfed ox liver and 4 of my pasture eggs from a local farm. The liver tasted better to me today, perhaps I did cook it a tad longer and it was that, I don’t know, but I found it worked very well with eggs, I think the liver taste is growing on me. It’s also a good thing to combine with the eggs, as eggs on their own don’t give me satiety.
