I started to wrote this 2 days ago but the photo was delayed, I lost some interest… But here it is. This thread gave me thoughts again… But I feel I enter a phase where I won’t think about food this much.
I don’t eat them together, that would be two not satiating meat together, I need red meat. I had pork, a tiny beef and rabbit today as far as meat was concerned.
We have so many things to eat and I am not so hungry so I put the duck wings into the freezer for now.
And this rabbit was fat again, it was lovely! I almost made a little rabbit scratchings but it took more time than the organs and poor mild rabbit liver got a bit dry already… Next time we won’t cook it separately, it will be nice in stew.
The rabbit stew was made over open fire, I made the fire, put things on it and went in. Alvaro was cold and didn’t see the food from the steam and decided it’s ready when it had a burnt smell But it’s good, even the black pieces weren’t too bad. But poor dish had zero liquid I love when it has some and it becomes jelly… Oh well.
Only 3 limbs remained. The days when Alvaro ate his share for 3 days are over…
I wonder what happens when I taste erythritol again. I don’t expect a big change yet. I run out of it several months ago, it already wasn’t my fav sweetener (that’s xylitol) but I never had problems with it. It’s sweet.
In the months since I used some xylitol but very, very rarely and little. Even on my off days, I just stopped wanting sweetened desserts. I mean, it’s not common now, I still love walnut pancakes, they are amazing My sweetener intake became so tiny in 2023 that it just doesn’t matter if I use xylitol or erythritol, the net carb content is irrelevant in both cases… I didn’t eat much even before but this year brought a big change! I expect it getting even better in the future. As my sweet perception still keeps changing… I am quite close to feel my lactose sweetened desserts really, perfectly sweet. Some desserts still need to be really sweet for me but I am fine with almost neutral ones too, it depends.
And I have more and more days when I am quite fine without any desserts. It was very rare until recently. I am bad with time but I do remember wanting desserts all the time not long ago…
I only hated the other sweeteners (horrid taste), sugar alcohols are the okay ones for me. But sweeteners and sweetness are overrated, I feel it stronger and stronger as time passes. As long as I have my dairy selection, I feel pretty content dessert wise. (Fruit is another group and matter but as long as I have my lemon, it’s fine for a while in winter.)
I had that problem for a very long time. It seems I am better even there. I eat off a bit… And while I may still thing I can go further then, at least I only do that with very low-carb items as I don’t want to cross a line with carbs. But I don’t even want more non-animal carbs if I already ate some so I don’t have those extra struggles after off eating many have.
The biggest issue with my current mildly rebellious free phase that I eat in a too big window in the weekend (and a tad too much coffee again)… But the rabbit was ready so early I barely could ate dinner, I was so not hungry (I even left some rich scrambled eggs, who does that? me when I can’t eat more, apparently) but it’s better eating dinner with Alvaro than a midnight meal…
That’s when I usually eat my processed meat. Or a slice of cheese with a sponge cake. Or sour cream with a sponge cake. If I am still hungry afterwards, I often can eat some more fried pork again
I eat dessert when I specifically want dessert (or when I can’t stomach anything else). But I still want it to be satiating (usually. it’s rare when I am satiated but want crunchy biscuits. very unfortunate as I can’t make biscuits if my life depends on it and I don’t buy biscuits, they aren’t good for me) so I still can’t go far from carnivore. Carby desserts aren’t as good as keto ones anyway so that part is fine. There are lovely irreplaceable crunchy non-carnivore savory treats though. Usually still quite low-carb so it’s not THAT bad but I am glad I don’t need to fight my peanut addiction on carnivore… I would lose in a heartbeat. Crunchy is my weak point. I have cheese whisps and scratchings but sometimes they aren’t an option or not what I want. It’s not too bad but I am still evolving anyway.
I never ever would throw out carby food myself, we just eat it. Well, Alvaro does, usually We plan well, don’t buy or cook what we (Alvaro. he learned I probably won’t help much anymore) can’t eat. Or he sacrifices himself, sometimes he cooks a bit too much but he learns from it But we never throw out anything even then.
Most of my food is so freezable on carnivore, that’s neat. And the cats would gladly eat it up anyway, I rarely have spicy stuff and I lightly salt… But nope, it’s all (well, mostly, Ginger is hard to resist…) mine.
I don’t understand these moldy breads. Our house is usually pretty humid but we never have moldy bread. My bread dries, never gets moldy… Let’s blame food industry? Probably. I need to be careful with my sponge cakes though, sometimes I was distracted and didn’t eat them up quickly and they are a bit moist, being 100% egg so they are able to get moldy. But it takes a few days and they rarely live that long. When they do, I use the fridge now.
Alvaro’s Mom freezes bread, I learned from her it works. We don’t do that to Alvaro’s bread, I put my keto (or hybrid) bread there a few times… But my sponge cake buns are so much better…
So food wasting is on the people. It’s not necessary on high-carb. Knowing people, yep, it happens way often there especially compared to not only low-carb but carnivore. But not everyone wastes their carby food. It’s a few small pieces of spoiled vegs per year in this household. We never throw out a tiny bit of bread. I can’t even make more than a spoonful of breadcrumbs per year (good as I wouldn’t know what to do with it, I have one recipe with it and another has it optionally) as Alvaro happily eats up 5 days old rock hard bread (it’s dense and dark even when fresh, he likes that). The softest rock available but still.
Good. Throwing out moldy bread, obviously. Other carbs, ouch but I can handle hearing about it sometimes. But throwing out eggs (especially yolks… ) and meat (especially fancy ones I never can afford), that hits hard. And it happens
I never was compatible with having zillion different cakes and whatnots for holidays. Mom had that mindset and I hate the stressful environment and lost all my interest in food when I faces way too big variety and huge amounts. As Mom barely ate some. She expected me to eat up everything. It’s tahnks to my good genes (and my inability to eat just any amount. I did eat much but not super insane much) I wasn’t an obese kid. Just a bit overweight.
Exactly my feelings (and usually some extra physical ones too) after 1-2 days of carbier eating And that’s still low-carb but too carby and complicated… It’s impossible for me to want back to carnivore when I go off. Even when I decide oh, I need the freedom and meat is boring and I need to get it and it’s not always trivial… And there are some still tempting old favs… I very quickly lose this.
I imagine I would do more carnivore if I could afford ruminant meat. Maybe not, pork is what I can eat in bigger amounts nearly every day. But ruminant meat is very much not pork and still satiating and tasty so it could help a bit. Next time in the city I will try to get some deer and/or mutton again! It’s not like I can’t buy some for my “bored of pork” times… It’s just harder to get than pork, I do love tender pork when I still am not bored of it… But I suppose I need a bit more ruminant meat for variety than I have thought.
Oh, you aren’t the type to pack your own food? I prefer to do that My normal food is very good for me even when cold but I would just pack it selectively if I wasn’t like this… I rarely like to get whatever I can, I am way choosier than in the past. I want my own food or something similarly good.
And a fresh thing… We had SNOW. Not even a super tiny bit. Not much but still, very much visible for hours We are below frost a little so it melted but we had it. There were some snowflakes in the weekend too but today had more. But it’s on/off sunny, not bad. Tomorrow’s forecast says rain in the whole country or close so it probably will happen.
We pick up the car today and the letter from the tax authority, it’s surely about the millions I need to pay. Less to worry about. Hungarian Forint doesn’t worth much, hence the really big looking numbers. It’s not like I inherited so very much. Significant though especially for us.