After shopping relaxing lengthy comment. I tend to do those.
Stupid day again. Too gloomy, rain in the morning, in the end we just went to the nearby bigger town (not really big but it has the usual supermarket chains) and did a big shopping. I don’t like that. Except the result. Not the lack of money but the nice supplies! I didn’t find everything so no bacon for Halloween yet (I would like to repeat those bacon covered hands I did last year but maybe I should make feet or something…? maybe a tiny figure…) but we bought lots of dairy and meat. And other stuff. Alvaro focused on fruits (because we only have like 200-250 jars full with our own… okay, not any kind) and grains and lots of various nuts.
I have a slight headache now. I will go out later. I need more fresh air. IDK how people do it without a decent amount every day, I can’t stand that. If I don’t go for a walk, I still go out to do something on the terrace and I am used to truly fresh air here. WAY more trees than people, lovely.
I have tracked, kind of. I mean I did but the accuracy…? But it can’t be too bad. It’s just impossible to track chicken despite my efforts in the past. It’s a hen anyway, very different from young ones. Way tougher (I got a burn when I took apart some hot wing, hot for the temperature here, I only used Tandoori Masala, nothing spicy… those tendons are serious! the meat isn’t tender either but it’s not a problem) but tastier! And it makes a good soup, that’s why I buy hens to begin with.
So. For yesterday, 140g protein and a bit more fat, guesstimation says. Yeah because I may focus on leanish pork but my accidental “brioches” required some decent amount of butter. And cream cheese is very fatty while very nice… So yes, my fat intake can’t be kept low without constant vigilance on some days. I had a nice walk so it’s fine I guess. I just need to focus on meat more. I looked back and yeah, I can’t manage to eat more than 50% of my guesstimated calories from meat. And it almost always mean too much fat.
So, I will be more careful with cream cheese, that 20g butter on the whole week (almost) is something I refuse to feel bad about. It’s very modest. I love butter. And my meat wasn’t super enjoyable this week though it was quite fine, no problem. I am looking forward to eat pork loin though (it’s in the oven), so much better than green ham. Not just fine (in moderation) but very enjoyable.
I had lunch early yesterday, at 1pm but I felt no hunger or desire to eat until 7pm. But I managed to undereat protein so I needed a second and a third dinner too. The protein minimum had to be respected as usual.
Today we ate after our shopping, just a small meal for me as I had about zero normal meat. But it was enough and I will have a nice roasted pork loin dinner. That does good to my protein intake without adding a ton of fat. Instead of cream cheese, I eat my fav, very flavorful Camembert with my leftover sponge cakes. It doesn’t last long and I won’t bake with it this time so we will focus on it for a while. A little while, it’s not hard to eat 250g of it…
For the next week, I try to push my first meal as much as comfortably possible, NO coffee with calories before 3pm anyway… And lovely meats not needing a bunch of eggs and dairy as I can eat enough of them. Actually, that is more important than lunch skipping but it would be nice to do that too, now and then. I want my fat fast days back, they are useful.
Both LIDL and ALDI put their light pork loin on sale… Light pork loin, wow. What is that, 1% fat? Less? shudder Okay, okay, some people love lean meat, nothing is wrong with that. I am just highly incompatible with that. I used to think pork loin is way too lean to begin with but well, I have changed or rather, figured out that if I roast the stuff, it becomes something amazing. I noticed that it’s worth it to try to cook something myself (and not just once) before I give up on it…
It’s even possible that light pork loin is boderline edible! I love mine, after all and it has lean parts and those are nice and juicy and tasty too. IDK if the lack of the tiny fat cap could ruin that. I won’t try. BUT I ate some very lean green ham (half of Alvaro’s one) and it was okay for hungry me and loin is better. So it would work I suppose. I can eat even chicken breast when made right and it has that off-putting texture too… Cooked in something wet helps with that somewhat.
Oh! I noticed yesterday that I don’t eat dessert now. Unless we consider coffee dessert, it totally is but I used to want a solid dessert too. Nice. Simpler. I may get lazier and lazier regarding cooking… Baking is a bit different, it’s a hobby.
Alvaro cooked a substantial veggie dish and a mushroom dish for himself yesterday so I only need to provide him for the main protein for some days. No cheesy fluffs I fear as I run out of egg whites (I need it for my egg milk) but he seems to be accepting meat without any problem. He got green ham, hen and now comes his fav, pork loin. And if he will get bored of meat, hopefully we still will have some eggs left. We are running low again and I happily eat sponge cakes now. The accidental brioches happened when I put a substantial amount of milk powder into 2 of them. It’s so good… But it’s not as protein rich as my food should be so I better won’t make a batch Only a few every time, maybe. I will experiment, I will try to put some butter inside… Maybe extra yolks, I need the extra whites anyway… And as little milk powder as possible. A little is nice, I get these brown-reddish, richer, sweet little brioche things. I still love sweet things but this one is almost nostalgic despite being pretty far from brioche (or it depends. skipping flour is very normal for me, it’s not like most things need it, pancakes are better without any too… and who needs raised dough when we can have whipped whites and yolks combined? not the same but I don’t miss anything).
And now IDK if it’s okay here despite it’s totally pure carnivore in my books as it’s 100% animal stuff and not even the most sugary powder I have (that’s the pretty useless whey powder). You pry my milk powder from my cold dead hands - or wait some months or years when my phase will end (but I still keep it, I just won’t use it all the time). I do try to use it in small amounts. But it’s very lovely. I don’t have many carnivore flour options especially for desserts.