I tried to find some recipes (OH MY now I can’t even use carnivore recipes as they too often have dairy… and pork rinds I can’t get…) and stumbled upon some carnivore articles… It’s always the same when the author voices their opinions and makes statements… I soooo can’t relate in many cases.
I wouldn’t even say meat is boring and it’s probably the most boring for me in this thread. It wouldn’t be boring if I had a more variety (I am fine without seafood but SOME here and there still would help a lot I imagine… but we have nearly zero variety and they are usually super expensive while I know they can’t be substantial and tasty enough… except salmon, that’s good) and if I had some more recipes, maybe, very simple ones. I just stopped eating roasts with the occasional stews, I am a bit lost as I never cooked meat before carnivore. But it will be fine I usually just use my usual mincemeat+egg+sausage spice mix now.
But being all dramatic… “It is an incredibly restrictive diet. You can’t even have olive oil!”
It’s good I hate olive oil. Cravings are actually no problems for me when on carnivore as my attitude towards food changes and I lose about all my desire to eat food when it’s not to quell my hunger. I go off because I just can’t eat my food anymore, run out of my food, eat at a relative or rather when things just… happen. I will focus on the reason in the future… Yeah, it’s individual, a decade on low-carb surely helps, it’s not like I started my first carni trial after eating half a cake or something, I already was used to very low-carb and liked it enough. Not that. But the author mentioned spinach I imagine the newbie carnivore wanting spinach
One of the worst tasting food item in existence, well okay I hate greens, sorry, surely many people love spinach, Alvaro likes it enough but handles the lack of it pretty well. It was always him to cook it as I dislike making food I find inedible.
I wouldn’t call carnivore (my definition: animal products and not very much sugar either) extremely restrictive… Now. But it’s not, still so many options! But the best thing is that it wonderfully lowers my need for variety in a meaning that many food groups is included… When I did NOTHING but stopped eating vegetables, my food instantly became less boring. Who cares how restrictive something is just looking at the options if we simply don’t feel that? I don’t want to brag about my food options being sooo plentiful and my dishes exciting… I just want to feel happy enough with my food. If someone eats beef and drink water only and they are happy with it, it sounds better than someone on low-carb being utterly miserable without their mounds of potatoes or something.
It’s not even 1pm, I ate a lot yesterday and I already feel a tad hungry (and my stomach is growling, it’s very rare). I have no appetite, it’s something I won’t eat yet, I walk first! I fried a little beef and made patties from some other. And got out some pork too, Alvaro probably will need most of our current meat supply in the weekend. But we had 1.5kg beef, not below 1kg, it’s good news. This beef leg slab has more tendons than usual but still not much and leg is the least expensive cut available while it tastes pretty good.
So I will cure my starting meat boredom with beef. Yay! Quick pan fried beef isn’t as tender as a stew but hopefully I will be able to handle most of it and I make the cats happy with the tiny leftover pieces. Cats are amazing. I give them super hard, chewy parts and they eat it like normal, desirable food. They probably swallow big things whole too, something that wouldn’t feel nice at all to me.
Oh. My fat adaptation made that kind of hunger go away for good, it was amazing.
And carnivore is even better than anything else, hunger is soft though can be quite urging… Poor you. I hated my sudden sharp attention seeker hunger of the past…
I have too few teeth at 45… That’s one part of my health that’s not good… But since I eat very low-carb, they don’t go bad all the time, it seems… They still do it as the gum doesn’t cover all the sensitive roots but it’s slow and only affect a few teeth. I avoid my dentist now, it was traumatic last time, too many insanely painful injections, none of my other dentists were that bad… But not eating afterwards were quite easy, I had my first natural 40-something hour fast since decades after a session, I lost all my appetite and my body was cute enough not to give me hunger or weakness either.
When I was younger, I had to go to the dentist nearly every year, for months sometimes… I spent a fortune on my teeth and it’s without implants. I never trusted free dentists (with Hungary’s healthcare, they exist, certain items still cost money but not the filling, pulling, work of the dentist themselves).
But when I eat meat, I wonder why I can’t choose the sharpness of my artificial teeth? Just a bit more sharpness would be nice… And when the upper first teeth get a crown, they get way thicker, blunter… Sigh.
Back to food. I always have so many thoughts about it… I saw it and makes sense… That we can mix organs and muscle meat. I surely will try that out! Not like I couldn’t simply eat liver as a side dish but grounding and mixing them must be different! Sounds good to me.
So I have some ideas for variety before I totally give up my unusually restrictive style. And Alv will make goulash I am so good at this now though. Maybe I should tell him it should be stew instead. We will go city shopping very soon, let’s postpone the carbier dishes… It’s not like he is adamant to do it… We never had it every year anyway so living without it isn’t a big deal. It’s just a nice idea, an experiment (beef mixed with pork) and one of the tastiest dishes in existence…
But stew is very nearly as good. Goulash is basically a bit watery stew - as it’s a rich soup - with carrots and potatoes. But we didn’t make it while I had my off times and now I am stubbornly strict for a tiiiny while. So not now.
I am so rarely this determined, I want to keep my momentum!
I still drink coffees…