Sources of high quality non-conventional keto friendly foods

(Todd Allen) #1

Many grocery stores now carry grass fed lean ground beef. And a few will carry expensive grass fed beef steaks with a little better fat content. But it’s hard to find an organic pastured “specialty items” like a roast with the full fat cap untrimmed, or organ meats, or bones or tallow. And even harder to find these things as pork, lamb, goose, etc.

Hunting online I’ve found a place here in the midwest where one can order some of these things but I’d like to read reviews and do some comparison shopping. Is there such a thread here in these forums that I’ve missed or should I look elsewhere on the internet?

If not, is such a topic only welcome in the spam section or is it ok for general discussion here?

(Gloria) #2

I live in the northern Chicago suburbs and farmer’s markets in my area include pastured meat vendors. At least one of them delivers monthly during the winter over quite a wide area of Northeastern Illinois (for just myself, I just stock up near the end of farmer’s market season). The meat comes frozen. I can’t vouch for fat on roasts, but I can get beef organs, fat, and bones, as well as pork meat and fat, various sausages, and chicken including eggs, liver and gizzards. Don’t know if your access to something like this where you live.

I can’t remember the website that I used, but I’m sure there are others.

(Todd Allen) #3

If you still have a package of meat in your freezer and it has the name of the supplier on it, I’d be interested to know it.

The first place I considered was butcherbox which I found through Jiimmy Moore’s podcast. But it was fairly expensive and appears to just be meat. I found another place, https://sevensons.net/ which offers more of what I am seeking, organs, bones & fat, though just for beef, pork, lamb and chicken. I placed an order getting a sample of each of the available organ, bone and fat offering and have my fingers crossed that the quality will be good and it will merit future buys. Their model is they send out trucks to various locations for pick up in a region spanning Chicago, Detroit, Colombus and Indianapolis roughly monthly. The truck only stay at each stop for about one hour so it’s not super convenient but it avoids the high shipping costs of mail order. You have to have your order in several days in advance of the pickup date and it spurred me to get my order in for a local March 4th pickup. I’ll likely post a follow up after having tried some of my items.

(Sondra Rose) #4

My sources wherever I live are www.eatwild.com, the Farmers Market and the local food coop. Also, many local farmers will do CSAs.

The agriculture departments of some land-grant universities will sell their products. Here in Tucson, I can get grass-finished beef and lamb from the University of Arizona. Great prices, too!

(Todd Allen) #5

Thanks for eatwild.com it has given me a bunch of possibilities to investigate.

(Brian Kline) #6

Thank you for eatwild.com. That is a great find.

(Michelle) #7

Glad to see Wallace Farms on here. I’ve always had very good service and food from them. They have a delivery service to many places in Illinois and Iowa

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(Gloria) #8

The Greyslake Farmers market has 2 or 3 meat vendors. I looked on line, but they don’t have the list of vendors yet for this upcoming season.

The vendor I usually buy from is Farmer Nick. You can find them on Facebook–I am not on Facebook, so I can’t see everything they post. Somewhere there are pictures of the boards they have with their products and prices. I use them because they also come to several other farmer’s markets closer to where I live.

Have you checked out farmers markets in your area?

(Gloria) #9

I just found the photos. Don’t know how current the prices are.






(Todd Allen) #10

I’ve been to a couple near by farmer’s markets but they both are mostly produce. The non-produce items don’t require refrigeration and the only meats I’ve seen are jerky and cured meats like summer sausage, etc.