Sunflower oil in Tuna can

(Dirty Lazy Keto'er, Sucralose freak ;)) #68

I’ve had a couple different brands and they were both great. I can do tuna in water, but then I need a ton of mayo to go with it…

(Keto Koala 🐨) #69

I bought five cans of tuna today. I like to have it with cheese and mayo too. The oily stuff was too intense though. You know what I feel like right now, Fresh river trout. Ohhhh yum!! :fish::fish::fish:

#70

ok do you have that cold virus you got in a test tube somewhere and we can turn it into a pill and sell it cause I would love an easy fix to never want ice cream again HAHA

#71

Same here. Hubby and kid are eat everything people still. Kid is a tad more LC cause I got some nutrition info into her ear when younger and I fed her more LC when younger so I could ‘control’ that a tad and thankfully she learned well thru it and picked up some better eating patterns…but the hubby. Nope. Tried to get him on board and he ain’t having it LOL

And I did that, make keto/lc versions of foods/desserts for him and yea it is expensive to do that and then add in the fact they end up not liking the new subsititute concoction and money wasted! I hear ya on all this!

(Keto Koala 🐨) #72

Hahaha I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. It was friggin awful!! It lasted like a month. Hell, I probably got it from eating ice cream in the first place. I hear ya though. It was pretty damn good. Nice to the lips but not to the hips :joy:

#73

I can stand olive oil now and then and it suits certain dishes. But I still don’t like the taste normally… I have a tiny bottle of olive oil, I don’t remember why as I almost never use it. Definitely not in the last months. Oh yeah, I remember, olive oil, spices and Camembert, that’s nice. I keep the cheese in it for a while, is it call marinating? But for somewhat long. I know the Hungarian word, of course but English and food things, I am still confused sometimes. Despite I use the language since ages, a lot and I love food.

I will figure out the prices of my keto sweets and my SO’s super cheap carby sweet. My stuff is surely more expensive but I wonder how much (probably not too much, I don’t use pricy ingredients or just in tiny amounts) and they are way more nutritious too, full with protein and nice fats and everything egg yolks may offer while his only one is simple sugar with complex sugar (with some nutrients here and there I guess but mostly just energy for someone who functions well on carbs).
I don’t make lots of ice-cream only because my hands are quite full with 15+ leftover egg whites per week and I could use more egg yolks in my other, more important dishes. I do something about it in the future, it’s not like I don’t have ideas.

(Bob M) #74

If anyone goes to Costco, they often have a California olive oil that’s great. Read the label and if talks about three different olives, it’s a great oil.

I’m trying to avoid olive oil for a while. I’m trying to up my saturated fat and olive oil is too high in MUFAs.

#75

I went shopping and I have actually found a single canned fish with water in a hypermarket. So it exists here too.
I bought two with olive oil as they were cheaper (and still very expensive, it doesn’t worth it to eat them regularly, I doesn’t even like fish so much - but it’s nice for variety and emergencies. Eating food in rare occasions work differently, my priorities are different there a bit).

(Keto Koala 🐨) #76

I know what you mean. I’m not a huge tuna fan. It’s usually a last resort if I need a little pick me up or if I’m too lazy to cook :joy::joy::joy:

#77

I always preferred fatty meat. I am okay with fattier fish. Salmon is nice and nothing like the usual fish, my only big fish fav! There are other nice ones but tuna? Okay but nothing special (except in Japanese restaurants, fresh enough and raw…). I rather buy pork with that money :smiley: One have options without cooking and I always would cook for myself, food is pretty important for me, I just don’t want to play with it forever even though cooking is my hobby. So I usually fry things, that’s quite perfect for almost everything according to my taste.
I actually bought no tuna but I will next time. Mackerel sounded good, I like it but very rarely had it in my life.

(Keto Koala 🐨) #78

I get it, fattier meat is yummiest. I’m not that big on fish. I used to like the tuna in flavored basil and tomato but that’s a big no no on keto :joy:. I do like freshly caught river trout though but I hate having to cut them open and take the guts out and all the bones :nauseated_face:. I prefer eggs, beef, lamb, chicken and pork but mainly beef.

#79

Actually, nothing is banned on keto, you just have a carb limit and the amounts might be way too tiny for you… (Someone’s personal keto might have zillion extra rules but keto itself don’t have those).
I LOVE tomato and do my best to avoid it on keto. I still eat it, it’s me but if I would think I can eat tomato just fine as it’s low-carb, I would eat a lot and even if I wouldn’t, I would feel restricted and miserable :smiley: Better to treat it as my highest-carb items that I can consume on keto just fine, it’s all about the amounts.

My SO said no to slightly sugary tomato sauce (it’s a tiny can full with fish, it’s not much but really not needed) and I do carnivore anyway, olive oil then. I can add tomato if I wanted, without extra sweetness, the tomato puree I use is perfectly sweet, ripe tomatoes are sweet, after all, some kinds are even too sweet.

(Keto Koala 🐨) #80

I hate tomato on its own but loved it in the tuna cans :joy:. My fave veggie was always mushrooms. I really need to look up some low carb recipes for sauces because for example, tonight I had lamb cutlets. They were delish but I used to drown the things in mint sauce. So they wernt as exciting as usual. I cooked some for my partner and they had mint sauce. Will have to make something homemade to make it a tad more exciting.:smiley:. Sour cream on lamb is rough!! :joy::joy::joy:

#81

Sour cream is widely used in this country and I actually love it but had none for years when I took avoiding lactose quite seriously. I still don’t want to eat lactose but sour and heavy cream are so good, I use little but not zero like before. I never thought about eating it with meat, it suits vegetables better especially legumes so I don’t really need it, I just like to eat some now and then, I gladly eat anything I like alone except spices (not too spicy mustard is fine alone, I did it often as a kid. not too strong vinegar works too but that was more like showing off than pure joy like eating mustard. I love vinegar and it is great with sour cream in some soups or veggie dishes. At least for people like me. I prefer the sourest sour cream I can find. But lemon is too sour for me).
Mint sauce? Sounds interesting and potentially odd but tastes differ, after all. I never use mint in anything and I don’t need sauces most of the time. I have a spicy tomato sauce but it’s more vegetable for me than spice and now I do a tad stricter carnivore (kind of. every animal products are fine but adding vegetables? if it’s in the stew, okay but putting tomato on my eggs when they are perfectly edible without? nope). I barely ever used sauces, actually, I am a simple one, I fry things, I ate them with raw vegetables and mustard, that’s it. If I need something because my fried meat is a bit dry and I miss some flavor too, I use some soy sauce, I don’t give that up but it’s rarely needed.

(Keto Koala 🐨) #82

I love mustard but cannot for the life of me find any decent mustard in the shops that don’t have hidden carbs and sugar. I bought two types but then rechecked the ingredients when I got home and they had sugar in them. I love crunching mustard seeds :joy:. Kraft mustard in a bottle was filled with crap. Have to keep taking things that I thought were keto but are actually non keto to the food bank :joy:. Hey, at least someone benefits. I love love LOVE vinigar. Maybe a little too much. As a teen my go to snack was brown vinigar in a cup with mashed up cheese thrown in with it and salt. :flushed:. Pretty gross now that I think about it :nauseated_face:. I love anything really sour yet I hate anything that tastes bitter. Yeah sour cream with meat is pretty gross unless it’s ground beef, I find. I used to love it in pumpkin soup. Yeah mint sauce is an acquired taste you either love it or you don’t.

(Hyperbole- best thing in the universe!) #83

Shredded cheese + sour cream + hot sauce… perfect midnight snack. I know we aren’t big fans of midnight snacking around here, but it happens and I love this one.

I’ve also been known to savor a spoonful of dijon. Well. I wasn’t known to, as I have always done it in secret where no one can make fun of me but myself. But I guess I’m know to now!

#84

I am very choosy about my mustard… And I do my best to avoid sugar. Yeah, it’s tiny and when I eat fruit or even vegetables, that is sugar too but still, I don’t want sugar in the 1-2 products with more than one ingredient I actually buy. I found a nice one with erythritol in a webshop so I use that now. And I make my own mustard, it’s okay in dishes where great flavors mask its imperfectness… But it’s not good, not creamy, doesn’t work on top of my things. Oh well, I am sure mustard is just some temporal solution, I barely left vegetables behind… I use less and less of it. But I probably always will use some in certain dishes.

Do you eat pickled eggs? I heard about them just lately, it’s not a thing in this country and it’s time to make another bunch!

(Keto Koala 🐨) #85

Pickled eggs, I’ve heard their name before but never actually seen them I live in Australia so to get them here would probably have to go to some special market deli or something. I live in a small country city so I’m not sure if they would have them here. Interesting though. Will look them up. Do you like Dill cucumbers? I eat mainly meat now but they are great for a little snack or side dish. Have to watch the label on the jar of course but you can get them in natural water or brine.

#86

I can’t snack, if I eat a bite, it becomes a full-blown meal, almost always, be it midnight or 3am… I better avoid it. But it doesn’t matter, a good snack is a good snack as part of my meal!
I can’t imagine what is it like, I never ate anything similar, ever, I guess but maybe I will try it soon. The ingredients sound quite good and don’t clash…
I snacked on sour cream with red pepper, mustard, pickles and green peas as a kid. It was my simplified russian/olivier salad, that’s very popular in this country and people makes it with mayonnaise but my Mom made it with sour cream mixed with mustard (and it might not contain red pepper at all but it never stopped me. it was in the deviled eggs on top of the original salad made by my Mom anyway). I like to skip the not highly important ingredients from dishes and I did it very extensively in this case but I enjoyed the result and it was similar enough to the original according to my taste.

I dislike mayonnaise, it’s horribly fatty to me but maybe because I never did it with bacon grease - smoked ham in my case as I have that…
But I remembered another sauce, I almost never use it (I did it only a few years ago, maybe?) but it’s nice. Egg yolk, tomato puree, herbs, salt, vinegar. I put that on my boiled eggs. It’s to my liking as I love the ingredients. If I add much more tomato puree, water and use a hand blender, that’s my quick tomato soup, it’s a variant of egg milk.

#87

Oh yeah, I almost forget people always buy things ready.
I obviously made my own, it’s simple. Vinegar, water, some… stuff…? Mustard seeds, maybe and I don’t know what else but I need mostly the vinegar, I have a nice tarragon flavored one. There are lots of recipes. It’s interesting and becomes brown if I use a dark balsamic vinegar but that’s very sweet, I usually mix it with some other vinegar.
Dill cucumbers are okay but I prefer pickles. My SO hates dill cucumbers and likes pickled vegetables (not eggs, never eggs! he can’t eat them). Pickles has sugar or some bad sweetener or both, I only find some without once. But it’s little enough, I still buy pickles a few times a year.