Have come down with a stinker of a cold, so this may not be my best worded post ever, but I came across a blog recently called Tender Grassfed Meat and I’ve been reading several of the blog writer’s posts which I found very interesting. One of those blog posts was titled The Magic of Meat and Potatoes and Fat, and it’s an interesting read, claiming that potatoes, when combined with fat, does not have the same impact on the body, on insulin, as when eaten on their own. But it makes sense, when thinking about how my ancestors would have eaten potatoes traditionally, they would have either baked them with cream and butter, or served them with butter. My ancestors ate a lot of fish, more so than meat perhaps, and potatoes with everything. And the traditional spices they would have used and still use are salt and pepper. So it was really interesting reading this article and finding that this way of eating was common in other places in the world as well as Europe, before the introduction of the current food pyramid.
On a side note, I’ve been thinking of incorporating potatoes (organic, thus pesticide and chemical free) into my WOE, as I believe they could be beneficial. I realise they’re not considered a keto food per se, but I’m already drinking a glass of raw milk a day, and I suppose that isn’t really considered keto either. But I am more interested in how people would have eaten traditionally, and what actually worked for them. And potatoes aren’t really associated with diabetes and obesity, it tends to be the refined grains and processed foods that are the culprits. I will also be buying some grassfed organ meats, and incorporate them into this WOE, so it’ll mainly be raw milk, pastured eggs, some grassfed organ meats, grassfed beef or pastured pork dripping and potatoes, and I think that’s how the older generations would have traditionally eaten, before meat and saturated fat was demonised.
Anyway, here is the article if anyone is interested. Any thoughts and opinions are welcome. Do any of you eat potatoes or would you consider that a NO on keto?
http://www.tendergrassfedmeat.com/2010/10/15/the-magic-of-meat-and-potatoes—and-fat/
And even if one could eat just a bit, it’s not a good choice for most ketoers. It’s just a mild bite, we could use those precious (if they are that. they were on my original keto) carbs on better stuff that gives us more benefits. And some of us just can’t say at 1 potatoes in some circumstances (my experience from last time when I faced a bowl of potatoes boiled in their skin. I actually ate one small. in that minute. I was hungry later too).
Like fruit. Or a walnut pancake (carnivore pancake, of course except the filling). Or chocolate. Even honey, we have a wonderful nutty one now. That was I would only eat a few grams of extra carbs. Potato brings 15 even if I am super disciplined and deep-fry a tiny one (but if we don’t have a tiny one just a small one, it’s already 20. and I don’t count the onion that probably would follow, they are GREAT together). I prefer my potato fried as that is the most joyful for me, I eat it the slowest and the potato itself has the lowest carb/calories ratio due to the fat. And I get potato (and probably onion) flavored fat out of it. But I hate deep-frying anything so it’s a few times a year. Because a spiralled potato with 100% crunch and fun is so very tempting.
More power to ya!!