I had frozen pipes the other week and it was “only” -10C for a few days. Seeing how low the temps are across America and Canada, I’m amazed your pipes have held so well up to this point.
I hope this terrible weather eases quickly for you all.
Merry Christmas, ZC friends.
I just came to tell Merry Christmas (and obviously can’t stop there)! 
Keep up the good work you are doing, that’s for you and let me be climb out of the deepest pit of messed up eating I managed to fall into. I got reintroduced with my compulsive eating again. It’s not fun (it would be fine with OMAD but I can’t do that now). But I feel pretty fine just a bit full sometimes. The family Christmas visit (only 3 of us was there this time) is over… Alvaro eats up the stuff we got with great speed (one is a meaty dish, that’s very traditional and nice though it has some carbs too) and already started to worry about his figure. He will go running later. His activity dropped (his multiple weeks winter holiday started a few days ago) and he always immediately starts to gain fat when it happens, he NEEDS being active to avoid that. Eating more doesn’t help either, it seems certain treats trigger his compulsive eating too and he doesn’t have my epic maintenance/stall skills.
We only bought some stuff yesterday, we went late and shops closed early but we have some nice sour cream with 25% fat Most sour cream is only 20% here (and there is the 12% one I never would touch) so 25% is special ;). And I grabbed a piece of leanish pork with the price cap. As no room in the freezer, I will cook it soon, all of it becomes mincemeat and then Scotch eggs and other things.
We didn’t eat the tiny seafood we got yet but I have other plans first so that will come much later.
It’s 10C now but it feels so much warmer. I couldn’t stand the cardigan during my walk for long so I was in t-shirt at least half of the time.
We heat all day too so the house is pleasantly warm now, I don’t even need to heat in my room and that’s good as that’s complicated. It’s 19.4C in my room now, wow.
Up quite early today even though it was fairly late getting off to sleep as my neighbour had some music playing till late. I never mind as it wasnt over loud and they don’t do it often these days.
Got an hour and a half plus reading in this morning before gettin bathed and hair done prior to picking Raymond up for our xmas dinner.
Had a super lovely time with everyone at the Sally Army. They did a meal to be proud of even if i did only eat the Turkey and Pigs in Blankets. We chatted to those sitting at our table and the watched the Kings Speech on the big TV. I was pleasantly surprised at how well our new King came across. The guests were generally older than me but there were a couple that were younger, most were people who live alone without family to spend time with and a few with mental health issues though nothing disruptive or really serious. I enjoyed chatting to them. I felt a little like an imposter because i am so used to spending xmas on my own and have never felt lonely.
We were all given a little xmas pressie to take home to unwrap and those who wanted it were given a takeway of the leftovers so they could have a meal tomorrow. I brought home a little bit of Turkey but it wasn’t enough for me as i had only had a small amount at the sit down meal so i made a load of chicken wings and have been a bot of gannet as there are just 2 left which will probably go down the hatch in an hour or so.
I will be off to bed about 9/10ish and tomorrow pick Ben up and go to my daughters for the day oh busy busy.!
Merry Christmas carnivores. Made something hard to find today
Chicken liver, veal thymus, bone marrow, sheep testicles and lungs. Was very good, lungs were perfectly cooked. Oh yah, and bacon 
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Well hubby didn’t make it home for Christmas he didn’t get back from Alabama til 7 am to drop his trailer and has another load going to Georgia tonight so I told him it wasn’t wise to try to push it home and back…
But I did cook the meat in the smoker tonight and hopefully he back the 27th …
So I didn’t over eat didn’t eat off plan at all and plenty of cooked meat…
A standing rib roast and a tri tip
Merry Christmas all and Happy Boxer Day in UK 
! @Fangs you’re headed for the beach today, enjoy!
Good to recognize that @Shinita and to show my deepest fears… I’m very proud of myself AND very aware I’m always 1 baby step from that cliff of no return. You’re brave to keep soldiering on, you can do it!
A sweet Christmas for us. Hubby went with me to the little ranch church and we played Christmas songs, our books of lyrics in hand for the folks to sing. I unwrapped a couple pigs in blankets to share the sausage with Mimsy, who was on her best behavior once I hogtied her on my lap lol.
Around 3 I fried a pound of bacon - was cheap because of irregular slices, $4/lb, so that will be in my cart from now on! And 3 eggs, hubby had his with his sides.
I am not brave, I don’t have many options 
I was wild, no way I stay there, ew. It doesn’t worth it but compulsion is against hedonism so often 
I want to lose that I thought I got so much better I don’t worry too much as I know that December is especially difficult for me and I won’t have this situation for another year. And hopefully I will be much better then. One important step towards it to do my next 5 months as carnivore as comfortably possible. I can’t imagine it wouldn’t make a huge impact!
We will see what today will bring. I cooked a simple veggie dish as there was leftover and Alvaro said he can’t do it At least he did the worst part, cutting the ingredients to tiny pieces, my pork (should be leanish but it has so much nice fat on it… some fattier parts went to the oven) is roasting and I have plenty of mincemeat (the blade went too close to the part where I could grab it so it cut me). It will become 6 scotch eggs* and 6 meatballs soon. And Alvaro made my old fav potato dish. With lots of sausages. I am a bit torn as I don’t want it but it is there and it’s still December when I already don’t expect anything from myself… We will see. I do like to feel better than “okay-ish” And I have fresh pork!
I don’t think I had a less meaty/eggy period in my life since years (maybe I did but I don’t remember)… It’s so weird. I ate lots of dairy, at least (lots of cheese mostly Camambert and Masdaam, I love both). I barely ate egg dishes at all.
Now I know how to make boiled eggs with runny yolks - it’s exciting if they will stay runny while in the oven…
We have that price on sale, maybe not the best ones, I don’t know as I never bought expensive bacon, just the ones on a big sale, maybe 10 times in my whole life? Wasn’t impressed. But now I have tiny bacon cubes, they are always about half price compared to the slices…
I looked at my neglected processed meats. Some people have problems with my wording, it’s sausage and ham, pretty okay. One has MSG and I usually avoid it like the plague but it has lots of beef (it’s a pork/beef sausage) and looked nice and it’s soooo hard to get completely fine things and I was tired of shopping… But the others are good.
As my seafood desires passed after eating smoked mackerel, I postponed it to New Year’s Eve.
We have tinned cod liver (Alvaro must try it. I only bought it once and ate up the whole thing, it was quite tasty! and the oil is its own :D), a big jar of tuna (for tuna, I mean. many times bigger than the usual lil can!), a small box of seafood…
wow on the wonderful food pics on the board
I hope everyone had a stellar holiday for those celebrating. All good here mostly. Fun day tho.
@JJFiddle, gonna head out tomorrow instead of today. got issues with the such low temps with the rv actually, but will be ready to roll tomorrow. Which is fine, we didn’t wanna do tons of work yesterday packing rv and all LOL
kinda good students cancelled so now ya got some time enjoy it you busy lady!!
My standing rib roast was just ok. See when I cooked it I loved all the blood and more and hubby and kid were like, COOK IT please and I got hubby to chunk off some for me to eat while ‘it was delish and tender’ and then he overcooked it to ‘suit them’ of course and in the end, for me, kinda ruined in a way. NO more holiday roasts. A big ol’ fat ribeye steak per person, to cook as we wish each, not relying on ‘how the family’ likes stuff cooked ever again. So over it.
Xmas was fun but super glad it is over. Our temps on Thurs are to raise up alot so if we leave tomorrow my bestie should only have to check my 1 last goat left in retirement, her water buckets. frozen solid each day. can’t leave her without water so friend will handle that til temps warm above freezing at night and then we are clear on Lollipop being ok out there. tons of grass etc out in big pasture so not worried on her with temps raising so.
I despise cold now. I tell ya as soon as I can manage it in life for retirement I am friggin’ outta here. I am going super South for more hot winter weather for sure. I don’t wanna do this cold weather anymore Run, run away as fast as one can LOL
Lol yeah we got it cold in florida…well cold for Florida last couple of days even the house got down to 64 but some got down to 28… of course the huskies love it and being out side but hopefully our normal weather returns and back to Florida weather …
I tasted the pork-beef sausage. Very nice and very fatty, I won’t eat it alone 
Will be superb with some sponge cakes or just boiled eggs, I have a few leftovers. Scotch eggs and meatballs became very pretty, Alv says, I make a photo tomorrow, CD cards got full… I shot my pork roast but the light wasn’t so great and I am lazy and full to get the CF card now.
The sausage has a nutri-core. My memory has its flaws, it’s good at forgetting certain things (it is good in many cases) so I can’t be sure if I saw such a thing before (maybe?) but it is very rare here. But this one has it. E, obviously Yay. I go against the nutritional guides and since I have read the one for my country, I am sure it is the best I can do.
The sausage is 45% fat, no fiber, even red meat, saturated fat, salt - so yep, it got the worst grade. Together with sweets.
I am googling a bit.
More than 20 kcal per serving in its own group… 20 kcal is, like, nothing? I am a big land mammal, I need energy… It’s so insane thinking that health has anything to do with calorie density. Okay, it wasn’t calorie density just per serving but serving makes absolutely no sense to me. It’s a flexible thing.
Oh well, it’s just a fun lil not surprising info. It’s new to me to see a nutri-score. I still strongly disagree their existence and hope they won’t be the norm here. Not like the people in general wouldn’t ignore it (no one can take away their tasty fatty food and people won’t eat expensive not so substantial fish galore) but some surely wouldn’t…
Oh.
I am so lucky we totally agree about how our meats should be cooked! Except when Alvaro puts a ton of vegs into the dish, of course… It happens. But it’s usually I who cook the meat, nice and plain, sometimes with spices and he can add his various carbs. It usually works great.
EDIT: Nope, the one with only okay ingredients had the nutri-score, I tasted another. Doesn’t matter much though. Both would have an E.
I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and I hope 2023 is filled with good things for all of us.
Ruby is with family for a week and I’ve had the house to myself. Looking forward to her return today but I also enjoy solitude when I have it. Lulu is in the 1st stage of coming into heat so is under house arrest. Lol ok, not quite that bad, but no off lead runs and no going anywhere where there are usually dogs, which is quite a challenge. She’ll be 12 months old in a week and my plan was to get to as close to 18 months as I can before having her spayed. Now’s she’s having her 1st heat that’s brought the clock forward a few months as I want to get it done before her 2nd.
I have been much more tearful the past few weeks than I was the 1st few after losing Grace. I feel terrible, just so full of pain. I know it will ease with time but boy, it hurts.
I put on weight a couple of weeks ago for the 1st time since starting carnivore which gave me a bit of a fright, but I just weighed myself (a couple of weeks early) to check where I’m at and I’ve lost it plus another 500 grams so phew. I feel like I’m putting on weight tho, like the fat on my belly seems to be increasing, plus this bulging hernia is bugging me. I was enjoying running my hands up and down my belly and feeling a huge difference between pre-carni and now. No clue what is going on, body comp going the wrong way! No biggie tho, just feels a bit weird. 16.6kg down in 6 months (36.5 pounds) eating as much as I want to. Such a difficult “diet”! 
Am I just one of the super fortunate ones? Some people on the boards seem to struggle to lose weight/fat and require various interventions like changing meal size and/or frequency and/or their macros etc. Yet another thing on my very long list of things I thank God for.
I loved @Fangs ‘Mystery Meat’ story 
Summer Christmas has been mild here. Christmas Eve celebration due to German heritage is an all foods on the table smorgasbord. Too warm an evening to have an oven going at Mum’s place. So all the meat and seafood were served cold. Cheeses, nuts, and biltong for starters. The goat’s milk cheese was delicious. Then a mountain of prawns/shrimp. Then a big platter of cold roast turkey, cold roast chicken, and cold roast ham. I mean, why do people make salads? There is no room on the plate. Have a look at @Naghite Michael’s plate. There, evidence. There were fresh summer fruits for dessert for the others. We all wore paper tiaras from the Christmas crackers. My nephew is a jazz guitarist, but he didn’t do a concert this year, but he did have an interesting new tattoo.
Christmas Day was “Lunch at the in-laws”. For breakfast I had a coffee, and Mrs Bear and I took Billie for a walk at a riverside dog beach on the Swan river that flows through the city of Perth. It’s called the Swan River because black swans live and breed there. Yes, still, even after a city was built. The river is well looked after, good for swimming, sailing and fishing. There was a traffic jam on the cross city freeway. It was a hot, sunny day, so we just had the car air con on low and cranked up a bit of remixed Dolly Parton.
Lunch was late but relaxed. Platters of cold meats and cheeses (cold meats and Jesus - apparently historical Jesus was born in September according to my brother-in-law), there were some non-carny things on the platters untouched by Bear paws. Lunch by sister-in-law was awesome. Again, smorgasbord-style, to suit the variety of eating disorders in the family. Uncle Frank Bear has bbq prawns, bbq squid, and slow roasted lamb and pan seared Atlantic salmon in square cut fillets. I’m not sure if I went ‘off plan’ with my drinks (no alcohol this year at either meal for me - I’m just not into it), but I had an Apple Cider Vinegar Kombucha mixed fizzy drink (ZC), it tasted ok, and looked suitably festive and bubbly in a champagne glass. I end up as designated driver and proxy-Uber for the family who hit the booze.
Christmas Eve leftovers went to my older brother’s Christmas lunch. But I discovered something worrying and, as it turned out, a boon, for me about Mrs. Bear’s sister’s Christmas Lunch. We were cleaning up in the evening (these feasts go for hours). My sister-in-law asked if we would like leftovers? Of course we would. Mrs. Bear loves the slightly fancier salads that have big prep times and are way too much. I saw sister-in-law load up a big container of the delicious roast lamb, and asked, “Aren’t you keeping any?” She said, “Oh, no, my family doesn’t eat ‘second day food’.” I can’t believe it. Anna went on to explain that she makes 4 fresh meals a night, one for each person. She may eat leftovers, but her husband and kids never do. My jaw scratched uncomfortably on the ground. But, but, Christmas leftovers are delicious. So many leftovers are delicious. It did not compute. Anna says at the end of dinner every night she throws food in the bin (their pet dog is on a diet). You can tell that I’m still struggling with the idea of throwing away food. Anyhow, I had an accidental fast on Boxing Day (26th) and went full OMAD on the boon of Christmas leftover lamb and salmon.
Staying on plan, now the kombucha vinegar buzz has died down.
Here’s an idea for January: “Happy New You Carnivore”
These holidays I have enjoyed reading a book called, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse. By Charlie Mackesy.
Never figured it out though I can understand the love towards fresh juicy things. It doesn’t require a salad, though. Salads are needless work to me. But each to their own.
I have winter fruits. My fruit season (I mean, my garden’s) will end some time in January 
This is the first, it always ended before Christmas this far… I find it super fun, winter fruit Not a dangerous one (as I am not particularly interested in it anymore) just fun, my kind of fruit.
Oh my, why? Okay, I never will understand that…
I am with you, I don’t get it either. It would be so painful to make EXACTLY as much as I will eat, how on Earth would I know what I fancy? Okay, some people just eat according to plan. Or add something else. Or, the worst, they rudely waste and throw out food. That makes me sad, we simply never do that. I get out the drops of egg white from the shell that doesn’t want to come out! I rinse out the whipped egg parts from the bowl and use it in my coffee (I need to prepare my mind to use it in egg milks, NOT coffee, I wanna kind of quit already!)… The same with the box of cream, no drops or even big chunks stuck to the box will be wasted and it has absolutely nothing to do with my financial situation, I had this all my life and it seems very logical and respectful to me.
Not eating leftover lamb is another level entirely… I can’t even eat lamb often (like, multiple times every year?) as it’s so hard to get and so expensive here… I only know one hypermarket where I possibly find any! And I love that stuff so I am pretty sensitive regarding that…
But I wanted to say that so many dish is actually better when some time passes. Or just stays the same fabulous thing. And if someone doesn’t want to eat the same the next day, eat it the next after the next or freeze and later… Okay, it doesn’t work for some dishes and some people but… It should? For roast that is wonderful at that?
They are way too rich… Though smart rich people still don’t waste their food so very carelessly (and it’s not just the money, it’s the principle).
Can’t they find another dog or cat or something. Hell, I get chicken bones and meaty leftovers from the city (25 km away and we only go once per month, usually) to feed to the cats! They love tender little bones.
And if I am here with plant talk, I can say I never will listen to Alvaro regarding scotch eggs and meatballs again… This time as it’s December and it’s far from carnivore anyway, I asked him and as he wanted and as it’s traditional here (not like we care so much about that), I used garlic. A lot (we had no idea but poor thing is almost never used and we didn’t want it to spoil and the meat was a lot too and the dish normally uses it generously). He loves the result. I don’t. I remember my Mom made the similar dish this way and it was fine but I dropped garlic years ago (I never would use it for roasts again but this one is a spicy dish…) and my previous scotch eggs were just fine without. Next time Alvaro will get his own garlicky ones. But it’s fine, I have my roast. I don’t want much spicy meat anyway. It’s fine for variety but my main meat dish should be plain.
My roast. Not direct natural light only, macro lens. I am experimenting but the CF card got full and I only found this.
The nice fat layers aren’t on the pic but they were present, making my roast fatty enough This cut tends to be a tad too lean, no problem, I can eat the fattier parts and do something with the leanest ones (feeding to Alvaro, eating it with something very fatty like lard or sausage, mixing with eggs, potentially pork skin too and frying)… But sometimes I just don’t want a leanish roast and make sausages/meatballs. Chuck is the perfect roast material for me (as I mentioned it several times) and I have a big one in my freezer!
This made me grin. But yes, extremely extremely unlikely it was December. Wayyyyy too cold at that time of the year for shepherds to be out in the fields with their flock at night. I love reading your postings, I often feel like I’m in the middle of a good book. You definitely have a gift for writing.
Thank you @FrankoBear i loved reading your post. I, like you, despair at the thought of throwing away any edible food ! The book you have read sounds lovely and i am going to look into that one. 
my daughter gave me 2 hardback books for xmas both of which appeal to me so i will enjoy getting started on those as and when i have finished the 3 books i am currently reading! I also bought a book from Amazon that i wasnt expecting to arrive till January which arrived xmas eve! Terry Waites updated biolgraphy of when he was held hostage and has added how life has been in the 25 years since. I get through so many books now that i am sure i will have 3 new books on the go very shortly!
Yesterday, Boxing day, was a lovely day with my son, Ben, daughter Sian and her husband Dave. She put a lovely spread on for us. A started of a variety of cheeses and cold meats, some leftover from their xmas day festivities with Daves mum and dad @FrankoBear lol. That was followed by turkey a litle bit dry but okay with butter and the lamb i cooked and took along with me. The lamb was so so tender and delicious. It was supposed to be cooked for 2.5 hours but i could smell it was almost done by the time i was to leave and pick Ben up so i didnt dare leave it cooking for the hour i was going to be before getting back and removing it from oven as i had planned. I left it on the side covered in foil and collected it on he way back and when i arrived at Sians house we put it the grill part above her oven to keep it warm and allow it to just kind of keep cooking. Well it was flippin lovely and i brought the leftovers home (which were quite a bit to have cold. There were also pigs in blankets so i enjoyed those too.
This was supper after i returned home.Sian gave me a super lovely soft warm throw as a present which really came in handy when i got home to my cold house after sitting un her very warm one lol. Oh we included a very chilly walk after eating dinner as Sian now has a big park literally at the bottom of her garden, as she backs on to it in this new house. It has a path that goes round the entire park which is between 1.5 and 2 mile in length.
I bet those huskies love that colder weather! I need a return to normal temps too but your FL temps are far better than ours up here in NC at this time of year. I take it you are a hotter weather fan too like me?
So sorry on feeling the loss at the holidays still! Time helps. Just let time roll over ya on this one.
bulging hernia? yikes. My mother in law had that and had to have surgery to correct. I take it you are not too bad and don’t require surgery on this issue? I hope you are doing ok on that!
Most times zc works fine for people who ‘just eat’. Eat daily as the body directs. That is what I do and all the lbs dropped and never a gain ever (except a bit when started but I dumped that fast) and if one just eats but also eats as the body demands, like if it tells us to eat lighter one day we do just that and if it wants us to eat bigger fattier meals we should do it. If we just eat zc and are in tune with what the body asks most of us come thru the lifestyle in ease. Some have issues with other situations too, like real medical issues that can effect their zc journey and more and need to change things up a bit to make the plan suit them better, but for the majority, if we just eat, eat all the zc we need at all times, or eat less as we aren’t hungry we do our best on this plan.
I think you are fortunate you are just eating zc and letting it change ya. I also felt bloaty and ‘heavier’ at times but it wasn’t real ya know…as long as I kept the zc plan and just ate as I needed in the end I would still lose and feel better down the line. So time on zc is key of course. Just hold the plan and enjoy life off the dieting nightmare. I know I do!
So satisfying to have a big ol’ roast in the freezer I think Chuck is a fantastic cut of meat also! yum
oh that is fab she has a trail backing onto her new house! Great length too for when colder outside. Sounds like your day was fab too
@FrankoBear
I agree with the others. You write SO well. I always enjoy your posts like crazy. Such flair in your writing, such a draw in and it does read like a fairytale story book and one wants to know more, more Definitely smiled reading all that!
I like your Jan. Carnivore title…I say go for it!!
Funny, but I am one to not eat leftovers. Yup that person is me too but nice thing is, my family does. I will eat meats leftover on cuts I enjoy reheated but I never liked reheated ‘carby stuffs’ and was one to never touch them mostly. My family tho will eat them so I got away with no throw outs on carby side stuffs. For me carby meals leftover are never as juicy or creamy or ‘as good’ as when they are made ya know. Texture and more seems to change on them when reheated on most items and I never liked that. I think it is so weirdo wild and personal on who enjoys leftovers and who doesn’t LOL One thing I do love about zc is I never have leftovers. I cook a lb. steak, I eat it. I cook 2 burgers. I eat them. I cook pork or chicken, gonzo. I feel meat proteins are the ultimate none waste food item in this world to me
I love @Naghite’s plates too. Full of truth and nutrition and just bang on what life is all about for our health! No room for salad That is the way it should be 
----------------SO had car issue and delayed my beach trip by a day. Come on LOL but luckily these frigid temps are leaving for a bit and temps are rising alot now so should be a warmer beach trip. Around low 60s day and only into the low 40s at night. I will take that vs what we just lived thru on crazy frigid temps.
leaving today later. I got chicken, pork loins, burgers and didn’t pack steaks, I will shop and buy some there on this trip. Of course the main event is all you can eat buffet for crab legs. Along with a nice prime rib roast I can get my paws on too My Xmas present to me.
So close to the new year and a new you for each of us! Keep zc rocking!
Took a pic of my first plate ( of three! ) for my OMAD breakfast. Bit of liver, heart, bone marrow and thymus with a one pound T-bone . After this I had a pound of ground followed by a carnivore cheesecake my mom made me for Christmas. I have already put on 3 pounds from three desserts. Too good tasting! Anyway, here is first plate
Feeling better with OMAD but I am still over eating currently.
Alvaro had his usual early lunch when not working… And midway I got hungry too (maybe I shouldn’t be there if I don’t wanna eat, I don’t know). At 1pm.
I had a boiled egg, a scotch egg, 2 meatballs (now I now that I need way more spice and more salt. but Alvaro likes them and for me, mustard helps :D), a slice of smoked raw ham (yay! it was soooo long ago I ate some proper smoked ham, it’s not so very easy to find in supermarkets where I normally go to get my food stuff), a cheesy puff and a sponge cake (for the ham. it’s 5% salt, I can’t eat it alone). I still need my variety, I just can’t imagine eating only 1-2 things for a meal. Unless it’s some pork chuck roast or something, maybe.
SUNSHINE at its best today! Still warm weather, I only wore my thin jacket because of the wind. The wind direction wasn’t very good for cycling but the village is near. They will have eggs tomorrow. Our supply is tiny, maybe 20 or even less? So it’s very urgent to buy some more. At that point I avoid making any kind of egg dish or an eggier cake for Alvaro. 20 is almost nothing, it inevitably disappears in a few days.
If we were there already, we visited the supermarket (bought some cheap and lovely apples for Alvaro). It is not good for my mental state. Even yogurt is so expensive now and that’s mostly water. Sour cream is super expensive, we will buy it in the city (it’s good I can eat it very slowly, we have some, it will last), I don’t like the soft sausage they have, hard to chew and the pork jowl is half water while I can buy it with little water and cheaper in the city. I don’t want to experiment with fatty carnivore yet anyway.
Lots of pretty normal fruits went over 1000 HUF per kg now, wow. That was new too. (My target food cost is about 1500 HUF per day. I gladly would eat less but it’s what double realistic. We have money for it and if I do it right, I am able to eat only that much.)
Oh I saw some 8000HUF/kg butter too (it happens but the cheapest is half as much and seems about the same to me. and this one is the cheapest too I suppose, in the village supermarket), some bad (well we dislike it and it’s the cheapest) cheese for 5500… Village supermarkets have their problems, not keeping any proper cheese is one of them. You can’t find Gouda there. Or anything else, really. Only Trappist (traditionally the worst normal cheese in this country) and this time a smoked one. As normal, the expensive smoked stuff didn’t went up much but the cheap thing (it was maybe 1500HUF not so long ago. not in the village though) totally did (Trappist has one of the highest price change, apparently) so they got close. Just like the cheapest butter got close to Kerrygold.
There was no meat in the meat counter but that supermarket has that frequently lately.
I should think about money (or other good reasons) before I do irresponsible things like eating lunch… It’s not like I need it at all… In the contrary. (Of course it’s possible it makes no difference but it easily may.)
Oh well. I didn’t mess up the day yet
Potato dishes (with a bigger amount of water so soups or similar thing) often get WAY better… I always preferred them later.
But some things need to be eaten fresh. Like pancakes, it doesn’t even matter if they are carnivore I fry them, eat them, often in the first 5 minutes.
{You mentioned carby things but I still put a warning here, I don’t want a lot of blur.}
And we are all different. Alvaro can eat 3 days old pasta just fine (and it hasn’t even eggs in it so I hate it from the start, good thing it’s not for me). I think. It usually gets eaten way before but I remember longer times. At least 2 days. He eats 5 days old rice. Once he ate 4 days old mushroom stew… Despite the rumours, it doesn’t get spoiled so easily… Or IDK but it was good…
Bread should be good for a week (my anchestors baked once a week) but ours is dark and dense to begin with But of course dry bread is usable (for dishes I don’t make). But Alvaro eats it. No way we ever throw away a piece of bread… It would hurt us.
I am a tad more sensitive than him but not when it’s about my proper carni food. Those are great until I eat them up. And if I don’t want to, I put them into the freezer. Okay, lean pork chuck gets less fun after days (partially because I eat the fatty parts first ;)) but I can reuse them in another dish even if it’s not okay for me as it is.
Did I mention our idiot cats? They didn’t eat some boiled egg whites.
They ALWAYS loved eggs. Sure, yolks are the bomb but whites are nothing to scoff at either! And now… Both cats present decided it’s NOT FOOD. We were shocked. But we realized it must have been the spaceship that controls cats sometimes… (A funny youtuber vet - who didn’t upload stuff since ages - had this explanation for the totally illogical, without any reason cat behaviours.)
They must have lost interest soon as Pie ate up another piece of boiled egg white later.
So… Cats. They decide egg isn’t good enough one time - and eat boiled rice from the pot another time (when we still were careless. now we know the cats may eat up anything they find anywhere they can reach). I still can’t wrap my head around that, it had no fat, no flavor, no protein, just white rice with 3.5-4 times as much water (we are very abnormal like that but it’s the only way we can do it and it’s perfect for Alvaro) and they are obligate carnivores… They didn’t get the memo, apparently. They are opportunistic a bit. But they do strongly prefer meat, little bones, eggs and dairy. Worm medicine overpowers their desire to eat them, sadly but they always ate them up at other times, with glee and hurry. And they were apparently healthy, lively and ready for some nice bites now too… So I don’t understand what was their problem with the boiled egg white. But I don’t understand a ton of things regarding my cats…
I am guilty of having 10 times the food we need for holidays. I was about to throw away a LOT after company left, when I remembered we have “community fridges” for the homeless.
It was sobering to see a line of people like me, waiting to drop off food, and another line of homeless folks waiting their turn.
So many lessons in moments like that. Instead of feeling proud that I was giving, I felt embarrassed that I had so carelessly overindulged.
I’m already planning for next year. Cater for my family (at a fraction of the cost of my grocery bills this year) from a locally owned restaurant and then make a hefty donation to the people who own and stock the community fridges all year long.
