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Day One Done
So day before yesterday, March 3, I decided that I would only eat meat, eggs and cheese for the rest of the month. Today is the beginning of day two on this ‘unbalanced’ diet. I weighed myself this morning and … Continue reading
Love Your Food, Even Before It’s Food
It is possible to treat your food with love and respect while it is still living. When taking a life for your food, there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. True animal husbands know the … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, animal husbandry, butchery, farmstead meatsmith, harvesting meats, industrial meat, meat, torture
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The Answer is YES, Maybe!
Should Pregnant Women Eat More Tuna? That’s the New York Times’ headline this morning. Should pregnant women be advised to eat more tuna? There are, apparently, trace amounts of mercury in tuna, or there were, or something. Ages ago it … Continue reading
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Tagged dietary guidelines, King Mackerel, mercury, omega 3, statistics, tuna
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Least Expensive Is Best, Right?
I can get this bacon on sale this week for 1.99 per pound. At my local meat processing locker I can get smoked sugar cured bacon for 6.49 per pound. I can get a fresh pork belly from the locker … Continue reading
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Tagged bacon, Contaminated meat, Food Safety, HIMP, local food, meat inspections, saving money, USDA
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Sometimes going back takes you forward
Originally posted on Breaking The Yo-Yo:
So the projected start of the eat good meat and dairy and barely any carbs plan has had a delay. Firstly because the organic meat delivery was not placed on time and wasn’t received…
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Carbon Footprints
Not True! Today in the online magazine Slate I read this: “Current evidence shows that the average U.S. diet has a larger environmental impact in terms of increased [greenhouse gas] emissions, land use, water use, and energy use,” reads the … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, beef, being change, breaking habits, carbohydrates, Change for the Better, Eat like your grandparents did, real food
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If It’s Easy, You’re Probably Doing It Right
Life is perpetuated by the energy of the sun. Every living thing, even creatures that dwell in deep caves in the bowels of the Earth rely on something coming into that cave from the outside, thus bringing the energy to … Continue reading
I Was So Misled
For most of my life, right up until I started reading “Why We Get Fat” by Gary Taubes, I believed like most people that a person had to eat fruit and vegetables in order to stay healthy. Now that I … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, carbohydrate, eating healthy, gary taubes, how to lose weight, processed food, real food
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Cooking Vacation
It never occurred to me that I could take a vacation and learn how to cook something. This morning in the Washington Post I read about a day camp for smokers–beef and pork smokers. Smoking meats was the second thing … Continue reading
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Tagged Brisket Camp, learning to cook, real foods, real meat recipes, smoking beef, smoking pork
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One Small Change at a Time 