I THINK I SCREWED UP MY METABOLISM

[navajo001]

For now, load on the home made mayo!

The whole is still cheaper. Roast it with veges, eat the meat for dinner and then you put all the bones in a pot, cover with water and simmer for 24 hours. Add water as needed.
Then you have soup base! It will be gelatinous when its cooled!
Add extra meat and veges from dinner, and any more that is needed. Salt and spice as desired.
Do not skim the fat off!

Well, here is the old disconnect again. I was thinking "why pay for the bones" with the whole chicken. Plumb forgot about the soup stock, marrow, etc.

What is really sad is that I grew up on a farm eating that way. We were very poor (moneywise) but always had a big garden, raised pigs and chickens, hunted in the cold months and fished in the warm months. Just ate whole wholesome food and did great. My parents are in their late 80's and still doing great!

I just got caught up in all the modern diet hooplah I guess.

Please carry on with the deprogramming! Don't assume I know anything (I probably do know a lot of this but have forgotten).

It's going to be an uphill battle with my DD though as I already got the "look" when I mentioned lard and bacon grease. She is 19 yo and WAY too interested in those fashion based reality shows no matter how much I try to reason and complain about them!

My DS on the other hand is all over it! He helped me make laundry soap this morning!

Thank you,

Tom

 

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Your dd is 19? Well, you are doomed. She knows WAY more than you will ever know!

 

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Oh, tell her I'm skinny! And most everyone here that I know of that eats this way has lost a lot of weight and is still losing, and others here are skinny, too. That will help!

 

[navajo001]

Just cook that boneless in some good bacon grease or something similar, and be sure to use a bit of salt on it. I buy that now and then for chicken salad sandwiches or a quick soup or pot pie when I have lots of broth but no more meat. I have lots of broth on hand because I make my own catfood.

You can usually find a place that will sell whole chickens for less than $1.79, and you need to use the entire bird, ending with making traditional broth from the carcass. There are important nutrients in every part, including the bones and cartilage. There are instructions in NT.

You can also get leg quarters for $0.69-89 per pound in a 10 lb bag, usually, and maybe even breast quarters with the wing and back still attached. Find a butcher shop or meat store near you. These things are harder to find in the "regular" grocery stores.

I, too, was totally overwhelmed when I first started learning this stuff. Give yourself a couple of years to ramp up, but take our advice as much as possible for now for the sake of your health. For me, the sense of betrayal was the most overwhelming. I'm over it now, just disgusted by everything I read and hear in the mainstream media.

Eating traditionally works perfectly with a self-sufficient lifestyle, and is the way to better health. And is delicious. And very cheap! And is expensive gourmet if you buy it ready-made!

Yes, I have to admit that deep down I am wondering if I am setting myself up for failure with some of these changes. I mean, for YEARS now, we have been told that eating all this stuff is worse than drunk driving! But I am changing my mindset. I mean, I comment almost daily to my friends and kids about the sorry state of our health in this country. If what was being spewed really worked, then not only would we be better off, but surely ONE of the things I have tried over the past 10 years would have worked.

I am ON BOARD here! Bring it on!

Thank you so much!

 

[big brown horse]

Here is the Eat Fat Lose Fat blog, for anyone interested.

eta here it is: http://eatfatlosefatblog.com/ this may help your teen understand.

 

[navajo001]

Your dd is 19? Well, you are doomed. She knows WAY more than you will ever know!

TELL ME ABOUT IT!

Overall though is just the best! She has always been a Daddy's Girl (even more so now with the other things going on) and we talk about EVERYTHING (whether I want to or not! ).

I'll bring her around by example if I need to!

Oh, tell her I'm skinny! And most everyone here that I know of that eats this way has lost a lot of weight and is still losing, and others here are skinny, too. That will help!

That was one of my questions that I was affraid to ask (just being honest here)... Sorry.

I mean, I have NO WISH to have 6-pack abs but would really like to not have keg abs!

Thank you!

 

[navajo001]

Here is the Eat Fat Lose Fat blog, for anyone interested.

Is it a secret?

 

[big brown horse]

sorry, I fixed it.

 

[navajo001]

Here is the Eat Fat Lose Fat blog, for anyone interested.

Is it a secret?

OK, NOW that doesn't make sense since you put the link in!

 

[navajo001]

sorry, I fixed it.