On 08/09/2014 03:43 AM, Don Wiss wrote:
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:23:18 -0700, Todd wrote:
Don. http://paleofood.com/ (e-mail at page bottom).
Love the site. Thank you for putting it together!
Thanks.
We Paleos sure do eat well!
No kidding. Though to be a strict paleo (organic and no meat from animals
that were feed seeds)
Hi Don,
We have a local
rancher that is completely vertical. He grows then, slaughters
them, the whole nine yards. You can buy a quarter side and on up at
a time from him. He feeds him his own grass, which I presume
includes the seeds. He told me, if I am remembering correctly,
that he only gets 2 lbs a day versus 3 lbs if he used straight
grains and chemicals/hormones/antibiotics, etc.. Oh, and
he hangs them too. The taste is extraordinary. His cows
are allowed to move around and only eat when they are hungry.
Feeding them straight grains makes them sick and we definitely
are not suppose to eat carrion. It is a race to get the
cow to slaughter before you kill it.
Seeds (and bugs) are part of chickens natural diet though.
All the local farmers I know have waiting lines for their stuff.
I really would like to get some turkey and duck eggs. Would
love to try some heritage pork too
Oh, perfect killer of ants: guineas. They will wipe out an
ant hill in no time flat, turning the annoying pests into
food (eggs and meat)!
, it can be expensive.
Some people for lunch have a white meat turkey sandwich on a club roll. The
meat is rather dry, so they add low-fat mayo,
LOW FAT !?!?!?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!! Just the very idea!
iceberg lettuce, and a
tasteless tomato that has been reddened with ethylene gas. And they wash it
down with a soda.
Can we say, diabetes?
Instead I had for lunch (with my coop prices):
1 non-organic avocado ($1.19)
1/2 juice lime (less than $0.10)
1/4 large red onion, chopped ($0.25)
1/3 lb of wild Java Crab ($6.74)
That is $20.22 / lb. Yikes! What is a "Java crab" anyway?
A nervous crab?
1.67 oz of organic washed spinach, shredded ($1.11)
Mixed in a 1-1/2 quart Pyrex casserole dish.
I wash it down with Poland Spring bottled water bought on sale.
Now if Anita wasn't having production problems, I would add some of her
coconut yogurt. It is totally pure. Just coconut and cultures.
The above totals to $9.39.
Don. www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).
You do have to get creative at times. Ordering a side
of natural/organic beef from a local rancher gets the
cost down.
And there is also the "catch it or grow it yourself"
thing too. I am not above mooching off my hunter
friends/customers. Elk and moose are delicious.
Venison: EEEEEYUK. You can get 800 lbs of meat off
one moose. A customer of mine bagged one a few years
back and had too much to handle. Well his computer
needed fixing and I came away with a cooler full of
moose. Life is good!
Raley's sells a grass fed beef, but it obviously in not
hung (tough as hell), not very appealing.
I was shocked at the several hundreds of dollars of
high carb garbage I had to give away when I first
got inducted into the pin cushion club. When all
settled down, my weekly food was pretty close to
what it was before -- maybe five to ten dollars more.
I have been eating a lot of purslane salads which grow
where ever I walk in my back yard. Free food! The
major expense when I am done making a salad is the
organic mayo and the cultured buttermilk in my
home make ranch dressing. Be surprised if I hit
5 grams of carbs and $2.00 per plate.
But you do have to get creative to keep the cost down.
And don't obsess on being a perfectionist. And remember
that variety is very important, but I think I am preaching
to the choir.
-T
Have you heard about coffee fruit flour? It is the fruit
of the bean, virtually no caffeine, and low carb. Typically,
it gets fed to livestock.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...an-eat/360149/
You do realize that every time I talk to you, I get hungry.