Well, today hasn't started so great. I'm not one of those carnivore zealots that will tell you they've been carnivore for 821 days and never cheated once. Nope. I've cheated plenty, and I lost count of days very early on. Let's say I've been trying to eat a meat-based diet for almost a year and a half. And I've done fairly well at trying. I don't plan cheat days, although I used to allow a weekly donut or two on my shopping day.

Today, I went to the kitchen to make a power bowl (my recipe at the bottom of this), and someone had left a box of donuts in the dining room. I live in a house of 8 - extended family, multi-generational. I'm the only one even close to carnivore. Well, that it like leaving a plate of coke out... I'm now 4 donuts in, some peanut butter, pancake syrup, honey... two cups of coffee... basically a full-on binge of all the shit I've struggled with giving up. Do I feel good? No, but not horrible either. Did I make and eat my power bowl? Fuck yes.

So this is my accountability. Clearly that shit is way off the path for me. It probably won't kill me, but it won't keep me alive either. I didn't go smoke a cigarette, because I still don't want to live in withdrawal every day, but the fact is, I still do - just from sugar instead of nicotine. Yes, every damn day. Tell me again what is the worse addiction, nicotine or sugar? Think real fucking hard. I know my answer.

Power bowl: my standard is 1/2 lb of 80/20 ground beef, 5 eggs, salt, shredded cheese. Butter. Start by browning the ground beef with a hunk of butter in a frying pan. Do not drain. Add some salt. Cover. Once the beef is browned and chunked up into bits, (it can still be a little pink on the insides, if you like), crack 5 eggs over the beef. Break the yokes. Stir it up a few times with a spatula to get even distribution. Keep covered in between stirrings. When eggs are almost fully set, turn off heat, add some cheese (and maybe another hunk if butter) to the top, and cover. Once cheese is melted, spatula out into a big bowl and eat. Add more salt if you want.

The eggs should suck up most of the grease. If they don't, maybe my dog gets a greasy bowl to clean out when I am done.

I don't always add cheese, just if it is around. My guts are a little sensitive to it, but usually I will pay that price. I do often add other meats - sausage, liver, bacon, ham, spam, whatever is around. Today I added some bacon ends. I vary the egg count sometimes, but usually average 5 eggs. That fits nice in the pan, bowl, and stomach. And I try to wait until 10am to make them, but don't always succeed. I've made them in the afternoons and evenings as well, although I usually try not to eat after 4pm.

Power bowls are one thing I make that I can feed to most of my household, regardless of whatever food habits they might have. No vegetarians here at this time, thank goodness. I won't trick them with adding organ meats, but I will change it up occassionally - made my son a bowl with hot dogs instead of ground beef a few weeks back, as that is what I had defrosted and ready to go.

I usually only eat them on the weekends, and haven't had them as much as eggs have been expensive and I haven't felt like bugging my neighbor for fresh eggs. But there was a sale this week, so power bowls were back on the menu.

Cheers!