I have been doing a lot of reading and have certainly increased my consumption of meat. The challenge I have with young children is not making food too extreme and fadie. It’s hard enough with a you daughter who is not a great eater, so going full on carnivore comes with some perceived risked that I’m uncertain about. Ideally I would try out carnivore for 3-6months and then have a view with experience but we try and eat as a family and I’m worried if I cut out everything it might give the wrong message to the kids. Not sure what to do tbh.
I have many questions about the carnivore diet and it’s something I’ve been meaning to look into for a while.
I’m going to start by trying some self directed learning with nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak book on Fiat foods and also a book I got recommended called genius foods. I may just have to add your book to the list too 😉. Are you on/planning to go on any podcasts to share your story??
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Have you read around ultra processed foods? Avoiding those seem to have a lot of benefits. Just finished reading ‘ultra processed people’. The similarities to fake food and fake money were not lost (although the book only tackles the food side).
Yes we have reduced lots of these. We cook from scratch at home and buy good ingredients. Though they seem to always acquire sweets, crisps etc out and about with friends etc. so it’s probably 70% good and then 30% all over the shop.
Makes sense. A whole other level to start trying to control what the kids do when with their friends at birthdays etc. We are trying to encourage them to make good choices and educating them about what goes into these products. Water over juice product is the easiest and subtlest choice one can make at a kids party.
This is my issue. I want to change my diet but don’t want to take it to the extremes and it have a negative effect on the kids. We’ve made really good small changes, real butter, filtered water, high protein breakfasts etc but we are still stuck in the rut of adding fruit/honey/cereal/crisps etc to the diet. Like you say, mainly for the kids sake.
I need to do more research 👌!!
This is pretty much what we have done. We were pretty much veggie (just meat on the weekend) when the kids were young, so they didnt really eat it. Now it hard to introduce too much at once. I think we just need to take it slowly and make sure we are hitting the easy wins etc.
On the butter. My ruddy mother in law got the kids into spreadable butter. Basically butter and oil blended. I’ve taken to making my own with EV Oil but that went down like a lead balloon. Our kitchen is cold so the real butter is always solid. It’s two steps forward one step back. 😂
It really is hard. It’s so easy to say and plan but to implement and put it into real life is hard. That’s why I’m committed to breaking this cycle of sh*t food by introducing one small step at a time. Cooking oil changed, butter, more meat meals, less snacks in the draws, organic fruit (sugar I know) but hopefully a lot healthier with less pesticides etc being absorbed.
It’s a long road ahead, but we are heading in the right direction. We owe it to the kids to do our upmost for their future 🧡
This is how we do it. The big change for us has been all eating together. We have the best times when sat around and just talking etc. so I’m trying not to stress too much about the enormous amounts of carbs my lad seems to be able to consume 😂 It’s all organic potato’s, sourdough, pasta etc. I’m on the look out for some non seed oil crisps I can buy easily with out costing a small fortune.
We also got into raw milk. This was an easy swap. Sadly the micro dairy shut this month. So back to just full fat organic
We are also on the hunt for some raw milk. But to be fair we have all cut cereal for breakfast out of our daily life, apart from our little one. So we don’t even use that much milk anymore 🤔. Sounds like you are on the right path mate and it’s great to hear the family coming together and enjoying meals at the table 🙏