Bob

Looking good! I need to diversify. While the wife and I were eating the remaining NY Strips from the pack we got at Sam's Club, I made the comment that I heard it said that most humans eat the same breakfast and the same thing for lunch every day, and only mix things up with dinner. She looks right at me and says "Except you" lol

Welcome aboard.

Other peppers are low in oxalates, so I'm not sure. However, nightshades (which includes hot peppers) contain lectins, and lectins are associated with leaky gut and the subsequent worsening of autoimmune symptoms.

Sounds like Ohio. It can be 60 degrees one day, and wake up to 6" of snow the next morning.

This little one that we have doesn't have a temperature setting. Just a dial for the timer. So for me, it's hard to cook if I don't know how hot the thing is going to get. That's why I want to go and get a nicer one. The wife and kids use it occasionally for chicken nuggets, lol.

Some of us don't look like we should be playing with guns, lol But seriously, I understand being let go over some made up crap. I hate when people impugn bad motives or tell lies or manipulate circumstances to get their way.

I can still do jalepenos in small doses like you have on your tacos and I will be fine. However, last night had to be somewhere and didn't have time to cook dinner. When I returned home, I didn't feel like cooking nor eating a giant steak. I had these bacon wrapped jalapeno popper things (not breaded) from Sam's Club that simply needed to bake, so I figured I would make them. I laid in bed listening to my stomach make funny noises, and this morning my bowels were pure liquid. I'm gonna have to eat them again to confirm it's related. Small amount to enhance my dish is just fine. Several peppers as my main dish might be overdoing it.

@Geezy has a good point. Since you said it's both "serious" and an "issue" it sounds like your Uncle needs to adapt a proper human diet altogether, whether that be keto, ketovore, or carnivore. He needs to stay far away from refined carbs and sugar in whatever form.

I don't do a lot of shipping, so I usually just go to the good ole post office (USPS). There is a Fedex and a UPS very close by though. Sometimes, when I return something or trade in a phone, the recipient will have me print a return label. I will then have to go to whatever shipping service they have chosen on that label.

I was a pizza delivery driver for 3 different companies back in the late 90's. The 2nd one I was working for was called East of Chicago. There was another driver there who was a total jerk and we did not get along. We spent a lot of time pidgeon chesting each other and talking a lot of smack about each other. When his car stopped functioning and he had to come work inside the store, inside I was delighted and let out a little sinister laugh, lol. But, within a couple months, he got promoted to a management position, and the first thing he did was fire me for some made up BS. I tried to escalate the matter up to the owner, but the owner chose to trust the "discretion" of the manager.

Possible. Here's some interesting comments from a site I do trust.... https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/keto/sweeteners#allulose It seems to be harmless unless you overconsume it and then it might cause some gastrointestinal stress.

You'll probably be fine as long as you are not going over your personal daily carbohydrate limits, whatever it is that you have set for yourself. A medium sized kiwi has 10 total carbs, or 8 net carbs if you discount the fiber.

I can't think of any store brands, but I am sure there's something out there. When it comes to biscuits, you would probably have to get creative and come up with a homemade low carb biscuit based in almond flour or flaxseed. I'll bet there's a flaxseed based cracker out there somewhere, probably at a Trader Joe's or World Foods Market kind of place. If he's addicted to the crunch, there are Parmesan Crisps and other dried cheese cracker like things that would be good. There is also a product called Carnivore Crisps that is like chips but made from meat.

Well since we're a meat-based diet community, first up on the list is a low-sugar beef jerky, cheeses, hard-boiled eggs, sardines, and maybe certain select deli meats. All these are easy to open and eat without having to heat. If you have access to a microwave, then pack some steak, ground beef, or chicken - unless you like those things cold too. Not so much for me. We are also keto friendly here, so you could add to that any number of low carb vegetables, such as salad, broccoli, cauliflower, a few nuts, and a few berries. In the low carb sphere it's a little more easier to mix and match these things for a little more variety.

I have to look into allulose more, but from what I understand it isn't digestible. It's molecularly different from regular sugar so it passes right through you without being metabolize, kinda like most fibers do. Insulin spike is another thing altogether though. Some non-caloric non-nutritive sweeteners, whether artificial or natural, will still trigger a cephalic phase insulin response in certain individuals. Just the taste of something sweet gets the pancreas all excited, lol. In fact, for some people, even the sight or smell of something sweet can do the same. Some people joke that they can just look at a piece of chocolate cake and gain weight. There's actually a smidgeon of truth to that.

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Welcome aboard @Aurie It's hard to find a recipe with a whole bag of brown sugar in it, lol. But I did find this one for regular bologna... https://housewifehowtos.com/cook/recipe-homemade-bologna/ It has a miniscule amount of sugar compared to some others I found. I would probably try this as a starting point. Replace the beef with a combination of deer and pork fat. Other deer bologna recipes suggest adding pork fat in with the deer meat, probably because deer is very lean. Then, remove the tiny bit of brown sugar (or leave it, because 1 tablespoon spread across 3 pounds of meat is going to be meaningless). I would be interested in hearing how this goes for you.

The place near me is called Duma's Meats... https://www.dumameats.com/ They sell them as sides and quarters for as little as $3.79 per pound. Granted, you buy 300-400 pounds at once, but that price can't be beat. I would need a chest freezer though, lol.

I had to quite coffee because it stirred up my ulcerative colitis. I drink tea now. My friend did the same for his Chrohn's. But he does boil water and drinks just hot water in the morning. It satisfies his desire for a hot drink when he wakes up.

Yes, please do. Everything I was reading was gloom and doom, lol.

I currently get most of my meat at Sam's Club. I save several dollars per pound vs the grocery store, except on holidays when the grocery store will have a massive discount sale. There is also a local meat/butcher/rancher that I occasionally visit for some rare tasty meats.

Carnivore soft tacos, using the Egg Life wraps.... (add sour cream, lettuce, salsa, or jalapenos and it's still keto with zero grains for the win!)

I did pure unadulterated carnivore in May, June, and July. In August my apple tree was ripe and so I would pick from it. These apples are small. Since then, I call myself 97% carnivore. I will occasionally "cheat" with some lettuce, or a piece of fruit, but that's very rare. My personal beliefs towards what constitutes a natural human diet is basically a marriage between the carnivore end of Dr. Ken Berry's Proper Human Diet, and the animal centric end of Paul Saladino's Animal-Based Diet. Ken will say that humans are naturally a low carbohydrate mammal. He says the Proper Human Diet is a spectrum, from 0 carb carnivore all the way up to 100g of carbs daily (depending on your genetics) of low carbohydrate veg, nuts, or berries. He will discourage fruit and honey. Paul Saladino on the other hand says there is no limit to fruit and honey, and will even recommend a person eats a minimum of 150g of carbs or more per day in those forms. He himself is pounding down 350 carbs or more of fruit and honey a day along with his muscle meat and organs. I think they are both on to something. I agree with Ken that humans are a low carbohydrate mammal that should stay under 100g a day at the most. I also agree with Paul in that fruit is not going to kill you, whereas vegetables - specifically leaves, stems, and seeds - will try. The two of them are targeting 2 different audiences. Dr. Ken Berry's target audience is those trying to lose weight and reverse diabetes. This requires the keto/ketovore/carnivoire approach. Paul Saladino speaks to those who are already metabolically healthy, without weight or disease issues. They both will speak against grains, seed oils, and processed sugars, but Ken Berry will go a step further and discourage fructose in fruits as well, but will admit he has a pear tree that he will attack at the end of summer himself (Dr. Robert Kiltz is a carnivore doctor but will confess to occasionally enjoying french fries, lol). So to summarize, I believe we should be eating meat and animal products the most - muscle meat, organs, cream, cheese, butter, and maybe some milk, and some occasional plucked or picked fruitage is fine too (and "fruitage" can include certain vegetables too). I think humans have ate seasonal fruitage all along, for even though our digestive tract and PH balance resembles that of other carnivores, we do have a cecum. The key here, though, is "seasonal", as they were only available in the harvest season.

Yes, I am saving a ton of money since switching to carnivore. Things like bread and pasta may be cheaper, but when I ate it I was a bottomless pit because it didn't satiate me for very long at all. Deli meats are about double what fresh meat, so those sandwiches were actually pretty expensive. This doesn't even take into consideration the lettuce, tomato, and condiments that would go on it too. My previous diet I could eat 4-6 times per day. Now I am 2, sometimes 3 and that's it. The "per pound" price for cereal vs meat is very similar. But calorie for calorie, the meat is way more rich, nutrient dense, and able to make me last much longer until my next meal. The hyper-palatable ultra-processed food just had me munching non-stop, filling Big Food's coffers

This was something I made for lunch yesterday. It's basically a fried bologna sandwich, but I used Egg Life wraps (made with egg whites) for the "bread". Bologna was cut 1/4" thick and I melted gouda cheese on one and sharp cheddar on the other. Pure carnivore goodness, minus perhaps just a smidge of taint in the processed bologna I got from the deli.