Today is the first day of January and is also the first day of World Carnivore Month. To that end, let's challenge ourselves to eat a carnivore diet for the entire month of January. The type of carnivore diet and the level of strictness you choose to do is entirely up to you. Examples of carnivore diets include the following...
1) The Lion Diet. A person eating the Lion Diet only consumes the flesh of ruminant animals, water, and salt.
2) The BBBE Diet. BBBE is an acronym for Beef, Butter, Bacon, and Eggs.
3) The Carnivore Diet. This allows for the consumption of any and all animals and animal by-products, including dairy.
In any of the above examples, the object of course is to not consume any plants as part of your diet. Of course, we're not going to micromanage hoe you prepare your food, so your use of seasonings is entirely your own personal choice.
IF your circumstances don't allow you to go full on carnivore in January, then you can participate in this topic by challenge yourself to do better, above and beyond what you have been doing. For example, if you have still been eating grains, seed oils, refined sugar, or drinking alcohol, challenge yourself to avoid these items and just eat a clean, single ingredient whole foods diet such as clean keto, ketovore, or animal based.
We encourage you to check in daily, and share what you have eaten, perhaps a weigh-in if you're willing, and enjoy in some small talk. Participants in this topic will be entered into a drawing for a prize at the end of the month.
Bacon is a cured meat that in my opinion is quite delicious. Many people are afraid of bacon because it contains nitrates and nitrites, although we've been curing meat with these natural ingredients for thousands of years. As a result, some look for bacon that is cured using celery powder, which ironically contains the same nitrates and oftentimes even more of them.
Others look for bacon that doesn't have added sugar, and granted, some flavors of bacon, like maple bacon, can have more sugar in it that is desired. But most bacons have only a trace amount, "contains less than 2% of.... sugar" only because sugar was used in the brining solution that it soaked in. Others will spot that on the ingredients, then look at the nutrition facts table and see <1g carb per serving, and consider this acceptable.
Still others will only get bacon from their local rancher or forgo bacon altogether and just buy pork belly.
Personally, I look for bacon that has clean ingredients and no sugar added as my first choice, but I don't obsess over this. I'll still get bacon at restaurants and will have no idea what kind they are using. But since it's by and large just sliced meat, I'm very comfortable with this.
Do YOU enjoy bacon? How much do you include in your diet? Are you selective when it comes to buying bacon?
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