Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Actually getting to things.

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Laundry was started.  I had planned to do that after a shower.  But... that wasn't moving along.  Pants and jackets, as a first run.  Then, shirts and underwear.  Plus, when they are dried, I'll try to get them folded and put in airtight bags.  My house is rough, this helps.  Same with jackets and maybe some shirts?  Just t-shirts, I mostly wear black t's.  I have one of those folding boards which does really well with getting shirts folded.

As well, I got the freezertop cleared, then washed.  Pulled meat to the other freezer.  Nothing out, to be thawed yet.  If I get propane tanks filled sometime this week I will pull meat out to thaw.  Burger and steaks, but getting low.  Well, I still have, probably a dozen steaks in the drop in freezer, and maybe... ten to twelve packs of burger.  Plus a quarter to half that in the fridge freezer.  Plus a placket of ribs, various roasts, and eight to twelve multi-pound packs of ground pork.  Food for a while.  A pack of burger, or  two, per week.  And usually a steak a week.  So... sure.

Though I best start looking for burger and steak sales.  Ribeye and new york strip are favored, but porterhouse and t-bones will do.  I haven't had chuck roast steaks turn out well.  Though, too, I may start looking at local grass finished, fresh (not stored frozen) beef.  Well, for the meat, but too, for suet and trimmings.  Lamb is far too expensive.  I haven't even seen goat offered.  And I'm backing away from pork.  Though, looking for local chicken might be good too?  I do like chicken from time to time.  Duck, goose, and turkey are far too expensive if raised correctly.

Though, too?  I may begin looking for fresh(er) wild-caught fish, preferably salmon.  Not my favorite, but so good to eat.  I may even see if I can find sashimi grade.  Have enough for a few bites, from time to time.  An half pound a meal, a few meals of that a month.  I need to find if it can freeze well, and for how long if so.

No tuna, these days.  But I am considering bringing sardines back to the menu.  But, this time, water packed, unsalted.  Will try those.  Not sure that will work, that I can consume that.  But I would like to try.  Trying doesn't mean eating it once, not liking it, so tossing it all.  As with cabbage, plain yogurt initially, and kefir now, it... took weeks, months, many trials, and sorting and adding, the subtracting, things from those to finally be able to eat once hated foods.

One way, with water only sardines, is to use it as an ingredient.  Miracle noodles, either a high fat sauce (say with cream, sour cream, cream cheese, other cheeses, and such) or even a small spattering of lower carb tomato sauce.  Perhaps even with a bit of lemon.  I do avoid fruits, including lemon, but to... get going with a new food, or to add something vital in, sacrifices can be made.  I... can't always live on a perfect carnivore meal plan.

Still, getting laundry started, meat moved, the freezertop cleared and cleaned, is a good start.  It takes a long time, with heavier clothes.  I have the timer set.  I'd love to eat something, but don't think I have anything?  Hmm... actually I do.  Kippers.  Not my absolute favore.  By flavor, sure, I like them.  But these don't have bone or skin.  I have... altered what I am looking for in foods.  Though, to be honest, I have always liked bones and skin on my sardines.  It's, just, an old brand I liked before I really knew of such things.  I have started looking for better things, as I have learned things.

One thing about being in carnivore is (usually, unless it causes nausea) extra salt is needed.  If you can't do the salt, then extra electrolytes over what you already should be adding.  As well, if red meat is your primary, adding omega 3s to offset the omega 6s from red meat is vital.  Plus, just what is in fish (and smaller fish so you aren't getting so much heavy metal contamination) is vital, like iodine.  Added to some salts, but not salts that are better for you, or in amounts which would make a difference.  Lots of things in life need care.  Few do?  I try, but it's... not really possible.  Best to eat well, and try to have that take care of it.

Though, just cutting seed oils will lower your omega 6 intakes vastly... make the ratios better.  Still, improving omega 3s is very good.  Most people, even on better foods, don't tend to get enough.  Wait, I've been over that, with a vid, recently.

Still, I am trying and doing things better.

A shower, shortly?  Well, only after the laundry is finished.  I should have time to eat some of those... they aren't sardines.  Kippers are mackerals, similar, but not the same.  Several types of smaller fish which are canned.  I avoid baby squid, it all comes from China, and probably farmed.  Trust me, you... don't want to go there.  Oh, and do check where the canned fish is canned.  Not sure, if it is canned it Poland, it isn't Chinese even so.  But Argentina, Portugal, Morroco?  To be honest, I trust those nations more than I trust Canada, or the US these days.  Both of the latter have questionable sold out bureaucracies, and are probably selling for the Chinese, and very questionable foods.  Possibly lying about sources and where it is even canned.

Anyway... so be it.  Later.

6 comments:

  1. So, there I was, "haze grey and under-weigh". WESTPAC
    Shuffling through the chow line, same ol' Navy fare. Then, at the salad bar area,(no fresh salad for awhile, no resupply) Sardines! 2'x3' vat piled with sardines on a refer table packed in ice. Loaded up all available space on my tray and had a shipboard fish fest, stuff your face with fishy goodness! Checked for midrats, there it was, vat-o-sardines. Next ate at evening meal, chicken... always dry/tough bland, I avoided NavChicken if possible, skipped it and had more sardines.
    Couple days of this, I'll save the story of my trip to medical for another time.
    Same vat Same sardines, the fish at the bottom and sides were kept cool on the ice table, top dead center of the pile notsomuch. Medical said only 4 of us (out of 6,000 guys) got sick from the "chicken", I counter-propose that out of 6,000 guys, 4 of us were so tired of the regular chow that we ate bacteriological petri dishes long enough to get us food poisoning.

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  2. I must admit, on subs, they fed us like kings. Or... princes. Midrats, like anywhere, could be (but not always) a bit sketch. It was only on shore that we might have sketchy(ier) food.

    If you ever ate at an Air Force, Army, or Marine base? Even standard Navy fare was far superior.

    But sardines? Never saw those. Rabbit, at nuke school in Orlando. Did you ever have that? I loved it, myself. Probably just exotic to my 19 year old brain. Oh? I was there when the shuttle blew up... watched it... A group of us had just left the school, end of the day? Lunch? Something. Yep, watched that.

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  3. Midrats and breakfast best meals on ship. Mids, because all the days leftovers, with chili-mac to fill it out. Rabbit, yes, few times. They didn't always "advertise" rabbit.
    Squid tablemate "this is the longest chicken-leg I've ever seen!"
    Me: "Nope not chicken"
    Squid: ... (blink)...
    Me: "Rabbit"
    Squid picks up tray and leaves. Turns out he had pet rabbits "not Food!"


    Orlando NNPS. Was in remedial (algebra, calculus, physics?) class just prior to lunch. A Chief sticks his head in the room and said "The Shuttle just blew up"
    I have pictures I took of the fading smoke cloud. So, we were there at the same time.

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  4. "Not funny!", either? Oh, definitely funny.

    Ha... that's something. You were in the class before me, at boot, from the sounds of it. But, they take their time in A-school, and at Orlando. I'll bet the chick teacher... hot? shorter? Black or brown hair? Was possibly a shared commodity too, then. Ha.

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  5. Class 8603? Hot trainee LtJg? Medium height, light brown flowing hair, slim athletic body, model's face. WTF was she doing teaching engineering to knuckeldraggers?

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  6. Can't remember the class, but... the rest sounds about right. When you turn them on, by questioning them? Trust me, it works. And she is trying to... be... something else. Plus, you aren't interested? Well, not... interested enough?

    They'll hang you by your balls. Or toss you out. She was part of it. The beginning of my problems with the political class of officers.

    She was teaching us because she thought she was a lesbian. And equal. *wink*

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