meat sticks

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The hardest part of managing my blood sugar is eating regularly.
I PREFER to eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full (a hard learned lesson after years of disordered eating). But when you're on insulin and trying to keep blood sugar under tight control you have to eat regularly, hungry or not.

Thank God for raw milk.
Even if I'm not hungry-hungry
I can always have some lovely
healthy milk.

Thank God for bone broth, too!
Sipping some nutrient rich bone stock
is almost always appealing
even when I'm not hungry.

Liquids are not as easy to pack in a food bag though,
so I'm fortunate to have raw cheeses from my farmer
and his latest offering: beef sticks.
Beef sticks are just like Slim Jims only they're made from real food.
Ingredients are: Grass-fed Beef, evaporated cane juice, Redmond's Real Salt,
Ground Mustard Seed, Garlic, Black Pepper, Ground Red Pepper, Lactic Acid Starter Culture.

Wow.
I can pronounce and understand all the ingredients!
And like all good foods they will eventually spoil.
Slim Jims will last in your bomb shelter's emergency supplies for years.
Not my Beef Sticks.
They go bad eventually like real food should.
Anything that has a shelf life of longer than 3 months is probably dangerously full of chemical and preservatives.(Fermented and pickled foods and crispy nuts can last 3 months but I'm not sure what else has that long a shelf life besides maybe dried grains and dried beans....corrections welcome).

Point is, meat should not be packaged and chemically preserved as to be able to sit at room temperature and remain edible for months at a time (see your Slim Jims display at your local convenience store).

Slim Jims = fail.

Beef Sticks from my farmer = win!!

*Lisa's Video Pick of the Day*
Dr. Ed from Hermosa Beach, CA is like me.
He hadn't eaten red meat for 20 years.
Now he's a raw meat advocate.
I LOVE me a nice steak tartar.
Sound isn't great on this video but I liked the information enough to tough it out and listen!
"...they ate the heart first. What we consider steak now, they considered food for their dogs."
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