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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: intrigued on April 03, 2012, 12:02:55 am
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Hey all,
I'm considering making a large-ish order to jump into this whole thing. I know that the general advice is to listen to your body as everyone is different, but having no previous experience, I'm looking for a jumping off point. I'm just looking for examples from people, so how much fat (e.g. marrow bones, suet, back fat) do you eat compared to muscle meat (searching I've found a lot of reports of people eating ~1 1/2 to 2 1/2 lbs meat per day)?
I guess what I'm saying is, if I order 20lbs of meat, about how many lbs of some sort of fat would be reasonable to order along with it? Also, what can I expect to get out of a lb of marrow bones, or how many lbs of marrow bones would roughly equal a usable lb of suet?
Thanks!
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Marrow bones are mostly bone with less than half of the weight being fat, maybe even less than a quarter. As far as suet goes, id say order 10-20 pounds the first time and see how it goes. Visually i eat a piece of fat about half to 3/4the size of the meat I eat, I dont weigh it so i dont know how much it is by weight, just by visuals. Where I am suet is very cheap so I just get a lot and dont think about it too much.
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It all depends re marrow. If I don't specify that I want the marrow inside, I usually get bones with tiny amounts of marrow in them. If I insist on marrow-rich bones, I get bones 6 inches or more in length with an inch and a half in diameter of marrow.