eating animal fat

[rjawad]

Hello all,

I'm on day 3. 

Yesterday I went out with my parents and uncle to a very salty (and expensive) dinner.  I don't know if this is just an american thing, but every restaurant I go to is so salty.  Actually, if i remember, the food in russia is pretty salty, too.  I wake up in the night and my lips are dry and my heart is in pain. 

Well, i bought a big slice of grass-fed beef today.  I cut it up into ~5 oz pieces and put them in the freezer.  I ate one with some vegetables.  Not raw, but almost.  I'm used to cooking my meat ~8 hours.  This time I only browned the outside.  I had no problems eating it.  In fact, it was pretty good. 

When i was cooking it, i started thinking that it didn't smell very good.  I didn't put any spices.  In fact, i never like the way beef smells when it is cooking.  Most people put spices or onions when they cook it, and the spices do make it smell good.  But beef just cooking by itself doesn't smell good, in my opinion.  People say, the spices bring out the aroma of the meat, but I think the spices just cover up the bad smell.  Anyway, tomorrow I decided I will eat it without cooking. 

But to the point.  Several of the pieces of meat are almost entirely fat.  There is huge vein, artery, or something going through one of these fat blocks.  Do you guys really eat big blocks of fat like that (~5 ounces)?  I'm leery about doing that.  I don't mind a little fat in between the meat.  But these are, like i said, handfuls of fat.  You just eat them like that?  I have visions of my arteries filling up with fat like toothpaste tubes.   

Ryan

 

[dsohei]

the only problem is your imagination here.
in nature, a human hunting animals and gathering some plant matter needs CALORIES above all else. where do you think theyll get it from? its the fat man.

[TylerDurden]

I used to be leery of eating the hard, white fat on the grassfed/organic ox hearts I have bought in the past, years ago. But I got used to it. It's not enjoyable, and I don't think I digest/absorb it well and it seems to have the same consistency as raw suet which I also don't like either for similiar reasons. But some othr RVAFers swear by it.


On the other hand, I find the taste/texture of the white fat hanging off my raw legs of mutton to taste wonderful.


*Keep in mind that most newbies reportedly take c. 8-12 months of a rawpaleodiet to get used to the taste of raw animal foods in general and wean themselves away from cooked foods properly. Of course, this period varies greatly depending on how much or how little cooked foods one eats, the variety in the rawpalaeo foods etc. In the meantime, do a lot of experimentation and buy small amounts of dozens of different raw animal foods and make 90 percent of your RVAF intake consist, at first, of rawpaleo foods you really like, and only 10 percent of the diet should ever consist of rawpalaeo foods you find bland or dislike the taste of. Over time, some of the foods you found bland or disliked will start to taste great.*


I am a case in point. At first, I only found some kinds of raw seafood immediately enjoyable in taste(raw scallops, raw oysters and raw swordfish and similiar). I found raw grassfed meats to taste bland and raw wild game to be far too rich in taste so as to be repellent, and I couldn't stand raw organ-meats at all. But I went out and got hold of odd things like raw squid tubes or raw  grassfed ox lung and started off with a diet high in raw plant foods. What had helped me is that by the time I had started, I had fortunately lost all taste for cooked animal foods(somehow my body was instinctively telling me via taste that cooked animal foods were bad given my digestive issues from those foods). Anyway, after a while I got used to the taste of raw wild game and started to enjoy it far more than any other kinds of raw meats. Also, as a result of my experimentation, I ended up with a much wider variety of raw foods than most other RVAFers, so was able to have a bit of fun with the diet.

Of course, there are always raw foods one can never get used to, due to individual tastes etc. I still loathe raw chicken, however "organic" it might be, no doubt because it's almost always heavily grainfed.

[bharminder]

I just got some fat online and it is soft, somewhat creamy, and tastes good. It is very filling. Raw animal fats are important for escorting toxins out of the body and providing lubrication to the body. It can also stabilize your energy levels.

Sometimes I find fat portions in meat cuts and there is connective tissue attached. That's never too pleasant because I have to chew one biteful for hours to break it down.

This fat that I ordered though has no connective tissue and is soft and chewy. Raw fat is good for you, provided it comes from a healthy source(i.e. healthy animal). Avocados are good sources of vegetable fats.

[turkish]

Bharminder,
 what kind of fat did you get and from where?

[bharminder]

bison back fat at www.northstarbison.com

if you order it you have to ask them by email or phone it's not listed on the site it's $6/lb

[turkish]

bharminder,
 placed a order with northstar bison for fat - just. However mary charged me $6.50/lb for it, that too frozen backfat (bison)

[sabertooth]

Bone marrow is by far a must try on this diet.

I eat lamb fat trimmings and suet that seems to digest perfectly, some beef suet is to pasty and I don't enjoy it much. I eat about half pound or more of fat trimmings a day and am, doing extremely well. It may take someone a while to get used to high fat consumption especially if one consumes larger amounts of carbs.

[bharminder]

bharminder,
 placed a order with northstar bison for fat - just. However mary charged me $6.50/lb for it, that too frozen backfat (bison)

Hey cool, make sure not to eat it all in one day ..

Maybe they raised prices because they told me they were out of backfat for the entire year,then emailed me back and said they had some.