Paleo Diet: Raw Paleo Diet and Lifestyle Forum
Raw Paleo Diet to Suit You => Carnivorous / Zero Carb Approach => Topic started by: Sully on December 08, 2008, 10:49:16 pm
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I was wondering how often some of you eat organs?
How often? How much? and why?
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I was wondering how often some of you eat organs?
How often? How much? and why?
I've eaten (raw) heart a couple of times, (raw) kidney a couple of times, (raw) eyeball once and liver more often. Mostly I don't eat organ meat more often because I don't want frozen and it's too hard for me to find pasture grazed. Kidney also I have to eat fast or give to the raccoons, as it gets urine-like tasting after a day. I would like to try adrenals, etc, but am not sure how to get it. I was told I'd have to take all the organs of one animal if I order it at a local market. I can't imagine myself eating that much organ. I wish I was part of a local tribe. I probably just have to get off my butt and hunt if I'm to get those.
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Unless vienna sausages count, never.
I'm trying some raw liver for the first time tomorrow. I'm not sure it could be any worse than braunschweiger.
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I've just started to eat organs after 1.5 years on muscle meat and dairy. I'm trying to eat liver once a month (it's taking a bit for me to like it) and hearts, I enjoy and they're cheap, so whenever I have a hankerin'. Kidney, I'll have to work up to. I figure if I'm eating some kind of organ a few times a month, then I'll get everything I need. I don't know what numbers we're "supposed" to eat. I just figure some is better than others. Liver I can't eat cooked. I sear it quickly (really quickly) just because I don't like it cold.
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Try raw tongue, it's one of the easier raw organs-meats for newbie, as regards taste. Initially, you will probably feel the need to eat only the lighter-coloured slab-like parts and remove the tip of the tongue and the stringier, darker-coloured half of the tongue , but in time you will dtart to enjoy the taste of the whole tongue.
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On a typical day I eat an ounce of liver and about 1/4 pound of some other organ meat (usually heart/kidney/spleen).
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Once I received a whole liver and ate about 0.5- 1 lbs a day, over did it and now I have no appetite for it.
I eat a good amount of heart, maybe one every two weeks. Delicious ;D
Tongue is great. Eyeballs are ok. Brain is my favorite.
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I am also wondering how many lbs a week of organs the ZC's eat because I am starting ZC today and would like to know how much organ meat is necessary. I ate about 1/3lb of kidney today. It was difficult. I did not enjoy the flavor.
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i don't have a very good answer.. i just eat them when i feel like. i don't eat kidney. i tried it once and i just really strongly don't like it at all. i like sweetbreads and liver and heart. spleen is tolerable, but i don't like it very much either. that's all i've tried so far.
and i might be a wimp cuz i don't eat them straight. i get it from my local farmer who just adds it ground into my ground beef, so they just add a great flavor. At first I asked my farmer for it to be about 20% (5% each), and the last order was 40% (10% each). i wont increase that anytime soon (i don't think), i get full quickly the more organ meat.
so my meals are either some kind of meat or this organ blend.
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Every day I have either liver, heart or tongue as part of my one meal a day.
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I am also wondering how many lbs a week of organs the ZC's eat because I am starting ZC today and would like to know how much organ meat is necessary. I ate about 1/3lb of kidney today. It was difficult. I did not enjoy the flavor.
If you want to go ZC then you probably shouldn't eat organs. They are high in sugar, thus high in carbs.
On the whole I eat organs probably a few days each month. I eat what I can get inexpensively that's still grass fed and grass finished. This usually includes heart, kidney, and liver. I eat bone marrow or suet usually once each day, and muscle meat most everyday as well.
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If you want to go ZC then you probably shouldn't eat organs. They are high in sugar, thus high in carbs.
Zero carb doesn't literally mean zero. I eat TONS of organs and sometimes I get up to 10 grams of carbs a day from eggs, organs and spices. I am Zero Carb. There are no SUGARS in organ meats.
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Zero carb doesn't literally mean zero. I eat TONS of organs and sometimes I get up to 10 grams of carbs a day from eggs, organs and spices. I am Zero Carb. There are no SUGARS in organ meats.
liver has glycogen
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Who cares?
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I am also wondering how many lbs a week of organs the ZC's eat because I am starting ZC today and would like to know how much organ meat is necessary. I ate about 1/3lb of kidney today. It was difficult. I did not enjoy the flavor.
Ever try fermenting it in a bottle into highmeat? It changes kidney as a food for the better, in my opinion.
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Ever try fermenting it in a bottle into highmeat? It changes kidney as a food for the better, in my opinion.
Once I left liver in the refrigerator for a few weeks.
In the jar, the juices came out. Fermenting into what could only be described as the meatiest soda pop ever <3
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Once I left liver in the refrigerator for a few weeks.
In the jar, the juices came out. Fermenting into what could only be described as the meatiest soda pop ever <3
Prob also the smelliest soda ever ;D
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My current organs are: pork heart, beef heart, lamb pancreas, beef tongue and calf/beef liver. I rotate these with eggs, and the main part of the one meal is grassfed beef or organic bison, raw.
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^ Thats a wide array of organs. How bad does pancreas taste? Do you cook it?. -v
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The sweetbreads are delicious. I hate the taste of lamb, but sweetbreads have no taste--so you can add "flavor" to them. I eat my grassfed beef/bison raw, but like to warm organs in the pan with a cover (just warm or searing). Sweetbreads taste great with sea salt and grassfed butter.
Beef heart is the best organ meat ever...and beef tongue!
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I seem to have taken to organ meats early on but muscle meat has gotten even more expensive..getting over 7.00 per ground GF beef (which is unfortunately mostly 90/10) or ground NZ lamb (~85?)..and not exactly nutrient dense to base a diet around so I've reduced my muscle meat considerably again but increased my organ consumption..so I don't stress as much about eating the regular ground GF meat or lamb more consistently or any nutrition lost in such process.
In a way even if I was to think of these ground meats and fats I consume as 'empty calories'
of energy and protein I would still have a wider range of nutrients coming from regular doses of whole organs/bone marrow/raw butter/cream and a small but wide sampling of seasonal fruits, occasional vegetables, wild herbs, and teas. Ideally some wild game and possibly more seafoods would be on the table more often.
I do eat some seafoods, chicken, slankers pork (red and divine) and store buffalo
Less muscle meat/protein and even more fats, slightly more carbs and sunshine seems to be going good this summer