Well the supplier claims it is grain free. Atkins Lamb

· All of our lambs are born and raised in country pastures.

· No feedlots or grain supplements are EVER used.

· No added antibiotics.

· No added growth hormones.

· All ranches are inspected for quality.

· All Atkins Ranch lambs are GMO free.



http://www.atkinsranch.com/index_files/Page1557.htm

That looks really tasty, and crunchy, and sweet.

I like buckwheat honey the best but I'Ve only tried buckwheat and wildflower. I like the buckwheat way better than the wildflower. Honey and meat do go together really well. Even milk and vegetable juices go well with them. and fruit

littleneck, or cherrystones(which are 2-3x as big as littlenecks)

i debate between buying bulk littlenecks and buying cherrystones individually. cherrystones are amazing, so big.

best would be bulk cherrystones

I think apples are great, if you can consistently eat them. I would prefer to eat them on a consistent basis, I tend to go through phases with apples. I wish I ate them more.

edit: the mercola recommendation was 1/8th of a bottle of high quality probiotic supplement, not 1/3rd

Against the advice of some people I tried the organic chicken. I got 2 whole organic chickens in one package. They were fed 100% grains, uncooked



I ate it 3 days in a row, about 1 - 1/2 pounds each day. AFter first night, I had some mild stomach rumbling, no concern by

 me. 2nd night, I ate more, same slight rumbling- no big deal. On the 4th morning after eating it again the 3rd time at night,

very bad stomach and intestinal pains and cramping. Chills, felt very cold. Went to relieve myself very often, like every 40

minutes.



It seemed like it was getting worse, so I remember reading on Mercola.com if you get salmonella and are healthy to drink

plenty of fluids, electrolytes, and take a high quality probiotic in large amounts(30% of the bottle every hour). I felt better a

lot better after the first dose. I'm hoping symptoms don' return once I run out of this probiotic.


Is this salmonella or some kind of bacterial overload? Was it from the grainfed organic chicken? Either way I'm not going to risk eating it again. What are thoughts, thanks



Bobby

I think you should be good

Since you have some concern I would eat a little bit and see if anything happens. And take it slow until your concern vanishes.

It's boredom and a desire for nutritional and palate variety.  I've started to get more deep sea fish (like blue marlin....that's deep sea right?)  and no issues with worms in the fish. Also, clams are giving me a ton of energy.


The Whole Foods has mostly grain fed meats around here, even in the summer.  Though I suppose that grass fed and grain finished lamb would be better than organic chicken(not pastured)

chicken are natural grain/seed eaters. Granted the chicken itself is somewhat unnatural in much the same way as beef. either way as long as the chicken gets access to pasture, and therefore sunlight and ominovry (bugs and things) its perfectly healthy, and necessary for them to eat some grain. so while chickens might be less healthy in some respects than wild animals or purely grass-fed beef, its likely healthier than grain-fed beef and processed food. Chickens also supply bacterias not present in otehr animals which are attributed certain healing properties by certain gurus .

what is the hangup with the food choices? is it nutritional questioning or boredom? lots of folks actually eschew fish and seafood, so you are ahead of their curve at least. Health food stores and WF tend to have a variety of other things to choose from, albeit as you say not necessarily 100% grain free. Just got to pick the healthiest alternatives which might include freezing. I can say that i you are worried about parasites (from other thread) you probably don't want to be mixing alot of wild type foods (fish) with bread or starch often. I think chicken is fine to add personally, but I don't see it spicing up your diet much if that is what you are looking for. tastes like sweaty paper. I kind of dig it.

Ok ill try that. I did try that a few months back without much luck....but I wasn't totally determined ...I called up a few places and no luck with grass fed.


I need some help with this because I find myself eating foods like bread and pasturized butter, etc. because I dunno what else to eat besides fish or beef

Hmm where can I get all that , deer, etc? Bison from northstarbison., not too much grass fed meat in the local supermarkets. Haven't tried many of the farmers markets though...


Pork isn't my ideal choice, thanks for the suggestion.


I was planning to order some organ meats from northsrarbison, maybe I can get some steaks too..

Preferably I'd like fresh meat, and though I can order fresh online, the shipping cost is more than I want to pay since I 'd only theoretically order a little bit of fresh at a time.

I found this deal for clams for like 35-40 clams for about 17 dollars, which is much less than where I normally get them.



However, after soaking the clams, I examined each one as I was about to open it, and I noticed over 60% had a chipped part on where the two half shells meet. When I turned the chipped part down towards the ground and shook the clam, I saw water continuously dripping out. I opened these clams and they did not smell. However, some that were chipped did not smell fresh. I threw those away. And, the clams that did not have chipped shells smelled fresher and cleaner upon opening than the ones that had chipped shells.

Are these chipped clams to be avoided and dead? I can answer this myself but wanted second opinions since these clams are cheaper.  How could over 20 of the clams have light chips on them? Should I stop buying them and instead buy the clams that are more expensive from the other store where they sell clams individually instead of in packs of 35-40?

Oh, it is blue marlin. I thought wrong.

Is blue marlin a quality fish? It tastes good.

I dip it in the egg yolk because i like the texture and flavor that the yolk brings with the blue marlin.

I also like yolk with beef