Does anyone eat real meat anymore?

You betcha. We usually get half a cow, a pig, hunt so we have venison, turkey, pheasant, etc. We've got chickens and we'll put any mean ones in the freezer. We are very much a beef family though. Steaks and big roasts are my absolute favorite meal and everyone else's as well.

 

Frankly I think a good majority of the diet food is far worse for you than natural protiens and fats that people have been eating for thousands of years. Have you read the back of the box on some of those "nutrition" shakes or "diet" bars when walking through the grocery store? Good lord, there's nothing healthy about them.  I laugh my a** reading the diet plans that tell you to avoid fruit because it has carbs....are you kidding me? It's fruit!

 

 

I stick by a wide variety of foods and everything in moderation being far more healthy than just cutting out food pyramid staples.

Edited by Karen1985 - 8/5/12 at 7:14am

We buy a whole beef too. And I buy my bacon in large qualities as well, I don't buy any other forms of pork though, I don't like it.

Since I have been reading more about primal/paleo diet, I actually have eaten more meat. I have lost eleven pounds and am finding I am not anywhere near as hungry later in the day. Same with the kids. In fact, yesterday DD and DS attended a baking event at a local church and did not get their normal eggs and bacon breakfast while I did. The result, they were starving much earlier in the day while I still wasn't hungry. Poor kids about fasted to death ... or at least that was how they acted. Lol.

we have just put half a cow in the freezer we eat really meat all the time

The only way I eat turkey is as turkey, not turkey disguised as something else. 

 

My burgers and meatloaf are made from ground beef. My bacon and ham are made from pork. 

 

My milk comes from the udder of a cow or goat, not from the oils of nuts.

 

My butter is made from the fat of cow's milk, not from soybean oil. 

We eat real meat here too. I think turkey bacon just sounds horrible! Though  I don;t eat pork bacon either!!!  We just moderate everything.
 

Yes, real meat here. I have found that losing weight via normal portion control and really increasing my activity/exercise level has brought my cholesterol levels down, w/o meds.

We also eat real meat in smaller portions: steaks and beef roasts (we actually don't eat much beef, but it's related to the screwed up industry and the high cost of humane beef), chicken thighs, drumsticks and whole chickens, pork ribs and lean chops, different kinds of sausages, some bacon and ground turkey and beef. We also eat full fat dairy products, again in moderation. I consider low fat dairy to be a processed food since it has to be dehydrated and reconstituted, and I prefer our foods to be as close to their natural state as possible.

 

Like I said, the key is moderation, we feel that a smaller portion of the real stuff is better for you and more satisfying than a larger amount of the altered foods, and are happy to fill in the rest with a lot of fruit and veggies and some whole grains.

 

When I met dh 13 years ago, he was struggling with his weight and cholesterol, and his mom has Type 2 diabetes so he was at risk. Now, his cholesterol is great, his blood sugar is stable and he is very lean and muscular. He's in better shape at 40 than he was at 22. It's a combination of eating well and being active.

I agree with the above. Like Melsb and Phoenyx said, we eat real, whole foods, including eggs. More and more studies are showing that high cholesterol which leads to heart disease (and stroke and 'metabolic disorder') comes from eating lots of sugar and an inbalance of omega fats (too much omega-6 and not enough omega-3 and 12). I refuse to take cholesterol lowering medications because they inflame the liver more and mine is way too inflamed as it is (from the arthritis). I'm doing everything I can to lower my chronic inflammatory index. Hubby does take cholesterol lowering medications but you can see the metabolic syndrome developing in him in other ways.

 

I, too, was trying to lose weight by being a vegan and eating nearly no fat at all (my 1980's low-fat diet phase). My cholesterol was sky-high, though. My doctor gave me the standard low-fat diet list. I told them that I was already eating this way. The only fat I consumed - which was my main source of protein - was peanut butter and even then I only had two tablespoons a day (a serving size). The doctor replied, "Well cut out the peanut butter." At that moment I knew he was crazy and all the low-fat advice was nonsense.

I agree moderation is key.

We eat real meat. I buy meat in bulk from a local meat market that sells locally grown meat. I buy beef, pork and chicken there. I buy a turkey from a local farmer several times per year.

I love real bacon. My oldest DD likes turkey bacon, so I do buy that for her occasionally, but usually we just make her ham instead. I like to know the ingredients in our foods, and I can't even pronounce the things in most processed foods.

My mind may change if high cholesterol, sugar or blood pressure becomes an issue.