Hi all,
Big news, bad news. So for some reason, I’ve stopped being able to tolerate beef. It’s all I was eating and now I can’t stomach it, I guess the people who said I would sensitize to these foods were right. FORTUNATELY, I’ve found a solution. Insects. They’re basically meat and pretty crunchy. So far so good. I’ve only tried crickets but I’ve added links below to other insects. At least there’s more variety here, right? I highly doubt any insect would cause an IgG response, so they’re probably safe.
Crickets – I’ve actually had to buy these from pet stores… For some reason, they don’t make crickets without adding a whole bunch of additives to them. The only ones I could find online were BBQ flavored, and many had added milk and sugar. How is that healthier?
The ones from pet stores are organic and have nothing added so they’re safe to consume. I used to feed them to my bearded dragons so that’s pretty funny.
Facts:
- The UN states that 20 percent of the world eats insects. Perhaps those are the parts of the world where obesity isn’t’ a problem? A coincidence? I think not.
- A number of insects have a higher protein amount (per 100g) than beef!
- It’s good for the environment (fuck bugs, amirite?). They take less water to raise than normal sources of protein (beef) and contribute much less to greenhouse gases.
Articles promoting bug consumption:
The Telegraph (coincidentally recently featuring my dad)
Will keep everyone posted.
UPDATE:
April fools. Got my mom too! 🙂 Hope nobody got too concerned. I am not eating insects, meat is still a-okay and will be for a very long time.
It must be a joke!
That’s great! Had me all the way.
I am hoping this is an April Fool joke!!!! Not that I am against eating insects, I ate many as a child. It would be sad if you are relegated to ONLY eating insects! That would be an extremely restricted diet as I am sure they are not very tast, at least your beef steaks were tasty!
Fooled me ?
Haha! You got me there.
I was seriously thinking, “oh man, I’ve gotta injest a plague of locusts if I get peckish!” ?
Nah… I don’t like ants or crickets.
My diet is 60% spiders, 40% scorpions.
I don’t miss beef at all.
So, nothing but lawyers and politicians, then?
Interesting. First, I suspect we need to rule out the hypothesis that cultures which eat a substantial portion of their calories from insects have, per capita, less access to calories.
I was wondering: 1) how do you tolerate garlic?; and 2) have you tried shirataki noodles?
ps my husband and I live on cauliflower rice sauteed in garlic and olive oil. Highly recommended.
I don’t tolerate anything other than meat. I used to tolerate cauliflower, but something changed… I didn’t try to reintroduce garlic so I don’t know about that one. Same with the shirataki noodles but they seem like they could be pretty safe
…and this is not an April Fools joke, right?
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