(03-05-2022, 07:54 PM)wrong_box Wrote:

(03-05-2022, 01:42 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: We eat meat and veggies and small amounts of fruit. Hubby can't do carbs due to inherited diabetes genetics and I can't do carbs thanks to silent reflux. So cheap meals with beans, rice and pasta are out. I'll cook up a big sweet potato and eat on it through the week with a meal but I can't eat it two days in a row.

Low carb isn't hard but with the price of meat going up it's not inexpensive. I make our keto cookies from scratch.

I hear ya. I am also diabetic. (Thanks Mom, LOVE YOU) Everything I'm supposed to eat is already expensive. I dont do the organic, grass free cage/free/free range proteins other than what I get from hunting and fishing. There is nothing more organic and natural than eating animals that have to feed off what nature provided but there is only so much of it per year.  Fresh veggies are the best but more expensive, frozen veggies are the next best. Everything that is good and healthy is so much more expensive and fruits, especially during the non producing seasons of the year are high as hell. It already pisses me off trying to eat right but what do ya do? We always find a way. Not always the best choice of food, but far from the worst! We go to lots of farmers markets here during the summer and can the fruits and veggies we buy from the Amish which works out well.

Amen. I have fish that I have caught along with rabbit, squirrel and venison in my freezer to attest to this. I buy a lot of canned vegetables, because they are the cheapest. I prefer fresh and frozen, but they are just too expensive sometimes. I haven't eaten fruit since I was a baby. The closest thing I've had to fruit in the last 45 years is tomatoes. It's a texture thing. Something about the texture of fruit makes me start gagging.

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