Keto Carnivory: Wonderful Variety of Offal

I am pretty much out of my ram meat, and now am primarily eating beef offal. It is great! I enjoy it so much! 

I am eating beef tendon, sweetbreads (pancreas and thymus), liver, heart, kidney, oxtail. I also got tongue, short ribs, and beef back ribs. But honestly, I love the organ meats far better than the muscle meats. The texture is softer and they are so more flavorful and fun to eat! And so affordable too!

I also reserve, strain, and refrigerate the water when slow cooking tendon. It makes a wonderful aspic (gelatin) snack!

Since sweetbreads are very fatty, I eat them alongside tendon or kidney. I have been eating the beef heart and liver with reserved fat from cooking. So everything ends up around 50/50 fat to protein, to allow me to stay in ketosis and avoid hypothyroidism. 

It is important to maintain a decent fat intake because many organ meats are so lean (such as liver, kidney, tendon, and heart). Hypothyroidism can happen quickly and did to me last year when eating too much tendon without added fat.

On the other hand, I cannot do much more fat than that or I get intestinal cramping and diarrhea. 

50/50 fat to protein by calorie seems to be working the best for me, knock on wood!

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