OK folks, I need a group carnivore consult here.
The outcome will decide whether I join you all for Meaty May.
Following several years of zero interest in Frankenfoods and processed food carb replacements, I recently placed an order for some Dr Almond bread mixes in order to make Mr B's life a little more interesting. Mission accomplished, and he enjoys them. I can happily ignore the bread, but... a profiterole packet accidentally fell into my Basket. Odd how that happens. And the results are amazing - and obviously not carnivore.
With perfect honesty, I am NOT going to stop eating them until they are gone, which will be well into May. The second half of the pack made 27 profiteroles, and at 2 a day, they will delight me for the next 2 weeks.
So my question is, what level of meat eating and non-meat eating are we thinking can be described as carnivore? 98%? 90%? 95%? I'm confident that I hit 95% animal products, including dairy.
As an example:
On a typical day, I eat meat, fish, eggs, cheese, cream, one cup of roast chicory and 2 squares of 70+% choc.
With that intake, I am happy identifying myself as a carnivore. I particularly dislike food one upmanship where people are dismissed as 'dirty carnivore' or 'not really c' because they drink coffee, or eat a garnish.
It is a kind of food elitism that I abhore.
However, when I add in 2 low carb profiteroles daily, do I step outside the carni tolerance? It feels to me as though I do.
For info: the pack says 1.8g carbs per 100g in the finished profiteroles.
My portion is 2 profiteroles, at a total of 17g for the pair. That makes an absurdly insignificant portion of carbs (0.3g carbs). Far less than a slice of LC bread.
The filling is whipped double cream, and the choc sauce is those 2 squares of choc I always have, but this time they have been melted and stirred into double cream to make a non-sweet chocolate cream sauce.
So my query isn't about the carb load (adding 0.3g carbs a day is insignificant), but more the fact that I am cheerfully embracing a luxuriously choccy cream dessert on a daily basis, loving it, and feeling that it isn't in the spirit of carnivory.
Your thoughts?
(by the way, here is a pic of the little darlings.
What have you eaten today?
I have made it a link rather that embedding the photo in order give you all the option NOT to click)