Growing up on a dairy farm with raw milk and our own homemade sorts of foods, we really didn’t realize how spoiled we were. Fast forward 30 years and look at the difference between grass fed butter & your just regular average butter from the grocery store. My husband would also adamantly tell you the texture and taste is vastly different between these two. Now, as a child I had access to pretty homemade butter but my husband was fed margarine until we got married. I insisted we NEVER used or purchased margarine, but we’ve been upgrading our butter to better butter. Many people think we are crazy when we say the grass fed stuff is better but it even LOOKS better in the dish! I do use the pale stuff when I bake sometimes for people who really don’t care about the difference or throw a pat or two on a steak. However when my husband bakes he’ll only use the “good stuff”. As far as I know, my children have never had margarine - I’m not sure they know what it is. The contrast was just so stark, I thought I should share. If you can, definitely get high quality foods as close to their source as possible.

On Friday, I amazed myself and other members of my wee running group, although I think for different reasons. In March (my 50th birthday), I joined the Couch to 5K group with a goal of running 5k in 9 weeks. At the time, I had no idea how I was going to manage, but I ended up doing it in 7 weeks. After the graduation 5k, which was my 5th 5k nonstop, I signed up for a 10k trail race while still riding the wave. Unfortunately the summer break happened and motivation dropped so I didn't make it out, and suddenly the 10k was upon me. I had one more 5k practice run last Monday and then on Friday I lined up for the race. What nobody knew was that I had been essentially carnivore for the preceding week since my wife and I decided to get our sh*t together, so I was unsure what would happen. All the other members of the group had posted about how much pasta they had been eating in preparation. Anyway, to sum up, I finished the race, and I wasn't last. In fact, I finished before four of the carb loaders. I had to take a few walking breaks, especially on the larger hills, because my legs were sore, but given that I hadn't gone past 5k before that, it was expected. I still completed the first 5k without stopping. On the way home I told the others in the car I had been carnivore for the week preceding, and the reaction I got was priceless. " So you had NO CARBS before that at all??" "Nope". I'm now interested in how to continue at that distance on as few carbs as possible. I have another 10k on August 21st, so let's see what happens.

Iv not had coffee for nearly a year. I brought some mold free coffee the other week and iv been having 1 cup a day. Iv noticed that when I'm at the gym I sweat alot more and I ache more too. I drink it after breakfast around 10/11 am as iv read this is a better time to consume it. Has anyone else noticed things changing after bring coffee back into their diet?

We are travelling back from our hols atm & my daughter says can you put mince chicken on your shopping list for a carnivore pizza for tea & egg whites to make your bread please. Absolutely hun!!! How many pizza shall we make ?? I’m so excited as to what other meals we can cook during the holidays. She’s noticed her skin is clearer & not so bloated reducing her carbs. The first holiday she hasn’t had ice-cream (she asked & moaned but we said you don’t need it & didn’t ask again) so proud of her knowing what’s she usually like. 😃❤️

I’ve had a few things pop up on MB on Instagram recently, all seem positive. Has anyone ever tried it? Just curious as to the benefits, one of which is that it’s now being looked at for a treatment in Alzheimer’s and Dementia