The Banting/LCHF Thread

[KleinBoontjie]

Thanks for the info. So you reckon mentioning free-range here is just a selling point?

Don't know, like I said, it may be possible, but I have never heard of it in South Africa. Here in the Western Cape is more than enough space for sheep to roam free.

 

[Hectic]

Pretoria has boarded the banting bus with a brand new food market dedicated to the sale of LCHF meals and produce.

The Pretoria Banting Market, which takes place at the Pretoria National Botanical Garden, currently has around 32 tables booked, with new requests from interested vendors coming in daily. Some of the current vendors include Carrado’s, Wendy’s Healthy Foods, Bite Size Banting, Earthfood Trading Company, Leafy Greens, The Lazy Cook and The Ice Creamery.

Visitors to the market can expect everything from banting breads and rusks to nut flours, nut butters, cauliflower wraps, cheese, cookies, grass-fed meat products, home-cooked meals, sugar-free ice cream and more. In addition to a plethora of produce and meals, a nutritionist will be on site to give advice and book private consultations. Vendors are not allowed to sell any non-banting products as to ensure that all food is naturally low in carbohydrates and free from sugar, vegetable oil and artificial preservatives. “We prefer that the products are grown, baked or processed by the stallholder to be local, fresh and of good quality,” says market founder Karin Loots.

Source:
http://www.eatout.co.za/article/pretoria-new-banting-market/

 

[OMB]

Thanks for the info. So you reckon mentioning free-range here is just a selling point?

I've never seen lamb that isn't free range so I think it's probably a marketing ploy by Woolies et al, I do think the flavour difference may be due to eating off different grazing as indicated by beans100 as well as maturation as I think farmers and small butchers let the meat hang longer. I'm now getting all my meat from Country Meat, their quality and range is fantastic.

 

[FlashSA]

More land area per sheep normally equals less need to feed them grains. Sheep are designed to forage and eat grass from the fields. When you have very sheep dense farm lands, supplementing with grain feed becomes necessary.

A big part of proper free range is avoiding grains which is often GMO

 

[mister]

A big part of proper free range is avoiding grains which is often GMO

No. Free range does not imply grain free.

Not even 'grass fed' implies grain free, because 'grass fed' can be 'grain finished!'

 

[Fiesta]

This is not what I wanted to hear Sinbad. Your ability to spread good news is weakening....and frankly I'm disgusted by it

i lol'ed

 

[swift412]

Today I tried making peanut butter bread.

After eating the entire loaf in one sitting, I am now banned from making peanut butter bread.

 

[Sinbad]

Peanut butter is not good on lchf...

 

[FlashSA]

Just had an awesome meal of butter chicken curry made by my wife and all she had to swap was sugar to xylitol - was fantastic!

 

[Hectic]

Peanut butter is not good on lchf...

Strangely my doctor yesterday recommended it. I complained about still getting hungry after meals, despite taking in fats. He recommended that I should eat two teaspoons of peanut butter. He did mention that should combine it with some activities, like walking on usining light weights while siting.

He actually showed me his bottle and teaspoon that he keeps in his desk.

He is a bodybuilder though and I'm more like Garfield, so not sure if I should follow his advise.

 

[FlashSA]

Strangely my doctor yesterday recommended it. I complained about still getting hungry after meals, despite taking in fats. He recommended that I should eat two teaspoons of peanut butter. He did mention that should combine it with some activities, like walking on usining light weights while siting.

He actually showed me his bottle and teaspoon that he keeps in his desk.

He is a bodybuilder though and I'm more like Garfield, so not sure if I should follow his advise.

I would switch to macadamia nut butter. More expensive but fully LCHF compliant and tastes just as good. I have even used it to make bacon and nut butter sarmies using Low Carb bread. Amazing!

 

[Hectic]

I would switch to macadamia nut butter. More expensive but fully LCHF compliant and tastes just as good. I have even used it to make bacon and nut butter sarmies using Low Carb bread. Amazing!

Thanks

 

[swift412]

I wish I could afford to make bread regularly out of macadamia or almond nut butter

Luckily overindulging on the peanut butter bread didn't kick me out of ketosis, so today it's back to pork and caulibroc

 

[Sinbad]

 

[FlashSA]

I wish I could afford to make bread regularly out of macadamia or almond nut butter

Luckily overindulging on the peanut butter bread didn't kick me out of ketosis, so today it's back to pork and caulibroc

From a local fresh produce market store, i buy a premix bread pack for R65. Add a carton of buttermilk and 6 eggs and transforms into an awesome loaf of bread. Slice into 12 and freeze. Whenever the urge arises, out of the freezer and into the toaster for beautiful toast. I go through a loaf in a week to a week and a half which is not expensive. Scrambled eggs on toast FTW

 

[Sinbad]

From a local fresh produce market store, i buy a premix bread pack for R65. Add a carton of buttermilk and 6 eggs and transforms into an awesome loaf of bread. Slice into 12 and freeze. Whenever the urge arises, out of the freezer and into the toaster for beautiful toast. I go through a loaf in a week to a week and a half which is not expensive. Scrambled eggs on toast FTW

I think you don't understand low carb?

 

[FlashSA]

I think you don't understand low carb?

The bread mix is made from almond and coconut flour. I've lost 26kg's. Can you give me any tips?

 

[HavocXphere]

Any idea how to maintain a diet slanted towards banting with high meat prices? EU side even stew meat is stupidly expensive.

I grew up on a farm and live in the country side, never heard of that. Maybe not impossible, but to my knowledge, all sheep comes from farms where they have grazed on the lands.

The commercial operations have them in pens...at least for some of the time....for the majority of their time from what I can tell.

 

[Mars]

If anyone is in cape town, the Caring Candy factory shop is in Montague Gardens.

http://www.caringcandies.co.za/

Just ah.. be careful of eating too much.

 

[swift412]

Any idea how to maintain a diet slanted towards banting with high meat prices? EU side even stew meat is stupidly expensive.

The commercial operations have them in pens...at least for some of the time....for the majority of their time from what I can tell.

What do you usually buy? Organ meat (liver and kidney in particular) are relatively on the low side price wise. (Though you probably don't want to eat too much liver every day if you're concerned about Hypervitaminosis A)

From a local fresh produce market store, i buy a premix bread pack for R65. Add a carton of buttermilk and 6 eggs and transforms into an awesome loaf of bread. Slice into 12 and freeze. Whenever the urge arises, out of the freezer and into the toaster for beautiful toast. I go through a loaf in a week to a week and a half which is not expensive. Scrambled eggs on toast FTW

Yeah, so far almond flour and coconut flour seem to be the best options for LCHF bread. I've also experimented with zucchini bread and avocado bread and honestly can't recommend either of them.

Cream cheese waffles are great too and then you start ending up in the territory of "keto-ifying" non-keto foods which always seems to cause a bit of strife so I've leave it at that.