Food Inc / Home raised food

fancyroberts

Do any of you raise your own beef / chicken / lamb / pork, etc. you will definitely consider it after watching Food Inc.....I am forever a changed woman! I now have 40 meat chicks 6 laying hens, and if beef wasn't so expensive here is Qc I would be getting a cow to raise in our pasture.

I will be planting my ginormous garden this weekend, in hopes to feed my family of 5 through the whole winter...this has little to do with LCHF, was just on my mind this morning and wondered if anyone else out there views things the same as I.

Have a great day everyone!

Kitnthecat

I did see Food Inc years ago. I'm not sure if this was the catalyst for changing the way I now look at food, since so many things happened at the same time, which have forever altered my perception of what good food is and how I should shop for it.

I no longer view corn and soy as suitable foods, but was especially moved by how animals are processed for food. I made the decision over 3 years ago to purchase all my meat from organic farmers who raise grass fed beef, lamb, goats, and pastured pigs, chickens, turkeys, geese, and eggs....I can't remember what else. I live in the city and can't farm or even raise chickens here, so this is perfect. The last 3 years I have ordered 1/2 cow, 1/2 pig, 12-24 chickens, and 1-2 turkeys per year, with 6 doz eggs every month. I hanged it up a bit for this year's subscription, but this has become the most important part of my family's diet.

I too will be planting a huge garden, and will freeze and can my own veggies, tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, pickles etc. I know where exactly my food comes from, and this enriches our whole relationship with the meals we eat.

This is the topic I am most enthusiastic about....the quality of my food and keeping it as natural as possible. It can work with LCHF too. I will plant keto friendly plants, and all my meat is perfect already.

fancyroberts

Agreed! What Keto friendly vegetables do you grow??

AngInCanada

We have a 1 acre garden, we raise chickens for eggs and rabbits for meat and will be getting lambs in the spring.

wabmester

Just strawberries and blackberries for us. They don't last long.

Kitnthecat

My keto friendly veggies are lots of cucumbers, I grow the pickling kind, but eat them too, as well as leaf lettuce, rainbow chard, zucchini, both yellow and green. A little bit starchier but still good in moderation are green beans, and spaghetti squash. For the rest of my family, I also will plant tomatoes, onions, carrots, peas, and beets. I planted way more variety last year including pumpkin, but I'm scaling back this year a bit. I'm just targeting veggies we like, and that we had success with in the past, and what works well for storage.

AngInCanada

My.keto friendly veggies are:

Kale
White cauliflower (giant of Naples)
Purple cauliflower (purple of Sicily)
Brussels sprouts
Brocollo
Spinach
Swiss chard
Spaghetti squash
Zucchini
Tomatoes

Kitnthecat

I did cabbage and kale last year, but bugs got to them before we could, so sad.

sweetteadrinker2

I slacked on the garden this year, too much going on. That said, the hens lay more eggs than we can eat (there's 20 dozen in my fridge atm), the goats are fattening, we're trading one of them for a lamb when we hit market week, there's half a steer with our name on it and two pigs that someone payed me with for house sitting. Caring for other peoples animals and gardens will bring me payment in many veggies and fruit for the family. Farmer network for the win.