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I found these on the grocery store shelf a while back….
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And I swear my arteries hardened just walking by.
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After posting this on Facebook, I was assured by numerous people duck fat is a perfectly delicious way to cook potatoes. And while that may be true, I’m still passing on that giant jar of pork lard.
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Lard is essential for making homemade refried beans…which are a million times better than anything out of a can!
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I’ve never received a bean in my life. Heck, I’m not that crazy about them the first time around.
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I make them with olive or canola oil.
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Don’t say something like that without backing it up with a recipe…
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I like to make up a batch of individual meat pies from time to time, and beef tallow makes a for “meaty” pastry shell. The tallow will take higher temps than Crisco and so you get a really great color without burning.
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A man who cooks? Be still my heart…
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Get cooking with some’o’that lard in a jar and your heart will be still in no time 🙂
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Ha!
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Lard is an essential part of the kitchen of you Hispanic/Mexican American. And it makes things taste so much better, in spite of the health concerns, it should be used in moderation. Duck fat is AWESOME to deep fry potatoes! I didn’t think I’d like it because I feared it would make any food taste gamey. But, I was pleasant surprised to find it gives it a great taste and it makes them ever so crispy too.
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I’m sure they all taste wonderful…. But there’s something about a giant jar of fat I just can’t get behind.
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That’s because you believed the lies we were told about animal fat. And there are doctors that are still peddling this lie because it makes them money to keep people sick. Animal fats are good for you. They keep your brain healthy, they keep your hormones functioning properly, they help with the absorption of fat soluble vitamins, and it helps you stay full longer so you don’t eat as much.
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I’m sure I ingest plenty of animal fat. There’s just something about seeing a giant lump of it in a jar that makes my arteries close up involuntarily.
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I find it weird that in one generation we’ve gone from saving cooking fat to buying it in a jar. I do neither.
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Yes! That awful jar of bacon grease under the sink. We had a mouse get in it once….
he did not get out.
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LOL. Now I know why ours was in the fridge!
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This is capitalism, they’d charge for air if they could. Indeed, maybe that is why they’re allowing all the deforestation and destruction of oceans. Every human on earth would be coughing up to buy some…. But, yeah, my mother was only talking about how they used to keep lard the other day.
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Worry creates sickness.
You should not be so concerned… unless it’s human fat in a jar you see.
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Stress can contribute, yes. But I still won’t be buying a jar of fat anytime soon.
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What about pollution and chemicals that aren’t biodegradable? There’s a lot of old people who were worried and stressed by the atrocities of war that survived to a ripe old age. We’re a bit lily-livered these days. (I had to say lily-livered – I just love that expression, and my mind expresses it in a western-movie drawl)
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I’m on your side, River. We cook 99% in coconut oil. It is liquid at room temperatures. Many doctors and homeopaths recommend it.
Meanwhile, I posted the following post last week on heart attack symptoms for women. Maybe you and your readers might find something useful in it for them…
https://rawgodsspiritualatheism.wordpress.com/2021/09/16/women-and-heart-attacks-things-every-woman-should-know-and-so-should-the-men-who-share-their-worlds/
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Interesting post… as well as terrifying. My husband had triple bypass 4 years ago so sadly I’m more familiar than most.
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I am happy to hear your husband survived, or the barn would still be just a barn. But I cannot get past the fact the medical industry is not telling women what women need to know. Is there some kind of profit in it for them, or is it they just don’t really care about half the population of the world?
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I think women’s health issues are always downplayed. If men had to experience childbirth and menopause it would be a different world by far.
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So stand up to them. To us, I mean. Show us you have the real power. Without you we are nothing!
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By the way, did you catch what Spelchek did to your word “woman’s” above. Woman’s = so ends? And they say there is no conspiracy!
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I just saw that and changed it. Spellcheck has an evil sense of humor.
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Spelchek IS the dark state. It was obviously programmed by white christian males.
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Old, pale and stale. The Q-Tips rule the world.
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By the way, would you consider reblogging this post, or doing one on of your own, in your own words? I seriously believe the word needs to be spread, and my blogs are not going to accomplish that.
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I don’t reblog as a rule. And trust me, my readership wouldn’t spread the word that far.
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Anywhere is better than none. But I understand. On my spiritual atheism blog, I did not reblog either, which is one reason why I now have three blogs. But the newst is just starting out. I have less than 10 readers, some of whom don’t even have blogs.
But I try, because I care.
In a way I should not even have written that post, I have no medical experience. But I did some research, and found Suze’s words mighty close to what doctors do say. But they don’t say it where it helps others. It is in my personality to try my best, but I need help.
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Maybe join some social media groups and post it there? Just a suggestion
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I posted it on my spouse’s Facebook account, and sent it directly to some female members of my family and also a few very good friends. That is the extent of my knowledge of social media.
You make a good point, saq, but I have no idea of how to use all those other platforms, or whatever they are called. Word Press is the extent of my foray into social media. I’ve been on it now for 4 years, and I barely know how to use it properly. Spelchek alone makes me feel like a know-nothing because my comments look proper when I write then, but then when I publish them try change into a nightmare when I see them in print. (See that word try back there, I did not type that, but yet there it is. I typed they, but Spelchek didn’t like that word for some reason. I left that one in just because. The rest I had to recorrect their corrections!)
Anyways, saq, I am too old to start trying to learn all those other things. It takes me all I have just to do Word Press.
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Just be sure and tag it properly and interested readers will find you.
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Tags?. My WP doesn’t let me do many tags. No idea what I do wrong but sometimes the tag section doesn’t show up at all, and other times I add one or two tags and it disappears. What am I doing wrong? No idea.
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Really? I’ve never had a tag issue. I add them every time I write a post.
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I try, but that place where you put them closes up, if it even opens up. And I am not computer literate enough to know what to do about it. But, life goes on…
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That it does. With or without tags.
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I basically ate a jar of pork lard tonight in the form of pork crackle and pork belly. Not feeling too good right about now but man, it was good while I was eating it.
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Ugh. I’ve never eaten either… and am surprisingly okay with that.
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You’ve never eaten pork? Religious reasons? Or just don’t like pork?
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Just crackle and bellies. Love the rest….
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But crackle is the best part!
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Bacon. Bacon is the best part….
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Probably my second favourite pork product. But damn close to first!
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Just reading Giant Jar Of Pork Lard upped my cholesterol numbers.
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I know! I’m going to be safe and stick with healthy fats. Like bacon.
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No lard for me, I have enough in my arse at the moment.
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Actually – I have enough ON my arse! No funny business here!
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I could probably drain a few jars from my hips and thighs, but who has the time?
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