Ancestral Eating on a Budget Part 1

How many times have I heard from my clients, what do I eat? The answer 'real food' just doesn't seem to cut it.

If you are vegan I suggest you scroll on by.

What exactly is Ancestral Nutrition? It's eating the way our ancestors did. No fads, no trends, just what was seasonal and available to eat. I am very keen on what Weston A Price Foundation (WAPF) have to say on all of this.

🥩🍗🍖🦴🍳🥚🧀🥛🐟The basis of food nutrition and nutrient dense foods starts with animal products. WAPF say that plants will kill you slowly and an animal quickly and that is completely true when you think about toxic plants and those high in phytic acid and oxalates vs the wolf or the tiger.

Please note, I do still love eating plants and the wonders that medicinal herbs can do. I am also a huge animal lover but the reality is that I feel better being an omnivore.

With meat being so nutritious and the cost of living having risen hugely, what can people do to ensure good nutrition? Typically poor quality animal products are still more nutritious than the best quality plant food.

🥩To put it plainly, the most nutrient dense food you can eat is ox liver. Freezing then grating small amount of it into mince dishes or casseroles diguises the stronger taste and increases things like iron, B12, vitamin A, Zinc and many other essential nutrients. When our ancestors went for the k1ll, the liver was the prized part of the animal. You can buy Mitchell's liver or liver and spleen capsules if the idea of this makes you squeamish.
🦴Offal is much overlooked and is more nutritious than the fleshy parts we usually eat in Westernised countries. Even bones are offal and make nutritious meat stock or broth. It is rich in amino acids and many of them are essential (we're unable to make them ourselves). Gelatinous meats and broths help line the gut (important in the case of signs of leaky gut). If this isn't something you're keen to do or you are time poor, Mitchell's and Chief and others make collagen peptides and bone broth powders and various companies make gelatine.
Other ideas for palatable offal are steak and kidney casseroles, ox heart (delicious marinated then fried), lamb's fry (lamb's liver),chicken hearts and more. All generally much cheaper than the flesh of the animal.
🥚🍳 Eggs are a delicious versatile meal. I love that we have our own hens and know what our eggs are eating. But even budget trays of eggs are more nutritious than plants. Along with beef, eggs provide choline which is so important for the brain and liver. Bear in mind it takes 5 eggs to make a standard 30g serving of protein.
🍗Chicken is one of the cheaper meats available and the skin is rich in hyalauronic acid which is something plants are lacking in. This helps with brain function and wrinkle prevention. Yes you could eat Bostocks (my preference), but again, any is better than none.
🧀🥛Ideally dairy would be organic and raw but we need to get calcium from an easily bioavailable source and milk, cheese and unflavoured Greek yoghurt are just that. Some brands of Greek yoghurt from the supermarket are cheap. Butter (even small amounts) is so nutritious but even if times are tough I would not recommend buying the white coloured butter made from US milk.
🐟Seafood provides us with Omega 3 and is a good source of protein. Ideally fresh is best. Cheapest to throw a line of the wharf. Even tins of salmon and sardines are affordable. Avoid tuna because everyone knows it's high in mercury.