Instant Meals In A Jar: Italian Beef
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Instant Meals In A Jar: Italian Beef

Sarah

It has been a while since I did “instant meals in a jar.”With it being winter, it’s a perfect time for it.

A high-protein/lower-carb recipe, made to take on the go for an “instant” meal or to pack away for long-term storage. It works great in power outages or winter storms.

Italian Beef

Ingredients:

Directions:

Pack ingredients in a pint mason jar or a “MRE” style mylar bag. For longer-term storage, add a desiccant or oxygen absorber and seal. (Discard the packet before cooking.)

To prepare:

Add 1 cup of boiled water, seal, and sit for 15 minutes. Stir well. If it is cold where you are, insulate the jar/bag with a clean kitchen towel.

It can be prepared in a small pot. Bring water to a boil, add dry ingredients, cover tightly, and remove from burner.

Add a pinch of sea salt if desired.

Serves 1.

~Sarah

High Protein Egg Breakfast Dish
Clean Living · Recipes

High Protein Egg Breakfast Dish

Sarah

I saw this recipe idea on a reel and made it my own based on what I had in the house. It matched what I was looking for in a breakfast: easy to make, filling, and high-protein. And while I am not an expert on keto, I would classify it as keto-friendly.

If anything, I almost couldn’t finish the breakfast; it was that filling. It fueled me well until noon, and I didn’t feel hungry, even though we walked for miles. I’d call that a winner.

I used guacamole, a simpler choice. A fresh avocado sliced up on top is a good substitute. However, I was out of avocados. The brand of guacamole I had on hand has a simple ingredient list. I would have preferred fresh avocado, but I wouldn’t be picky, as well…I was all out of that. It would remove 140 mg of sodium, though.

As always, read the ingredients because not every brand is a good choice. I usually buy Daisy brand cottage cheese. It has three ingredients—milk, cream, and salt. You don’t want anything more added! There are no stabilizers, gums, or thickeners.

High Protein Egg Breakfast Dish

Ingredients:

  • ½ cup 4% cottage cheese
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 Tbsp unsalted butter
  • Pinch of fine sea salt, if desired
  • 2 Tbsp guacamole

Directions:

Spread the cottage cheese on a serving plate.

Whisk the eggs together and add to a small fry pan. Dice up the butter and fold in.

If you like, add a tiny pinch of salt (I did not, as the cottage cheese for me provides enough sodium).

Heat the pan over medium-low, and gently scramble the eggs until set.

Spread the eggs and guacamole on top.

Serves 1.

Nutritional Stats:

420 Calories / 32 Grams Fat / 25 Grams Protein / 530 Grams sodium / 4 Grams Sugar (from cottage cheese) / 2 grams Carbs (from avocado)

~Sarah

Low Carb Philly Cheesesteak
Clean Living · Recipes

Low Carb Philly Cheesesteak

Sarah

This easy, low-carb/high-protein dinner doesn’t need anything else, but I did heat up flour tortillas for the boys. Kirk and I ate it sans, though if you had butter lettuce on hand, you could do wraps with it. I was lettuce-free, so we got by.

Some will argue with me over the high vegetable content in this recipe, but I stand firm on this: vegetables are NOT evil and are good for the body. They are also fiber-rich, which is beneficial if you eat a lot of meat. It’s the same that I am OK with berries and fruit. We need not to fear carbs and sugar that are in whole ingredients; it is the added ones that must concern us. It’s easy to overeat baked goods, but you will tap out on vegetables quickly as your stomach fills up, waiting to digest. All that pesky fiber. Lol…..

Low Carb Philly Cheesesteak

Ingredients:

  • 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil, divided
  • 1 large green bell pepper
  • 1 large red bell pepper
  • 1 large sweet onion
  • 1 pound flank steak
  • 1 tsp dried oregano leaves, crushed
  • Fine sea salt (a good pinch)
  • 4-5 slices provolone cheese

Directions:

Partially freeze the meat to make it easy to slice. Slice it thinly into bite-size pieces.

Meanwhile, slice up the peppers and onions.

Heat a large cast iron skillet over medium-high. Add in half the oil, and saute the peppers and onions with the oregano and salt, tossing often, for about 10 minutes.

Remove from the pan and set aside in a bowl.

Add the remaining oil and stir-fry the meat for about 5 minutes, keeping it moving.

Return the pepper mixture and toss to combine.

Place the cheese slices on top and cover with a lid. Turn off the burner and let it sit for a couple of minutes to melt.

Serves 3 to 5, depending on appetite and if you use wraps.

Nutritional Stats (Based on 4 servings):

370 Calories – 20 grams Fat – 63 grams Protein – 6 grams Carbs – 1.75 grams Fiber

~Sarah

High Protein Meat Bread
Clean Living · Recipes

High Protein Meat Bread

Sarah

We are an ingredient household and also trying to consume the whole-foods way of life. That means there aren’t usually snacks lying around the kitchen or quick lunches. Trying to find a high-protein way of having a fast lunch isn’t easy. I love bread when I bake it. I am not eating keto bread, which is usually a slurry of gums, binders, and often cheap seed oils.

So, meat bread? Yes. It isn’t meatloaf. It is sliceable and has the texture of bread. It is well worth trying!

I found it so delicious. Finally, a snack or lunch that will fill my stomach but not keep me from my low-carb desires. And it is whole ingredients.

If you don’t have a high-speed blender, use a food processor.

I recommend using a disposable pan to bake it, as you can flex the sides for easy removal.

High Protein Meat Bread

Ingredients:

  • 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 pound ground turkey or chicken breast
  • 5 large eggs
  • ½ cup parmesan cheese
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp granulated onion
  • ½ tsp fine sea salt
  • 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375°. Lightly oil an 8″x 4″ disposable loaf pan with olive oil and set it on a baking sheet.

Heat the olive oil in a saute pan. Add the turkey or chicken breast, and cook until done, breaking up and stirring often.

Set aside to cool a bit.

Crack the eggs in a bowl, add the onion and salt, then the parmesan cheese.

Add the cooked meat to a high-speed blender (or food processor), and using the tamper (if your blender has one, or stop and scrape the container), break up the meat a bit on low. Add the egg mixture and turn it up, processing until smooth.

Add in the cheese and stir in with a spatula.

Scrape into the pan and smooth out.

Bake for 45 minutes, until golden on top. Insert a thin butter knife to check if it is done (it should come out dry). Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes. Flex the sides of the pan and use a thin spatula to work loose. Turn out onto a cooling rack.

Enjoy warm, and promptly store leftovers in the refrigerator.

Makes 8 slices.

Rough nutritional stats (can depend on what you use as ingredients) Based on one serving:

212 Calories /  1.25 grams Carbs / 20 Grams Protein / 14 Grams Fat / 268 mg Sodium / 0.5 Gram Sugar (from Mozzarella cheese)

Before baking.

~Sarah

The Insanity Of Those Opposing Make America Healthy Again
Bioengineered Foods · Clean Living · MAHA

The Insanity Of Those Opposing Make America Healthy Again

Sarah

Social media is interesting, especially when what you see is pushed onto you. Like many people, I have double accounts on Facebook and Instagram (keeping my personal separate from my business side). What the companies push can be the opposite. On my Trail Cooking Instagram account, I only post business photos – hiking, the outdoors, foraging, trail food and such. With little to go on, I am often shown similar content. Normal, you might think..but on my personal Instagram, I post many things, such as cooking, and my thoughts on food safety, food companies, and the Make America Healthy Again movement. I am politically independent, and I live somewhere in the libertarian/leave-me-alone party. As long as no one is harmed, I don’t care what others do. Yes, I am passionate about my beliefs and hope to inspire others, but I also can ignore those who harm themselves and don’t wish to change.

So the thing is…why is Instagram spending its time showing me nothing but reels by people screaming about how happy they are not having kids and how being overweight is positive? Anti-marriage reels. Pro-government reels. Reels on angry women screeching about how horrible “trad wives” are. Reels on how anything they don’t like is sexist and racist.

And I kid you not….this reel confirmed it:

They are “witchy” but believe in science. I’m sorry, but you can’t be a garden witch, a forest witch, or a white witch and be a suckup to the science movement. The two cannot coexist.

And she is pro-parabens. Yikes! And what an odd thing to be pro about, considering the EU and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have both ruled on the use of, dating back almost 10 years ago for the EU.

They are scientifically proven to be bad for us (parabens in both body products and food eaten give a longer shelf life but come with real side effects).

I thought this was an odd item to be proud of, so I took screenshots of this reel. If you fancy yourself witchy, you can make handcrafted body products from safe, natural ingredients that are sustainably grown and harvested. As someone who has both created recipes for the “crunchy” set and sold many natural body products, I find it horrifying anyone would want to be parabens on their body, much less eat them.

Ah, there it is…. Are you getting sucked into the “wellness to white supremacy pipeline“?

I wish this were a joke, someone trolling. But it isn’t. Even a casual search brings up so much, from people who want to be influencers to magazines like The Atlantic, claiming that if you care about being healthier, losing weight, being self-sufficient, gardening, homesteading, homeschooling, herbalism – you are secretly a white supremacist.

What it feels like is a massive psyop where the US is being led to believe that being inclusive of everything, including really bad habits/ways of living, makes you a good person. That we SHOULD be overweight, even grossly obese, where our bodies are failing us. We should use chemicals banned in other nations, buy processed foods, and support international fast food chains. It’s just an app away for many North Americans to have a meal delivered that is high in sodium, seed oils, and cheap carbs. Add in an HFCS pop with it, and dinner will be served.

But if you dare to question the narrative…you are a closet white supremacist.

And my readers…..

We live in a clown world. The grass is blue, and the sky is green.

Keep doing what you know is best: Be an outlier to society.

~Sarah