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Kristen Helmstetter

(Brisa Starr)

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Are You Leery of Sardines? Don’t Be! Sardines are Badass!

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I heard a podcast about 5 years ago, where a male model with beautiful skin (of course) was interviewed. He said one of his secrets to having beautiful skin and a perfectly lean body was eating sardines. He even packed them in his backpack when he was traveling. He’d simply pop open the top and eat them. Some people stared, but he didn’t care. His skin and body were important to him – he was a model after all.

I intuitively knew sardines held a lot of promise.

I wanted to eat sardines, but I didn’t know where to start. I heard paleo-dieters talk about the awesome virtues of sardines. They were supposed to be really nutritious – ok, cool.

I decided to jump in and try them. They had too many great factors going for them. I had to get on board. I knew there were people out there who loved them so I figured they either knew something that I didn’t, or they grew up loving them, or they just weren’t that bad and I was making a big deal of nothing. I was determined.

But how in the hell do you eat them?

I mean, I know how to eat them, but HOW? They’re stinky little fish, right?

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Eating a Carnivore Diet for $4 a Day – The Frugal Carnivore

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1 pound of ground beef for breakfast. Frugal Carnivore Diet.

A carnivore diet is one where you don’t eat plants.

Yes, you read that right. If this is your first time to my blog and you’re curious about how in the heck I eat a diet without plants, then you can read about my experience on a carnivore diet in my book, The Carnivore Diet Handbook. Today, I’m sharing how I eat a frugal carnivore diet to save a lot of money.

I’m loving my frugal carnivore diet.

So far, I feel great on it. My skin is gorgeous, PMS is consistently a breeze, my weight is easy to maintain. I‘m stronger, and my sleep is great. Apart from the great skin, my other favorite part of the carnivore diet is that I’m never bloated. I can go from eating a pound of meat to wearing a bikini. Digestion is much better without plants and fiber. Eating a carnivore diet is right for me. I’ve been doing this on and off, mostly on… since January 2018. The times I go off I experience differences like bloating and occasional pimples.

Sometimes eating meat can get expensive though!

That’s where a frugal carnivore diet comes in.

This post will share how I do it, and for more detail get my book, The Frugal Carnivore Diet

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My New Book: The Carnivore Diet Handbook

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The Carnivore Diet Handbook

I’m excited to announce that I wrote another new book, The Carnivore Diet Handbook.

This is the book I wish I had when I started my carnivore diet.

I wrote The Carnivore Diet Handbook because I’ve been loving my experiences on a carnivore diet so far, and I wanted to share everything I’d discovered to help you do it, too!

Tons of people are curious about this diet, and people have lots of questions. I took everything I learned about trying the carnivore diet and put it in an easy-to-read book. You’ll learn exactly how and why I started this diet.

I used to be a body-builder way back in the day!

I’ve been fascinated by health and fitness for over twenty years, beginning at age 19 when I was a competitive bodybuilder. I remember the days fondly when I would eat an entire rack of ribs (sometimes 2 racks), every day for a week, leading up to a competition.

Then things changed… I went vegan!

In my mid-twenties (no longer bodybuilding), I became a vegan, primarily for ethical reasons, but I dove deeply into the pro-vegan literature, and I believed veganism was the healthiest way to eat.

Then one day, I realized that my toddler daughter was not thriving (nor my husband or myself upon honest inspection). This was despite my serious commitment to providing her with what I believed was a nutritionally complete diet, and spending a small fortune in the highest quality supplements.

From vegan, to “reformed vegan,” to heart-eating carnivore…

The short version is that I’ve done a complete, 180-degree reversal from my plants-only diet days.

When I’m eating a carnivore diet, I eat zero plants. I’ve even recently (finally) given up coffee (a plant extract and insecticide). I’m on day 4 for that. (I love and hate that I’ve given up coffee.)

Beef
Beef patties

The Carnivore Diet Handbook will show you why I’m eating this way and how you can get the benefits, too. Things like finally losing the weight you’ve always wanted to, only this time it’s EASY and delicious. You can experience what it’s like to not be addicted to sugar or carbs. If you have acne, this diet is amazing for giving you gorgeous clear skin. If you have aches and pains in joints or muscles, they are dramatically reduced of go away all together.

It’s an amazing diet and you should try it today. I love it!

The book is filled with all things carnivore diet:

  • My carnivore diet story and I how I came to try it including my skeptic’s tale(!)
  • The results I’ve experienced since being on it twice
  • FAQs about the carnivore diet (like, do I need veggies??? what about fiber???)
  • Tips for transitioning to a carnivore diet
  • Holidays on a carnivore diet
  • Traveling on a carnivore diet
  • Meal plans
  • Shopping list
  • Cooking tips
  • Plenty of mouth-watering meaty recipes

If you’re wondering about how you could feel better, get more energy, lessen inflammation in your body, and lose weight, then a carnivore diet is for you!

Bacon

Buy The Carnivore Diet Handbook TODAY ! Your body (and taste-buds!) will thank you.

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I Must Want to Live A Long Time… Sardine n Smoothie Lunch

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Large smoothie and sardines cuz I want to live longer.
Lunch: Large smoothie and sardines cuz I want to live longer.

I’m sitting here eating my lunch after a Basic Yoga class.

I’m eating sardines and a large veggie smoothie. It’s soooooo not a fun lunch. I’d rather toast some of that organic 3-day fermented sourdough bread from my freezer and slather it with a butt-load of grass-fed butter. Yes sireeee that’s what I really want.

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How to Have a Real Food Foodie Road Trip – What to Pack!

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A mini-van almost packed to the gills, ready to roll.
A mini-van almost packed to the gills, ready to roll.

We are a family who loves to travel, and our most recent epic road trip took us to Michigan. But, travel can wreak havoc on anyone’s best attempts to eat healthy. Not always. Check out my post below where I show how we traveled across the country while (almost exclusively) staying on our Real Food Foodie Lifestyle (i.e., we ate really healthy in spite of being on the road). It meant extra work, which isn’t always the thing you want to do after a day of being in the car, but I’m simply not willing to eat crap food which is most often what’s served in restaurants.

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Recipes for Sardines – A Super Food Solution

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Sardine Pate Recipe for Beginners
Sardine Pate Recipe for Beginners

Sardines were one of the first animal foods we introduced to our diet when we went from vegan to omnivore late in 2012.

At the time, we weren’t ready to have other fish because we wanted to research mercury, toxins, etc. But, we wanted some fish. Our best bet: sardines because of their low-trophic level and superior nutrition. Some in the paleo world call them a superfood.

Did I like sardines?

Well, honestly they skeeved me out a bit. I used to love tuna fish back when I was young, but sardines were a whole new ball of wax, coming with skin, bones and all. Yeah, they were the kind of thing my step-dad ate and I used to think, “Ewww, dude, you’re gross.”

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