Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

I reckon trout is better than bacon...

Ahmen....

mmmmmmmm baaaaaacon........

Yep and this goes along with Paleo style eating. Vegetable oils are not stable and oxidize quite quickly. By the time you buy it it has gone rancid see this and this for a basic rundown.

Yep, I do all my cooking in Lard, Ghee, or coconut oil.
The "cholesterol is evil" BS that is repeated on and on is simply wrong. Most of the cholesterol in our bodies is manufactured by our bodies, only about 25% of the cholesterol we eat contributes to total body cholesterol. Cholesterol is also vitally important for many bodily functions.
And yes, replacing carbs, especially grains with fat as an energy source increases our fat burning.
See this and this


Me too !



mmmm.... bacon

But it is very important to eat LOTS of greens and lots of other veges (not starchy ones, unless you are some kind of athlete)

After reading this BS, I cought few Tilapia yesterday, and cooked them with bacon.
Wow, what a combination. It was so good, I ate three of them.

If it was not because of this article, I would not have found such a delicious meal!!

Thanks

Hey Zubin, can you read my PM cause its been sitting in my outbox for over a month and I put too much effort into it to discard it

thankyou!!

While I don't want to eat GMO foods or feed them to my animals, I have been having a really hard time finding feeds I can afford around here that don't contain them.

However, most of the problem with the tilapia and some other warm water farm raised fish is not necessarily the GMO in the feed but more to do with the fact that the feed has a really high % of corn and soy in it.

Years ago there was an article that said it would be better to eat a burger than tilapia. See there was a big craze about how you should eat more fish because of the high Omega 3 content in fish but farm raised catfish and tilapia have very poor omega 3:omega 6 ratios because they are fed mostly corn/soy based commercial fish feeds. Corn and Soy have very poor omega 3:omega 6 ratios. But guess what, if you are talking a burger that is made from beef that was also raised on that corn/soy diet, they are gonna have really terrible ratios too.

So if you want healthy food, eat grass fed beef, forest finished pig (yes bacon), truly free range foul, and try to feed your fish as much natural foods as you can. Reduce the amount of refined and over processed foods you eat. Save the carb heavy meals for when you will be doing a lot of aerobic excersize the next day and if the food package makes lots of healthy claims, it is probably not nearly so good for you. Eat food! much of the stuff sold in the stores is not food but processed food stuff, not the same thing. Food stuff is what is left over after you strip most of the nutrition out of the calories and then add all the stuff to make it taste good and then add more stuff to try to replace some of the nutrition that was stripped out so that it would keep on the shelf indefinitely.

I don't believe that lipids (fats) are bad for you, just make it balanced. I eat eggs and bacon almost every day and I'm far healthier now than I was when I was "trying" to eat healthy.

I still feed my fish the commercial fish feed (cause I haven't found anything better that I can sustain that works) and I just have to figure my fish are better to eat because they are raised in clean water and not fed antibiotics and they are protected from herbicides/pesticides/other pollutants and are fresh when we process them.

The Minister for War and Finances was out this evening, so my dinner was up to me... you guessed it... some of them healthy, guilt free, bacons oils were in order... plus some fried, home grown Romas and scrambled, free range eggs.

Plus I got to have it at a decent time...9.00 rather than the usual 6.00 or 7.00... where you end up snacking on junk by 9.00 or 10.00

...it doesn't get any better!!!... except for the lecture when the MFWAF got home!

haha, that sounds exactly like my dinner when the missus is out.
I had pork sausages (she doesn't like pork) and some fried veg

Yep!... the K.I.S.S. principle doesn't just apply to aquaponics, but dinner also IMO... the sheila's always wanna make it too complicated.

Fried Roma's is that good?

I suspect.. fried anything.. is good....

LMAO, especially fried in bacon grease.

Are the Kennedys gun shy?

Man I love tommies done that way.... geez your making me hungry DrD!! I know whats for brekkie tomorrow lol