Bacon

When I had my heart attack and triple-bypass surgery, my Cardiologist told me to cut out bacon completely from my diet. I tried the Turkey stuff, but since it didn't come close to the real thing I gave it up. I have a couple pieces of the real thing once a week, and that has to satisfy me.
 
Yum!
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Actually there is a somewhat suitable substitute for bacon. Country Ham. Of course, it's pig, it's salt-cured and smoked. Imagine that.
So, in a way, it's not a substitute, it's leg bacon!
 
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Up to about 2-3 years ago I was eating oatmeal, wheaties etc for breakfast - weighed in at about 240 (5'11"). Was feeling pretty crappy (64yo at that time) - felt old and out of shape etc. I was looking for some answers and latched on to the "low carb - high fat" lifestyle - it includes a lot of bacon & eggs! Fast forward 2 years (after a diet of steak, chops, chicken with skin, fish and veggies) and I'm 55 lb lighter and feeling pretty good at 66. LDL = 105, HDL = 75 - never had those kinds of numbers eating "healthy whole grains".:rolleyes:

Had some great ribs tonight for dinner.

What's the catch - no bread, pasta, starchy veggies (beans, corn, etc.) Sounds impossible (I'm half Italian) but if you are old enough and want to gain 10 years of youth back, it's absolutely worth it - it is/was to me!
 
I don't understand why bacon, delicious bacon, is condemned by so many people as being 'bad' for you. It is high-potein, low carbohydrate, gluten-free. There aren't many foods worth having that can have all 3 applied to them. Keep in mind, life is a one-way trip, and isn't a practice run. Why not enjoy the journey. It ends soon enough for most of us. Bacon, butter, and whole milk are better for you than turkey bacon(that just sounds obscene), margarine(one molecule different from plastic), and skim milk. Eating these 'substitute' foods will shorten your life just from the stress alone. Just do it, if for no other reason than it is not politically correct. YUM, YUM, EATUM UP!
 
Do your thing but...................

I'm having a........................

BLT with real MAYO !!

Right after my BACON and three EGG, breakfast !!

They are the last good things the doctors will let me have at my age.

No sea food due to gout problems.
No booze......
No real butter.....
Minimum Red Meat...........
Back off the Pasta..........

A bail of hay on the table is next..........
 
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Made scratch corn bread last night for my gluten intolerant grandson. Recipe called for a quarter cup of bacon grease. Had plenty left over to season quite a bit of future cooking. Bacon was gone before the corn bread was out of the oven. Oh, the sacrifices we make for our grand kids.

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yashua
 
I like bacon, with a side of bacon smothered in bacon! :D

My younger son likes to make what we have come to call the "Cholesterol Special Burger". Start with a big thick ground beef patty, two slices of cheese, add about a ton of bacon, top it off with a fried egg and drag it through the garden. Messy as hell to eat, but DAAAYUUM they're good! :D
 
Thick cut and CRISPY

Cook it crispy and drain on a paper towel (I pat them with a PT for good luck to get all the grease and roll them around.

Bacon and fried egg sandwich on white, UNTOASTED plain bread with nothing spread on it and NOTHING ELSE! Now why is that so hard to understand? I have about a 75% failure rate at Waffle House. People just don't listen, they assume you want what everybody else gets.

Bacon bad for you? Malarkey. Just don't eat more than one side every day.
 
Coming from England it's rather interesting (in a gruesome way) to see what the US considers "bacon". Most here seem to prefer what I would call "streaky bacon", i.e., 50% or more fat. Even before the health thing got going, consumers of streaky bacon were viewed as a bit odd in England.

"Bacon" to most Englishmen is what most here call Canadian Bacon, which is mostly meat. To really mess with you, a "ham steak" is "gammon" in England. My father was always a big gammon guy, but his eyes just about popped the first time he was served one in Las Vegas. He could not get over the size of it, especially for the money. This was pre 9/11 when Vegas was still cheap.

So, who's up for steak and kidney pie?
 
LVSteve said:
Coming from England it's rather interesting (in a gruesome way) to see what the US considers "bacon". Most here seem to prefer what I would call "streaky bacon", i.e., 50% or more fat. Even before the health thing got going, consumers of streaky bacon were viewed as a bit odd in England.

"Bacon" to most Englishmen is what most here call Canadian Bacon, which is mostly meat. To really mess with you, a "ham steak" is "gammon" in England. My father was always a big gammon guy, but his eyes just about popped the first time he was served one in Las Vegas. He could not get over the size of it, especially for the money. This was pre 9/11 when Vegas was still cheap.

So, who's up for steak and kidney pie?
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Steak yes. Steve here in the colonies our pies are usually filled with vegan items, apples, cherries, Key lime and deluxe pies, cobblers, usually have peaches or blackberries between the crusts. I do agree with you in that Canadian bacon is good. I had 2 kidney stones removed last fall, one the size of a dime and the other kidney had a stone as big as a nickel in it. I don't think I could handle kidney pie. I'd be looking for stones or catheter marks...... :)
 
I have a locally owned grocery with in house meat cutters in my town that will cut anything the way you want it. They sell slab bacon that is to die for none of that watery injected cheap you buy in packages this is good firm real bacon.

The kicker? I bout 12 lbs if it a few days ago for 2.79/lb!!
 
"Grayfox...I like bacon, with a side of bacon smothered in bacon!"

One cannot simply eat enough bacon!

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Modeation is the key.
The only way I will ear turkey is if it is cooked while still on the bird.
I'll eat no bacon at all before I eat turkey bacon.
I wonder what bacon turkey tastes like :D
 
If bacon is actually bad for you, then why does it taste so good? And with the amount of bacon we eat, my wife & I should both be overweight with serious health problems.

That said, gluttony is never good...
 
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