- Coconut oil
- We cook with this -- eggs, meat, some baking, etc.
- Nutiva is my favorite. It has a hint of coconut, although some people in the house disagree with my use of "hint" and would instead say "overwhelming, inescapable odor and taste."
- Expeller-pressed coconut oil (like this one) has zero coconut flavor.
- Coconut milk
- Don't wuss out. Get full fat.
- Coconut flour
- Whole foods has it in the flour bins. Useful for coconut bread, maybe some meat-breading.
- Tapioca flour
- I use in pancakes, works pretty well.
- White rice flour
- I mix this with tapioca for above-mentioned pancakes.
- Rice syrup
- Glucose sweetener is a better sweetener than sugar.
- Olive oil is fine.
Meat/Eggs/Dairy:
- Butter
- Trader Joe's organic and Kerrygold butters are seemingly "pastured" (from grassfed cows), but they taste/smell odd.
- Heavy cream (ideally without additives, i.e. ingredients = only "heavy cream")
- Trader Joe's and Clover are both carageenan-free
- Whole milk for the kids
- Beef of all types (grass-fed, ideally)
- We have a 10lb-a-month ground-beef delivery service.
- Grassfed results in lower O6 in beef
- Eggs
- I get eggs with added omega-3, which has no real basis other than to slightly offset the higher O6 of eggs
- Still want to try pastured eggs (from chickens that aren't stapled to the ground, etc.), but hard to find locally.
- Uncured bacon
- Trader Joe's has a couple of options. We eat this 1-2 times a week. Pork has higher O6.
- Salami
- This makes its way into our house somehow, and our microwave, though I am not a fan of cured meat.
- Uncured hot dogs
- All beef, full-fat for the kids
- Whole Foods has grassfed ones
- Fatty (cold-water) fish
- So we don't eat fish because we are immature and can't get over the , but this is good 1x-2x a week to offset high O6
- Cold-water fish are high in O3.
- Fish oil
- I have spoonfuls of this every once in a while instead of eating fish.
Vegetables and other things that grow (aka fruit):
We throw vegetables in with dinner... usually just to make ourselves feel better. I don't think one needs vegetables, really, to compete.
This is what we like, but eat what you want:
These are among the better ones:
This is what we like, but eat what you want:
- Spinach
- Broccoli
- Cauliflower
- Asparagus
- Avocado
- Higher in O6, don't have like a dozen a week
These are among the better ones:
- Strawberries
- Raspberries
I have about one serving of these a day.
- White rice
- Potatoes
- Sweet potatoes
- Taro root
- Rice Krispies / Chex / Rice Puffs
- For the kids
- White rice pasta
- Annie's has a rice mac-and-cheese
- Also Tinkyada
- Gluten-free English muffins are excellent
- Made with rice flour, tapioca
- Gluten-free pizza dough mix
- Ditto rice flour, tapioca
Snacks/Desserts:
- Macadamia nuts
- Low in O6
- Mostly fat
- TJ's has their own brand; these are a different variety than Mauna Loa (which you can get at Costco now). Both are good. I sprinkle them on eggs at work.
- Dark chocolate
- Start at 72-80%, then work your way up to 99%
- Cost Plus only place that has viable 99%
- Trader Joe's cassava chips
- These use palm oil
- These are a starch
- Cheese sticks
- Pancakes
- Ice cream made at home
- With egg yolks, heavy cream, a fruit, and rice syrup
- Mount Gay
