I have about five minutes to type this...but it was one of those things I know that I will forget as soon as I move on with our incredibly busy day, so I'm flipping open the computer and getting it down quickly.
If you're a vegetarian, be forewarned. I'm about to go into meat eating in detail.
I read all the time about how GAPS seems so meat-centric. It's actually not. When I'm doing it right, and everything feels good, our version of GAPS is mostly vegetables, then whole fats, then bone broth. When we're a bit under the weather it's more bone broth than vegetables. The fats are more important than the meat itself, and we eat a minimum of meat after 3pm. I find, at least for me, that I don't digest meat well after 3, although I do okay with tallow, schmaltz, olive oil or ghee until pretty late. I have a large portion of some kind of protein - eggs for breakfast, some kind of meat for lunch - before 3. For us dinner is a big bowl of some kind of vegetable stew in bone broth and those who partake get some rice or kasha that has been well pre-soaked or fermented before cooking in yet more broth and fat. Each meal has a big dollop of some kind of ferment, either vegetable or coconut milk.
Some months ago I read an interesting bit - I forget where now. It may have been in the Wise Traditions magazine. Anyway, it talked about how primates, when given meat to eat would usually discard much of the muscle fiber in favor of the fat.
I don't think that human beings were meant to eat big slabs of boneless, skinless, fatless meat. On the other hand, a chicken leg, which has a decent amount of fatty meat with gristle and other stuff on it makes an awful lot of sense.
On that note, I have to get Little Moo to her 2:30 playdate and lunch is sitting on the table still uneaten while she delves into the deeper points of her latest pretend universe...
The Cat Shepherd goes into action. More later.
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