So, in my quest towards Real Food, otherwise known as SOLE (sustainable, organic, local, ethical) food, I've been investigating healthy fats. I have moved almost entirely away from all vegetable oils and margarine. For us, it's cold expeller-pressed olive oil and butter from grass-fed cows all the way, baby.
Something that I have wanted to try though is frying in beef tallow. Did you know that beef tallow (rendered fat from cows) can be a healthy fat? If you get your meat or tallow from happy cows raised in a healthy environment, the fat is good-for-you! Per U.S. Wellness Meats' blog, one of the reasons to switch to grass-fed beef is that it is high in omega 3s (the "essential fatty acid") and CLA (an anti-carcinogen shown, among other things, to increase lean body mass, prevent arteriosclerosis and slow or halt diabetes).
Right now, Kelly the Kitchen Kop, a Real Food blogger, is hosting a giveaway of a tub of healthy beef tallow from U.S. Wellness Meats. The 36-pound tub is normally sold for almost a hundred bucks, but you could get it for free to make all sorts of deliciousness. Go on over, start reading and enter the giveaway today!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Healthy Fat Giveaway
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You know- all this makes complete sense b/c back in the day when people lived off of the land they seemed to be healthier. Yes, shorter life expectancy, but they where healthier during that time. Or maybe I am pollyanna. :)
Cool, I had never head of beef tallow before. DH and I recently switched over to organic, free-range meat and dairy. I am now working on cutting out the high fructose corn syrup from our diets. That stuff is in everything!!
I have never heard that about beef fat before! I'm gonna go check that out - thanks for the tip!
We just bought our first locally grown pig and now have a freezer full of pork... and grass fed beef is up next. I can't wait!
The only fat I buy is olive oil for daily use in cooking and salted butter for spreading on bread once in a while.
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