 After so many years of using condiments on almost everything I ate, I now think they're overrated and mostly useless. Hey there, njroot22.com here with another low carb keto carnivore check and today it's about condiments and that these are additives you add to your food for flavor. For the longest time before we became low carb it was all about ketchup, slathering and drowning your food in ketchup and other bad, I mean ketchup is our number one offender but there's a whole bunch of other condiments out there and as we switched over to the low carb keto carnivore type mindset where we just we basically just eat animal products, eggs, dairy and meat, mostly red meat and some pork in there as well but I started looking at it and like especially ketchup I mean everything I remembered about the foods I used to love back in the day had something to do with ketchup you know it was like french fries and that ketchup and white castles and the way the ketchup interacted with the onions and the pickles ketchup played a huge role and I kind of understand why now because of the sweetness and the sugar in the ketchup and today Heinz ketchup is high fructose corn syrup they're not really trying to get rid of that because they know that's their biggest selling and cheapest brand so they shoved that high fructose corn syrup in there of course they have the natural ones and organic ones now to appease the people that refuse to eat the bad sugar but can you live without ketchup I mean like I or any other condiments for that matter I mean what I've been trying to do mostly now is to enjoy the the meat in its purest form with the exception of salt I don't even use pepper as a seasoning anymore because I found it to be a little bit irritating when you've taken it out of your diet a lot and about the only condiment I'll still use just sparingly is a mustard because it's extremely low carb but it still contains sugar and I'm still trying to figure out a way to not be able to eat a hotdog without mustard or if there's some sort of completely sugar-free mustard and it doesn't taste like crap I don't know but I think that people have gotten way too used to hiding the taste of their food with ketchup now if you ever eat a hamburger at a restaurant it's you know it's the bready bun you got your inflammatory toppings onions lettuce tomato and then bacon no problem but then you have you put your mayo which is no problem too other than the soy in most mayo you should really get avocado oil mayo if you really want to have a much better mayo and then and then ketchup and then their french fries would ketchup it dawned upon me that all this additive stuff it was just unnecessary you know blood sugar-raising ingredients and if you just taste the meat alone on the most hamburgers you buy at most restaurants they don't really taste like anything so it's like without their supporting staff the meat cannot win an oscar in the restaurant to Emmys it's just it's not good so that's why I've been really trying to you know fine tune and really you know just eat a piece of meat alone with nothing else and you then you could start really differentiating between the different kinds of meats and you realize that now pretty much 99% of all frozen burgers are crap they really they're not worth anything bubba burgers and all those other burgers we don't touch anymore we I'd rather get low end 80% shop right ground beef and that still tastes profoundly better than any frozen burger our favorite at the moment or there's two favorites we have are the pat la frida meats and the uh sweden sun but anyway forgetting about the meat or it's not just about the meat it's it's I think adding all this stuff to your food really complicates things and adds unnecessary sugar especially with ketchup and I think people should try to appreciate the food and it's in its purest form and all these recipes they always throw hidden sugars in and it's just not necessary uh and I think it it takes away from from the fact that just red meat really does satiate you and it doesn't provide you with any issues no stomach aches no inflammation no bloating nothing you kept it simple I mean a little cheese can't hurt of course the cheese that's not uh has potato starch or uh corn starch in it but that's it I just think condiments are overrated and unnecessary and I think I'm going to do my best to either cut back almost 100% or eliminate them entirely have a good week ahead