 Hello, hope you're well. My name is Frank and welcome back to my channel. It is a pleasure to have you here with me today for this day of eating and I'm going to show you guys what I've been doing for the past week or so and Over these few months. I haven't been carnivore anymore. My diet has been consistently lean meat and grains Predominantly some vegetables spices herbs mixed in here and there for flavor some fruit when I get Sweet craving and I've certainly been having some type of like higher quality homemade Cookies or baked goods every day for just a more dense Chloric source some of you guys saw the beef and barley stew recipe that I made last Saturday I've been doing a variation on that and in addition. I just have a couple of other things I'd like to show you guys so I guess the main thing first to touch on is what I've been drinking in addition to spring water So this is water kefir, and if you don't tolerate dairy kefir This is okay. It consumes sugar whereas other kefir strains tend to consume protein fat Lactose all different types of macronutrient sources This is really good for just keeping your gut in check especially when you're consuming carbohydrates actually bought this from a local farm, but that is way too expensive and I have some Water kefir grains here that I'm going to make Some of my own flavored water kefir and I'll show you guys how to do that once I figure out a solid recipe But the main source of calories and nutrition for today is going to be that beef and barley stew I'm using venison and a couple of different ingredients here today. I'm also going to try using the instant pot I I just got this last week. I made some rice in it last night. It's just really easy real convenient You know normally I have to saute and caramelize all these vegetables in a pan Sauté and caramelize the meat. I think if I just throw it in here put it on pressure It might taste pretty good. Of course, Frankie boy is still gunning for his whole food sponsorship Which is likely never going to happen. Not that I want one and we do have The cookie batter the vegan cookies that we made the other day that are in the oven right now But for now, let's just show you guys the ingredients that are going into this and what I'm having today I do have a video making kefir talking about kefir. So definitely check that out if you're a little curious about it I just real quick and easy. I'm going to put some coconut oil in here Maybe you know four tablespoons do have a video on that as well if you want to check it out But on to our main ingredients, of course, we have the meat. I'm using venison. I have some of the Leg steaks we have on Frankie's here in your meat chopped up with one rack of venison the bones my dad some nice flavor to this I don't know. I figured I throw them in there Got a couple pounds of venison and this is going to last me. I would say three to four days worth of meals So that's how much meat I'm using that's how much vegetable how much grain how much food I'm using This is our flavoring component. Just some organic onions organic shiitake mushrooms organic garlic Very simple I do pick the garlic out because it kind of gives me headaches when I eat it and I normally do caramelized these vegetables But we'll see how they turn out without being caramelized our seasoning is going to be just some bay leaves thyme salt and pepper very simple very basic flavorings. I found to like you could also do things like rosemary sage Parsley if you'd like to the grain is barley I had to buy these bags because I went to a different Whole Foods and the bulk bin was out But I'm going to do about two cups of barley in here and this is the starch source a big caloric source and Barley even has some B vitamins. You could do brown rice. You could do wheat grains You could do a whole different bunch of grains in this whatever you'd like Even just pour this over pasta separately after so I have three quarts of beef broth that we're going to put in here as always everything's organic and As with pretty much any health topic. I do have a video on organic as well Why you want to go organic and this is actually looking like it's going to the top of the max liquid So instead of putting in another quart of the broth here I have some naturally fermented apple cider of a company. I found a Redbird orchard side I probably shouldn't be talking about this because I'm not sponsored by them and it's going to sell out But I found that they had a natural apple wine basically and I bought some of this I haven't really been using it so I will put maybe two cups of wine in here And then I'm going to fill it to the top of the fill line with the rest of the broth now now hopefully This works because this is quite a bit of money worth of ingredients Probably at least 30 40 dollars for a couple days worth of food meat stew high pressure More 45 minutes. I think that's what we do Yep, so we'll let this go 45 minutes so this went for about 45 minutes on the pressure cooker and then while it's upstairs working It went for another 45 minutes keeping warm. I let the steam out It took actually like three or four minutes just to let the steam pressure out So let's open this up and see what it looks like smells really delicious and the whole kitchen smells really good Even before I open this the barley looks really well cooked. We can take these These bones are probably really hot take the meat off the bones take the bones out So I'm gonna take out a couple ladles of the soup for what I think I'll eat in one meal So it can cool off. So I'll let this cool off for an hour or so I'm in no rush to eat what I will say is this tastes much much better the next day Like literally twice as good the next day. So what I suggest is what I've been doing That is preparing this a day or two in advance and then consuming it over the course of several days So it's really just an hour of work max and I have all of my meals for three or four days And I think I'm gonna be doing this moving forward because I'm used to cooking rice, you know Cooking protein every meal. So that's a lot of work compared to just having this nice stew And this really does taste delicious if you add the proper ingredients to it And one more thing to consider is this will suck up a lot of the liquid So although this kind of looks like a soup right now There's gonna be very little liquid left in this the next day the day after in about an hour or so We'll have our meal of cookies stew Some water kefir and I'm gonna take some digestive enzymes with the meal to help break it all down In regards to this instant pot I'm just gonna let this sit like this for the next few days as I would normally have a pot on the stove top just resting All right, really simple guys. I got my bowl of stew. I usually have two or three bowls per meal That's what satiates me after the first or second bowl. I'll get up I'll take my enzymes with some of the kefir and then I'll finish up another bowl or two of stew And then I'll have my cookies while drinking the kefir Usually the stew keeps me hydrated because the liquid volume is high But when I eat the cookies I get thirsty. So I drink the water kefir now the moment of truth is How good does this taste and obviously as I said earlier it'll taste better in a day or two, but It's definitely better than day one in the pot So this actually is pretty good Now the amount of meat in this is you know much less than I'm used to on a carnivore diet But I do feel a lot better and it's definitely still enough protein to maintain my muscle mass So that's the first bowl. Let me grab some more soup Now even though it seems like you know, there's a set amount of protein in this What you end up doing based on your cravings is you'll start picking out some meat You'll start picking out some barley and if you make this with you know too much or too little of either ingredient You know while you're eating it you'll realize that from the nutrient profile We have a ton of B vitamins in the venison and the broth all of those animal based minerals And then with the barley the mushrooms the onions all of the other things we added We have some plant-based minerals, but mostly with that carbohydrate with that starch We're feeding our gut bacteria. You know, we have the fiber for the gut motility. We're giving our body energy This is really great to keep you warm So that's the second bowl. So let's go have the vitamins. So we got our third bowl of stew I have some apple water kefir, and I have about 15 enzyme pills So this is a mix of several different enzyme supplements. I think I did a video on my patreon You could also watch my video on enzymes to understand what you would be taking in the context of this meal and enzymes are based off of The macronutrient profile. So you want starch digesting enzymes here. You want protein digesting enzymes and The fat usually aren't that necessary but you definitely have to have the variety of the different protein components and Make sure that if the meal is kind of high in sugars Which it will be because we're gonna have some cookies that you have some probiotic bacteria Like this kefir to consume that sugar so that you don't have any dysbiosis issues So you just take all the pills in a handful Now this stuff The way this farm made it tastes really good. I'll have to mess around with the recipe myself but it basically tastes like a Slightly alcoholic fizzy soda, but there's no real sweetness to it because the kefir grains eat up all the sugar We'll finish up this stew When you caramelize those vegetables a lot more barley flavor comes out now interestingly I don't really like the barley or the venison that much on their own But in this stew, it's really delicious. I'm not really that hungry, but I made these cookies. So I'll have some Smell really good nice and crispy this time really crispy I Love these in an oven a bit too long. So this is really just concentrated calories very dense sugar Starch fat whereas that stew is pretty voluminous and not nearly as refined and concentrated as the cookie I mean a basic thing about fermentations is you have to make sure the bacteria cultures active Otherwise if you kind of drink it you're basically just consuming dead bacteria which is not going to have nearly the same effect as probiotics normally do so that's pretty much my meal for today guys I'm probably gonna have one more cookie and I'll drink This water key for when I go upstairs and I might have another container of this later I don't know but today. I'm definitely not having two meals most days I will have two meals like this Usually the second meal is just not as large. I'll still have The stew the cookies the water key for and I'll actually have the enzymes before that meal as opposed to during that meal You guys can check out that venison on frankies for range meat if you'd like and hopefully Sometime in the near future. I can get you guys all quality foods including Water key for and stuff like this. So thanks again for joining me guys, and I'll see you for tomorrow's video