Let's Talk About Bison
Not the headline you were expecting, probably.
Since I found out about my arterial blockage (still seemingly impossible, but true), I haven't eaten much red meat. I had a hamburger once that Eli made. I had pork in a dumpling in Tokyo. I had one hamburger taco in a restaurant.
That's been it for the last fifteen months.
I eat chicken sometimes, and turkey (far less convenient), but I get most of my protein from yogurt and protein shakes (and it took a long time to find a protein shake low in saturated fat).
It's an ugly hodgepodge. Extremely effective, but ugly.
I miss hamburgers, and spaghetti with meat sauce, and tacos with meat in them. Basically, it's hamburger I miss, not steak, because I ate so much of it when I was a kid.
I stumbled on a bison meat sale at the local grocery store on Sunday and took a quick look at the nutritional label.
My eyes lit up like a child in a holiday cartoon when they see Santa.
I knew bison meat was "healthy," but I had no idea how healthy. 4 oz. have only 1.5g of saturated fat, 55 mg of cholesterol, and 24g of protein.
Ground beef is roughly 7, 80, and 21 for the same quantity. That's a huge difference when I'm trying to keep saturated fat to under 10g a day. Plus, bison meat even has 50%+ less cholesterol than chicken (breast meat) and turkey.
I'm not really a "cooker," as you well know, but I decided to make a bison burger last night. And it was good! It had excellent flavor and texture, and I didn't notice the lack of fat (it's very lean meat) at all.
In many way, it's even healthier than plant-based meat because it's quite a bit lower in saturated fat. Just amazing, really.
Here's a picture of the burger:
Tonight it's Sloppy Joes, one of my favorite childhood comfort foods.
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