Shooting yourself in the foot 😈 🤬

Hi friends!

Ok, so I really, really, really wanted turkey meat jelly - Romanian style, for the New Year’s Eve Dinner.

I mean, REALLY, REALLY. 

It was part of the “fancy” and “rich people” celebration as a kid.

I haven’t made it in a loooooong while, probably over 15-20 years. (Shit, I am a freaking glorious CRONE! but hey, let’s stop the tangents!)

Sooooo, let’s buy a turkey and make it happen! 

We received a lot of emails from the grocery stores around us that announced loud and clear that they sell frozen Swedish turkeys! Yupee!

OR….. NOT!

All the freaking turkeys have been injected with water, salt, SUGAR! There is 89 % TURKEY MEAT in a frozen, injected TURKEY; the rest (19%, almost a fifth of what you are buying)  is water, salt, and, again, for the people in the back, SUGAR!

But Nadina, it’s JUIIICYYYYY! 

I mean, yeah, juicy with sugar and salt that retain extra water!

No matter that we live in a society more and more affected by mental health problems, food intolerances, and overweight epidemics, we destroy more and more of those “Blue Zones” on this planet. (BTW, tangent! Watch the documentary about Livig to 100 on Netflix! It’s about those Earth  places where people regularly get to be HEALTHY 100 yo!)

We FIGHT and DEMAND those added sugars in everything! It’s JUIIICYYY! 

We lie to ourselves, and we keep self-hypnotizing ourselves by saying that we “don’t like the meat otherwise.” 

Do you know how long it takes for ALL your taste buds to shed their cells and reset the taste sense? MAX 14 days.

All my clients who stopped eating or drinking sugary things reported this. 

Stop shooting yourself in the foot!

You are an intelligent person. You have a medical degree. 

Stop whining and complaining about being stressed, anxious, depressed, overweight, and that you ”don’t like the unsugared MEAT, because it’s not JUICYYYYYYY!!!”

It’s ok for the boiled meat/thermic-prepared ham to be greyish! You don’t need NITRATES in it. 

It’s OK to chew the meat. That’s why we have teeth. And if some meat remains between the teeth, THANK GOODNESS that we have dental floss! 

We became too indulgent in defending the habits that keep us poor (yeap, you pay 19% of the turkey’s price for water and sugar), overweight, and miserable! 

Stop shooting yourself in the foot!

Look at the labels and see what you are paying for!

Stop buying unsweetened meat and GLAZE IT with SUGAR, HONEY or whatever!

Stop cheating at creating that perfect meal! Go against the stream and choose your added sugar WISELY!

Have a sparkly Yule / Winter Solstice!

May your own sparkles luminate the longest night in the winter hemisphere!

If you feel unsparkly and want to join the most amazing community of women in veterinary practice, hit reply!

Let’s talk!

XO, Nadina

P.S. If your turkey isn’t injected with water, sugar, salt, watch out for the rest of your foods! You might be surprised!