Grandma left a small plate of her super special expensive grass fed beef from Bukidnon. This one pleasantly tasted gamey like deer. Delicious. It’s meant to be eaten raw like sashimi. I remembered to give the 3 kids a bite full each to remind them the value of raw meat. They were searing barbecued beef condimented with salt, pepper and honey. That isn’t bad, but it’s not as good as fully raw.
Initially all 3 were giving me a hard time closing their mouths in protest. I got to my eldest. He’s the easiest one to feed raw meat as he was on a fully bloody raw meat diet for 2 straight months some time ago to cure his TB. The next one, my 2nd boy was then grudgingly convinced to eat his raw beef. Then my youngest, the girl stone walled. Yeah, she’s practicing her female wiles on me, but remembering to eat raw meat in their diet is a lesson that has to be ingrained in their teachings.
I had to tell her that that expensive beef was grandma’s beef and that she had left that specifically to be eaten raw because it tasted really good. Then I told them I was royally pissed off that yesterday they attended a birthday party in a pizza restaurant and they ate commercial sickening pizza. So I had to threaten the kids if they are going to give me a hard time with feeding them the most nutritious food, then I will no longer spend and just give them total junk food until they get sick and surrender.
I told them the story of how their uncle left for college in Los Banos and being away from home he only ate standard junk food like instant noodles, turo turo meat and rice and fast foods… he succumbed to great illness he could not continue his studies and his parents had to move him to Manila due to medical reasons.
I told them of how their mother got appendicitis when she was pregnant with that resistant little girl. Her appendix was probably stuffed with wheat and other junk food. Good thing our little girl 4 months in eutero survived that appendectomy surgery.
I told them of how I used to live by myself and only ate at fastfoods, bought bread, cheese, hotdogs and bad cooking oil. I got sick a couple of times and got hospitalized due to unkown viral illnesses. Unkown… yeah right… we know now.
I reminded the kids that when they get sick they know that raw paleo diet is the diet to turn to and they need practice, lest they forget.
That got the girl to eat her raw beef piece. Then it was seared condimented beef barbecue and some souped wild bangus and some organic kamote tops leaves and some banaue rice terraces original heirlom Tinawon rice. Very good from a paleo diet + super special rice point of view… but not good enough from a raw paleo diet perspective where incurable diseases are cured.
Ah the satisfaction of parenting.