My Weekly Liver Meal

[Mr_Luke]

My weekly meal of grass fed beef liver with stir fried broccoli, onions, plantain, and zucchini, and red potatoes.
I've found that eating liver once a week balances me and is an important source of bioavailable copper, Vit A, choline, and heme iron that builds red blood cells.
And it tastes good. I've also had store bought beef liver lately that was also very good.
I eat 7 oysters a week for zinc -- works better than any zinc supplement ever did.
And I eat 3-4 eggs a day for selenium, protein, and choline.

I drove 20 miles to get 3 pounds of good grass fed liver, it's worth the drive.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Funny story about liver when me and my sister were little my dad gave us each some and told us it was chicken nuggets and we ate it and looked and said that is not chicken nuggets. He thought it was the funniest thing ever but we didn’t LOL.

 

[hemitom]

Liver is an acquired test for most ! i would expect more comments like that.

 

[SatinSilver]

Haven't tried it but that does look pretty good. Even if I didn't like the liver I'd eat the vegetables. Plus I like the health benefits you mention.

 

[53' Stude]

All I say is that is downright disgusting. Go ahead and eat it and all the cholesterol in it.

I thought my 1 Guinness a day habit was bad.

 

[RamFan]

What happened to live and let live? He likes liver. So what? No need to be rude and aggressive.

OP, glad you're enjoying what you eat. I can't get on board with liver, tried it when I was young and just can't stomach it. On the flip side, I used to eat fish eyes like they were candy. To each their own. Cheers.

 

[jurko]

My weekly meal of grass fed beef liver with stir fried broccoli, onions, plantain, and zucchini, and red potatoes.
I've found that eating liver once a week balances me and is an important source of bioavailable copper, Vit A, choline, and heme iron that builds red blood cells.
And it tastes good. I've also had store bought beef liver lately that was also very good.
I eat 7 oysters a week for zinc -- works better than any zinc supplement ever did.
And I eat 3-4 eggs a day for selenium, protein, and choline.

I drove 20 miles to get 3 pounds of good grass fed liver, it's worth the drive.

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Looks delicious. I like and eat all organ meats. Liver, heart, kidneys, tripe, tongue, brain. They are loaded with vitamins and minerals and much more nutritious than muscle meat. And if you can get grass fed from local rancher even better.
Don't mind the clowns with trigger happy fingers. The are usually complete joke to everyone around them.

 

[55hambone]

I don't eat tongue. My mother taught me that if it's been in someone else's mouth I shouldn't put it in mine.

 

[wwillson]

That's my kind of meal. I happen to eat calf liver about every other week and think it's fabulous. The greens are possibly the best food you can eat.

 

[Justus1]

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My weekly meal of grass fed beef liver with stir fried broccoli, onions, plantain, and zucchini, and red potatoes.
I've found that eating liver once a week balances me and is an important source of bioavailable copper, Vit A, choline, and heme iron that builds red blood cells.
And it tastes good. I've also had store bought beef liver lately that was also very good.
I eat 7 oysters a week for zinc -- works better than any zinc supplement ever did.
And I eat 3-4 eggs a day for selenium, protein, and choline.

I drove 20 miles to get 3 pounds of good grass fed liver, it's worth the drive.

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Set an extra plate, I'll be right over. I really enjoy a good liver meal. The only thing missing is cornbread.

 

[Mr_Luke]

I apologize for being negative on your thread and I agree that I should have just scrolled on by.
Sorry for that.

No problem.

 

[Zee09]

No problem.
When I looked at your reply under my Kimchi post I was expecting something similar and didn't expect you to reply the way you did.

I was forced to eat badly cooked liver as a kid.
It was overcooked and tasted like soap. Too see it literally makes me sick-honestly

 

[Mr_Luke]

On the flip side, I used to eat fish eyes like they were candy.

Sounds yummy!!

 

[jurko]

That's my kind of meal. I happen to eat calf liver about every other week and think it's fabulous. The greens are possibly the best food you can eat.

I like pork liver also which we ate growing up on the farm. But it's almost impossible to find around here.
I suspect that most of it goes to production of liverwurst and braunschweiger which I always buy and love it.

 

[Danno]

Have some good memories of chicken liver my mom made.
Used onions and touch of cinnamon.
It was awesome.

 

[miden851]

absolutely nothing wrong with liver once in while; we eat it too, this way, you can add a souse, mash potato, salad you name it but it got to be from young animal, a veal for an example

 

[Mr_Luke]

I totally understand how some of you people don't eat the way I eat.
I had changed the way I ate many times over the years and was trying a plant based diet when I realized, the older you get, the more protein you need, not less. I had trouble digesting meats but found that taking more magnesium I can now digest meat about as good as I ever did. Plus I cook a lot of my poultry and other meat in my Crock Pot so I can make soup out of the broth, and the broth helps you digest the meat.
I eat liver once a week because it balances me. It's a functional food and I go with the "let they food be thy medicine" line.
If I can learn to appreciate the foods that truly make me healthy, then IMHO I've got it licked. I don't eat things like ice cream and cake which would spoil my taste buds for the most health promoting foods like liver, meat, and vegetables. I only eat meats, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruit, legumes, nuts, seeds, a little goat cheese, and some good bread 1-2x a week.
I don't do well on processed foods. I cook my own food 99.9% of the time. It may be bland at times but it nourishes me and that's all I really care about.

I just had chicken soup with Swiss chard, Russet potatoes, chick peas, onions, and ghee.

 

[wwillson]

Pork tripe is also one of my favorites, but it's hard to find.

 

[JohnnyG]

Yeah, so what.
My brother swears by Cow Tongue tacos, but no thanks.
Fried liver and onions once a year and I'm a happy camper.....even WITH the stent!

 

[Mr_Luke]

I don't eat tongue. My mother taught me that if it's been in someone else's mouth I shouldn't put it in mine.

I ate beef kidney a couple times lately. It's very inexpensive and the butcher said a lot of people buy it to feed to their dogs.

It smelled awful when I cut it into chunks, and I was afraid I ruined my chicken broth with it when I added it, but it came out very good. If you add enough butter to the broth, and some pink salt, vegetables, and garlic, the flavor of the kidney blended right in and it actually tasted fairly well. But I couldn't imagine eating kidney all by itself. You have to know how to cook to make it palatable.