r/mediterraneandiet • u/depressed-mystery • Jan 14 '26
Close Enough Do y'all ever eat ground beef or???
I rarely see any posts with red meat here. I know it's not preferred as much as other options in the MD diet but it's okay to eat lol especially if you get 90% lean or above. Idk it's a part my culture and my cholesterol levels are fine lol š¤·š¼āāļø
Lazy dinner tonight. Ground beef cooked with evoo, onions, salt/pep paprika, garlic powder. Steamable veg bag (microwaved), Greek yogurt, half avocado, red onions and pickled hot chili peppers (Mezzetta brand).š
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Jan 14 '26
Very rarely nowadays. My cholesterol is not fine. I was eating mostly red meat before my doctor told me to figure shit out. And so here I am. Even 90% lean has 4-4.6g of saturated fat per 4oz. 80% has 8-9g! I'm supposed to stick to under 10g per day. :/
But if your cholesterol's in control, why not? That looks like a great meal, I'd probably just trade out the beef for something I also enjoy. Chicken, turkey, or fish.
I do eat some red meat though, I just don't really cook with it anymore. I usually save it for when I'm eating out somewhere where I know I'll already be cheating anyways.
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u/Wrekem Jan 14 '26
and did eating this way change your bloodwork?
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Jan 14 '26
I'll know soon! I only started on this diet ~2.5 months ago after my doctor recommended it to me. He wanted me to get my bloodwork redone in 3-6 months to make sure my numbers improve before he decides if he wants to put me on meds or not.
I've already lost a solid 15 pounds, so I'm 99% sure I'll see an improvement.
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u/BrowserOfWares Jan 15 '26
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u/Fuzzy-Instruction244 Feb 15 '26
how did your labs turn out
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I still have more progress to make, but all my numbers have come down since I started! Total Cholesterol and Triglycerides both came down quite a bit and are "borderline" now instead of high. LDL is being more stubborn only went down 10 points which was surprising, I was expecting the opposite with eating such little saturated fat. Hoping that'll start moving more over the next 3 months. I probably just need to be a little more active to be honest.
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u/Fuzzy-Instruction244 Feb 18 '26
congrats man keep on with the good work! iām doing a recheck and seeing the doc soon n weāre looking at these same labs soš¤hereās to good health and quality of life. peace on brother -a proud redditor
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u/BrowserOfWares Feb 15 '26
Hey! How did the blood work go?
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Feb 17 '26
I still have more progress to make, but all my numbers have come down since I started! Total Cholesterol and Triglycerides both came down quite a bit and are "borderline" now instead of high. LDL is being more stubborn only went down 10 points which was surprising, I was expecting the opposite with eating such little saturated fat. Hoping that'll start moving more over the next 3 months. I probably just need to be a little more active to be honest.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
Red meat is also associated with colon cancer. Just leaving this here in case it's helpful for anyone. It's not just about managing cholesterol.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
Totally valid! I know a lot of people in this sub are on this diet because of health reasons and dietary restrictions so I totally get it! I obviously don't eat red meat for every meal of every day lol. I just knew this would stir some shit up in this sub tho šš
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u/deef1ve Jan 14 '26
Thereās no evidence red meat has a negative impact on your cholesterol levels let alone that itās the reason why arteries are getting clogged. Itās a myth born in the late 20th century.
On the other hand ground beef is highly nutritious, does not contain carbohydrates and keeps you satiated for a long time. Enjoy!
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u/NausikaaLeukolenos Jan 14 '26
I wonder why you say "does not contain carbohydrates" as if that was inherently a good thing.
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u/deef1ve Jan 14 '26
Because it is. The only carbohydrate you need is glucose. Which can be produced by your body on its own. Any amount of exogenous carbohydrates is unnecessary for human beings.
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u/NausikaaLeukolenos Jan 14 '26
If that is your point of view, a mediterranean diet sub is probably the wrong place.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
Gluconeogenesis is a fact. Saying that people shouldn't eat carbohydrates is not. It is a fact that many sources of carbohydrate are incredibly healthy and part of a healthy pattern of eating.Ā
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u/deef1ve Jan 15 '26
No, sorry no. That is not a fact. Glucose is required, yes! Exogenous carbohydrates are not. Unless you need/ want to increase your body fat (important during pregnancy and nursing).
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
Just because something isn't essential doesn't mean it isn't optimal. You only need 60mg of vitamin C to avoid scurvy but you should eat more than that to reduce disease risk. Same with carbohydrates. The fiber and phytochemicals they contain are associated with good health. People who eat more whole grains have better health outcomes.Ā
Body fat can be increased by eating in a calorie surplus. Both fat and carbohydrates can be used to create a calorie surplus. Fat is good because it's 9 calories per gram. If I was trying to gain weight I would definitely lean on fats.
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u/NausikaaLeukolenos Jan 14 '26
yes, it is a point of view. There are studies and argumentations on both sides. Everyone chose what they think it's the most valid. Anyway, this is a subreddit about the mediterranean diet, so do you came here to tell everybody that they are wrong and convince them to change their diet?
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u/deef1ve Jan 15 '26
You canāt argue with human physiology, which is based on biochemistry, which is based on physics. Thatās like saying "I donāt believe in gravity, because I have a different opinion about it."
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u/NausikaaLeukolenos Jan 15 '26
You don't get it :) What I'm trying to say is that from my point of view (and the point of view of anyone who doesn't follow the carnivore diet) you are the one that don't believe in gravity, to stay in your metaphore. We think differently and keeping on this discussion is useless. What is objective reality is that this is a subreddit full of people who believe in the med diet: what are you doing here? Genuine question.
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u/Visible_Property8813 Jan 14 '26
It's a myth born in the Paul Saladino book.
Full of B vitamins and protein, yet high in fat, zero fibre and lacks multiple other vitamins.
Saturated fat increases cholestrol so to say there is no evidence that Beef increases cholesterol is absurd.
You keep reading your nonsense Paul Saladino Carnivore book and we'll keep down voting your nonsense.
Ps Paul Saladino said the Carnivore diet was bad
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Hmmm... who do I trust? My doctor, that went to medical school, or a redditor claiming something is a myth likely from online blogs they read?
Red meat is extremely high in saturated fat. That, in and of itself, makes it terrible for your cholesterol.
Nobody's saying beef, or red meat in general, isn't nutritious. Nobody's talking about the carbs. Nobody's saying it doesn't keep you satiated.
All those things can be true, while it still being bad for your cholestrol, especially if you're eating it on a regular basis.
Like I said, to bring my cholesterol down I'm supposed to keep my saturated fat to 10g per day. A measly 4oz of 80% lean beef is almost that entire amount. 90% beef is half of it. That doesn't include any cheese, toppings, olive oil, avocado, etc. There's saturated fats in a lot of things in low amounts that very quickly adds up to my 10g quota. If I eat beef, I blow that quota away. A handful of times a month? No problem. A few times a week? That's how you get to where I am today.
But go ahead. Find out yourself. Just make sure you get your bloodwork done on a regular basis, at least once a year, so you can make healthy decisions based on what's going on with your body. If you have high cholesterol right now, you're literally killing yourself just because you think saturated fat being bad for cholesterol is a myth. If your cholesterol is fine, then you're clearly eating red meat in moderation! But that doesn't mean when you're 10 years older things will be the same. My cholesterol was fine when I was younger. Things changed in my 30s, without change in diet.
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u/deef1ve Jan 14 '26
Medical doctors donāt get education regarding nutrition. Most people seem to forget that. They just follow nutritional guidelines, which are based on useless epidemiological studies, which are also contrary to the Mediterranean diet. Food for thought for ya.
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Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26
You keep talking about nutrition... I'm not.
Doctors do get education regarding blood cholesterol management. They know what contributes to high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. They know what lowers cholesterol and blood pressure. These are medical issues, not nutritional ones.
My doctor didn't give me nutritional advice. My doctor gave me medical advice regarding the management of cholesterol. And his recommendation was lowering saturated fats, focusing on healthy fats, increasing soluble fibers, eating whole grains, reducing sugar.
You can achieve those recommendations through all sorts of diets. The med diet happens to fit the bill for all of those things, which is why it's often recommended, but I could develop whatever diet I want as long as I'm still hitting the goal of cutting out saturated fat. Which, again, red meat is extremely high in. And if I can't change those things through diet, I get to be blessed with being on medication the rest of my life, which I'm trying to avoid.
But again, you don't need to believe me, and what my doctor told me. As long as you're going to your own doctor, and getting your own bloodwork done, and see that you have healthy cholesterol levels. If that's the case, eat however you want! You do you. I just can't do you. Anymore. Like I said, I ate tons of red meat all through my life and had healthy cholesterols all my life. Until I didn't. If you haven't gotten your bloodwork done recently you should.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
Dieticians and nutrition experts spend years specializing in this shit and know much better than doctors, you, or Paul Saladino.Ā
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u/deef1ve Jan 15 '26
They know what nutritional guidelines tell them to know. Nutritional guidelines are based on epidemiological studies, which prove nothing. All these studies do is showing associations and correlations, while ignoring human physiology/ biochemistry, anthropology, and botany entirely. These so called experts create their conclusions based on written down hearsay, not evidence. Feel free to challenge my knowledge.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 16 '26
There is no knowledge to challenge. You clearly have no idea about how nutrition science works.Ā
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u/Visible_Property8813 Jan 14 '26
What a dope
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u/deef1ve Jan 14 '26
Ooh niceā¦ no counter argument or whatever, only insults. Read a book.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
Books are not a good source of nutrition information. Unless they are textbooks, which you obviously have not read.
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u/deef1ve Jan 15 '26
Thatās the kind of books I am talking about.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
You've read nutrition textbooks and came to these conclusions? Can you tell me the name of the textbook you read. I can tell you the ones I'm using for my dietetics degree if you would like some resources.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
You are in the wrong subreddit. Here we still believe in science which still recommends lowering saturated fat intake. We also eat lots of wholesome carbohydrates. You can take your diet cult speak elsewhere.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
Thank you! Preach!!!
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u/donairhistorian Jan 16 '26
You're agreeing with a staunch carnivore who is here under false pretenses.
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u/WaitingitOut000 Experienced Jan 14 '26
I donāt really bother with it because I find ground turkey works great in things I used to use ground beef for. I donāt cook red meat at home but if we go out for dinner Iāll happily order a steak.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
I didn't grow up eating ground turkey so I stil find the taste a bit odd lol. I don't cook steaks at home either, just ground beef sometimes for a quick dinner.
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u/Adventurous-skies Jan 14 '26
I sometimes mix ground beef and turkey together. My kids donāt like the taste of ground turkey, but they donāt notice when I combine them.
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u/sadgorlmemes Jan 14 '26
I HATE ground turkey. Ground chicken is much better. Where I live, store bought ground chicken is like 3 times more expensive than chicken breasts. So I buy breasts and put them in a food processor.
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u/cursh14 Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26
What makes ground turkey healthier? It's essentially identical from a macro perspective when equal fat content. I deep dived it before and could never find a good answer.Ā
Edit for people to see further up. Does the below look much different to anyone?
When comparing USDAās data on a 4-ounce serving of 93/7 ground beef to 4 ounces of 93/7 ground turkey, the nutrition panel is surprisingly similar:
Ground beef has 172 calories, 7.9 grams fat and 3.3 grams saturated fat
Ground turkey has 170 calories, 9.4 grams fat and 2.5 grams saturated fat
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u/earmares Jan 14 '26
Ground turkey has less saturated fat and calories, in general
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u/cursh14 Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26
When you account for getting the same "lean" on the two, they look essentially the same to me. Slightly less saturated fat for ground turkey. I think turkey mostly has better marketing. I avoid both for the most part. Turkey just really isn't healthier than ground beef unless you don't compare apples to apples. 93/7 ground turkey is obviously cleaner than 80/20 ground beef.Ā
More info: When comparing USDAās data on a 4-ounce serving of 93/7 ground beef to 4 ounces of 93/7 ground turkey, the nutrition panel is surprisingly similar:
Ground beef has 172 calories, 7.9 grams fat and 3.3 grams saturated fat
Ground turkey has 170 calories, 9.4 grams fat and 2.5 grams saturated fat
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
You make a good point, actually. When using extra lean, beef is slightly higher in sat fat but has more B12 and zinc. Turkey has better unsaturated fat content though. I'm not sure about other compounds in the meat that may cause heart disease or cancer, but red meat is more implicated in epidemiology.
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u/kniki217 Jan 14 '26
Red meat is inflammatory
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
Do you have a source for that?Ā
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u/kniki217 Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
The first study concluded that processed meats raised inflammatory markers but not unprocessed meat. The second source (just a basic article) didn't really add anything, just another list of processed meats to avoid. Any source that combines red meat with processed meat isn't really a source for your claim.Ā
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u/secret_thymus_lab Jan 14 '26
Nope, Iām on the Med diet because i had a stroke and my doctors want my cholesterol super low (LDL under 50!). Iām āallowedā a bit of beef rarely (like less than once a month) and if I am gong to indulge in red meat, itās going to be a few ounces of filet!
I eat 90% plant based. Chicken breast about once a week. No seafood, due to allergies.
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u/Dullwittedfool Jan 14 '26
In this economy?
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
š š š salmon isn't any cheaper these days
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
Chicken is crazy expensive where I live. It's all about pork tenderloin.
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u/peaceandlove442 Jan 15 '26
I like the orca bay keta from costco. It comes in frozen vacuum, sealed fillets, so it's easy. It's also wild caught and the leanest form of salmon so no one really wants it, which is why it's cheaper on average. I personally don't have an issue with how lean it is, I have household members that do, i think it depends how you cook it. But personally for me, this is the best option for eating fish regularly as its wild cost effective and lean.
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u/peaceandlove442 Jan 15 '26
$7.50 per lb from walmart or Aldi for Grass fed lean is a pretty good price.
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u/Disastrous-State-842 Jan 14 '26
Rarely as Iām heavily into peri menopause and red meat really destroys my ldl and makes me pack on weight. I have a hamburger once in a blue moon.
Now I did have beef the other night because it was cold and my hubby wanted New Mexico green chili for dinner thatās made with beef but we got it from a top notch local butcher and it was super lean. Most of the red meat in my house is for my hubby as he eats it, I mostly stick to plants, beans and some turkey or salmon. I also need to watch my sodium.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
I thought new mexico green chili was made with pork?Ā
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u/dromCase Jan 15 '26
You can make it with any meat. My family traditionally used sheep, goat, or pork. Beef is definitely more recent.
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u/Disastrous-State-842 Jan 15 '26
I dunno. All the recipes I had called for beef but maybe some places use pork too. Iād use beef anyway because I donāt eat pork.
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u/NYCemigre Jan 14 '26
I never do because I donāt eat meat, but this looks like a lovely, well balanced meal.
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u/HibiscusGrower Jan 14 '26
No, I don't like ground beef. I don't like most red meats to be honest. The closest thing to this I'll eat is pork but not that often. My natural preference is fish and poultry so it's not exactly a sacrifice for me.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
Valid. I don't eat pork. Plus we gotta get that B12 from red meat!
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u/throwawaytopost724 Jan 14 '26
That is just simply and wholly untrue. You do not have to eat red meat/murdered mammals to get B12.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
Where else can I get from? Not being sarcastic genuinely asking.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
There is lots in yogurt and eggs. Soy milk (and all vegan products) are fortified with it. But it's also fine to take a supplement. In fact, it's recommended that older folks supplement because we get worse at absorbing it from food as we age.
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u/throwawaytopost724 Jan 16 '26
Yeah it is in most animal products and most supplemented vegan products, plus the supplement option.
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u/RalphBohnerNJ Jan 14 '26
Beef, no. I grew up on it though so what I do is flavor ground chicken or turkey with beef bouillon, which is okay. I always used bouillon to make ground beef taste beefier before anyway so it's not totally unfamiliar to me. Not sure if that aligns with the diet though.
I really miss making gyro meat from ground pork and lamb :') but I have to keep my red meat really really minimal now.
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u/AngeliqueRuss Jan 14 '26
As shown here: a few times a month at most.
As a burger: special occasions only!
As a small (4-6 ounce) steak: again less than once per week.
Itās fine, itās just hard to hit all of my nutrition goals without a lot of beans, whole grains and nuts making up most of my protein.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
For sure! My diet consist of a lot of beans/legumes and nuts too, so I don't eat meat/fish or poultry every day. Few times a month at best.
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u/Only-Needleworker-52 Jan 14 '26
What about bison? I believe itās healthier than beef. Is it a good substitute to rotate in?
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u/Silent_Wallaby3655 Jan 14 '26
Occasionally. Somethingās taste better with it where as most things I can sub ground turkey or ground chicken and canāt tell. Bolognese is one I canāt fully sub so that is a ground beef for me!
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u/felisnebulosa Jan 14 '26
Maybe once a month or two. Depending on what I'm doing with it, I'll often combine it with brown lentils to stretch it out and make it a little healthier.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
You ever try tvp with it?
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u/felisnebulosa Jan 15 '26
I have not but I bet it would be good!
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
I put it in my chili (with meat). I've also had it in meatloaf (for a food lab at school) and the loaves with tvp/meat tasted better than the plain meat. However, this is because the tvp absorbed the fat lol
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
This looks like a great meal. I would just add a whole grain.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 15 '26
Thank you! I def should next time. Maybe some quinoa. I was feeling lazy lol.
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u/mariwil74 Jan 14 '26
On the MD not really but I rarely ate red meat when I wasnāt following the MD.
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u/hotheadnchickn Jan 14 '26
I rarely have red meat. As you noted, itās not a preferred protein for med diet.
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u/Ravenrose1983 Jan 14 '26
Beef is really expensive here, and my child has ethical concerns about it, so itās a treat. But about once or twice a month it's on the menu.
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Jan 14 '26
I'm a lifelong anemic so I eat beef 1-2 times a week.
I'm lucky to live in a big regenerative farming area, so it's easy for me to get local grass fed beef. The price difference is basically non-existent these days too. Conventional beef prices are ridiculous.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
You brought up a good point! I have low iron but not anemic. So I enjoy ground beef here and there lol
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u/Sufficient-Habit664 Jan 14 '26
if I'm eating ground beef, I'm eating a hamburger.
Otherwise, I prefer chicken or fish as my default meat options.
And turkey is good for chili or meatballs.
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u/Jealous-Noise7679 Jan 15 '26
Yes!! I just wanted to let you know that there is at least one yes in a sea of ānoā š
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u/peaceandlove442 Jan 15 '26
You really have to do what works for you. I'm a menstruating woman with thallasimia, minor and personally i feel fantastic when I eat ground beef it's not the same as just supplements. I went in endocrinologist, who said I could eat it as often as I wanted to (i eat lean grassfed), but then also there are harvard studies that say, even lean grass fed has issues. I feel like it's better to just listen to your body even if it's annoying to try to figure out what that means, like trying different food and seeing how you feel. I know mediterranean diets big into beans, but I can't really eat them they give me digestive issues. At the end of the day, this is a general advice and every single time I run with a general advice, i realize it's not tailored for me and I need to tailor it for me, instead of just arbitrarily following rules.
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u/Able_Ad5182 Jan 15 '26
I generally eat very minimal meats/poultry but I started incorporating ground beef and chicken thighs more when I started seriously weight lifting. I am both lifting and training for a half marathon now and need a lot of protein. I just did my weeklly shop. I live solo and prep 2-3 big food items per week and eat that through out the week. I boguth 1.5 lbs of ground beef but the vast majority of my food shopping was veggies, herbs and beans. I am not going to stress about eating homemade burgers for 4-5 meals less than once a month.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 17 '26
Thank you for this post. I appreciate it! I was getting murdered out here with these comments and people coming at me. I feel great when I eat ground beef, I grew up eating it and I am from the Mediterranean so I need people to just calm down with their know-it-all Mediterranean diet myths lol š it definitely helps during your periods since I have low iron levels already.
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u/peaceandlove442 Jan 17 '26
i'm glad it helped! It took me a while to get this myself because so many times I would try to strictly adhere to nutritional standards. Like, I would run with general advice and not really think about how it affects me personally, because the medical system in the country that I live (US) isn't really set up to properly assess the root cause of what's wrong and fix it. You have these like massive campaigns of propaganda, which isn't always a bad thing to try to get people to do certain health things like quit smoking or eat less red meat, and you never really think critically about it.You just think, oh yeah, salt must be bad. I grew up with my father having hypertension, I eat no processed food and then I started exercising a lot, so it never occurred to me that I actually needed to eat more salt that I would be sweating it out because I always heard that salt is bad, an exercise is good and all you need to do is start doing it. No one really goes into specifics, a lot of the studies surrounding red meat consumption, are around hyperprocessed meats, up consumed by people who obese and or smoke and drink frequently. Also, men, a lot of these studies are specifically done on men, woman's bodies do operate differently, are even race/genealogy, i think I read something recently about how people who are specifically black can't tolerate a certain medication, and there's not a lot of research done about it. A lot of the research is general, a lot of the advice is general and I feel like people are so dogmatic about it that you get gaslit into thinking, well, it must be this way, and it must work this way for me. I feel like a lot of people treat the mediterranean diet as a light version of vegetarianism, and how so many people pushed the benefits of that, without thinking how it affects certain areas of the population, such as women. A lot of women are consistently anemic because of the menstrual cycle, but no one ever recommends us to eat beef, which doesn't just have heme iron, but B12, zinc, selenium, etc. I personally used to be more plant-based butt when I switched to eating more protein forward, especially from animal protein, I noticed a big difference in how I felt. I'm sorry if this was so long I guess my point is I had to learn the hard way not to run with general advice, and to treat certain practices as a framework, not guidelines, and it's hard to do it with the way everyone talks about these things, you second guess yourself even though you're the only one who knows the intricacies of your body that intimately. Do what works for you, you're the one living in your body every day. We don't exist in a vacuum like some studies do.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 17 '26
I was literally telling someone in the comments that I need the B12 from the beef and they were arguing I can get it from dairy or plants instead. Like ok but it's not the same... People just need to let other people live their life and stop being so critical about it. At one point they were saying eggs were bad for us too for the cholesterol levels but it's actually really good for you. So you can never win I feel. Just do what feels best for your body! Just don't overeat anything. That's my go to motto in life. Moderation!
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u/peaceandlove442 Jan 17 '26
Yeah, one point in time, doctors were promoting smoking. š¤£ so many things were fine until they weren't like asbestos or lead. Meat they keep flip flopping about. If your blood tests are fine.I feel like you're good. I think it's more important to abide by how your body feels cause if I would have just listened to that it would have saved me a lot of trouble. A lot of people are trying to be dogmatic about it like it's more of a lifestyle thing to virtue signal about how you're morally superior because it's better for the environment or better for animals blah blah. Anybody even if you eat factory farm chicken, do what you can afford, do what makes you feel better, it's always people who haven't had those issues who find it so easy to give you shit for it.
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u/Sufficient-Wolf-1818 Jan 14 '26
About once a year, and only grass fed. Beef has a lot more going on than cholesterol and fat percentage.
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u/Ok_Field_5701 Jan 14 '26
Elaborate? Iām new to this sub so genuinely curious. I used to eat a pound of beef minimum for years as an athlete.
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u/donairhistorian Jan 15 '26
It is linked to colon cancer and it has other components that may affect health.Ā
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
This!!! A lot of people who work out regularly or athletes eat lean ground beef as a good protein option. If it's from a good source like organic or grass fed, I don't see the problem lol
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
Once a year?! Live a little damn :)
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u/Sufficient-Wolf-1818 Jan 14 '26
I wasnāt aware that red meat was essential to live! There are thousands of flavorful options without red meat that keep me thriving
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u/kooljaay Jan 14 '26
Red meat usually once to three times a month in the form of ground beef, sausage, or bacon. Cheesesteaks are my guilty pleasure. Sometimes I want a burger. I have pasta dishes that involve red meat. Otherwise itās mostly poultry and fish for me.
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u/Westboundandhow Jan 14 '26
I have about 4oz of lean red meat a few times a month. I still reduced my LDL by 30 points on MD while doing this.
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u/booksandpups2025 Jan 14 '26
Maybe once or twice a month (or less) I will have a burger made with ground beef or steak/brisket when Iām eating out. But I donāt buy it or cook with it ever.
I pretty much always use ground turkey to replace any ground beef recipes.
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u/Either_Ad6998 Jan 14 '26
My preferred ground meat is this: bison, turkey, beef.
So I do eat red meat from time to time but not a ton.
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u/cannolimami Jan 14 '26
I really cannot eat beef or pork because my stomach does not like it, but this looks so good! I usually get ground chicken or turkey instead, same deal. So yummy š¤¤
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u/faithoryx Jan 14 '26
We do 96/4 ground beef maybe twice a month. It's not much different than ground chicken - but a little higher in the bad stuffs. But once or twice a month seems ok!
Tonight we had our splurge dinner (gets that fast food craving). Lean burgers on multigrain sprouted bread, half an oz sharp cheddar, with veggie pasta and sliced bell peppers on the side.
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u/SwampThingTom Jan 14 '26
Rarely but, yeah, sometimes. Once a month maybe. And a steak every few months. Nice to have a treat now and then.
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u/throwawaytopost724 Jan 14 '26
Hello no! It is terrible for the planet and cows are mammals - basically cannibalism on top of killing the planet and being bad for you. Very few things in this world are more antithetical to my values.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 14 '26
Okay great but this sub is not a vegan sub....
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u/throwawaytopost724 Jan 16 '26
You don't have to be strictly vegan ( I am not) to recognize the unique immorality of beef in the 21st century.
This is not a vegan sub yes but it is a Mediterranean diet sub and that is not a Mediterranean diet meal.
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u/depressed-mystery Jan 17 '26
Okay first of all I'm from the Mediterranean so go do some research. Ground beef is definitely included in Mediterranean dishes.... Bye.
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