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Please help me find an easily transportable snack!

So I have an extremely limited diet, due to many foods worsening my rheumatoid arthritis inflammation. Basically, everything worsens inflammation except fish, avocados, and vegetab …
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Pemmican ingredients: by weight or volume?

When a pemmican recipe calls for "equal parts tallow and dried meat" does this mean equal parts by weight or by volume?
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jerky/pemmican drying temperatures

I have seen recommended temperatures for making beef jerky/pemmican at 100 degrees f and 150 degrees f. Can anyone discusss the virtues or drawbacks of either? I've been doing it …
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Help me figure out Pemmican, jerky, rendering, and rancid fat?

Im a bit confused about this issue. So the point of going to all the laborious trouble of making pemmican is to separate the fat so it doesn't go rancid, render it to oil, and add …
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Long-term travel and packing paleo

I have to spend 2 months out in the field doing a mixture of hiking and hitting up small towns in rural South America for my research. I'm planning on using it as an opportunity to …
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Pemmican Only Diet

http://paleofood.com/jerky.htm Has anyone ever tried a Pemmican Only diet for a month or more? What would be the repercussions of doing this? Also wouldn't the tallow provide a …
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US Wellness Meats Pemmican

I'm relatively new to Paleo life and am having relatively little pain in making the adjustments from my former (already pretty low-carb) way of eating. That said, I am having a h …
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Is heart meat lean enough for pemmican?

I'd like to try making pemmican, but you need really lean meat and the best bang for the buck is heart meat - I think. It has no fatty marbling. Trim the fat deposits off the outsi …
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Pemmican recipes with coconut oil?

So I have attempted pemmican once with rendered fat and dried unspiced flank steak. Not to say that it was bad, but it definitely wasn't appetizing. Has anyone tried to make pemm …
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Should pemmican not be prepared at (relatively) high temperatures?

Most pemmican recipes I've seen suggest fairly low temperatures for desiccating the lean meat, some at barely 100 F (usually in some sort of drier), some up to 150 F (usually in an …
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powerbar replacements

I spend a decent amount of time biking long distance (yeah, yeah, endurance cardio is terrible) or hiking or doing stuff where I need some good on-the-go snacks. In particular, I …
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Is there a good source to buy pemmican?

About the only thing I've been able to find is US Wellness but they have a crazy minimum order requirement and from various reviews I've read a lot of people were pretty unhappy wi …
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Pemmican Fail…Help!

Well, I decided to try to make my own pemmican. I had some venison and rabbit meat in the freezer. I also got some buffalo tallow when I picked half our cow from the processor. …
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Pemmican as part of Paleo life

Does anyone out there in Paleo land currently make pemmican? I saw a short video of a lady making enough to feed her family- looks like a lot of work, but a useful product. You ne …
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Why doesn’t pemmican turn rancid?

When you make beef jerky, everyone always says it's important to use lean meat so it doesn't turn rancid during storage. But then to make pemmican, you take the lean beef jerky an …

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