{"id":2842,"date":"2007-07-31T00:20:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2007\/07\/31\/a-healthier-option\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T00:20:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T05:20:07","slug":"a-healthier-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2007\/07\/31\/a-healthier-option\/","title":{"rendered":"A Healthier Option?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Kris, my dear wife, is a hawk when it comes to healthier foods. We gave up on red meat aeons ago and we have salmon filets twice a week now and maybe every other week we eat tuna steaks \u2014 don\u2019t overcook those things or you\u2019ll be eating some primitive form of rubber. We have turkey or chicken in our marinara sauce with pasta, and she\u2019s always scouting for the healthiest options. Now we\u2019ve discovered something even healthier when it comes to \u201cmeat.\u201d<!--more|inline--><br>\nAnd I\u2019m not talking about that fu-fu soy stuff, or some kind of veggie burger or veggie steaks. We don\u2019t eat pork very often, and not because it is levitically unclean.<br>\nWhich meat source is the healthiest? FDA stats:<br>\nMeat     Fat        Calories  Cholesterol   Sat Fat  Protein   Iron<br>\n?????     2.42 g   143 kcal  82 mg           0.91 g  28.44 g  3.42 mg<br>\nBeef      11.73g   217 cal   85 mg           4.63g   26.11g   2.71 mg<br>\n(90% lean)<br>\nChicken  3.57g    165 cal   85 mg           1.01g   31.02g   1.04mg<br>\nDo you know what the ?????  \u2014 yep, that\u2019s right: Bison or Buffalo.<br>\nAny experiences or advice on bison?<br>\nSo Sunday evening we got out our first Buffalo Burgers, from our local grocery store, and cooked them over medium heat so as not to ruin the moisture \u2014 it\u2019s real lean stuff \u2014 put on some tomatoes and some onions and a little mustard. Maybe one of the finest burgers we\u2019ve ever had. We are now committed to eating some buffalo each week.<br>\nHere\u2019s the company we bought stuff from. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebuffaloguys.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Buffalo Guys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kris, my dear wife, is a hawk when it comes to healthier foods. We gave up on red meat aeons ago and we have salmon filets twice a week now and maybe every other week we eat tuna steaks \u2014 don\u2019t overcook those things or you\u2019ll be eating some primitive form of rubber. 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