Dense Proteins - what are your favorites

Hi

Dense proteins are those meats that are hard to eat, I mean tough and you want to stick with the more tender options. A slow cooker can be your best friend.

If you have had surgery recently dense proteins are not an option at this time, but as you get further out they can be key to filling full and help you to goal. When the time is right try a few options. Take small bites and see how it goes down and make sure it does not sit there like a rock. If you have a bad reaction then back off and try again in a few months. To this day I can't do chicken breast unless its off a Rotisserie chicken.

Here are a few of my favorites, what are some of yours?

Chicken - legs and thighs are your tender choices, if you are further out you can try chicken breast. I love Rotisserie chicken.

Steak - tender is the theme, ribeye, prime or filet

Pork - you can do pull pork no BBQ sauce LOL

Eggs - I lived off deviled eggs

Meaty Fish - salmon and I loved the Starkist tuna pouches

Trader Joe's turkey meatballs,YES!

Looking forward to your suggestions

Poultry - I love chicken thighs and duck breasts. Chicken breast is great if it's cooked in a sauce. Ground chicken and turkey.

Cow - any cut. My favorites are skirt steak and flank steak. Anything will be tender if prepared correctly. Ground cow in any manner.

Pig - tenderloin and shoulder tend to be the cuts I use most often. Loin is fine in stir fry or other cut up preparations. Bacon, sausage, ground pork.

Fish, shrimp, scallops, crab - all good.

Lamb - mainly I use lamb leg and ground lamb, since that's what I easily have access to. Lamb chops also great.

There isn't a lot of meat that's available at my store that I don't eat. I disagree about the slow cooker suggestion, though. I much rather sous vide and feel that it gets meats significantly more tender than slow cooking does, and in a way that isn't all braise all the time.

I don't have a sous vide but hear they are amazing!

I buy a rotisserie chicken from either sams club, or costco once a week. $5.00 roughly and I get a meal a day at the very least from it as well as enough for others in the house to enjoy it. Those rotisserie chickens are so amazing!

Chicken and fish in general are my absolute favorite choices for meats. I love catfish, but I love almost any fish. Shrimp too.

OMGosh, I do the same. It's just me and the doggies and we eat off that Costco chicken all week. We have such good taste don't we?

That's so funny!! I get one for my husband, myself and our 4 dogs. We eat the breast, use the thighs for chicken salad, and the dogs get the rest!

Liz

My last meal will be a ribeye.

First nice weekend of this year, I got some beautiful Prime Ribeyes at Costco, threw them on the Grill, and forgot to clean the grease trap from last year. Needless to say the entire grill was on fire and the temperature was 700 after the gas was turned off. By the time my wife got out with the fire extinguisher I could hear the metal on the grill trays popping from the heat.

Fortunately the Ribeyes were saved and I ate them for four days.

It's not funny but then again it's So glad you saved the steaks