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Pink Slime in San Jose: Disgusted Trainer Tells All

  

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Last week a personal training client told me about something that absolutely disgusted me, made me kind of nauseous, and really pissed me off.

Now you may have already heard about it, and if so then you are probably feeling about the same as me…

But I want to share a solution with you that is Easy, Healthy, Tastes Good, and You Control.

The issue is called Pink Slime and it is f**g disgusting and wrong that our government is allowing this crap to be sold to us and put in our food.

I’ll make the description quick and simple.

Take all the crap that gets dumped at the meat processing plants:  bones, fat, scraps, and all the garbage from processing the beef and put it into a container.

This crap all gets sent to some processing center where it is washed, centrifuged to separate out the actual meat, and then washed again is then being added to over 70% of the ground beef that is being sold in the United States.

BUT I left out one important detail…the second wash is being done with water and AMMONIA to kill all the E-coli and bacteria that this crap has with it.

So they are feeding us chemically processed garbage that actually use to get put into dog and cat food...now we get it.

They call the resulting product Pink Slime and all ground beef products in the US can have up to 15% of the volume made up of this garbage…and no disclaimer because the use of Ammonia is being called a cleaning process and not food!

So when you buy a burger from the local burger shop, you get Pink Slime.  When you buy hamburgers from the ballpark, you get Pink Slime.  When you buy ground beef from the grocery store, you get Pink Slime.  When you feed this crap to your kids…You get it?!?!?

You may not believe what I am saying here, and I didn’t really believe it either.  So today I did my research and found that it is actually true.

You can learn more by searching for Pink Slime and checking out Jamie Oliver’s show on TV…

I had to laugh when I saw a hamburger ad on the side of his web page…Kind of made me sick!

You know those burgers have up to 15% Pink Slime...Yes, Pink Slime in San Jose too!

OK…you know me by now:  I love food and I care about the quality of the food I consume.  I prefer organic when possible, but I’m not religious about it.  And now I have no interest in eating any ground beef that I do not either do myself, or watch the damn butcher grind personally.

So what to do about it?

So glad you asked!

You see, ever since I got my new freezer, I’ve been shopping more at Costco and buying in bulk, vacuum sealing the food in individual serving sizes for either Denise or me, and thawing what I need to eat at an individual meal or for the day.

So on a shopping trip last week I grabbed a huge top round roast (actually there were 2) weighing in at about 5.5 pounds.

Now here is how easy it is to make your own ground beef, and what to use it on/in!

First I simply sliced the roasts up into about 2 x 2 inch strips.
Then I put a meat grinding attachment onto the Kitchen Aid mixer (I think like 95% of the population has one), and set it up for a fin grind.

A couple minutes later and some seasoning, I had a HUGE hamburger ready to go on the grill, which just happened to be already heated.

I made another couple patties, packaged them up, and tossed them into the freezer.

But wait, I wasn’t done!

Next I pulled of the fine grinder and went to a course grind and finished off the rest of the batch.  Took that meat and threw it into a nice Dutch oven with a bunch of seasonings, a beer, a can of tomatoes and a can of tomato sauce, cooked it for a couple hours on low heat, and I now have a big batch of Low-Fat Chili and I pretty much know exactly what is in it.

Image Credit: BagABall

Later this summer when the new garden is in full swing, I will know EVERYTHING that will be in the next batch…and it will be very low cost too.

I’ll try to put together a video of the actual meat grinding process over the next few days, and maybe even show how to make the burgers and the chili…but I ate all the beef already, so it will have to wait;-)

Eat good food, and not Pink Slime…your body is worth the extra effort, and you may actually be saving money.

Now Go Workout!

Oh...Leave your comments about the Pink Slime!