I'm Not a Carnivore

I talk about sourcing meats from local farms a lot and making liberal use of lard, ghee, and other animal fats in my cooking. So it's quite often that my friends or coworkers get the misconception that I eat a lot of meat. In reality, being on the GAPS diet, I would say that my diet from what I eat most to what I eat the least looks more like this: fats (lard, ghee, chicken fat, olive oil, coconut oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, sesame oil), vegetables, eggs, meats, nuts, fruits. When I take a look at the amount of meat I actually eat, the reality is somewhere between 2 to 6 ounces per meal, which I feel is about as much as most omnivores eat.

When people first find out that I don't eat grains, sugars, or other complex carbohydrate foods, they wonder what I eat. After all, the majority of the standard American diet is comprised of grains and starchy foods. So how do I get full? Well, we eat lots and lots and LOTS of vegetables. I would say more than most vegetarians would eat, since vegetarians are able to subsidize their meals with grains, potatoes and yams, beans, and other starchy foods.

Out of curiosity, I made a list of all the vegetables we ate last week. As two adults, we consumed in the past week:
~ 1 lb baby bok choy
1 bunch bok choy
~1 lb mei qing choi
2 radishes
8 lbs carrots
8 lbs onions
3 bunches celery
1 bag spinach
couple bunches broccoli
2 heads cauliflower
6 tomatoes
1 cabbage
2 lbs delicata squash
10 sweet peppers
5 bulbs garlic
3 jalapeno peppers
2 bunches green onions
1 cucumber
1 bunch swiss chard
1 head butter lettuce
1 bunch red leaf lettuce

I may have missed some, but I would say that the bulk of my diet is definitely not made of meat!