Your 20% page

[js65]

For those of you who follow the 80/20 rule, what do you do for your 20% and what do you consider 20%?

[JamieRose]

I consider my big morning mug of coffee my twenty percent. I just can't give it up!

[kmacphee]

My waffles are in the 20% because I have tried many different recipes to see if I can move them into the 80% category with no luck. They are better as I use less whole wheat flour and more coconut flour, coconut milk, and I have ditched (a long time ago) the soy milk for whole milk.

Bread, so long as it is not white. It has to weight a significant amount for me to even buy it, so chances are it is more dense than regular whole wheat bread that I used to buy.

I sprinkle a bit of Kashi Go Lean Crunch on my nuts and berries once in a while, but I have also moved from soy to heavy cream.

When I am out for dinner (restaurant or as a house guest) I generally sample the desert. Most 'deserts' I make at home are 80-100% paleo/primal.

The chocolate is 70% dark, so I guess you can say that the other 30% is not fitting within the 80% rule.

I guess that is it.

[naiadknight]

Whatever seasoning steakhouses and burger shacks use; as much as I shouldn't, The rare bit of soy sauce; more chocolate than I should.

[Sharonll]

- Too many Brussels sprouts, as they can up my carb % very quickly
- My reliance on full-fat dairy to keep my fat % where I want it, hope to bring the consumption down when I reach maintenance
- Beets, I love 'em, but haven't had any for a month
- 85% chocolate if I have more than 2 squares per week
- Store-bought mayo when I'm lazy and don't feel like making my own
- Homemade coconut/heavy cream ice cream when I've already eaten enough through the day

[Sherissima]

- Coffee. Black and strong, 1-2 mugs per day
- Dairy: butter daily, goat cheese and heavy cream occasionally
- Chocolate. I have 1-2 squares of 70+% almost every day (with coffee!)
- Mayonnaise, though I go for organic and only have it maybe once a week
- Flaxseed LC muffins, when I'm fed up with fried eggs for breakfast and too hungry to IF; on average, once a week

I occasionally eat fruit (usually berries) and nuts, but I consider them part of the 80%.

ETA: Just remembered wine. Red wine, that is, on average 1 unit per fortnight (i.e. 3 evenings of drinking a couple of glasses since I started Primal in January). I count that part of the 80% too!

[JamieRose]

Ah, I also eat butter almost every day, and sometimes full fat yogurt, if we're counting dairy. Mmmm butter.

ETA: Also forgot red wine!! Only once a month at most, though.

[PrairieProf]

- Coffee. Black and strong, 1-2 mugs per day
- Dairy: butter daily, goat cheese and heavy cream occasionally
- Chocolate. I have 1-2 squares of 70+% almost every day (with coffee!)
- Mayonnaise, though I go for organic and only have it maybe once a week
- Flaxseed LC muffins, when I'm fed up with fried eggs for breakfast and too hungry to IF; on average, once a week

I occasionally eat fruit (usually berries) and nuts, but I consider them part of the 80%.

ETA: Just remembered wine. Red wine, that is, on average 1 unit per fortnight (i.e. 3 evenings of drinking a couple of glasses since I started Primal in January). I count that part of the 80% too!

Pretty similar here, though I eat a good bit of yogurt too (Greek yogurt and a local organic yogurt that's very low carb), and some cottage cheese too. Coconut flour pancakes once a week or so (that or the flax muffins are my breakfast 1-2x per week). Non-primal condiments in small amounts as well as the mayo, though I'm careful with the ingredients and carb count. Some processed turkey sausage just cuz I find it tasty and it's easy to keep in the freezer.

I wouldn't count fruit/nuts as the 20% ... they might be for some ultra-purists on this board, but they're certainly positioned as part of the 80% in the actual book.

[lil_earthmomma]

Ok non primal ingredients I use in tiny amounts once in a while:

soy sauce (my hubby hates the tamari I bought, sigh)
store bought mayo

My cheats?

Chocolate
nibbles of almost any grain free desert I come across (we eat out less than once a month so this is no big deal.)
BANANAS!!!
Peanut butter (usually with the banana!)
wine and gin and tonics with lime lime lime! lol

[rphlslv]

Back when I was lifting I used to eat tons of white rice on Sundays to replenish glycogen, anabolic diet style. That is about it. Also a dark chocolate bar now and then.