I Can't Wait Until I'm So Rich I Can Buy Beef Jerky

Yes, beefiness jerky tin can exist healthful and easy to brand

Don't fifty-fifty recall "Slim Jim." Beef jerky can be a home-made snack food a nutritionist can love. (Bigstock)

My life has become a cliché. I should clarify: My refrigerator has become a cliche. I can't continue it filled, thanks to the rapidly growing tween boys who inhabit my house. They seem to open the fridge equally soon as they shut it. I can't feed them plenty.

I don't mind the shopping. I clearly enjoy the cooking. But where I struggle, forth with a lot of other parents, is how to provide enough portable, healthful food for them when they are on the go for hours before dinner. An apple with a smear of peanut butter used to be a sizable snack to get them through homework and sports. Ha. No longer.

It takes no effort to take chips, pretzels and other processed foods waiting in the cabinets or the motorcar — but I prefer that my kids consume real nutrient.

Especially my oldest, who genuinely likes his meat; he's a different species when he doesn't go enough protein (a species that could go extinct with no complaint from me). To keep him going, I demand to provide portable protein that he and his brother can grab as they run in from schoolhouse and run out to baseball do.

I recently discovered a solution: beef hasty. Not the brightly packaged junk food sold in gas stations mini-marts. A Slim Jim is non a food, information technology's a sodium- and MSG-laced chemical cosmos that smelled up our automobile on my childhood road trips.

I am talking virtually the latest generation of beef jerky. There are countless new brands made from high-quality meats, whole-nutrient marinades and real spices. Three nosotros have tried are Three Jerks, Cardinal Pacs and Krave.

I figured if these brands could make beef hasty with and so few ingredients, why couldn't I? And then I got ambitious this weekend and made my own. Turns out it was not so ambitious; in fact, it was absurdly easy. The best part: My boys tin can't get enough. They have come home from school every day asking for it.

This jerky is crumb-complimentary, which is great for my car. It travels well in a baseball game bag: stable at room temperature for hours and able to remain in one slice despite sharing infinite with a metallic bat. Information technology lasts for two weeks in a sealed container in the fridge, and thankfully information technology keeps the depression-blood-sugar, poly peptide-craving monster at bay.

My boys all the same open the refrigerator as ofttimes as before, but at to the lowest degree they are finding something poly peptide-rich, chemical-free and filling. I'm gear up to go part of a new kind of cliche — a household where boys eat beefiness jerky.

Here's how I made beefiness hasty in three simple steps:

ane. I sliced a flank steak into very narrow strips: ¼ inch is ideal. Any lean cut of beef will exercise; information technology is easier to cut thinly when the meat is partially frozen.

ii. I marinated the slices overnight, although a few hours would suffice. Whatever marinade will work; utilize whichever steak marinade your family enjoys. I mixed upwardly the one for bulgogi that includes tamari (gluten-gratis soy sauce), sesame oil, rice wine, garlic and onions.

3. The next morning, I sprinkled table salt and pepper over the drained beef slices and placed them on a rack over a cookie sheet in a 200-degree oven. I let them dehydrate there for four hours. The hasty didn't crave whatsoever attending; I could go about my morning and ignore information technology completely. As I said, absurdly easy.

Seidenberg is co-founder of Nourish Schools,
a D.C. nutrition education visitor.

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Casey Seidenberg Casey Seidenberg is co-founder of Nourish Schools, a D.C.-based diet educational activity company, and writer of "The Super Food Cards," a collection of healthful recipes and advice.

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