She sighed, put her knife away, and swallowed the last of the tough meat.

She patted the boy while he thought on this, chewing away at the tough dried meat they had brought with them.

It is usual for the tougher meats to start off by themselves, with vegetables added later.

But then, they likely had been given tough and mostly raw meat from the day their teeth came in.

Oh, maybe they are good for eating tough meat, but what the hell else?

This allowed for the tough meat to be dried and made into pemmican.

There is nothing to hide tough meat or ill seasoning.

She took a small bite of the tough gray meat.

The hard-shelled ones had the tough white meat inside but not much milk.

This accounts for the long cooking time, as an older chicken would have had tougher meat.