Shiritaki Noodles- Are They Paleo?

I love when I receive an inquiry about a food I don’t know about as it serves as a learning opportunity for me. A reader recently sent me an email asking if the Shiritaki Noodles she found would be Paleo friendly. I asked for a link to the brand she had in mind, as the only […]

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Deep Fried Filet Mignon and Other Forms of Adultery

Take Paleo out of the picture for a moment; some food preparations are just…wrong!   I walked past a restaurant the other day and had a quick peruse of the menu; deep-fried filet mignon was one offering that caught my eye in particular. Why would you do that to such a gorgeous piece of meat? […]

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Choosing Your Chicken: Organic, Air-Chilled or…Aged?

If you’re buying your chicken based on cost alone, there are many factors that you may be overlooking. First and foremost, cheaper is almost always not best; often the bargain priced poultry has come from a battery-caged producer whose best interest is not in the health or treatment of their birds, let alone the consequences […]

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Does Organic Mean There’s Going to be Bugs?

In a word…yes.  But only once in a while. A friend reached out to me yesterday after she’d encountered bugs in not one, not two, but three different veggies she’d purchased at Whole Foods, including a prepared kale to go from the salad bar! Finding  a little bug or worm on organic produce does happen […]

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