Is Chewing Gum Paleo?

Remember ‘nothing in a wrapper’? Most types have so many additives, I wouldn’t recommend touching them with a ten foot pole.  Even if you’re not remotely Paleo, the mere fact that most chewing gums are little bursts of chemicals and don’t have any nutritional value, I can’t say there’s really any good reason to chew […]

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The Power of Peppermint Oil

I had food poisoning about a month ago.  It was awful, fast acting and after vomiting profusely several hours after I ate some chicken that I knew afterwards wasn’t quite right, I was more or less out of commission for over 24 hours. The next day was spend lying on the coach and taking my […]

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Fried Chicken Revisited?

Wait a sec…how can deep-fried anything be Paleo?   In particular, fried chicken, which would traditionally have any number of different batters and/or coatings applied to it, none of which are remotely Paleo, before being drenched in a vat of scorching hot, refined oil, seems far from a likely candidate to become Paleoized. Let’s begin […]

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Cool & Natural Sweet Treats

We had a scorcher the other day here in Los Angeles, 110 in some areas!    Lots of people use the high temps as a reason to head straight to one of the many yogurt shops to cool down with something frosty to eat, kids in tow… While I, too, have fond memories of the […]

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