Canned Food and Paleo- Is There a Match?

There can be… but the caveat is that it should be for those ‘in a pinch’ occasions. Please don’t go stocking your pantry with canned tomato paste, coconut milk and chicken broth. All place a far second to True Paleo foods (fresh tomato, fresh coconut an homemade pastured chicken broth) rendering a much cleaner and […]

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Nature’s Noodle- Spaghetti Squash

Don’t worry- I’m not about to break my track record of keeping Paleo Paleo and suggest you make a ‘slightly-less awful, pseudo-paleo version of pasta’ by using nut flours and a grass-fed butter sauce. Rather, I’m going to rave about spaghetti squash, nature’s noodle! Requiring little more than some water and a heat source to […]

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Please, Don’t Pacify

Yesterday, I flipped through a junk magazine in the nail salon and learned all about how I could ‘follow a cookie diet’ and lose ten pounds in week.   Or, I could opt to do a ‘cleanse’ in order to ‘jumpstart my metabolism’ which would also render a solid, double digit reduction in weight in […]

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Is Paleo a Fad?

Real, True Paleo isn’t. What is, however, very likely a fad, is the growing trend of more and more companies using the word at leisure to describe foods (in some cases, more along the lines of food by-products) that may have once been kind of Paleo but are now so far outside the scope of […]

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Introducing Paleo- Make It Fun

Wondering how to ‘break the news’ to your friends and family that you’re now Paleo and loving every second of it? It’s natural to feel uncomfortable the first few times you dine out with friends, or host a dinner party, especially when the group of people you spend time with spends time in the oh-so-social […]

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The Skinny on the Skin

I have no qualms admitting it- one of my favorite parts of a meal featured pan-seared or grilled or oven roasted wild salmon or black cod is the skin. So much so, that it makes me cringe when I stop by the fish monger’s counter at my local market and see all the fillets have […]

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Sweet and Savory

Sweet as in the flavor experience, not as in added white sugar, that is! One of the many nice things about cooking is that anything is fair game in the Paleo kitchen, as far as what can  be prepared with what.   If we view cooking as a playful and fun way to approach providing […]

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The 5:2 Diet…Does it Work?

“Dieters restrict calorie intake for two days (to 500 calories for women and 600 for men) and eat what they like for the remainder of the week. And the weight just falls off.” Sound like a gimmick?  It does to me. The Fast Diet, based on the book by Dr Michael Mosley,” the medical journalist who […]

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To Fast or Not to Fast?

Wondering about fasted training and whether or not it would be a good fit for you? Chances are, yes. Fasted training, or training on an empty stomach, is most easily done first thing in the morning before you’ve had anything to eat. Why do it?  In simple terms, training on empty allows your body to […]

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