With the New Year right around the cor­ner I wanted to offer you some resources to help you in your Paleo jour­ney should you decided to walk the path. These are all things that I use mul­ti­ple times a day and refer to with­out hes­i­ta­tion. When rec­om­mend­ing a paid prod­uct, please note that I do use affil­i­ate or ama­zon links as deemed necessary.

Infor­ma­tional Websites

• The Whole 30 (this is the pro­gram that I used to start my paleo journey)
• Mark’s Daily Apple
• Robb Wolf (also has a pod­cast that I highly recommend)
• Paleo Par­ents
• The Paleo Diet
• Paleo Diet Lifestyle
• Free the Ani­mal (he’s a lit­tle explicit in his delivery)

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Seri­ously, I love the smell of bone broth. Meaty good­ness mixed with veg­gie trim­mings I save in a ever-growing col­lec­tion of freezer bags. Hubby bought bones at Whole Foods today and I imme­di­ately sprung into action. Armed with my new, but already worn, copy of Nour­ish­ing Tra­di­tions, I pre­pared to cre­ate a spec­tac­u­lar bone broth. But, alas, I cook by smell and as I browned the meat in my roaster, I real­ized that if I was going to make it two days with this potent aroma float­ing on the air I would have to add some sea­son­ing that would keep me from gagging.

And so I wanted to share my Beef Bone Broth recipe, because while the basics are the same, some­times a lit­tle… Con­tinue reading

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Vari­ety is the spice of life, right?

We are try­ing to add more vari­ety in our diets. There is a whole world of meats that we can eat and we barely scratch the surface.

I’m learn­ing that the key to this Paleo life is to step out of the com­fort zone. It’s not easy! The thought of eat­ing liver is enough to send run­ning and scream­ing to the near­est veg­e­tar­ian sup­port group. The sight of fish heads brings hor­ri­ble mem­o­ries from child­hood and eat­ing any­thing that is fer­mented is not on my bucket list. But truth be told, and I credit this with actu­ally enjoy­ing food since remov­ing all grains, gluten, etc. I actu­ally enjoy food now and want to try every­thing. In fact, since Sep­tem­ber I have come… Con­tinue reading

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