A couple of weeks ago, I wanted a snack to have while watching NetFlix, so I took a bag of quinoa out of my cupboard and cooked some up. It made a great rice-pudding-like dessert mixed with blueberries and cream. However, my digestion wasn’t very happy with me and I suffered the old, pre-Paleo bloating and abdominal discomfort. What on earth made me stray from the Paleo path? I know better. I know that nothing high fiber is my friend, even if it’s not a glutenous grain.
I should have just had blueberries with cream or full-fat yogurt for my snack and been happy with that… it’s something I really enjoy, but that day it just occurred to me that I had the quinoa in the cupboard.
Oh well, when this kind of thing happens, I am strongly reminded of one very good reason why I am on the Paleo diet: a quiet and comfortable digestive system! I will find a good home for the quinoa, as well as the millet and chickpeas that I still have in the cupboard. Having stuff in your cupboard or fridge that tempts you and/or doesn’t agree with you is NOT a good idea!
On reflection, I think I know why I was tempted. I had run out of bone broth and that’s my favourite snack food. It is so delicious and satisfying. My favourite breakfast is also bone broth, so the next morning I had to have eggs instead. That’s okay, I find eggs very easy to digest. Anyway, it was a good lesson learned: always have bone broth on hand!
Related Posts:
Okay, I’m really excited! I just found beef feet at my local Asian supermarket (for Vancouverites: the T&T Supermarket in Coquitlam Centre). Today I’m making bone broth from duck feet (chicken feet make excellent stock, but I’ve never tried duck feet before), but I’ve been wanting to make stock from beef feet for a few…
Continue Reading »
You will hear many people say, “You should listen to your body,” or “Your body knows best.” It sounds so sensible and so organic. But it isn’t always good advice and it isn’t always true! “Listening to your body” can be a double-edged sword! For one thing, we don’t always recognize what our body’s signals…
Continue Reading »
Mark Sisson has a recipe for egg muffins in his “Primal Blueprint Cookbook.” Tonight I decided to try the recipe because my grandsons are coming to visit on the weekend and I thought they might like them. But the boys are vegetarians, so I bought some “Mexican-seasoned fake ground round” to use in place of the…
Continue Reading »
Today in Mark Sisson’s 30-Day Challenge, he is asking his readers to answer ten questions about their experiences in going Paleo. He will compile the answers into a digital ebook. Each answer counts as one entry in Mark’s contest. Ten questions means ten opportunities to win. Here’s the link if you want to enter: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/contest-share-your-wisdom/. Make…
Continue Reading »
I made a few one-pot meals in my new crockpot recently, but I wasn’t very impressed. The meat was tasteless; all the flavour was in the liquid that was sucked out of the meat. Every meal tasted pretty much the same. I guess if you’re really in a rush in the evenings, it could be…
Continue Reading »
While the various paleo/primal diets that are currently popular vary in opinion as to whether you should eat dairy or not, I just wanted to clear up a few things. Our Paleo ancestors did not drink milk, except their mother’s, of course. While the Maasai keep cattle and drink their milk and their blood, their Paleo ancestors…
Continue Reading »
At first I thought it would be too expensive to eat primal the right way with grass-fed beef and pastured chicken, etc., but when I realized what I wouldn’t be buying (no bread, pasta, processed foods; almost no canned or packaged foods) and how satisfying eating high fat was, I began to think this way of…
Continue Reading »
1. Stop Eating Fiber: Read “Fiber Menace.” For most, this will mean removing all grains and legumes from your diet, although white rice seems to be the least offensive grain and may be eaten, if tolerated, and, if a paleolithic-type diet is not being followed. 2. Eat Saturated Fat: Bacon fat, lard, tallow, suet, butter, ghee (clarified…
Continue Reading »
When a paleo/primal (caveman) diet author, blogger or nutritionist advocates high fat, moderate protein and low carbs, it sounds fine until they start talking about regular vs. grass-fed beef and poultry. So here’s the “skinny” on that issue: If you have to buy regular, grain-fed meat, buy the leanest cuts available. Supplement the lean meat with…
Continue Reading »
