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…
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Bone Broth Made from Beef Feet
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…
Making Bone Broth in a Slow Cooker or Crockpot
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…
Constipated? IBS/IBD? Six Steps to Restoring Your Gut’s Health
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…
How to Determine Your Daily Protein Requirements
Take your weight, e.g., 134 lbs. Take your height, e.g., 5’5″ Plug these two numbers into a Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator. BMI = % of your total body weight that is composed of fat. Write down your BMI, e.g., 22.3% (0.223). Multiply your BMI times your total weight (e.g., 0.223 x 134 = 29.88)….
Chia Seeds: Power Food or Just Another Cheap Food for the Masses?
Once we started to leave our Hunter-Gatherer ways to become Agrarian, we had to find a local staple food that could cheaply feed much larger populations than our small family groups. In some places it was a grain like wheat, rye or millet, in other places it was a seed like chia or quinoa, and in…
