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…
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Is a Low Carb, Paleo Diet Too Expensive?
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…
Who Knew There Were So Many Different Coconut Products!
I was talking to a friend on Skype today and he mentioned he’d recently bought Coconut Butter and that it was seriously delicious. I always thought coconut butter was something you slathered on your body in the tropics! (Well, not me personally as I burn just thinking about the word tropics! Plus, bugs eat me alive! Sigh…) Anyway, apparently…
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)….
Fermented Cod Liver Oil, 100% Grass Fed (Pastured) Beef and Other Paleo/Primal Foods in Vancouver, BC
Paleo/Primal Diet Resources in Vancouver, BC Area: Pasture to Plate: 100% grass fed and grass finished (pastured), certified organic beef, lamb, pork, poultry, goat. Ethical Kitchen Restaurant and Store: Serves and sells “Pasture to Plate” grass fed (pastured) meat. Their store stocks fermented cod liver oil, x-factor butter oil, coconut ghee (coconut oil and grass-fed ghee blend),…
All Canned Sardines Are Not Created Equal!
It pays to try several (many?) brands of sardines before deciding that you don’t like them or that you are “just okay” with them. Really good sardines from Morocco, for instance, taste so much like tuna that you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference in a taste test. The brand I buy in Canada is…
