2012 July | Paleo Parents

Guest Post, The Paleo Mom: Gut Health For Kids

Posted by Matthew on Jul 26, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 7 comments

Today’s guest post (we’re a day late, sorry!) is by our favorite scientist, The Paleo Mom! In the wake of Stacy’s diet changes of late, we’ve been getting lots of questions about gut health and what foods to eat, especially for children. This post should answer many of your questions and help you set up your child for a life of good digestive health! Gut health is essential for overall health. A healthy digestive tract is efficient at absorbing nutrients from your food, protecting the body from foreign invaders including mounting appropriate immune responses when...

The Egg-Free Saga

Posted by Matthew on Jul 24, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 44 comments

Some of you may know from the ongoing saga on Facebook and Twitter that after going on the WTF Plan, Stacy found that she was having a strong digestive reaction daily after breakfast (which included eggs) that she hadn’t noticed before. I made her a breakfast of stirfried veggies with bacon (no eggs) and amazingly, no reaction. So, as you do with elimination diets, she decided she would be giving up eggs for the remainder of the plan in order to find what her best diet might be. Remember, as Diane Sanfilippo says in Practical Paleo (review forthcoming!), eggs have anti-nutrients,...

ZuSketti with Bacon & Roasted Tomatoes

Posted by Matthew on Jul 23, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 6 comments

[Please note, this recipe was created for The Balanced Platter and made before Stacy eliminated nightshades. If you're following her WTF plan, simply make this recipe without the tomatoes and add avocado prior to serving] When I think of summer foods, I think of the colors. Pink watermelons, violet blueberries, purple eggplant, orange cantaloupe, yellow squash, and, of course, red tomatoes and green zucchini. We are especially big fans of zucchini and use it in so many of our recipes. Readers of Eat Like a Dinosaur will remember our ZuCakes and Zucchini Latkes. Few foods are more versatile,...

Paleo Parenting: Our FREE Guide

Posted by Stacy on Jul 19, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 5 comments

So of late we’ve been getting a lot of “Getting Started” type questions. As much as we’d love to answer everyone, we’ve focused on spending more time on our own family and just can’t! While we do have a lot of information in our “Start Here” drop-down menu at the top of our site or the Paleo 101 page, there was never a one-stop place here that had EVERYTHING. Now, however, we do! If you don’t have our book, or want even more detail on the “boring chapter for grown ups” stuff in Eat Like a Dinosaur, you’ll love our new 20...

Stacy, seriously. WTF?

Posted by Stacy on Jul 16, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 60 comments

So, this post by Richard Nikoley got me thinking back when I saw it in March. It made such good sense! But I never did anything about it. I just sat by as I let pounds creep back on. I wrote a book – testing recipes had me start down a slippery slope of eating when I wasn’t hungry. Then I had the stress of publishing said book, that made me lose sleep and increase cortisol and stress. Then Wesley weaned, and I lost all the bonus calories he’d been burning for me, but my appetite didn’t change. Then I went on the cruise and ate and drank like an idiot. I came home to a...

Grilled Peach and Ginger Ice Cream

Posted by Matthew on Jul 12, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 14 comments

Disclaimer: this recipe contains sugar. If this offends you, we suggest you stop reading now. If you’re wondering why in the world we’d allow this demon into our home, here’s some information on our view of sugar. Short story: raw cane sugar isn’t going to kill us. And in small doses paired with health promoting coconut milk and ginger, we’re going to enjoy it. You, of course, could adapt this recipe with fresh ginger instead of crystallized. You decide what’s best for your family! One of Stacy’s and my favorite things to do together used to be to...

Guest Post, Healthy Living How To: Women and Weights

Posted by Matthew on Jul 11, 2012 in 2012 | 6 comments

If you haven’t yet heard, Wednesdays are our Guest Blogger Series day! It’s a day where Matt and I get a bit of a mid-week break while getting to share with you some of our favorite online bloggers. And for their hard work, they get the benefit of your readership – we encourage you to please show all of them your support by visiting their blog and social media links at the end of this post! This week our guest is Vanessa Romero from the blog Healthy Living How To! We became aware of her work after making one of her terrific recipes, but fell in love with her because of the variety of...

Panang Beef Thai Curry

Posted by Stacy on Jul 9, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 14 comments

My favorite Thai restaurant, Thai Basil, serves the greatest Panang Curry I’ve ever had. It’s slightly sweet, spicy, and full of flavor. I knew once we moved some thirty miles from Chantilly that I had to create it for home. I puzzled for years on how to do it, throwing complicated recipes around and ruining tons of perfectly good beef. Finally, I broke down and took a class with Nongkran Daks, the chef at Thai Basil. In a way, it was great to learn the secret. In another way, it was quite disheartening. Nong makes her own curry paste, you see, with lots of unique and rare Thai...

Sometimes Paleo

Posted by Matthew on Jul 6, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 38 comments

We make no secret that our desire here is to balance a “normal” life with eating the paleo diet. For us, that means adhering to the principals some 95% of the time. We’ve seen so much health improvement from the lifestyle that the decision to stick with it has become easy. Occasionally, though, for convenience or pleasure’s sake, we go off plan a bit. For example, it is much easier for me to make jerky if I don’t slice it myself. Our local butcher sources antibiotic and hormone free beef that is grain finished, but he saves me a lot of frustration by slicing meat...

Fourth of July Pinterest Round-Up

Posted by Stacy on Jul 4, 2012 in 2012 | 3 comments

I know, I know. Usually Wednesdays are guest post days, but this week we’re switching it up! Since it’s Independence Day in the United States, we’ve just decided to share all the yummy recipes we’ve found inside that fortress of wedding plans and crafting called Pinterest! Have you joined? Stacy uses it daily to pin various recipes she finds on the internet. Stumped on ideas? Well, she’s pinned something for nearly every occasion! For those of you outside the US, the Fourth of July is a holiday where we celebrate the independence of our country by blowing up a...

Favorite Things Giveaway!

Posted by Stacy on Jul 3, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 209 comments

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED, CONGRATULATIONS TO Sharmista FOR WINNING THE PURE WRAPS! I struggled with the name of this post, ultimately I feel like you’re expecting me to wave my arms around and shout “and you get a car, and you get a car, and you get a car”. Heads up: that’s not going to happen. However, we will give one of the items below away to a random commenter – see bottom of post for rules. Since we’ve been feeling hum drum Negative Nancy lately – it felt like high time to talk about some stuff we LIKE. The results are a list of our new...