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Look Ma, We’re On TV!

Posted by Stacy on May 6, 2013 in 2013, Featured | 8 comments

In the midst of everything else we had going on the last few weeks, we got a request from a local news team for an interview about our family’s experience with Paleo. Of course, we were thrilled to help spread our positive thoughts on how real food can affect a family! It’s our hope that other families watching their morning news would be inspired to give paleo a try if it means not just losing weight, but drastically improving health too. So we (nervously) invited a news crew with bright lights and a big camera into our home for a few hours to hang out and watch us prepare a...

ELaD’s Frozen Waffles and other Naturally Green St. Patrick’s Day Recipes

Posted by Stacy on Mar 14, 2013 in 2013, ELaD, Featured | 27 comments

There are a few recipes in our first cookbook, Eat Like a Dinosaur, that we’re asked to share. A lot. Like, at least once a week someone wants to publish (or wants us to publish) on the web some of our most popular recipes from ELaD: Fools Gold Chicken Nuggets, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Rat on a Stick, Anytime Cookies, 50/50 Burgers and Frozen Waffles. Until now, only 50/50 Burgers were on our site. We’re not trying to be mean, but if we don’t hold some recipes hostage you guys would have no incentive to actually buy a book. And frankly we think 1) kids deserve a tangible...

Last Minute Recipes Perfect for Game Day

Posted by Stacy on Jan 31, 2013 in 2012 | 1 comment

Calling all Paleo people! We’ve been nominated for Best Family & Kid Blog over at The Kitchn. If you enjoy our blog, please click the link and vote for us! We’d LOVE your vote – it helps spread the general idea that paleo can be done with a family in a healthful way! Such an honor ♥ If you, like me, JUST realized you have a party (or in my case two) to go to this weekend for The Big Game, then you’re likely scrambling to put something, anything together. Or maybe, even worse, you’re considering “treating” yourself because you just finished a new...

Thanksgiving Leftovers Brussels Sprouts Frittata

Posted by Stacy on Nov 24, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 4 comments

I don’t know about you, but my fridge is overflowing with leftovers from hosting Thanksgiving. Yesterday we had cold turkey meat dipped in mayo and a sweet potato biscuit on our way out the door to catch sales (p.s. thanks to Black Friday sales, Athleta is my new obsession). Since this morning was my family’s last day visiting I wanted to make a nice brunch. I opened my fridge to figure out what I could make and had a ton of storage containers stare back at me. I found most of a bag of fresh cranberries sitting there, waiting to be used. My mom has gone strictly gluten-free and is...

Paleo-Vegan Thanksgiving, take 2

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

If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you know that we like to host holiday meals. Not only is it easier to not have to lug the kids around town on a holiday, but it ensures we can eat the food! Only complication is, and you already know this if you’ve been reading our blog for a while, my brother is a vegan. Don’t worry, I won the war and my ex-vegetarian mother is now primal ♥ Out of respect for him and because we want to treat him the same way we appreciate being treated, we attempt to make as many dishes as we can be vegan. Since we’re dairy-free,...

Samoa Brownies

Posted by Matthew on Jun 12, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 28 comments

You know our good friend and illustrator, Amanda Gates, right? She’s been a tremendous help to us both on the website and as the artistic half of the Eat Like a Dinosaur design team (with Stacy). So when she asked for the Samoa Cake Balls from ELaD for her birthday, we really wanted to make them for her. Only one problem: cake balls are an incredibly long and involved process that we simply didn’t have the time for. So, we decided to try something else. A brownie version! Would you like a Samoa Brownie that may, in fact, have less sweetener but taste just as good? Samoa...

CrossFit Capital Games of 2012

Posted by Matthew on Apr 23, 2012 in 2012 | 2 comments

One of the many perks of running this blog is meeting lots of interesting people. Some of them are totally awesome, but normal people with interesting tales to tell (some of those people can be found telling their amazing stories here!). Two of the coolest people we’ve met are the married owners of the mega awesome and DC area’s largest MMA and Crossfit schools. About three years ago I started occasionally going to local amateur MMA events out in Loudoun County because I enjoy the sport and there’s something really exciting about seeing dudes competing only for the love and...

Release Month Is Over!

Posted by Stacy on Apr 12, 2012 in 2012 | 5 comments

Well, we made it through what was perhaps the most busy month of our lives and have reached the end of the insane marketing blitz for Eat Like a Dinosaur! We hope that everyone who wanted a copy got one and that you have been rewarded for your support with a genuinely halfway decent book! It’s been quite a journey for us, from wild and crazy ideas tossed back and forth in bed to insane cooking days ending in late night bleary-eyed editing to finally having a book of our own on bookshelves. You have no idea how grateful we are to have a book for our children, and how grateful we are for...

A Real True Blog Update: Our Life (Again)!

Posted by Stacy on Apr 5, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 11 comments

It’s April! Matt and I are breathing for the first time since February. We had a few things going on… if you hadn’t heard. Last week was Finian’s birthday (who let him be FOUR). He asked for a chocolate chip fudge cake, “hanglers”, “mock-a-mole” and a few toys. He’s pretty easy to accommodate! Before you ask, there will be no recipe for this insane cake. The cake was Elana’s vanilla cake recipe (with a few substitutions), our icing recipe (without spices), topped with chocolate chips and Enjoy Life chunks and the fudge sauce...

More ELaD Kindness to Share

Posted by Matthew on Mar 29, 2012 in 2012 | 2 comments

We are so grateful! The past week has been quite the whirlwind! We are so humbled that so many of you have enjoyed our book and have found it to be useful in your homes. Without the support of you guys, we’d never have made it this far! Just to remind you, if you find our book helpful, a review on Barnes and Noble and Amazon would be extremely helpful! The more people that see great positive reviews of our book, the more people will find it, use it, and change the lives of their family members! We truly believe in the transformative power of ancestral health, paleo, primal, whatever you...

Pay It Forward: The Last ELaD Giveaway

Posted by Stacy on Mar 26, 2012 in 2012 | 53 comments

News Flash: super stealth announcement at the end of this post! So we’ve done quite a few giveaways this month, in celebration of our newly released book – Eat Like a Dinosaur. If you recall, first we gave away items that had inspired us in writing the book. Next, we gave away some of the items we use in the book and on the site to get kids excited. Then we teamed up with Honeyville, US Wellness Meats and Tropical Traditions for a lucky person to eat through the book. And now, we announce the winner (Shelly Richardson) for the tools we used to cook through the...

Our World is Upside Down (Another ELaD Recap)

Posted by Matthew on Mar 22, 2012 in 2012 | 10 comments

The T-Rex has landed! We did it! We made it to the release date of the best book we’ve ever written, Eat Like a Dinosaur! We went to our local bookstore on Tuesday and got to find it on the shelf and everything! Most of you who pre-ordered from Barnes and Noble and Amazon probably received yours already.Those of you who ordered Tuesday may get them tomorrow. If you are enthusiastic about our book and would like to support our efforts, a positive review on either or both of those sites will definitely help. Sharing with others and spreading the word is also awesome. By the way, those of...