More Better Cauliflower Rice (Paleo Dinner #18)

This is a really tasty way to do cauliflower rice. After grating, I fried it up in ghee with bacon, onions, and mushrooms, then put some cheese on top. Served with boiled kale, and a pork chop.

 

Boring Paleo Breakfast

When I explained the Paleo diet to a colleague of mine once, she said “sounds boring to eat that way all the time.” I guess you do have to get a bit creative when so many traditional recipes rely on grains for filler, but honestly, how could I ever get sick of eating like this?

Omelet with mushrooms and Tabasco cooked in ghee, swiss chard in olive oil, and two slices of bacon.

 

White Rice Linked to Higher Risk of Type Two Diabetes

According to a new study by the Harvard School of Public Health, Americans who ate more white rice had a moderately increased risk of diabetes, but Americans who ate brown rice had a slightly lower risk. Given the glycemic load of white rice, this is hardly surprising. Just because you aren’t eating a candy bar, doesn’t mean what you’re eating doesn’t spike your blood sugar and insulin with all the attendant effects!

What I’d like to see is a study that asked the next logical question. That is, what about a diet that eliminates grains all together, but which still includes plenty of the fiber via vegetables, etc, that some are now getting from whole grains? That’s the Paleo approach at least.

 

What to eat the morning of a big ride

I’ve talked about the dangers of chronic cardio here and here. But to some extent more extended cycling is about making a few compromises with orthodox Paleo principles and the super low-carb crowd. If you are going out for a 4-5 hour ride, and are planning to cycle at above a fat-burning pace (above 75% of max heart rate), then you will need to fuel for it.

A great way to do this is to eat more potatoes, sweet potatoes, or bananas. Now, potatoes are apparently a controversial topic with the orthodox paleo zealots as suggested by the number of comments to this post by Richard Nikoley when he, gasp, suggested that he occasionally indulges. But those people aren’t out doing 5-hour semi-epic MTB rides.

In any event, here’s a breakfast that I ate before a big ride: mashed up sweet potato covered with an avocado, sardines, and a few walnuts. Hits the spot, and keeps your energy high for hours.

 

Paleo Dinner #5

This is a boring one, but an old stand-by around here: brazed chicken and salad. Hope to get a bit more creative with the recipes soon, and also get a bit more bike content on the blog. I’ve been too lazy to take photos on the rides I’ve been doing for the last couple of weeks.

And to answer a question that came up yesterday, the food pics are all things we’ve cooked right here in my house, not photos lifted from somewhere else on the web!

 

Paleo Dinner #4

Here’s the second recipe from the Primal Blueprint Cookbook: Bacon Bison chili. It’s fantastic. Salad with walnuts and apple wasn’t bad either.

 

Paleo Dinner #3

This is the first recipe we have made from Mark Sisson’s new Primal Blueprint Cookbook. The book is highly recommend by the way, since for a lot of people cutting out grains, pasta, bread, etc, means you need to re-learn how to cook. Tonight was soup and salad night.

Soup: Chicken Coconut Soup. Lots of herbs, lots of coconut milk. Hard to go wrong.

Salad: Arugula, cheese, raisins, etc.

Wine: Too indecent to feature here.

Coming next: Bison Bacon Chili.

 

Sugary Drinks

Many of us wouldn’t think about eating 4-5 ice cream sandwiches or double fisting two seven-oz canisters of whipped cream, but what about a Snapple “Antioxidant Water” or a bottled green tea? These sounds healthful, right?

Men’s Health has a great photo series comparing sugary drinks to their sugary junk-food equivalent:

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Ever wonder why 1 in 10 heath care dollars in this country is spent on diabetes?

 

Paleo Breakfast #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

I eat this almost every day, so it may be the last breakfast picture ever.

Two egg omelet (free range, omega 3, etc, etc) with onions and mushrooms fried in ghee. Add a little avocado and Tabasco on top, and you are set:

 

The Seven Foods Experts Won’t Eat

The more you read about toxic industrial food, the more you wonder why any of this should be surprising. We douse everything we eat with poisonous chemicals designed to destroy life, but tell ourselves its OK because our corrupt government has certified them as safe.

What’s wrong with our food production system when farmers themselves will not eat the food they grow for market (as described below)? Just think about that for a second.

Eat real food folks.

4. Nonorganic Potatoes

The expert: Jeffrey Moyer, chair of the National Organic Standards Board

The problem: Root vegetables absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides that wind up in soil. In the case of potatoes—the nation’s most popular vegetable—they’re treated with fungicides during the growing season, then sprayed with herbicides to kill off the fibrous vines before harvesting. After they’re dug up, the potatoes are treated yet again to prevent them from sprouting. “Try this experiment: Buy a conventional potato in a store, and try to get it to sprout. It won’t,” says Moyer, who is also farm director of the Rodale Institute (also owned by Rodale Inc., the publisher of Prevention). “I’ve talked with potato growers who say point-blank they would never eat the potatoes they sell. They have separate plots where they grow potatoes for themselves without all the chemicals.”

The solution: Buy organic potatoes. Washing isn’t good enough if you’re trying to remove chemicals that have been absorbed into the flesh.

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