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We have a lot of interest in Paleo.  Several members have already begun their 100-day challenge.  Others will be starting this weekend.  There are many recipes and Web site links being shared via email and by word of mouth at The Boneyard.  We decided to create a post that can be the go-to post for recipes and resources.  Resources include book titles, articles, Web sites, blogs, etc.  We may eventually compile all of these and place them on our Nutrition page.

Some of you are finding good recipes that are gluten-free but may include a non-Paleo ingredient.  Some of the condiments, sauces, marinades, dressings, etc. in a lot of non-Paleo recipes can be substituted or left out altogether.  Feel free to post these recipes and resources anyway.  Not all of our members are doing Paleo.  Gluten-free meals are certainly better than a lot of the alternatives.

If you are participating in our 100-day Nutrition Challenge, you should begin your first week sometime before next Sunday, January 10.  During the first week of the challenge you will be striving to eat Paleo breakfasts all week.  People often ask, “If I can’t eat bread, oatmeal, or cereal for breakfast, what can I eat!?”  You may eat any number of the millions of combinations of meat, veggies, fruit, and tree nuts.  Check out the links below and search for more breakfast ideas and recipes using the key terms “Paleo + breakfast recipes.”  If you find a recipe and like the result, please share it with us.

eHow’s Paleo Diet Breakfast

5 Simple & Tasty Breakfast Recipes

29 Paleo Breakfast Recipes by LaLanne Fitness

Who says you have to eat breakfast at breakfast?  David and Jennie ate this for dinner tonight and it was de-li-cious!

If you do not have time to prepare a meal in the morning, you can grab food and go.  Example:  boiled eggs, a banana, and some almond butter.  Or try preparing an egg casserole the night before.  David and Jennie are reheating and eating the egg casserole (pictured below) containing chicken sausage with sheep casings, broccoli, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, and garlic….[1 hour in the oven at 350 degrees] that Jennie cooked tonight for breakfast in the morning.  Yum, yum!

Processed food link to depression: research

Processed food can depress your metabolism, immune system, sex drive, and life expectancy.  Now add your mood to the list of things processed foods depress.  If you are thinking that you’ll just pop a Prozac the next time you eat a donut and you will be fine, please reconsider or you will have to pop a dozen more pills to treat the side effects of common anti-depressants.

Disclaimer:  Major depression is serious and should be treated.  Some foods are too dang good to never eat.  But, if you are eating bad foods more times than not, try changing your diet for 30 days.  You will be amazed how much better you will feel.

The McDonald’s french fry’s resistance to decay is disturbing.  If mold and bacteria in our environment cannot put a dent in these things, how is our digestive system supposed to process these foods in any beneficial way.  I always wondered why the lost french fry I would find under my car seat at least several weeks after I last ate fast food looked liked it could still be eaten.  In my opinion, you would be better off eating food that rots – it is natural.  🙂

– David