What to eat
May 23rd, 2009
Paleo friendly tacos pic from Eat. Move. Thrive!
I know the title of this post is a little vague, but I’ve had a few people ask for some recipe ideas and I promised I would post some resources. As part of CrossFit’s “World Class Fitness in 100 Words” we recommend eating meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. So how do we go about doing this? Here are some sites to check out:
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Great articles and a bunch of free recipes at the bottom right of the page. She also has other websites and recipe books you can buy.
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The Performance Menu’s chef, Scott Hagnas has a few free recipes listed here. You can get more if you subscribe to the Performance Menu online journal.
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This blog hasn’t been updated in a while, but still has a lot of great recipes.
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Lots of tasty recipes, updated with new ideas.
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Extensive collection of paleo recipes using meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, nuts and berries.
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Dr. Loren Cordain’s site, includes info, tools and recipes.
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If you’re new to this, try not to get overwhelmed by all this information and just remember to eat real food… and more importantly, enjoy it!
Categories: nutrition
Feel free to post favourite paleo recipes to comments. My favourite paleo treats:
- celery or apples or pears with cashew/macadamia/almond butter
- coconut milk with berries chilled in the fridge or freezer
- chocolate balls (I mix about 1 cup almond butter or other nut butter with 1 cup raw organic cocoa powder with 1 cup coconut and/or almond meal, and add just enough raw honey to sweeten (I add about one tablespoon) – it’s extra good if you replace some of the almond butter with actual butter, then just roll it into little balls and put the in the fridge or freezer to harden)
It’s a great idea to put a recipe index on the site
I actually tried the chocolate ball recipe on Son of Grok’s website tonight. Except I added ground dried chipotle pepper and cinnamon instead of nuts and used stevia to sweeten it (how primal is stevia?) I was too lazy to make individual balls so I spread it on some parchment paper and threw it in the freezer and then it ends up as little chunks, way less labour intensive 
I like spicy food and these seem to be a good balance of heat and chocolate.
Hey Kim, good call on Son of Grok, should have included it in the list, along with Mark’s Daily Apple.
http://www.sonofgrok.com/
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/
About the stevia, it seems the jury’s still out. It’s a leaf so I guess it qualifies as paleo/primal, and many sources say it won’t impact your blood sugar but Rob Wolff mentioned at the CrossFit Nutrition Cert that the body registers it as sweet and therefore reacts to it just as it would sugar. I use it occasionally and try to get the least refined version.
…mmm…chipotle & chocolate; match made in heaven… How did it turn out?
That’s what I thought about the stevia, but I never use more than half a TBS so I think I’m ok, if I ever make it through the container I have I won’t replace it, but by then I might be able to stomach 100% cocoa chocolate…
The chocolate turned out pretty good, the amount of heat and sweet still needs tweaking though (I added some cayenne pepper and that flavor is stronger in the cooled chocolate).
Does anyone have a good way to mill almonds into flour? (I’m looking for a finer grind than my food processor) I’m going to check out nut grinder but it just looks like a bigger coffee grinder… so probably still not fine enough.
I was trying to chop some almond slivers a bit finer with a Magic Bullet blender and ended up making “almond flour” so that might work for you Kimberly. This little machine is actually a good blender for making smoothies etc. as well and it’s cheap.
@Kimberly
Have you tried using a coffee bean grinder? I haven’t tried it myself but it might work.
Never tried the coffee grinder, but I have a cheap blender and it works pretty well for making any kind of nut flower. The bigger hassle is blanching the almonds if you don’t like the texture of the skin as part of your flour. I think it’s probably just as cheap to buy the almond flour than to make it though…
Where do you get cheap Almond flour? It’s usually about three times as much as the raw almonds from superstore (.99/100 g, but on sale this week!) I’ve used a coffee grinder and I get a finer grind but it takes forever to get enough to cook with and I find it turns to butter faster. I looked online and they have flour mills that look like meat grinders…and what could be more primal than turning a hand-crank to get a fine flour
I talked to someone at the Happy Cooker and he sent me to a restaurant supplier, I’m going to follow that up and post what I find. If not, I might give that magic bullet a try, thanks.
Oh and I didn’t sweeten with stevia, it was agave nectar (I was reading recipes and typing at the same time, oops). Any opinions regarding agave as a sweetener?