Paleo Thanksgiving Makeover

My family is now on board with Paleo after they’ve seen with their own eyes my dramatic weight loss!  At first, it was tough going, as I had to fight temptation staring me in the face every time I opened the freezer and saw my husband’s Haagen-Dazs or my teen-aged kids chips in the pantry, […]

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What’s The Point of Paleo?

The Paleo Diet is, according to Dr. Cordain, whose opinion we should really regard most highly in this space: “based upon eating wholesome, contemporary foods from the food groups our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have thrived on during the Paleolithic era, the time period from about 2.6 million years ago to the beginning of the agricultural […]

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Sometimes the Obvious is Unspoken

Several years ago, my husband took me on a trip to Paris, when we’d first  begun dating.    One of the little places we popped into for a casual lunch served lovely fresh salads consisting of locally sourced proteins on a bed of lettuce with a simple herb dressing. My husband, fluent in French, spoke […]

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A Cupcake By Any Other Name Is Still A Cupcake

When I was vegan, I would occasionally enjoy baking a vegan cupcake for a special occasion.   Back then, while being vegan was certainly something people had at least heard of, it wasn’t nearly as popular as it is now, nor was it as easy to find restaurants, cookbooks and categorized menu items listing which […]

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