Paleo Recipes That Aren’t

I just came across a Pinterest page entitled Healthy Paleo Snacks and Treats.  Of course, I had to take a peek. And, of course, many of the recipes were just…not. A few in particular that stood out:  Guilt-Free Ice Cream! Just 3 ingredients: frozen bananas, peanut butter, and cocoa powder (peanut butter?) 1/2 cup peanut […]

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Healthy School Lunches- Forever An Oxymoron?

I certainly hope not. But there’s clearly a lot of work that needs to be done. Just this past week, I had an opportunity to speak at length with a woman who teaches kindergarten at one of New York City’s Public Schools. She commented that yes, there are vegetables offered, but they’re so horribly prepared […]

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Salads Aren’t Just for Starters

Who ever said a salad had to be little, boring and not remotely filling? The joke that salads are the equivalent of ‘rabbit food’ usually comes to a screeching halt when I have guests for dinner.   I don’t do anything that I’d call too fancy; rather, I just let my creative cooking mind guide […]

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Meat Quality and Paleo

One very, very important distinction about the True Paleo regime is the source, and subsequent quality, of our proteins. Fresh, wild salmon and packaged, smoked salmon are not interchangeable.  Nor are the occasional serving of uncured bacon from pastured pork and the Oscar Meyer’s shrink-wrapped, sodium nitrate and nitrite-rich variety. And when we get into […]

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