Holiday Tip # 2: Treats As Gifts

Thinking about homemade goodies for presents?   One reader wrote in with a great suggestion for a blog topic.  Being an avid baker and cook, she used to spend hours on end preparing goodies filled with love, but also with sugar, gluten and dairy, for friends and family. Now that she’s been Paleo for nearly […]

Read More

Apple Pie Alternative

Apple pie is one of the easiest things to re-create, Paleo style. Yes, there are those who absolutely love the crust, but if you really think about it, the crust doesn’t do much to bring out the flavors of the apples or the spices that are such an important part of the dished that grace […]

Read More

Sweet Potato Casserole?

Oh, dear.   There’s always that one dish that our dear old auntie had to bring to the Thanksgiving table:   the sweet potato casserole topped with marshmallows. Can it be saved? Or better, replaced? Absolutely. Using mashed yam (just bake in water until soft, cool and the skin will slide right off, then mash […]

Read More

Frozen Yogurt for Lunch?

The other day while out running errands, I came across two different women in two different places doing the same thing:  eating a large vat of frozen yogurt as their lunch.  Both happened to be having conversations with people about what they were eating, which I overhead, partly because they were both in very close […]

Read More