{"id":1007,"date":"2011-02-25T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2011-02-25T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T00:15:53","slug":"gone-primal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"Gone Primal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday Ryan came into my office area and said something to the effect of “I want to eat like a caveman”. Huh? So he explained that he’d been reading on different websites about Paleo<\/a>\/Primal<\/a>\/Caveman diets and found the ideas intriguing. He’d placed the books on hold at the library but he wanted to switch to eating that way now.<\/p>\n

“Okay, what’s a caveman’s diet like?”<\/p>\n

“They ate all sorts of meat, vegetables, fruits, seeds, and nuts.”<\/p>\n

“No problem”<\/p>\n

“They didn’t eat any grains, sugars, processed foods.”<\/p>\n

Red alert, Red alert! All hands to battle stations! (insert Star Trek sound clip)<\/p>\n

“No bread, no cinnamon rolls, no macaroni and cheese????!!!! You’re joking right?”<\/p>\n

“No joke, I think we should try it.”<\/p>\n

Long pause while my brain explodes. Ryan backs away into a safe zone while I start reading different web pages. Later, after I had read some of the pages I said something to the effect of\u00c2\u00a0 “okay, but I’m more interested in the Primal Blueprint than the Paleo stuff.” (Paleo cuts out all dairy too.)<\/p>\n

So we agree to work on following the Primal Blueprint’s Laws<\/a>. We both went ahead and ordered the e-book<\/a> and started reading (the price for the hardcover was just a few cents cheaper than me getting a copy on the Kindle and Ryan getting a copy for his Nook, plus no wait time!).<\/p>\n

At first we were just going to ease into it and still use up all the non-primal food in our pantry. But going no grain is hard and the idea of stringing it out with a pasta dish once a week is killing me, so we’re giving all our non-primal pantry items away.<\/p>\n

I had been planning to keep buying some of the processed foods that Xander eats– since he eats such few things— but the more I read the more I wanted him off those foods. We’ll keep the Carnation Breakfast mix for his milk but if I can start getting him to eat some real food I’ll start weaning him off it. I already found a grain free cheese cracker<\/a> recipe so hopefully I can replace his beloved Goldfish!<\/p>\n

This whole dietary switcharoo has been hard on my image of me. I see myself as a baker, I bake bread,I bake goodies. I like to do it, I like to eat it. I’ve been wanting to take a cake decorating class. So the idea of stopping eating grains– not just gluten free here, we’re talking ALL GRAINS– well, it really shook my idea of me.<\/p>\n

Then I got to thinking, I really believe that the Standard American Diet (SAD) is unhealthy and that the Primal Blueprint (PB– I swear everytime I read this acronym I see peanut butter! Which is ironic because peanuts are on the no no list) is a healthier way of eating. Instead of focusing on being sad and losing my image of\u00c2\u00a0 being a “baker” shouldn’t I focus on being happy about eating healthier. And as someone who likes to cook and bake wouldn’t I find the challenge of making yummy meals without the use of grains to be rewarding? Once I started thinking about it that way I started to feel less negative about the things I was giving up (cinnamon rolls!) and more positive about the good meals we would be having. Not just good tasting (hopefully) but now they’ll be good for us too!<\/p>\n

So I’m having fun hunting down recipes to try and we’ve had a lot of tasty meat and vegetable filled meals this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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