TPV Episode 30 Show Notes: Basic Paleo FAQ

March 15, 2013 in Show Notes

Our thirtieth show!
Ep. 30: Basic Paleo FAQ

In this episode, Stacy and Sarah tackle a variety of questions that seem to come up all the time and definitively answer them for you. Can you eat quinoa? Can you do paleo as a vegetarian, or without grass fed meat? And what about pork? Is it inherently unhealthy like the Weston A. Price Foundation claims? Find out these answers and more this week!

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The Paleo View (TPV), Episode 30: Basic Paleo FAQ

0:00 – Introduction
1:19 – News & Views
- Beyond Bacon is done!
- Aimee, the genius
- Thanks for the feedback, Primal Palate and Primal Toad!
- The Eastern Market on Capitol Hill
- The National Zoo
- The Paleo Approach is going to be huge!
17:10 – Science with Sarah: Is stevia a good sugar substitute?
- Mark has a good review of Preemptive Insulin Release and says, essentially, maybe.
- Sarah on stevia
28:54 – Q&A
- Can I eat gluten-free pasta or rice on paleo?
  - Rice is a “Safe Starch” according to the Perfect Health Diet, but not a paleo or primal choice
- 32:57 – Will paleo help with anxiety, panic attacks, and depression? Can I eat quinoa?
  - All three of us had issues with anxiety and depression, much improved with a clean diet!
  - Quinoa is still found on Paleo Parents, even though we haven’t eaten it in years now.
  - Saponins
- 39:46 – Can I eat Advocare Spark ok to drink? Can you eat roasted and salted pistachios?
  - Blemish Serum from Primal Life Organics
  - Advocare Spark seems okay, but wouldn’t you rather get vitamins and minerals from food?
  - Caffeine is problematic from Sarah
- 46:13 – Chestnut Flour
  - Chestnut flour
- 47:44 – What coconut oil does not have a strong coconut taste?
  - Green Label coconut oil
  - Yes, Stacy is mistaken about olive oil. Extra Virgin is extra virgin because not only has it not gotten pressed yet, but when you do press it you do it once and you treat it super gentle.
  - Spectrum coconut oil
- 53:11 – My coconut oil is setting off the smoke alarm.
  - Smoke points, very important! Particularly the virgin coconut oil, the expeller-pressed and refined has a higher smoke point
- 56:06 – Is Kombucha too acidic to have microbial life?
  - Sarah just used GT’s Original to make her SCOBY. How could she have done that if it was dead?
- 1:00:38 – What coconut milk do you use? What do you look for to avoid? Anything wrong with unsweetened baker’s chocolate?
  - Stacy, London, Ontario is a medium sized city in Canada, about midway between Buffalo and Detroit. It’s about the population of Wichita, Kansas and a metropolitan area population of Lansing, Michigan.
  - Yeah, we did use Baker’s Brand Unsweetened Chocolate!
  - Check out Stacy’s bundle of gourmet chocolate on Chocosphere (The Paleo Bag almost at the end of the page)!
  - Natural Value
  - Arroy-D
  - When Natural Value was out of stock, we used Chaokoh, although it is likely a source of Biphenol-A
  - And there’s Thai Kitchen that you will find in most grocers. It has both guar gum and Biphenol-A
- 1:08:19 – What do you use for ketchup?
  - There is Ten Tomato Ketchup, a personal triumph for me, in Eat Like a Dinosaur. REMEMBER TO REMOVE THE SEEDS!
  - Fermented Ketchup
- 1:11:19 – Can you slow cook or pressure cook bone broth?
  - Nom Nom Paleo using a pressure cooker
  - Instapot. This thing looks crazy.
- 1:15:33 – What is the problem with eggs from chickens that eat wheat? What about meat?
  - Study on soy proteins transferring to eggs
- 1:22:12 – Can you do paleo without grassfed meat?
  - Robb Wolf’s article
  - Paleo Perfectionism by Balanced Bites
- 1:23:40 – Can you be a vegetarian and paleo? How was it reintroducing meat?
  - So at least one blog claims to be vegetarian paleo
  - A good article about vegetarian paleo from Paleo Plan
- 1:27:58 – Is pork safe to eat?
  - Stacy is forgetting the word trichinosis caused by the worm trichina
  - USDA cooking standards for pork
  - CDC on the incidence of trichinosis in US
  - She means medium-rare or medium at 145 degrees internal temperature.
  - The terrible “live blood analysis” study published in Wise Traditions. Why would you ever publish this?
- 1:35:08 – Is there a good book on dehydrator recipes?
  - Eat Like a Dinosaur has three jerky recipes and a few fruit recipes as well
  - As for dehydrator books, making no claims about level of paleo compliance, this one and this one are the highest reviewed
- 1:40:39 – What do you eat in place of FCLO?
  - Okay, seriously, look at liver’s nutritional value compared with the nutritional value of a steak
  - Sun Exposure by Sarah
1:46:37 Outro

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Celebrating Another Milestone with My Oldest Daughter

December 6, 2012 in 2012

Many of you will recall from various posts in the past that my oldest daughter doesn’t like to eat meat (see Challenge #2: My Kids, Why I Cater To My Kids, Challenge #2 Update: My Still Spirited but Much Healthier Kids). Through a series of events (sensory issues, severe reflux, undiagnosed gluten intolerance, being on doctor’s orders to fatten her up because she was so dangerously thin at 1-year old, catering to her desire for soft foods just to get her to eat), my daughter never really developed the jaw strength or muscle coordination to chew meat properly. We’ve been working on this slowly over the last year of eating paleo in our home.

We changed our strategy in the early part of this year (see Towing a Harder Line with My Kids). We went from completely catering to my daughter’s food preferences to feeding her a meal that was much closer to what the rest of the family was eating (I always make sure to have fruit and vegetables on her plate that she likes). And, we started making it a rule that she had to eat a reasonable amount of meat at every meal (well, eggs at breakfast and something like 1-2oz of meat at other meals).

I go to great efforts to make delicious food, to keep my daughter’s flavor preferences in mind, to remember that chewing is hard for her, that food texture can be overwhelming for her. Even still, we have generally found that most meals were a battle, the intensity of which varied depending on the meal, how tired my daughter was, how stressed my husband I were, and whether or not we had any bribery power on that specific day. We have seen slow (S-L-O-W) improvement though. My daughter went from only eating Paleo Chicken Fingers and maybe some types of fish with minimal harassing (it still would take her an hour to slowly pick at it before she had eaten it all) to the huge milestone we hit just this week. My daughter announced that she likes steak!

Yesterday was leftover night in our home. I asked my daughter if she would prefer leftover Paleo Chicken Fingers or leftover Simple Broiled Pork Chops. She chose pork chop! It still takes her a long time to eat and she still needs some gentle reminders to take another bite (and another and another), but we haven’t had a battle over dinner in over a week. A whole week! Best of all, she is finally getting at least some enjoyment out of foods that require chewing!

Getting my daughter to eat quality proteins has helped in many other ways too. She is stronger, has more energy, sleeps better, behaves better (this all may be related to getting gluten and most dairy out of her diet as well, although we successfully went gluten free a couple of months before implementing the “meat-eating plan”). I often lament not knowing any better when she was born, when we started her on rice cereal and she became chronically constipated, when I didn’t look at my diet when she was extremely colicky (for a whole year!) and would projectile spit-up (and continued to spit-up until she was over 3-years old!), when she didn’t start sleeping through the night until she was 3.5-years old and when she started having tantrums at 9 months old. I don’t know how much might have been different if I had had a better diet through pregnancy and nursing and fed her better foods in those early years. Mommy guilt is tough to get over, but I do try not to think about that too much. Instead, I try to appreciate just how far we’ve come and be thankful that I did figure it out when I did. Vive la paleo!

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It’s My Birthday Today So Why Not Celebrate with a Giveaway?!

November 17, 2012 in 2012

It’s my birthday today. The big three six. It’s a neat number because it’s how old my grandmother was for years and years and years. I even remember as a kid that she was 36-years old. I guess she got to 36 and decided that enough was enough. Either that or it was early dementia that took another 50 years to manifest completely. Funnily enough, my mother skipped 36 completely. The whole year she was 36 years old, she thought she was 37. I remember figuring out the math with her on her 37^th birthday and how funny it was for her to realize she’s spent an entire year believing she was a year older than she actually was (those kinds of things are hysterically funny to teenagers). So here I am. Thirty-six. Not quite sure how I feel about it. The math geek in me thinks it’s cool that 36 has so many denominators. Oh, and being three dozen is kinda cool. I think I will both be 36 for a year and also limit it to one year (but I totally reserve the right to change my mind a year from now!).

What am I doing to celebrate my birthday? I will go to the Farmer’s Market this morning and stock up on vegetables for Thanksgiving Dinner. I am playing with a new cake recipe. The first attempt was pretty darned tasty, so I’m very optimistic that a few tweaks will yield a pretty great birthday cake. I will spend a good part of the day preparing for my daughter’s birthday tomorrow (she’s going to be THREE! And as a quick aside, yes I got to labor the entire day on my birthday and then the little monkey had the nerve to be born at 3am the next day). So, this afternoon I will be baking my own cake and also cupcakes for her birthday party tomorrow. I enjoy baking, so this isn’t a hardship. I am going to barbecue some grass-fed New York striploin steaks that I bought from Tropical Traditions (on sale for 60% off!) for dinner. And then my husband and I are actually going to go to a movie tonight since my mother-in-law is visiting and can babysit. What better way to celebrate a birthday than with a little shirtless Daniel Craig!

What else am I doing to celebrate my birthday? Why another giveaway of course! I had so much fun celebrating my blog anniversary with a week of giveaways, that I decided I should do another one for my birthday! So, if you missed out a couple of weeks ago, here’s another one for you to enter!

To celebrate my birthday, I am giving away:

A copy of Practical Paleo by Diane Sanfilippo
A $25 Gift Certificate to Massa Natural Meats
A jar of NaturAlmond Almond Butter
A $50 Gift Certificate to Tropical Traditions
(This giveaway only applies to US residents, but I’ll try and make the next giveaway international)

In case you missed my Week of Giveaways and these products are not ones you are familiar with, here’s a recap:

Practical Paleo by Diane Sanfilippo of Balanced Bites fame is my all-time favorite paleo resource book. You can read my review of this masterpiece here. There’s a reason this book has been on the New York Times Bestseller list for the last 5 weeks straight!

Massa Natural Meats is a family-owned and operated farm raising purely grass-fed beef in the valley and foothills of Northern California. Massa Natural Meats and the Massa Ranch in rural Glenn County is an active participant in numerous conservation efforts geared towards agricultural sustainability. For large orders (i.e.: 1/4 or 1/2 beef) that are going to be shipped a long distance, Massa Natural Meats is now able to ship “airport to airport” via airline at VERY reasonable rates. They do not have a minimum purchase of any sort and are now offering free shipping for “by the cut” orders over $100 with code “FreeShip100″. This gift certificate can be used toward your meat order and/or shipping expenses.

NaturAlmond is a family-owned small food business based in Atlanta, GA that makes the best almond butter I’ve ever tasted. It’s crazy good! NaturAlmond hand selects the highest quality of almonds from California. Their almond butter is handcrafted in small batches to ensure freshness and flavor. By slow roasting the almonds, the essential oils are released to maximize the taste and then ground to the ideal consistency. A touch of natural sea salt is then added to each batch. By not outsourcing production, they personally monitor each step in the process and guarantee quality in a peanut free environment.

I love Tropical Traditions. The only coconut oil I buy their Gold Label Coconut Oil (organic, virgin), but I also buy shredded coconut, coconut chips, coconut cream concentrate, red palm oil, palm shortening, and various household cleaners (I especially like their multipurpose cleaner, hand sanitizer, and liquid hand soap). They also carry a ton of baking supplies, including spices. I also buy their grass-fed beef, bison, lamb and chicken. Tropical Traditions is a family-owned business that puts quality, sustainability, and ethics first. They have a strong commitment to family farming and organic standards.

I would like to thank Diane Sanfilippo, Massa Natural Meat and NaturAlmond for sponsoring this giveaway. You guys rock!

To enter this giveaway, please:

1. Check out Diane Sanfilippo’s awesome website www.BalancedBites.com, listen to the Balanced Bites podcast, like her Facebook and/or follow her Twitter.

2. Check out Massa Natural Meats’ website and/or like them on Facebook.

3. Check out NaturAlmond’s website and/or like them on Facebook.

4. Connect/share/support me somehow! Here are some ideas:

Like me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter or Pinterest, or subscribe to my RSS Feed (to get my posts e-mailed to you).
Share my blog with your friends, however you want to accomplish that (Facebook share, tweet, pin, call them on the phone, send an e-mail, mention it in person… you decide!)
Support me by linking through the links on the sidebar of my page any time you make a purchase from Amazon, Tropical Traditions or US Wellness Meats (you don’t need to buy the item you link from with any of these sellers).
Support me by buying and wearing The Paleo Mom swag.
Support me by making a donation of any amount through Paypal.

Now, simply comment on this post and let me know that you would love to win! A winner will be chosen at random from the commenters below. Don’t forget to include your email address so I can contact the winner!

This contest is now closed.

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Celebrating My Blog Anniversary with a Week of Giveaways!

November 2, 2012 in Giveaways

Giveaway #5: $75 Gift Certificate to Tropical Traditions AND $25 Gift Certificate to Massa Natural Meats!

This week marks one full year since the beginning of my blogging adventure. So, to celebrate one year of blogging, I am doing a whole week of giveaways! That’s right. Every day this week, I am doing new giveaway every single day! This is a way for me to say thank you to you for all of your support! I also get to share some of my favorite products, books and more! Today’s giveaway is co-sponsored Massa Natural Meats and by me!

It’s no surprise that I love love love Tropical Traditions. The only coconut oil I buy their Gold Label Coconut Oil (organic, virgin), but I also buy shredded coconut, coconut chips, coconut cream concentrate, red palm oil, palm shortening, and various household cleaners (I especially like their multipurpose cleaner, hand sanitizer, and liquid hand soap). They also carry a ton of baking supplies, including spices. I also buy their grass-fed beef, bison, and lamb (and have just ordered some chicken to try for the first time).

Tropical Traditions is a family-owned business that puts quality, sustainability, and ethics first. They have a strong commitment to family farming and organic standards. Of the dozens of Tropical Traditions products that I have tried, only two have I not thoroughly loved (and because I know you are wondering, the two are the deodorant which did not work for me and the glass cleaner which is okay but not fantastic). They are my only source for coconut and palm products and one of the places I buy a good portion of my grass-fed and pastured meat from (along with two local farmers and US Wellness Meats).

I am going to share my love of Tropical Traditions with you! So, for giveaway # 5 of my week of giveaways, I am giving a:

$75 Gift Certificate to Tropical Traditions
(cannot be combined with free shipping offers or other coupons)
Only valid for US residents

But that is not all! Massa Natural Meats is also contributing a:

$25 gift certificate to Massa Natural Meats
(this can be combined with online coupons and used toward shipping)
Only valid for US residenst

This gift certificate can be used toward any order (you could buy a couple of pounds of grass-fed ground beef or a quarter cow) and you can even use it toward shipping!

Massa Natural Meats is a family-owned and operated farm raising purely grass-fed beef in the valley and foothills of Northern California. Massa Natural Meats and the Massa Ranch in rural Glenn County is an active participant in numerous conservation efforts geared towards agricultural sustainability. They are actively converting water wells to solar power, provide additional habitat for wildlife, and are currently embarking on a project with the Xerces Society to propagate wildflowers in a effort to recover native pollinator species (see their blog post).

For large orders (i.e.: 1/4 or 1/2 beef) that are going to be shipped a long distance, Massa Natural Meats is now able to ship “air port to air port” via airline at VERY reasonable rates. They do not have a minimum purchase of any sort and are now offering free shipping for “by the cut” orders over $100 with code “FreeShip100″.

To enter this giveaway, please:

1. Check out Massa Natural Meats’ website or like them on Facebook.

AND

2. Connect/share/support me somehow! Here are some ideas:

Like me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter or Pinterest, or subscribe to my RSS Feed (to get my posts e-mailed to you).
Share my blog with your friends, however you want to accomplish that (Facebook share, tweet, pin, call them on the phone, send an e-mail, mention it in person… you decide!)
Support me by linking through the links on the sidebar of my page any time you make a purchase from Amazon, Tropical Traditions or US Wellness Meats (you don’t need to buy the item you link from with any of these sellers).
Support me by buying and wearing The Paleo Mom swag.
Support me by making a donation of any amount through Paypal.