Tahini is made from ground sesame seeds and has an almond butter consistency. It’s great eaten straight from the jar – aren’t all spreadable fats? – but also makes a great dressing. The dressing can be used on salads, poured over eggs, as a marinade for meats, or tossed with veggies.
Tahini Dressing:
1/3 cup tahini
1/3 cup [...]
It’s been slighly longer than one month since I started the Paleo Challenge. I’m by no means an expert but here are my thoughts so far:
1. This way of eating requires FAR less mental energy compared to Zone eating. No weighing, measuring, or eyeballing Zone blocks when I go out to eat. No math. Eating [...]
Paleo Challenge improving sleep quality.
Two weeks down/two weeks to go. I’m feeling great and haven’t had ANY blips in the program.
Performance, energy, and mood was great over the past week. Weighed myself for the first time in two weeks and I haven’t gained or lost a pound which I find odd for the following reasons:
1. Over the past [...]
As mentioned in an earlier post, I started the Paleo Challenge last week and kept a log on paper. I posted some of my first week’s log entries to this blog.
It’s now been 11 days since I started the Paleo Challenge. The first few days were difficult. The cravings were not horrendous but my body [...]
Cruised through day four…
7:30 – breakfast, 1 grapefruit, 1 avocado, 3oz. Turkey
coffee, lots of water
11:00 – hungry
1:00 – spaghetti squash w/ marinara, beef meatballs, 20ish almonds
4:00 – 2 oz chicken, 1 apricot dried, 3 spoons of salsa, ½ avocado, 1 spoonful directly into mouth of almond butter
7:00 – 5 oz. Chicken and beef, ½ C [...]
Paleo influence?
“Eat a donut people, you need sugar!”
I recently decided to take on a one month Paleo Challenge.