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I Can’t…
What is holding you back from trying the Primal way of eating? Could you try it for just 14 days? Maybe you’ve thought about it briefly but concluded that I Can’t… Give up cereal and toast in the...
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Primalizing old Cookbooks/ Polynesian Chicken Salad
There are so many paleo/primal websites online with recipes, and quite a few paleo cookbooks at the library, so you really don’t have to buy special cookbooks if you want to start eating Real Food...
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Eat Beets!
When I was a kid, I might have eaten canned sliced beets about once a year. I started cooking with fresh beets when I learned to make borscht in 1995, but I threw away the greens, thinking that only...
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Diet Books
4 Bookshelves of Diet Books Everyone must be trying to solve the obesity problem now because there are hundreds of Diet Books available. How would anyone know where to start? Which diet to choose? Do...
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Grain-free "Breads"
I don’t encourage you to make bread substitutes all the time because I think you will continue desiring wheat bread that is now off-limits. Save these recipes for special occasions or when you have...
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Paleo Popularity
Maybe I spend way too much time clicking on random internet links but I am finding a lot of paleo websites around the web. Most of them are well designed, with articles and plenty of recipes. The...
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Nutty Bites
Nuts* seem to be in a lot of primal snacks. I just made these little Nutty Bites yesterday –they are yummy and you can eat one in two bites (or if you are like my husband, just pop the whole thing in...
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Is Paleo Even Possible?
Recently there’s been some criticism of the “paleo” diet, but it’s not so much the diet that is criticized but the name. People apparently want to condemn the whole idea of eating real food because of...
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Welcome to my new blog: It’s Primal Y’all!
Primal with a Southern Drawl After some prodding from family members to expand my blog audience, and to get rid of the boring name I called my old blog (I admit,”sandy’s check it out” was pretty blah),...
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Getting Rid of Sugar
If Mark Sisson can admit that he uses a bit of sugar in his coffee, I guess I can admit it too. (Mark said this in his comments on 1/29/09: a teaspoon a day is pretty minimal and it adds a tiny bit of...
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Milk on a Beautiful Spring Day!
azalea in front of our house Wow, spring in southwest Georgia can be beautiful. And not just because of the azaleas in bloom everywhere. Yesterday’s rain has washed the air clean, the sky today is a...
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Just a Group of Moms
Nic saw this old picture posted on his Facebook group whose members are from his hometown in New Jersey. This is a bunch of moms back in the 60s in NJ watching a little league game…notice anything...
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5 Seasons in Atlanta
What’s 5 Seasons in Atlanta? No, not an extra summer season, although summer in Atlanta sometimes seems long and hot enough to feel like a 5th season. It’s a great casual restaurant…the 5th season is...
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Azaleas in the South
The South…..where tea is sweet and accents are sweeter; summer starts in April; front porches are wide and words are long; macaroni and cheese is a vegetable; pecan pie is a staple; Y’all is the only...
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Now is the Best Time
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the next best time is Now. Oak Alley Plantation This old saying is certainly illustrated at Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana. No one knows the name of...
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Hunter/Gathers part 1
I bought a book called The Old Way…A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. Mrs Thomas lived with the Ju/wasi Bushman tribe in the Kalahari in South Africa in 1950 when she was about...
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Soup for Dessert
Occasionally it’s nice to end a meal with something special; a light, cool treat is especially welcome during the warmer months. This chilled berry soup might be just right and serving it in a pretty...
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Fresh Raw Milk
Pasteurized milk comes from cows that are probably not pasture-ized. Although milk is not on the list of approved paleo foods, some people say it’s ok to use small amounts, especially grass-fed butter...
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Farm Dinner
We enjoyed dinner at Jenny-Jack Sun Farm last night in Pine Mountain, Ga. Our CSA farmers Jenny and Chris Jackson hosted about 200 people under the trees for home-cooked country food. (CSA is...
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Primal by the Pool
Our first meal outside by the pool this year was this delicious steak salad. We had some grilled steak leftover from dinner two nights ago, so I cut it into bite-sized pieces and used it in a salad for...
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