47 Great Paleo Drinks Recipes

Post by Lucha: World traveler, culinary student and Media Director at Paleo Flourish Magazine. Lucha will try most food but prefers Indian, Thai and Mexican food above all else. She is currently either cooking, eating, grocery shopping or browsing recipes on Pinterest.

Whether it’s a refreshing cool-down or a winter warming up that you’re in need of, this list of Paleo drink recipes has it all: smoothies, coffees, cocoas, teas (including iced teas), infused waters, juices and more!!

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Our Favorite Paleo Christmas Recipes

Post by Lucha: World traveler, culinary student and Media Director at Paleo Flourish Magazine. Lucha will try most food but prefers Indian, Thai and Mexican food above all else. She is currently either cooking, eating, grocery shopping, or browsing recipes on Pinterest.

Even though my heritage is Jewish, my family always celebrated “secular” Christmas with our family friends. We never took up the Jewish tradition of movies and dinner at a Chinese restaurant, and for good reason: we didn’t want to miss out on the food! Not to mention another opportunity to join around the table and celebrate the holiday season with our community. For me, that’s what Christmas is all about.

But I’ll stop myself now from getting sentimental and introduce our awesome selection of Paleo Christmas recipes. No matter your background or how you celebrate the holidays, we can all agree that the end of the year is the perfect time for delicious and healthy food to be shared with those we love! So without further adieu, here are our favorite Paleo Christmas recipes.

Table of Contents – Paleo Christmas Recipes

• Paleo Christmas Eggnog Recipes
• Paleo Christmas Recipes – Starters and Appetizers
• Paleo Christmas Recipes – Sweet Potato Side Dishes
• Paleo Christmas Entrée/Main Recipes
• Paleo Christmas Pies and Cakes
• Paleo Christmas Cookie Recipes
• More Paleo Christmas Dessert Recipes
• What To Do With Christmas Leftovers?

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Is Stevia Paleo? 5 Reasons Why Stevia Isn’t Paleo

You’ve probably heard about this rave “all-natural” practically zero-calorie sweetener called stevia (if you don’t know what it is then read this article). But is stevia Paleo?

Can you safely add it to all your baked goods, coffee, and tea, and be healthy while doing it?

That’s what this article will delve into.

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Real Life Paleo – Book Review

Book Title:

Real Life Paleo
Click here to purchase this book.

Book Author(s):

Stacy Toth & Matthew McCarry

Overview of Book:

Real Life Paleo is both a cookbook and a guide book for adopting a Paleo diet. Divided into three distinct sections: Swap, Remove and Heal, the book is designed to help readers transition from their current style of eating to one that is more healthful and more natural through easy to understand and follow steps. Beginning with identifying some of the most obvious and harmful foods and swapping them with gluten free and healthier options, readers will begin to slowly transition their eating and ways of thinking. The second phase is a next step to making a full change and in the final section, readers are encouraged to adopt a fully integrated healthy change, including suggestions for more exercise and more sleep.
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19 Tasty Paleo Pumpkin Cookie Recipes

Post by Lucha: World traveler, culinary student and Media Director at Paleo Flourish Magazine. Lucha will try most food but prefers Indian, Thai and Mexican food above all else. She is currently either cooking, eating, grocery shopping, or browsing recipes on Pinterest.

‘Tis the season …. to put all that pumpkin filling to good use! Whether it’s pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup or some other delicious pumpkin creation, now’s the time to get in the holiday spirit with our favorite squash plant in all its culinary forms.

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What is Bulletproof Coffee?

I don’t drink coffee.

Blasphemy, I know.

But I just don’t like it.  And I don’t really like caffeine either.  But I have tried coffee…

Why I Tried Bulletproof® Coffee

I was on a cruise, and Dave Asprey was there.  Awesome guy.

But when I heard I didn’t like coffee, he insisted that it was because I’d only tasted bad coffee before, which was probably true.  And he insisted that I try his brand of coffee.
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Paleo in Vancouver – Buzz Cafe and Espresso Bar

I’ve been enjoying living in Vancouver for the past 2 weeks, and in particular, I’ve loved going to the Buzz Cafe and Espresso Bar in Yaletown, Vancouver. They’ve got some great coffee and Paleo (and Vegan) desserts.

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My Top 10 Paleo Snacks For Air Travel

I fly a lot, and I know from experience that being hungry at the airport or on a flight is definitely a recipe for disaster!

Options are often limited at airports to fast food chains and premade sandwiches along with candy and potato chips. And it’s even worse on the flight itself – there’s often no food at all or else a really awful selection (my latest flight from New York to Vancouver offered a cracked pepper turkey sandwich, a chicken slider combo, and a fruit and cheese plate for sale).

So, I like to pack some Paleo snacks with me when I travel. Here are my top 10 Paleo snacks for air travel:
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The Top Paleo Ice Cream Recipes (includes separate list for Primal Ice Cream Recipes)

Giving up ice cream when I went Paleo was tough, but dairy simply didn’t make me feel good. And so ice cream had to go…or so I thought at first.

What I didn’t realize back then were all the amazing Paleo ice cream recipes I could make at home and enjoy without feeling ill afterwards.

So, what do Paleo ice cream recipes contain if it doesn’t contain dairy?

The most popular “creamers” for Paleo ice cream recipes are coconut milk or coconut cream and bananas. Avocados, soaked cashews, and egg yolks are some other options. Personally, I really love the Paleo ice cream recipes with bananas in them – they’re really easy and fast to make, and taste delicious (you often don’t even need to add any additional sweeteners!).

Can I eat Paleo Ice Cream Every Day?

Like all Paleo desserts, I personally don’t think they should be eaten every day (most of these Paleo ice cream recipes still contain pretty high amounts of sugars, even if they’re not refined sugars!).

So, when should you make Paleo ice cream recipes? These delicious recipes are perfect for those really bad days when you really want to cheat or for when you want to make something for a special occasion or treat. Or if you’re a huge ice cream fanatic and don’t think you could become full Paleo because of your ice cream addiction, then try switching to Paleo ice cream and gradually reducing the amount you eat of it.

What’s in this giant list of ice cream recipes?

There are quite a lot of recipes here, so I’ve grouped them into different categories to help you search for the one that you want to make.

First, there’s my top 3 Paleo Ice Cream Recipes, then there’s the top Paleo Chocolate Ice Cream Recipes, followed by the top Primal Chocolate Ice Cream Recipes (the Primal recipes contain dairy), the top Recipes That Don’t Require an Ice Cream Maker (because I know most people don’t have an ice cream maker), the top Paleo Strawberry Ice Cream Recipes, and lastly a list of other Paleo and Primal ice cream recipes that I thought you might enjoy.

And in case you’re wondering, I didn’t get to taste test all 66 of these ice cream recipes!

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Is Soy Lecithin Paleo?

As a by-product of soy oil extraction, soy lecithin is used as an emulsifier in hundreds of processed foods and is even sold over the counter as a nutritional supplement. It keeps water and fats from separating in foods like margarine, peanut butter, chocolate, ice cream, coffee creamers and infant formulas.  It also helps prevent spoilage and extends product shelf life.

The words “by-product of soy” and the lengthy list of processed foods that contain it might lead you to guess the answer to whether (or not) soy lecithin has a Paleo-friendly profile, but let’s take a closer look.

Potential Health Concerns with Soy Lecithin

Anything containing the word “soy” is a food that most Paleo enthusiasts have been taught to stay away from.

The estrogenic activity of soy-based products is one of reasons they’re so undesirable from an evolutionary dietary perspective.  The estrogen dominance they can trigger can interfere with the body’s normal hormonal and metabolic processes.
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Paleo Cake Recipes – 69 Amazing Recipes For Every Occasion

Paleo Travel Snacks and Paleo Options at Frankfurt International Airport

Traveling is always tough when you’re on any type of diet, and long flights with layovers are the worst! I recently flew from San Francisco to Mumbai with a layover in Frankfurt (so that was an 11 hour flight followed by an 8 hour flight with around 3 hours to kill in Frankfurt airport).

I had stocked up on snacks for the long plane ride before I left San Francisco, but I was also surprised by the Paleo options at Frankfurt International Airport.

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The 5 Things That Made My Paleo/Gluten-Free Wedding a Success

Weddings are Tough!

If you’ve ever planned any large party or event, then you’ll know just how tough it can be.

There are so many moving parts to organize, so many different people to please, and always some last minute glitches! So just imagine when you also have to add in Paleo/Gluten-Free/Dietary Restrictions into the mix!

From the start, Jeremy and I were worried about the food at our wedding, and we found a caterer months before we did anything else (I wrote about our wedding menu just before the wedding in this post)!

Our caterer (Joshua Charles) was fantastic, but all sorts of other food and drink issues come up nearer the time (should we serve a cake, what about desserts, what oils should the food be cooked in, was there enough variety for everyone, what party favors would our guests like, what alcohols should we serve, should we serve soda???). And this was outside of the technical issues we encountered with our RSVP website (we wanted to go high tech) or our uncertainty as to whether the taxi service would be able to drop people at the location or our last minute decision to install a dance floor into the courtyard (and yes, the police did stop by for a friendly chat with me about the noise!).

It would have been easy just to give up on my diet for one day, but this was the biggest opportunity I had for demonstrating to my closest family and friends just how fantastic Paleo food is and can make them feel! And it turned out to be not difficult at all because we paid attention to the five areas below.

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Paleo Beef Wellington Recipe (Keto, Gluten-Free, Grain-Free)

I’ve always been a big fan of Gordon Ramsay, and one of his signature dishes is Beef Wellington (a classic British dish – more about it below). I was therefore a bit sad that I couldn’t order it at his Las Vegas restaurant (it comes with a wheat-based puff pastry that is indispensable to the dish).

That of course doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy grain-free Paleo Beef Wellington at home!

What is a Beef Wellington?

Beef Wellington is a classic British dish comprising of a beef tenderloin smothered with pâté and duxelles, wrapped with puff pastry, and then baked.

The exact origins of the dish seem to be unknown (it’s appeared in cookbooks since around the 1940s and became popular during the 1960s), and while there are suggestions that it’s named after the Duke of Wellington or the Wellington Boot, there’s no concrete evidence supporting any of these claims.

Paleo Beef Wellington Recipe

There are lots of variations of beef wellington, and I’ve created 2 Paleo variations: one with a Paleo (gluten-free) pastry and one without a pastry.
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No Time To Cook Paleo? – My 3-Step System to Never Being Hungry No Matter How Busy You Are!

When Life Gets Hectic…

If you’re like me, then there are a lot of periods of your life when things get crazy hectic, and I mean really crazy hectic!

During those periods (e.g., finals at school, when all your kids are suddenly at home during the summer, or when work is overbearing), what you eat becomes less of a concern as Everything Else takes over!

I definitely recall that when my workload at the law firm increased, my diet would take a dramatic turn for the worse (let’s not even talk about my sleep and exercise!). Suddenly, the vending machine would unceasingly call my name and every dish on every take-out menu would make my mouth water.

I thought those stressful times were over when I quit the law firm life a month ago, but then the wedding planning kicked in. I’m sure anyone who has ever planned their own wedding will sympathize with me when I say that the week leading up to the wedding was definitely a bit stressful (and that’s a huge understatement)!

And to have to cook during that week for the entire family?? Hell, NO!

Thankfully, I had a system in place already which made eating healthy and Paleo for that week a breeze, and I’m going to share with you that amazing 3-step system in this post.

And don’t worry, I’m not just giving you some general fluff advice like “remember to plan your meals in advance” – these are concrete step-by-step details!

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