The Label Says Paleo

Installment I:  Baked Salmon with Remoulade Sauce and Kale Although I love to cook, and would gladly spend an hour in the kitchen preparing a meal, the reality is that I don’t always have that kind of time.  I use several strategies to tackle this dilemma, two of which include:  planning ahead (I often cook [...]

Yes, this recipe calls for cream cheese.  Yes, cream cheese is a dairy product.  And yes, I know that dairy isn’t strictly Paleo; but guess what? Neither am I!  I’ve adapted a lifestyle that is live-able for ME, provides results for ME, and most importantly–is something that MY body responds positively to.  No two people [...]

When I first told one of my Paleo-eating/Crossfitting-purist friends about my ‘nut cracker’ recipe, his response anything less than enthusiastic.  ”Why do you need crackers?”, he asked, “Just eat real food!”  In response, let me just say that while I do eat real food, I want a cracker substitute to serve it on. I’m guessing [...]

Just discovered the most amazing way to enjoy a “PBJ”: mix a spoonful of almond butter (LOVE Kettle Brand) with an equal amount of applesauce (no sugar added, obvi) and voila: PBJ! Granted, there is no PB or J, but as someone who used to make the sandwich sans one piece of bread so I [...]

As a nurse, I often work twelve hours shifts.  By the time I get home, I’m tired and ravenous.  Although I’m lucky in that I have a willing ‘sous-chef’, the last thing that I want to do is spend an hour on my feet preparing an elaborate meal.  For that reason, I’ve created several simple [...]

On the Paleo diet, you have to be really careful with any sort of condiments or dips. Mustard is generally safe, but many others contain sugar and/or questionable oils. When TLSP took on “strict paleo” back in November, I spent a good deal of time reading mayonnaise labels at every grocery store I stopped in. [...]

“I can’t eat Paleo because it’s too expensive.” Man-oh-man, do I hear this statement a lot.  In fact, it’s part of the reason that we created this website.  At TLSP, we wanted to show you that not only can eating Paleo be inexpensive; it doesn’t have to be time-consuming, bland, or boring either. Today, I [...]

A lot of exciting things have been going on in my life lately, and it’s been quite a while since my last post.  In an attempt to get back into the TLSP groove, I thought that I’d share with you a snack that I discovered while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Unbeknownst to me, Puerto [...]

The key complaint I hear from folks getting started on the road to eat Paleo/Primal is that they miss their old conventional foods especially around breakfast. With a little creativity and experimenting,  there are a number of alternative recipes for breakfast favorites. A while back I had posted a recipe for chocolate coconut pancakes. I  got [...]

This past weekend I had ever intention of making a how-to video of Veronica’s recipe for cooking a whole chicken. My friend Daniel was over at my apartment for 4.5 hours trying to fix my laptop with no luck. While I had plenty of time to clean my office, kitchen, and living room, I still [...]