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Morning Glory Muffins from Everyday Grain Free Baking

Congratulations Chloe B. – You are the winner! When Kelly showed me the digital sample of her new book, Everyday Grain Free Baking, and I saw how many of the recipes were compliant with the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) I knew that I definitely wanted to get my hands on the physical book when it was […]

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Hasselback Sweet Potatoes from The Performance Paleo Cookbook

This recipe for Hasselback sweet potatoes is a special sneak preview from the soon-to-be-released The Performance Paleo Cookbook by Stephanie Gaudreau, the powerhouse blogger behind the highly successful Stupid Easy Paleo website. I made these as part of our New Year’s Eve dinner and they were the star of the plate, even next to a delectable […]

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Oven Baked Pumpkin Spice Pancakes

I have been waiting for so long to share this recipe for paleo autoimmune protocol (AIP) pumpkin spiced pancakes with you! Several months ago, my friend and fellow AIP blogger Eileen Laird invited me to participate in a collaborative effort to create a cookbook full of AIP recipes specifically for breakfast. I jumped at the opportunity, because […]

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My Favorite Paleo Things of 2014

Calendars are just arbitrary ways of marking time, but the turning of one year into another makes one stop and reflect on the year past as well as looking ahead to the future. 2014 was a year of ups and downs for me personally – some of which I chronicled in my posts on dealing […]

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How to Care For Yourself Even When You are Too Sick to Care

I recently had a bout with the flu and it reminded me of just how hard it really is to care for yourself when you feel so sick that you just don’t care. My acute illness is over – I’m actually grateful that I was really only too sick to function for about 3 days – […]

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My Favorite Cookbooks for the Paleo Lifestyle 2014

The world of Paleo food is experiencing an embarrassment of riches right now. It seems like every day a new cookbook is released and each one is more professional, beautiful, exciting, and delicious than the last! There are books for paleo newbies and books for people following the autoimmune protocol (AIP). There are books that […]

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AIP Teriyaki Sauce from Paleo Eats plus a GIVEAWAY!

I was recently trying to create a simple asian stir fry while cooking for the family on vacation and tried in vain to find a bottle of teriyaki sauce that was gluten free and not loaded with artificial junk and refined sugar. If only I had known then how easy it was to create your own! […]

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Rosemary & Shallot Roasted Butternut Squash and a Review of The Alternative Autoimmune Cookbook

UPDATE: Congratulations Lori L., you are the winner! Check your email and reply to confirm your address… I find it hard to believe now, but for the longest time I thought I hated squash. One of the delightful side effects of going on a diet that restricted most of the starchy foods I used to fill my […]

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Crohn's Disease My Thoughts Personal

I’ll never be a Paleo Success Story (and why I’m OK with that)

If you are looking for a “Paleo Success Story,” you won’t find it here. If you’ve landed here because you Googled something about paleo and curing Crohn’s disease, then I am sorry to tell you that this post is going to disappoint you. I don’t have any before and after pictures, and I’m not going to […]

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Book Review: The Kitchen Ecosystem

Delightfully unique. That is my two word description of The Kitchen Ecosystem by Eugenia Bone. Unlike most cookbooks that organize recipes into courses or categories, or reference cookbooks that simply group by key ingredient, this book teaches you how to approach cooking and eating as an interconnected system. I was hooked when I read the very […]