we did a quick search of the house for the book we knew we owned, but realized we must have taken it down to the book swap.
We'll have to go see if we can swap for it back. But meanwhile, we decided to head out and fill up the fridge for the week, with healthy paleo food.
We have been getting used to shopping for the Zone, and even before that, we weren't big fans of packaged foods or store bought baked goods (we both like to bake - this might be hard!), but shopping for a Paleo diet was even more restrictive. We do acknowledge that because of our children's rapid growth, they will likely not follow a strict Paleo diet. Milk has been a big, snack/protein, especially for our oldest son who is now 5'8" and 140lbs and we will likely make sure he has access to as much dairy as he needs. They do tend to be big carboholics (especially when mama makes french bread) - and we will still feed them food and lots of it, but our thoughts this week is to make sure we have what we need to go paleo and just see how it works.
We loaded our cart up with fresh veggies and fruits and i thought maybe we should try a few new things, or even things that we haven't eaten a lot before, so in addition to grapes, apples, carrots, garlic, etc, we also put in a big fat rutabaga, and beets with long greens.
Then through the bulk foods aisle, and had to forgo all the trail mix (all of them had either peanuts or cashew), but got almonds and hazelnuts (we have a lot of walnuts already from our food coop).
Then to the meat section, where pork is on for a dollar a pound. Even here we were adventurous, buying a lot of pork (easy crockpot meals for the school week), but also beef liver and beef heart.
We did buy a little more butter, but no milk, and we forgot to get more eggs so we're down to about three dozen (we usually buy six dozen a week for our family of nine people). Frozen berries were the last thing in our cart and then we headed home.
Our first paleo meal:
crockpot roast beef - seasoned with red wine (BAD) onions, paprika, pepper, salt
boiled rutabaga
beet greens - sauteed in olive oil and garlic
We didn't announce anything to the children, just set out the meal and it wasn't that different from a regular meal, except that there were no yorkshire puddings or gravy (but there was the jus from the roast, which was delicious poured over the meat). Turned out, no one even mentioned the lack of yorkshires, and the children ate up all the rutabagas, asking for seconds and thirds, and they even gobbled down the beet greens! I should have known they would like rutabaga, as they used to love to eat kohlrabi, raw, fresh from our neighbour Erna's garden... But it was a nice start to a new way of eating.
We're used to having snacks in the Zone, and i wasn't sure how that would work - but i did have homemade halvah balls (cookies! made from sesame seeds, a little olive oil and a little honey) - and we had fruit and nuts, so we actually had a very satisfactory (albeit protein poor) bedtime snack...
Tomorrow will be our first full day of paleo! The article we read suggested changing one meal a day to paleo, beginning with breakfast, but we'll take it meal by meal i think...
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