FoodRxD

May Challenge Day 25

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May Challenge Day 20 - Paleo treats

Is your sweet tooth still screaming at you after 20 days?  Hopefully not.  But if you are on a razors edge and think you are going to snap in a 2 am raid on the chocolate aisle at the 24hr supermarket, 100 burpee earning, make some cookie dough and eat it with a spoon, $40 binge; then try some of the below recipes to stop you from going full matrix on the sugar.

Some of these are more primal than paleo, ie, they contain sweetener from honey, maple syrup or an artificial source.  In some instances you can probably leave them out if you wish. 

The ones in the video are grain, sugar, fruit and dairy free.

Dave's Brown Thunder Balls

- 2 TBS almond butter

- 2 TBS coconut cream

- 1 egg

- 2 tsp coconut oil, melted

- 1/4 tsp baking powder

- 1/4 cup coconut flour

Amounts are approximate.........

Mix wet ingredients then add dry ingredients.  Mix should be fairly wet.  Pour into mini muffin tins and bake at 170 till firm (about 10-12 mins)

Coconut Butter Blondies

Paleo Icecream

For true simplicity, it's hard to beat a handful of frozen or fresh fruit with some coconut cream or actual cream if you're eating dairy.

 

May Challenge Day 19 - Cheap Eating

May Challenge Day 18

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This video shows an interesting advert that drew quite an outcry from scientists and nutritionists in the conventional wisdom camp (hilarious irony with the before and after adverts though!).  It pulls no punches in demonstrating the link between sugar consumption and obesity.  But despite the protests, there are many more experts backing up a higher fat, no grains and sugar diet.  Funny thing is experts have known this for years, it just seemed that the info somehow slid by the wayside over the last few years thanks to Keys and McGovern etc.

Check out this quote from 18- freaking 25! 

"Now, an antifat diet is based on the commonest and most active cause of obesity, since, as it has already been clearly shown, it is only because of grains and starches that fatty congestion can occur, as much in a man as in the animals; this effect . . . plays a large part in the commerce of fattened beasts for our markets, and it can be deduced, as an exact consequence, that a more or less rigid abstinence from everything that is starchy or floury will lead to a lessening of weight."

--Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, from "Preventative or Curative Treatment of Obesity" (published in 1825)

May Challenge Day 17 - Paleo substitutes

"There's no way I can give up my (insert grain based food here)!!!!!!!!!!

Whether it's potatoes, bread, cake or pasta, some people just can't imagine life without these highly processed sugar spiking foods. 

One of the goals of this challenge is to break free from the addiction (and it is an addiction) by cutting these foods out completely and letting your tastebuds and brain reset while giving your pancreas a break from producing so much insulin.

But there are a few tricks we can use to eat foods that are very similar to those we crave.  That way we avoid the negative insulin spikes and inflammation, and still get our fill of high quality energy and nutrients from real food.

Shepards Pie

brown 500g beef mince with 2 chopped onions.  Add tasty things like bacon, peppers, celery, carrot, leeks if you want and then add a can of chopped tomatoes, a big splash of beef stock and a squeeze of tomato paste.  Cook until sauce is thick, transfer to baking dish.  Meanwhile boil or steam cauli in broken up chunks.  Drain well when cooked but still firm.  Puree with a stick blender.  Add in things like cashew nuts, butter, coconut cream, olive oil, pestos, herbs and spices to tart it up.  Top the meat and grate a little cheese on if you do dairy.  Bake for about 30mins.

Bangers and Mash

Find the best quality 100% meat sausages you can.  Chuck em on the barbie, while you cook your cauli mash.  First things first though, is to get your onion gravy started.  Saute thinly sliced onions in a little fat of your choice (I used the fat from the sausages plus some fat I'd saved from a roast) on a low heat.  Add some whole grain or French mustard, balsamic vinegar and cook it down further.  Then add beef stock, and a squirt of tomato paste and sprinkle of almond meal to thicken it up. 

Roast pork with crackling, mashed faux-tatoes and grilled asparagus.  The gravy was similar to the above recipe, but I used 5-spice instead of mustard.  Great on pork.

And the piece de resistance......The homemade Double Down burger.

Free range chicken breast sliced in half, dredged in coconut flour and pan fried in palm oil.  Hendersons natural cured bacon, Paleo BBQ sauce (caramelised onions, tomato paste, paprika, chipotles and sun dried tomatoes) and there would have been homemade mayo on there too, but cooking all the above at once finally led to a mistake, and the mayo didnt quite gel.....  But it was going to be a bacon-aise, using half olive oil and half bacon fat........:)  Served with a side of kumara fries cooked in beef dripping.   Saving this for a post workout meal tomorrow.

In a future video we'll show you some other treats that have been Paleo-ised.

May Challenge Day 16