At 11:53 AM 4/22/06 -0400, SUBSCRIBE PALEOFOOD Anonymous wrote:
>Breakfast is still hard to get used to.

Eggs are still great food and you can add any kind of meat to them, and 
throw in some raw or lightly-cooked veggies/herbs, then pour the drippings 
from the meat over the whole thing.  Or use organic butter if you're 
"neolithic" - actually it's not very hard to make your own butter from 
whole (omega3!) cream, so it's an easy way to get a lot of yummy fat calories.

>I am also eating a lot of butternut and acorn squash, which helps me
>overcome the potato/pasta loss.

I don't know about acorn squash, but you go easy on that butternut, it's a 
definite trade-off.  Great source of potassium (which is always appreciated 
on a high-protein diet), but you're looking at 90% simple carbs and 6g of 
sugar == a high glycemic load.  And people tend to put sugar on butternut 
squash, while the potato gets salt.  Health-wise, you'd be better off 
eating the potato (88% carbs and 2g sugar).

>Question about the best substitute for flour when browning meat.

I feel a rant coming on <g>...

There is no substitute for flour.  There is no substitute for sugar.  That 
(plus how cheap they are) is why modern people USE these poisonous 
substances.  But face it straight up: NO primitive alternatives will have 
the same effects you are used to, and no primitive peoples ever *wanted* to 
do that to their food.  If you're truly stuck there, you're not right for 
this way of living - and it is a way of *living*, not a way of *losing 
weight*.  The cooking techniques you are trying to emulate are even more 
recent than the processing of grains themselves.  Get used to the fact that 
your food WILL look and taste very different, if you're doing it 
right.  But it's not at all hard to get used to - in fact it's the most 
natural thing in the world - to reject poisonous plant products and enjoy 
fatty meat, marrow, soups, eggs, raw vegetables & fruits.

Until you begin looking at food differently, you're just going to be trying 
to substitute everything in your SAD diet with paleo replacements, which 
will never work to your western dietary satisfaction.  Which means you 
won't enjoy it, you won't stick to it, and your time will be wasted.

When the butcher thinks you're weird because you always ask for the 
fattiest cut ...
When you look at a potato and think "only in case of starvation" ...
When you look at a twinkie and think "poison" ...
You're on your way.

- Sisyphus & Zoe



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