Rachel wrote:
>If you felt awful and were hungry all the time when you cut out
grain, the
>problem is probably that you weren't eating enough.  In my
experience, most
>people way underestimate how much food they need to eat when they cut
out
>the agricultural stuff

This is probably true. I also was not prepared for a change of eating
in a practical sense. I saw later how my mind froze up and I ate
chicken and broccoli for a week because I could think of nothing
else...

Now I have this vague plan that I will try to practice different foods
and preparations, and have lots ready in the freezer/dried and
THEN clean out the cupboard of all the modern foods and jump in the
deep end :-)

Hans suggested I make pemmican for my daughter with coconut fat. That
sounds like something she might enjoy. (I'm looking forward to trying
it too). Your menu suggestions sounded great too - thanks for them.

Unfortuately my daughter seems to have lots of food allergies. At
around 1 1/2 she began to regularily eat food every day. It didn't
take long until she developed excema. At 2 she began to eat 2-3 meals
a day and since then has had constant excema and cradle cap. I'm
hoping that a paleo elimination diet will clear up her system, so that
her true allergies become visible (as I think some are triggered by
grains, for example if she eats oats, everything she eats the next day
seems to make her itch even worse).

>(Try Omega Nutrition Coconut Butter, it's unrefined
>and organic.)

Is this a brand name, or a special mixture you can make yourself?

thanks,

Cecilia in Sweden
(not particularily thin or fat - sort of in between and 6 foot tall)