I came across a posting from September that inferred that many paleos don’t eat organ meats. Well, I must be an exception. I enjoy many organ meats: Chicken livers, Sweetbreads (sheep’s), Beef Tongue, heart, and kidneys, and once had a dish of “Rocky Mountain oysters”, that was ok but not one I’d repeat. I’m not that fond of beef or calves liver (still eat it on occasion), but enjoy chicken livers several times a week. Good for minerals. I don’t tend to eat these raw, but not well done either. Marinated in olive oil, fresh squeezed orange juice, and lots of garlic….yum! There are some very good recipes for organ meats in the book “Nourishing Traditions”..just leave out the non paleo stuff. For instance they suggest soaking sweetbreads in milk overnight, but soaking in another liquid like salted water or fruit juice accomplishes the same purpose. Or perhaps use raw milk for this process if you are not against it. “Variety Meats” add a lot of good nutrients to the paleo diet. Typical daily menu: Breakfast – my beloved generous green salad with tuna, sometimes canned, sometimes thin sliced raw ahi. Lunch – a whole avocado and a handful of raw almonds, or pemmican, or a hardboiled egg or two. Dinner – meat or game barely seared, organ meats, or roasted poultry, or fish other than tuna (love fresh caught trout!) and a small bowl of fresh low glycemic fruit in season. Particularly fond of melons, and kiwis or other berries, but since we have a small orchard of rome beauty apples, these are eaten seasonally as well. Other fruits used: valencia oranges in marinades, lime or meyer lemon juice from our bush in salads. I still prefer black tea to green, but I only drink two cups in the morning and drink water or mineral water the rest of the day as a beverage. My only food concession to non-paleo is that I sometimes add organic or raw unsalted butter to meals in small amounts when cooking, otherwise olive oil and flaxseed oil (in salad) are the non-meat fats used. I take flaxseed oil as a supplement because I don’t digest fish oil capsules very well.