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Low-carb diets

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Please share your Paleolithic food recipes!

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ODearMe · 26/08/2014 12:57

Hello all, I am on day 5 of the paleo diet and I was hoping you could share your recipes to inspire me!
So far I have breakfasted on smoothies and eggs; lunch might be tuna salad; dinner might be shepherds pie or salmon fillet or chicken with carrots and broccoli. I snack on fruit and almonds.
I have already experienced many health benefits so really want to keep it up - but am worried my current diet might get a bit boring! Any tips/recipes will be hugely appreciated. Many thanks!!!

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DogsRus73 · 27/08/2014 18:39

Hi ODM,

I don't have any wildly brilliant recipes to share, but I will list my favourites in case that's any use.

Bolognese without the spaghetti (I use courgette instead - you can google this but basically use a veg peeler on a courgette to get long thin strips and boil for about 5-10 minutes then serve with the Bolognese)

Homemade sausages: fry an onion and an apple until the onion is translucent but not brown. Puree with a stick blender (not necessary if you chop really finely but I'm lazy) then mix with 1/4 tsp black pepper, 1 1/2 tsp salt and 1 tsp pork seasoning (schwatrz - I think its mostly sage). Mix with 500g of pork mince that's been kneaded to get rid of the stringlike consistency. Shape and fry or grill. I'm a bit paranoid about food poisoning with mince so I oven cook them for 20 mins then fry to brown them.

Pizza substitutes - I've tried meatza (google but basically sausage mix instead of the pizza base) and pizza omelette (omeletee instead of the normal base - surprisingly nice). These involve cheese so if you're paleo only then you shouldn't do, but I do primal as I like my dairy too much (and it helps add variety).

To be honest I've found the main meals okay on paleo, it's lunches that are easy to take to work and puddings. Most of the paleo puddings require expensive ingredients (coconut flour or almond flour or lots of nuts) and I'm a tightwad. So I settle for fruit and cream.

I've been experimenting with cooking fruit mixed with egg and sometimes cocoa powder but although I've enjoyed eating the results I wouldn't serve them to anyone else as they look dodgy - I think my catchphrase at the moment is it's nicer than it looks. The only pudding that I've persuaded anyone else in the house to eat is 'ice-cream' made by pureeing frozen bananas in a blender with a small amount of cream. If you add some cocoa powder you can make a reasonable version of chocolate ice-cream. I've tried with other fruits and although they tasted ok they've all been a bit watery apart from the banana. You can do it with non-frozen bananas as well to give a very runny but reasonably tasty chocolate mousse. If you're not doing primal coconut milk would probably work rather than cream.

Good luck with the diet - I feel so much better on it and have lost 2 1/2 stone without really trying in the space of about 5 months. I can't imagine going back on a normal diet again. I have to admit I still find it difficult sometimes to resist when the kids are munching on cake or biscuits but less so than at the start.

ODearMe · 27/08/2014 20:05

Hi Dogs
Many thanks for taking the time to reply! There are some great recipe ideas in there and I will give them a try for sure.

I agree the way of eating is very expensive, I seem to be in the supermarket every other day and I have only been doing it for a week. However, I feel fantastic, have already lost 4ibs and my skin feels more moisturised without putting on any creams (must be omega 3 oils from the fish). Really am amazed.

Incredible that you have lost so much weight too! I wondered how you have coped with being invited out for dinners with friends; weddings; restaurants etc. what do you say to people to avoid appearing fussy?

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DogsRus73 · 28/08/2014 10:49

I don't generally avoid appearing fussy, I'm happy to be blunt :)

If you don't mind cheating slightly then eating out isn't too bad. I've had ploughmans and given the bread to the kids, roast and skipped the gravy and left the potatoes (roast restaurant ones are never that brilliant anyway) or meat and chips and just eaten a few chips. Puddings at restaurants are more of a problem - I've either just not had one or had fruit salad and cream where available.

A couple of BBQ's have been fine - I just ate the meat and skipped the breadbuns (no-one actually appeared to notice!). I have cheated slightly when I've been to the in-laws as I don't like causing someone else hassle when they're cooking but I have skipped the puds there and just eaten the main. When visitors have been to me I've just cooked myself something else and explained why.

My main problem is that now I've reached my target weight I'm losing my resolve slightly. I'm not cheating that much but I am eating slightly more and it's enough that my weight is fluctuating in and out of the 'ideal' range.

DogsRus73 · 28/08/2014 10:51

BTW honey mustard drumsticks are quite nice. Mix a tablespoon of mustard powder with 2 tablespoons of oil and 2 tablespoons of honey. Marinate the drumsticks for a couple of hours and then oven cook as normal (about 40 minutes). Lovely cold the next day if you can bear to leave them!

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