Weakness: Sugar Double Weekness: Chocolate

Day 5

With Paleo I have been doing no processed sugar. Which is hard since Sniffer had birthday party and I made her a cake. I love sugar and chocolate specifically not having some of this cake I made her was hard but I did it. So I'm putting that down and successful paleo day for me.

Have to laugh because that is my attempt at a Lady Bug cake. I'm no Cake Boss but my Sniffer sure thought it was great. Considering it was bunch of 3 and 4 year olds eating and most of them hardly finished their piece it's all good.

Doesn't tastes the same

Day 4 

Don't know what happen to day 3, don't have pictures or record of it. Since I'm doing all this a month later it's hard to remember.

Just because something looks like mashed potatoes doesn't mean they do. I don't know what I did wrong. In this text/cook book it say that her family couldn't even tell the difference. I will give you that it looks the same, but that is for sure texture difference. I love mashed potatoes so this just didn't hit the spot and the chicken legs backed were okay. I was babysitting some neighbor kids and they seem to like the dinner more that my own kids.  It's not the best looking food but it was paleo so it should count for something right?

Pink Hand is Very different than Pink Eye

Day two of eating Paleo

 I found out that chopping beets turns your hands this pink color.(Should have gotten pictures of my hands but than it would have gotten my phone pink as well. Next time)  Sniffer(4yrs) thought it was pretty neat trick so joined in on the prep work (putting them into bowl for so her hands could turn pink like mine.) for dinner that night. Than Stinker helped me by stirring the beets and onion in a frying pan with EVOO (extra virgin olive oil) we also had brussels sprouts chopped up fine and cooked the same way but no onions. Than we had steak as well. Here is picture of our meal.

If you asked my husband and other family members they would tell you. That I am not one to try new food and I'm actually a picky eater. Not so much anymore I jumped from that platform said 

"NO MORE BE PICK GIVE EVERY THING A CHANCE"

Which I have to be honest it's hasn't been easy. Beets and were hard and same for brussels spouts.

Meat no problem love it. I had to tell me kids you only have to try one bite of everything. But if you want more meat or ice cream you have eat all of it. Looking back now not the best idea. Fox(9yrs) really had hard time eating the brussles sprouts. I kept telling him as he looked like he about to vomit. 

"It's not worth it. You don't need to finish it." Fox, ask he gags "Yes I do I really want ice cream."

Not the best idea but he never did vomit that night .

What have I done??

What have I got myself into? Having you ever jumped off a diving platform before without working up to? That is what I did with going from eating okay to eating Practical Paleo with out building up to it.

If you are wondering what Practical Paleo is here what is said in the book I have been reading says.

"Paleo way of eating is simple: Mimic our ancestors, who suffered from fewer chronic diseases than modern population. This doesn't mean you'll recreate a caveman's food landscape, of course. Our food supply and our environment are different from our ancestors, so we must adapt as new information comes to light. The lifestyle is simple about (1) eating whole foods that provide better fuel four your body and (2) avoiding processed, refined, nutrient-poor factory foods. This means avoiding grains, legumes(beans) refined sugars, and pasteurized dairy products. People believe eating whole foods is hard and limiting, but it isn't it may be an adjustment at first, but it's simply a matter of eliminating foods that don't promote health in your body." Practical Paleo by Diane Sanfilippo, BS,NC

(This book it not only cookbook also text book really good. Haven't even come close to finishing reading about still working on it.)

I had a good friend Trix (not real name) that has been eating this way with her husband Four (not real name) for some time now. Though Trix has tried eating or not eating different things to help with her stomach problems she has had for years. Trix and Four came shopping with to show me what to buy and what to not to buy and explained why this good or why that isn't good. After we went to Harmons, Good Earth and Costco we went home took in all my food than Trix and Four helped my husband and me make dinner for my kids. It was late 10 pm that we were eating but the food was great.

Trix told Fox(9), Dog(8) Stinker(6) and Sniffer(4) we should give your food a fun names. I didn't get picture of our first meal. We had boiled cabbage with baby carrots we called that "orange slippers" we had baked egg plant which Stinker named "Baked Pickles".  For breakfast I mixed  "orange slippers" and spinach to my eggs. I did get picture of that.

More pictures to come.