Welcome to our Paleo Adventure we have embraced in our lives. My boyfriend and I currently live in Madison, Wisconsin. We went to our first Farmer's Market last summer, which began the change in our lives. It wasn't in till a few months ago that we fully embraced a complete new way to eat.
I took a Business Ethics class and began to question the way companies operate. Most companies have horrible ethical practices. After a lot of case studies on Monsanto and other food companies I began to question where our food that we consumed with very little question came from. I had begun to learn about the effect of pesticides and other harmful things like GMO's (Genetically Modified Food) to our bodies. I came home from class one night and was telling Caleb my boyfriend all about how unhealthy our diets really were. We decided to research our options on healthier ways that would benefit the both of us.
At the time Caleb was trying this awful diet of what I called the eggs, chicken, and rice diet. I was tired of trying to cook two meals every night with all of the mess and dishes that came with it. Plus I am one of those people that gets very bored eating the same thing day in and day out. I love experimenting in the kitchen with new recipes. We have begun throwing all the big Holiday Parties at our house and love entertaining our friends with great food and company.
I had heard from other friends in the Madison area that the area offers CSA's (Community Supported Agriculture). You pay them a monthly fee and they deliver meat or veggies to you. The best part is your supporting your local community, eating healthy, and know where you food comes from. We didn't realize how many farms we had options to choose from. We ended up going with a recommendation from teacher for a farm that delivered to the coffee shop down the street from our house for an extra $5 a month. Caleb's work ended up reimbursing us the first month of our membership and got a few other people to join the healthy adventure.
Our next adventure began when I had been hearing about Paleo from my friends that do CrossFit. I began to finally look into realizing we had a lot of work to do if we wanted to go down this road. We decided to embrace the change and headed to our local grocery store from some healthier choices. At first it was challenging to shop at the grocery store. We had no idea that coconut flour/oil and almond flour even existed. Our local grocery store didn't even sell the flour's that we needed. We then embarked on the amazing Whole Foods adventure. That store is amazing, yes expensive but needless to say AMAZING!! They have all of those weird ingredients that you never knew existed!
Once the Farmer's Market opened we made it a new Saturday requirement. We get up on Saturday's and head to the Farmer's Market in the morning and then to Whole Foods for those other ingredients that we need but can't get at our store close to our house. I then bought my first Paleo cookbook called Make It Paleo! Best starter cookbook EVER! Every recipe has pictures and there wasn't a recipe that we didn't like or wouldn't make again. That cookbook made the possibility of switching our diets to eliminate sugar, flour, dairy, and all that other unhealthy stuff a whole heck of a lot easier.
We began to see how our good our bodies felt after eating healthy. We also began to see how our bodies reacted to foods that were not in our diets when we had cheat days. So we made an active effort to fully pursue the Paleo lifestyle. We do have days that we sneak some dairy in our diets like cheese. I mean we do live in the cheese state after all.
So please take the time to follow our blog on our trials and errors in the kitchen while embarking on the Paleo/Primal lifestyle. Our pictures thus far are not the prettiest being that they are only iPhone photo's for now. We do hope to purchase a nice camera in the near future but in till then please bear with the photo's I attempt to take!
Enjoy!!
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