Paleo Cookbook For Dummies

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Introduction

Any Paleo aficionado will agree that your Paleo journey starts with food. Discovering the yes and no Paleo foods, converting your kitchen into a primal one, and creating your own Paleo meals can help you lose weight, boost immunity, fight aging, heal conditions, and perform better.

Paleo recipes are a big hit for good reason. The food is amazing, and the recipes are easy to throw together. They work. Simple as that. Paleo recipes are all based on clean, ultra-healthy foods that are anything but boring. You don't feel like you're sacrificing; more importantly, you actually feel alive, vibrant, and nourished after you eat, not exhausted, bloated, and uncomfortable.

When I wrote this book, my vision was to give you something different.
Paleo Cookbook For Dummies
is unlike any other Paleo cookbook you've ever read. It's a collection of 136 recipes from the best of the best Paleo chefs out there. Each chef has his or her own creative flair, which adds a lot of variety to your recipe choices. These brilliantly created recipes will shock your friends and family when they find out that the food they're eating is actually super healthy!

I wrote this book to make your life simple. I have a busy life, and I'm sure you do too. I hope this easy-to-read, comprehensive book on Paleo foods and recipes makes your life easier. This book is also a great way for you to share your Paleo passion. In fact, next time you have a potluck, ask everyone to bring a recipe from this book, and prepare to be amazed!

About This Book

Getting back into the kitchen and adopting the Paleo diet may seem overwhelming at first, so
Paleo Cookbook For Dummies
is organized in a way that makes the benefits of eating Paleo easy to understand. Use this book as both a reference and a cookbook; if you need to check on whether a food is a Paleo yes or no, you can find that information easily. If you're creating a menu for a dinner party and want to go all Paleo, you can pick your recipes and get to work. Or if Paleo is new to you, you can start with the foundational information and get to know Paleo superfoods, how Paleo eating can improve how you feel, and how you can get started with a cleansing 30-Day Reset. And know that you can skip over the shaded sidebars and anything marked with a Technical Stuff icon if you're under a time crunch; these bits are interesting, but you won't miss out on any vital information if you pass them over.

The recipes in this book will keep you well fed from breakfast through dinner, with healthy snacks in between. Here are some specific recipe-related conventions that apply throughout the book:

Vegetarian recipes are marked with a tomato in the Recipes in This Chapter list.

Temperatures are all given in degrees Fahrenheit. (If you prefer working in the metric system, turn to the appendix for help converting temperatures to Celsius and other measurements to metric units.)

All eggs are large unless noted otherwise.

All water is filtered so all the toxic elements are removed.

All bacon is free of nitrates, casein, gluten, and antibiotics.

All pepper is freshly ground black pepper unless otherwise noted.

All butter is grass-fed and organic. (If you can't find grass-fed butter, though, you can substitute conventional organic butter.) You may also replace any butter with
ghee
(clarified butter).

All salt is unprocessed. Good sources for unprocessed salt include Selina Naturally brand Celtic sea salt (
www.celticseasalt.com
) and Real Salt brand sea salt (
http://realsalt.com
).

At the end of many recipes, you'll see a note indicating that the recipe has been vetted by the team at Whole9 (
http://whole9life.com
) and is considered acceptable for a cleansing 30-day Paleo launch, which I refer to in this book as the 30-Day Reset Paleo cleanse. These recipes don't include any added sugars (real or artificial), grains, legumes, or dairy. They replace butter with clarified butter (ghee). If a recipe includes a processed food (such as chicken broth, bacon, or tomato paste), you should choose brands that don't contain off-limits ingredients such as sugar, soy, additives, or preservatives.

To make this book practical as possible (because that's what it's really about, right?), I include web addresses for sources of products and other information. Some web addresses may break across two lines of text. If you're reading this book in print and want to visit one of these web pages, simply key in the address exactly as it's noted in the text, pretending as though the line break doesn't exist. If you're reading this text as an e-book, you've got it easy — just click the web address to be taken directly to the web page.

Foolish Assumptions

As I wrote this book, I made the following assumptions about you:

You want to change your diet, lose weight, improve your fitness, or manage some type of medical condition and have heard about the Paleo diet.

You want to stop eating processed and unhealthy foods to feel younger, healthier, happier, and more vibrant.