How to go primal (without really trying) - join me?

this sounds weird but a peach and spinach frittata is a wonderful breakfast.
You'd need to cook it the night before while the oven is on - but its a great way to start the day with a good part of your 5 a day quota !

It starts with frying off garlic and onions which is how I start most dinners so just put extra in main meal and steal it before you put any other ingredients of your main dish in.

saute some garlic and onion( pref in butter ) - being careful not to use too much 1 clove and 1 medium onion is more than enough, add some spinach and a touch of nutmeg and some salt and pepper ( as ever ) -
cook just really till onions are translucent ( dont burn the garlic ( let it go brown ))
pour it all in an ovenproof dish - whack some chopped drained peaches on top together with 6 or more beaten eggs - stuff it in a medium oven and leave it for 40 mins odd and there you go.

It's very odd but superb and if you make it big enough you can keep it in the fridge for a few days ( mine never last ) - you can top it with cheese if you dare !

I am the aforementioned friend. I have just had the breakfast loaf for the 4th day in a row and it is still yummy :-) it doesn't look great but it is a lot like a pastryless quiche. The best thing about it is my 6 year old is eating it with me :-)

I think I might switch chorizo for the bacon for a change the next time. I have 4 days worth in the freezer so I don't have to make any more til Wednesday, for Thursday.

I am following a more hardcore paleo detoxish type plan and have lost 5.5lbs since Wednesday but to be honest most of that is the bloat and grot in my insides after horrific Christmas eating. Completely aside from that I am loving what I am eating and what my kids are eating by association.

We had fabulous slow cooker ribs last night with roasted peppers and onions :-)

I have hit a total of 10 fruit & veg for the last 3 days which I'm very happy about.

The breakfast loaf survived the freeze & thaw well.

Hey just gonna jump on the bandwaggon with ya here dotcomdolly! TBH im not sure what ive been eating can be strictly seen as paleo. I've kept in quite a bit of dairy such as cottage cheese, full fat natural yoghurt etc. I think im following more of a primal diet than paleo, but tbh i find a lot of conflicting info on the net as to what im actually allowed to have. What I do know is that ive thrown out all the traditional carb sources in favour of veg.

My biggest problem is brekkie. I have a VERY sweet tooth in the morning and cant handle the thought of eating meat in the morning. The past few mornings my breakfast has been either scramble egss (i can handle) or a tub of cottage cheese packed with berries and an apple cut up. Tasty stuff.

One of the staples getting me through is my thai red curry or normal tomato based curry.

The red curry I make the paste as follows

1" piece ginger
Zest of a lime and juice of half
ground Corriander seed 1tsp
Curry powder 1tsp
3 garlic cloves
1 red bell pepper
2 red chillies (1 if ya dont like it hot)
1tbsp fish sauce & 1 tbsp soy sauce
3 shallots (i also use about 4-5 stalks of scallion instead sometimes)

Blitz all that in a blender if you have one to make a paste. Then in a big pan (wok preferable) heat about 2 tbsp of coconut oil and fry in the paste for about 2 minutes or so (careful the chillis may catch on the back of your throat!) then, add a tin of coconut milk and stir it in should be a nice pale red colour. Then Throw in what ever veg and meat you want. I usually throw in about 3 chicken fillets, a whole head of broccoli and another red pepper. Let that simmer for about 15 min and then bingo, prob the tastiest thing you will eat in a long time! I accompany mine with an iceberg lettuce leaf and wrap it up into little parcels!

Another thing I had the other night ( was tasty as!) was a brocolli salad. Steam some broccoli leave to one side. Get some cashew nuts and heat them on a pan for about 3-4 min. Cut up a few cherry tomatos. Throw a bit of parma ham into a pan heat it up to get it nice and crispy mix all the stuff together. I dressed mine with a garlic and chilli infused olive oil and a little bit of salt and pepper but you can play around with it. That saddled with a massive hunk a steak and your in dinner heaven!

Thehamo... That paste sounds fab :-) my boys love spicy food so that's not a problem. Thanks for the recipe. I'll try it out the next time I have to cook which is Wednesday.

I'm on day 6 now & feeling great. Almost all the gunk is gone out of my nose & throat (my 6 year old brought home every cold possible between September & Christmas and I simply wasn't able to shift the gunk from my face :-( ). I'm not craving anything, I'm not missing baking (but am getting my home in some sort of order instead). I'm loving cooking & feel great about the food the boys & I are eating.

I worked out last night that my chilli costs €3 for the boys & I for dinner. You could probably add 20c to that for the pasta they eat with it. Dinner for the 3 of us, made from ingredients that I can pronounce & not from a packet, all for €3... hell yeah! that's my kind of food!

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

14! (obv not all full portions!) of veg

I had wondered about that. I count each veg that I eat, regardless of portion size. I'm hovering between 8 & 10 a day which I'm happy with as a good few are bigger than a portion.

I decided last night after a conflict & some furniture building that I would like a diet coke. It was very disappointing. I don't know what I was expecting but it was tasteless. I was drinking about 1.5L of diet coke a day over Christmas & went cold turkey last Wednesday.

I'm on day 7 today. My weight loss has stayed the same which I'm happy with. I have had some toasted almonds over the last few days which are yummy :-)

I had a banana yesterday evening & it was the nicest banana I have ever tasted IN MY LIFE!

this is not 100% paleo because of the butter ( and it needs to be butter ) but how about this one.

run a knife along a couple of courgettes then use a peeler to make courgette spaghetti - let it drain a bit so as to get most of the water out of it.
in one pan start to fry this at a very high heat in batches, it only takes 1 to 2 mins .
for your sauce - fry some garlic in butter ( big nob !), add spinach and cherry tomatoes and lots of basil in butter, you can add oregano ( nutmeg works great with spinach and butter ) etc as well, I would often add a chilli or two to mix it up a bit. Once this is cooked whack a good glug of Balsamic vinegar into it so you have a good sauce with the melted butter.
You could use cider vinegar I suppose which is more paleo but that's taking it a bit far imo.

chuck one into the other and you've a very nice "pasta" dish as a side to your pork chops or whatever and a fair whack of veggies as you'll easily eat a full courgette by yourself !