BAS – big ass salad, the lunch of champions

About a month ago I switched to having salad for lunch every work day. A Big Ass Salad. Nothing low fat or low cal here, just lots of veggies and some healthy fats. I was interested to see how this worked out money wise so I took the time to collect all the prices I’ve [...]

Dinner for one

While I am making the Wine Braised Chuck Roast, it didn’t get in the oven until after 5, and there is no way I could wait until 8:30 to eat dinner. Since I never ate the second lamb arm shoulder chop from dinner last night, I figured that could become dinner, and the chuck roast [...]

Primal menu

Here’s what I’ve picked out to make this week. Lamb with blueberry wine reduction sauce which I’ll serve with Curried Sweet Potato Gratin. Wine braised chuck roast with sweet potato latkes. Salmon Kabayaki. Not sure what to serve with this, so if you’ve got any suggestions, I’m open to them. Lamb with Balsamic Sauce served [...]

What I’m eating

I thought for my own sanity, it might help to keep track of what I’m actually putting down my gullet while I’m trying to eat as close to 100% primal as I can. So breakfast was an over hard egg and two sausages. I just had a banana. And I’m trying really hard to not [...]

Eating perfect paleo/primal for a week?

The ManBeast leaves for a conference Saturday. I get almost an entire week all to myself. Cook as I see fit. Read as I see fit. Sleep taking up the whole bed. WEEEEEE!!! As those of you who have been here a while will know, I’ve been toying with primal for a few months now, [...]

How to coordinate a large meal

Around the holidays you always find articles about how to simplify making a large meal. What different foods to choose so that they can be made the day, or days, before. Or perhaps by choosing dishes that don’t need a lot of tending. But what if you do want to make that large meal that [...]

Liquor laws

Food politics is something that frustrates me. A LOT. Add in laws about not having to label liquor with ingredients, and I end up near rage while in the liquor section of the grocery store. Every wonder why liquor doesn’t have the same labeling as EVERY OTHER FOOD ITEM?? Marion Nestle has a short piece [...]

ANTS!!

1. Go check out The Ant Cam 2. Ask the ants questions on Twitter. You might be interested to know that fungus farming ants are one of the few organisms on this planet that farm (humans, fungal farming termites, and ambrosia beetles being the others that are currently known). But perhaps more interesting is the [...]

Research from New Guinea – nuts and carbs

Two articles have come out recently that I’ve seen mentioned in both the regular news and around the blogging world. As a scientist, when I see ‘popular’ media pieces about things like this, I like to go back to original research article. Often what you see reported is a bastardization of the actual research. These [...]

Emotional eating

If you’d asked me early last week, or at any earlier point in my life, if I was an emotional eater, I would have told you no. I’ve never been known to try to drown my sorrows in food. Now, I have been known to consume an entire pint of Haagen Dazs (back when it [...]

Carbs (again) and some links

I finally got into Daily Burn and figured out how to do the whole nutrient counting stuff. As I was really just interested to see how much of the macronutrients I was eating (carbs, fats, calories, protein), I wasn’t too worried that the rest of the nutrient profiling is behind a pay wall. Using just [...]

Carbohydrates

As I’ve been mulling over the idea of the primal diet in my head I’ve been doing a lot of reading. At first I thought I didn’t know where to start looking for research into what humans used to eat, but then realized that I have a human evolutionary genetics textbook collecting dust on my [...]

Primal challenge irony

I really want to post right now about my mostly primal food today, plus two new recipes. And biking to campus. But part of the primal challenge is getting enough sleep. And as I feel like I’m falling asleep sitting here, I should probably just go to bed already. Hopefully I’ll find time tomorrow to [...]

Primal Blueprint – 30 day challenge

If you’re not here to hear me rant about food theory/dietary ideas, the next month might not be for you. So, um, yeah. I’m *half* jumping on the bandwagon and sort of doing the Primal Blueprint 30 day challenge. As someone said in the forums over there, it’s probably more like I’ll do it at [...]

Mindless Eating – a semi-book review

A friend recently recommended the book “Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think” by Brian Wansink to me. As my university library had it, and at that the branch right across from the building I work in, I figured it was a sign that I should take a look at it. This book [...]