Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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After going paleo, I have these food items that I don't eat anymore.

rolled oats, grits, whole wheat flour, and dry pasta (and also a pasta machine and pasta roller) Other than giving it away or eating it, are there any uses anyone can think of?

Note: I believe this is relevent to paleo because many people who switch to non-paleo suffer this dilema.

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asked Sep 21 2010 at 1:54

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Are they all opened packages? Otherwise donating to charity is your best bet. – Hannah Sep 21 2010 at 3:21

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Even if you don't eat it, you can cook it for someone else to eat. And no, paleofundamentalists, this isn't akin to poisoning them! – Kamal♦ Sep 21 2010 at 3:54

+1 to Hannah's comment. Donate them! Someone would surely appreciate it. – Ben Sep 21 2010 at 13:03

Tim Rangitsch · Answer 1 · 2010-09-21 03:00:21Z UTC

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Poison your enemies.

answered Sep 21 2010 at 3:00

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Adam Crafter · Answer 2 · 2010-09-21 13:23:08Z UTC

Soak it, compost it, and make other veggies out of it this coming year!

Or you can obtain some mushroom spawn from fungi.com and after cooking and cooling the iffy food and mixing it with some scrap wood... you can grow tasty food mushrooms on it

... I love the oyster mushroom spawn from Paul Stamets at fungi.com

Growing your own food mushrooms where you can find them easily later is a great hunter gatherer HACK!

BetheMachine · Answer 3 · 2010-09-21 02:20:41Z UTC

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Keep in the trunk of your car for when you're stuck in the snow. They give great traction.

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Kamal · Answer 4 · 2010-09-21 02:14:08Z UTC

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You can store these grains in a bucket, and move your fingers and hand around in them. Pitchers do this to strengthen their hands, as do grip strength fanatics. Check out "Mastery of Hand Strength", the seminal volume on this!

answered Sep 21 2010 at 2:14

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I prefer rice in a bucket. My finger strength has allowed me to become a master in the deadly martial art called "Five Fingers of Death" – Mark V May 15 2011 at 20:25

Paul · Answer 5 · 2010-09-21 03:03:27Z UTC

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This works for rice, but I'm not sure about the things you have. Sew it into a small cloth bag or a pillowcase, then warm it up in the microwave; then you have a hot pack for aching muscles or whatever else.

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	Now I know what to do with that 15 lb. of jasmine rice in my cupboard...THANKS! – familygrokumentarian Sep 28 2010 at 15:45
	Great with oats too – Stephen-Aegis Sep 28 2010 at 16:34

sophie · Answer 6 · 2010-09-21 03:39:13Z UTC

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Rolled oats make a great facemask- mixed in with water and clay if you need it to be stickier. Otherwise just make it thick enough to splodge onto your face- leave it on until it dries out, then wash off with warm water. It tightens up pores and leaves the skin really soft!

Rice can be used for salt shakers to stop them blocking...

answered Sep 21 2010 at 3:39

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I second the rice and salt shakers--it works because the rice draws away moisture. For that same reason if you get a little bit of water in a cell phone or something like that then you can bury it in some rice and draw the moisture out. Doesn't always save the electronics, but I've seen it work. Sorry to the OP for turning this into the rice thread, haha. – Paul Sep 21 2010 at 13:05

Eva · Answer 7 · 2010-09-21 02:13:52Z UTC

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Wild bird food.

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I filled a neighbor's bird feeder several times, with his permission, with various cereal grains. He appreciated the free bird food. – PaleoGran Dec 19 2010 at 10:19

ben61820 · Answer 8 · 2010-09-21 13:19:03Z UTC

I use dried grains in a small bowl as my incense holder. Im using thin, long sticks of incense and the only way i can get them to stand upright and have their ash fall down right into the bowl is to have something like buckwheat, oats, rice, etc as a bedding. Works like a charm.

Jennifer · Answer 9 · 2010-09-21 02:46:06Z UTC

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I'm digging a pasta cannon, though I'm sure those on the recieving end would NOT.

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Ed · Answer 10 · 2010-09-21 12:43:58Z UTC

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Arts and crafts, like people make art out of gingerbread or cake ( https://www.groveparkinn.com/gallery/National-Gingerbread-House-Competition ).

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answered Sep 21 2010 at 1:59

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I appreciate your effort lol! – Philip Sep 21 2010 at 2:06

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Actually you may be on to something- an elementary school teacher may be able to use these. Flour makes paper mache paste. Pasta for jewelery or collage. Oats are amazing for itchy dry skin, so keep those and use in a bath in the winter or after insect bites or poison ivy. – Hannah Sep 21 2010 at 3:24

Carl_Stawicki · Answer 11 · 2010-09-28 14:26:01Z UTC

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I keep my left-over staples around in case I have to cook or bake for someone else. I use salt to scrub out my cast iron cookware.

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For someone you don't like? – Stephen-Aegis Sep 28 2010 at 16:36

W8liftinmom · Answer 12 · 2010-09-28 17:54:28Z UTC

I eased my kids into paleo by allowing them to use up flour, oats, etc in baking then made them modify recipes or look up "paleo" recipes once we ran out.

Whatever wasn't used, we fed to the chickens and goats. :-)

Recently bought a bag of flour, my 18yo was shocked! But it was only for her sister to make salt dough for a school project and to make a "chalk" keyhole pattern in our arena for the horses. :-)

Naphtali · Answer 13 · 2010-09-28 18:24:05Z UTC

Pasta machines are also a great arts and crafts tools- they are great for smoothing our polymer clay etc. http://www.amazon.com/Design-Originals-Techniques-Pasta-Machine/dp/B001682C9C

Also- not sure if anyone mentioned this, but I put rice in all salt shakers so that the grains stay separate despite humidity. Not a huge use of rice- but it's a use all the same.

Stancel · Answer 14 · 2010-10-01 07:58:28Z UTC

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You can use dry pasta as "pick up sticks" :)

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Other Uses for rolled oats, grits, whole wheat flour, and dry pasta

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