Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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What are your favourite vegetables that you can eat everyday? Can you list some good non-nightshade ones? How do you eat them, cooked or raw? If cooked, how is it cooked? Boiled, steamed, sauted, fried, baked lol?

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Paleoette · Answer 1 · 2012-04-17 21:14:53Z UTC

Brussels sprouts - halved, tossed in olive oil and S+P, roasted.

Cauliflower - steamed, roasted.

Cabbage - sautéed, roasted, raw.

Broccoli - sautéed, steamed, roasted.

Kale - sautéed with lemon juice and butter (especially good when 1/2 kale 1/2 cabbage), baked (kale chips).

Rock on, cruciferous vegetables. I love you so much that I'm almost sorry I have to eat you.

Jaych · Answer 2 · 2012-04-17 21:32:12Z UTC

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I have to say beets (Dwight Schrute would love me). Both the root and the greens. I love them roasted, but nothing beats (har har) a salad of beet greens with pickled beets on top.

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Thumper · Answer 3 · 2012-04-17 21:04:35Z UTC

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I Love kale - any way you prepare it!

I love baked cauliflower

I love broccoli - any way except raw

OK I could go on for days and days. I Love Vegetables especially if they're cooked in lard (beef, pork or duck mmmmmmmmm)

answered Apr 17 2012 at 21:04

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Yum, I recently discovered kale and you are right...it's wonderful! – Ali Apr 17 2012 at 21:06

what do you do with Kale? I am having problems with energy and my trainer told me to up the green veg..especially kale...but it's not something I'm used to in Australia, but having moved to the UK it's everywhere and I don't really know what to do with it – mzrdnan Apr 18 2012 at 9:47

Esiest to start with is to cut it up and sautee it in some lard and garlic. Cook it until it's a touch wilty. You can also make kale chips in the oven (just google kale chips and you'll find some easy recipes) – Thumper Apr 18 2012 at 14:46

Al88 · Answer 4 · 2012-04-17 21:06:38Z UTC

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Baby spinach! The MOST versatile vegetable ever!

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VB · Answer 5 · 2012-04-17 22:55:27Z UTC

My favorite vegetables FOR STEAMING:

bok choy

chinese cabbage

brussel sprouts in season

spinach

red cabbage

baby zucchini

baby pattypan

leeks

green onions (scallions)

cherry kumato

garlic

purple basil

My favorite vegetables FOR BAKING WITH NOTHING ADDED:

parsnips

beets

butternut squash

My favorite vegetables to eat RAW:

carrots

cucumber

arugula leaves

rutabaga

Vegetables I don't like but eat anyway:

broccoli

cauliflower

Paul · Answer 6 · 2012-04-17 20:38:28Z UTC

I adore carrots. In fact I like carrots so much I'm surprised they are good for me. My favorite way to eat them? I like them straight out of the my own organic garden, raw and unpeeled. Steaming up baby carrots with some Ghee or Coconut oil is also a possibility if I want to get fancy about it.

Ali · Answer 7 · 2012-04-17 21:11:04Z UTC

Kale is one of my favorites as well! I'm loving kale chips (coat lightly with olive oil and salt, bake @350 until crisp...20 min?), but I also love it raw added to a salad. I bet it would be good as a burger topping, too...mmm, I might try that tonight!

I also love squashes:

zucchini & yellow squash cooked in butter in a cast iron pan on the grill
spaghetti squash used in place of spaghetti noodles
zucchini sliced and used in place of lasagna noodles
butternut squash cubed and roasted (great if you're searching for the potato feel without the potato)

Yum, I'm hungry now...8)

Ebice · Answer 8 · 2012-04-18 01:43:52Z UTC

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Carrots!!! then any leafy green things.

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MeepsIsWellfed · Answer 9 · 2012-04-18 15:50:58Z UTC

Each week I buy a bag of organic frozen spinach (chopped) and a bag of organic broccoli crowns. I eat those with some sort of meat at lunch and add an olive oil/vinegar/mustard dressing over the top. It's delish and helps me get some greens. I don't really do veggies unless they are super simple and preferably mixed up in something. I know my weakness and try to address it this way.

Favorurite vegetables?? (Possibly no nightshades)

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