Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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I'm curious if there is something that you've found yourself wishing you had to make Paleo decisions or questions or implementation or conversations easier to handle. Makes your Paleo LIFE just a little less of a hassle.

I don't want to put in too many examples to bias your answers. I'd just love to hear some ideas on "that would be super to have in my Paleo bag of tricks!"

If there are some great answers this might be a good Meta question (not entirely sure how that works).

flag	asked Oct 12 at 15:02 misstenacity 381●1●9

I love the answers - I mean, who wouldn't love a drive-thru Paleo restaurant chain, right? But, hmm. Let me show my cards. I was thinking more like something that a person or company could provide as a service or appliance or (gasp!) an app. Like a Paleo restaurant finder app with "find stuff near me" capabilities. Like a cheat sheet with the definitive list of what's good from Trader Joe's. Or Whole Foods. Essentially I want to know if there is something that I COULD BUILD that would help. Thanks for reading. :-) – misstenacity Oct 13 at 23:53

Jackie · Answer 1 · 2012-10-12 21:27:15Z UTC

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A sustainable family farm with an orchard, cows, goats, chickens, badass garden, root cellar, maybe a trout stream nearby, no bills, no need to work outside of the home/farm, low stress.. that would be nice.

answered Oct 12 at 21:27

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Great answer. No pigs? They're a great waste disposal. And friendly – Alec Oct 13 at 6:03

Actually, we did have pigs on our farm growing up, but I was thinking of breeding and maintaining our own "herd" kind of, and maintaining a pig population is tougher on a small scale, though I suppose having farming neighbors who could lend a sire would be helpful. We typically bought 2-3 piglets per season, raised them, and then sent them to a slaughter house, because they are also much harder to slaughter than cows, goats and chickens. They did eat everything though, including the night milk from our cows, which was always too much for our family, and they were very sweet. – Jackie Oct 13 at 19:14

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I think I'd choose the chicken/goat combo for the waste disposal. Do pigs eat that much more varied "waste"? Although the income to have pigs that you feed only apples and acorns would be AWESOME. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam%C3%B3n_ib%C3%A9rico – misstenacity Oct 13 at 23:44

Very true, our goats ate everything and anything. Same with our chickens. I even saw some hens cannibalize the chicks of other hens from time to time. And there was no shortage of space or feed since they were free range.. they just saw something small move around.. so they took care of a lot of bugs too, needless to say! – Jackie Oct 14 at 2:57

Shows what I know! I imagine maintaining a farm (even small) is a lot of work, no? – Alec Oct 14 at 6:23

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james barlow · Answer 2 · 2012-10-12 16:19:47Z UTC

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A personal chef.

answered Oct 12 at 16:19

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if you're in la...i'm a chef. – bj Oct 12 at 17:07

a personal chef and grocery shopper that I could afford. – jake3_14 Oct 13 at 0:57

Diane · Answer 3 · 2012-10-12 17:31:34Z UTC

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I'd like other people to understand paleo and not get all crazy because I don't eat grains and vegetable oil.

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jake3_14 · Answer 4 · 2012-10-13 01:02:03Z UTC

What makes my paleo conversations easier with other people is mostly not to have them. Food's highly personal, like religion, and people are just as touchy about it. I do, however, keep my old Driver's license with my fat photo, and show it to people who want to dispute the benefits while saying "That was me before paleo/low carb."

What would make my food life more convenient is if my wife ate the same way. She's now T2 diabetic and won't let go of her carb addiction, despite my example.

joanna · Answer 5 · 2012-10-12 15:30:10Z UTC

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not having ulcerative colitis which gives me so many food sensitivities.

answered Oct 12 at 15:30

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Patty · Answer 6 · 2012-10-12 16:10:02Z UTC

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The ability to sleep while being awake!

answered Oct 12 at 16:10

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My daughter does this every day at high school. This technique requires IB Math or Latin. – Dave S. Oct 12 at 18:46

Haha!! That will do it to a person. – Chelsea Oct 12 at 21:14

CD · Answer 7 · 2012-10-12 16:17:40Z UTC

So I think the desire of the OP is more policy than a "Grass-fed, organic, whole-foods approach drive through on every corner" (which would be awesome.)

From a policy standpoint I'd just like real science to be conducted in nutritional sciences. Too many of these studies are not properly controlled, thus the findings can be interpreted or thrown out for a million reasons. If we had real science, and real scientist who are looking to eliminate obesity and obesity related diseases through practical solutions, and not just trying to find the next prescriptive drug to trick your body into not properly functioning (like Statins and Fat-blockers) then we could start to have merited debates about the potential solutions with facts and not N=1 and ideology driving the decisions.

PhysiqueRescue · Answer 8 · 2012-10-12 21:12:53Z UTC

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A herd of wild buffalo grazing close to the house.

Matt
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TruthinessInc · Answer 9 · 2012-10-12 21:28:04Z UTC

"that would be super to have in my Paleo bag of tricks!"

I'd like someone doing all my prep’ work...I mean yes, keeping up with my knife skills is important but when Spike TV is playing a Star Wars marathon for the 100th time...I of course need to be watching that and not trying to perfect the perfect bone broth rub for a pork butt...priorities is all I'm saying...priorities and laziness wink

Truth.

Julia · Answer 10 · 2012-10-12 21:30:19Z UTC

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For me the cost of meat to go down would make it a lot more easier

answered Oct 12 at 21:30

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CS · Answer 11 · 2012-10-12 21:30:47Z UTC

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For all the non paleo foods in the world to become invisible to me (but still exist.)

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Like a paleo perception filter! – Michelle Oct 12 at 21:40

Aleen · Answer 12 · 2012-10-12 21:31:51Z UTC

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Tasty, easily accessible beef jerky. Like, run to the corner store accessible.

answered Oct 12 at 21:31

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DELETE FROM PALEOHACKS · Answer 13 · 2012-10-18 18:48:08Z UTC

Here's one for you...

The Problem: There are millions of paleo recipes out there on the internet (which is great) but a lot of them are created by people that don't know a thing about cooking or the science behind it. So they throw some things together and by some miracle it works for them so they post it, sometimes with a picture that isn't even theirs. Then people try to make it and its aweful and you've just wasted lots of money.

Solution: Create a website much like Chowstalcker but with the ability to rate the recipe like Food.com. That way the bad ones can be avoided, money saved, and the real winners can shine through. I miss food.com. I loved searching for a recipe that showed 500 people giving it 5 stars, the recipe always turned out awesome. Unfortunately, there are only about 20 paleo recipes on there.

Stefanie · Answer 14 · 2012-10-16 00:32:26Z UTC

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Roommates that didn't eat like shit would help

answered Oct 16 at 0:32

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What would make your Paleo life easier every day?

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