Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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Is anyone here from Poland?

I am Polish but living in the Chicagoland area like about 2 million other Polish people.

Anyway, my parents have known about Jan Kwasniewski and his diet for years and years (even Polish president Lech Walesa used the diet to get rid of diabetes and lose lots of weight). But my parents mock Kwasniewski and say that the diet is for people who have disabilities or diseases of some sort, not for normal healthy people like us.

Of course, they refuse to read his books.

I was just wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience...If Polish people are just stubborn/closed-minded sometimes.

Also- PALEO POLISH RECIPES? Yum

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asked Mar 27 2011 at 21:02

Goose
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	Watching this since I'll be cycling through Poland soon. – sean Mar 27 2011 at 21:09
	I am 1/2 Polish and in the Chicago suburbs. They just closed my awesome Polish grocery store down in Orland Park. I was super sad. – sherpamelissa Mar 27 2011 at 21:22
	My dad and grandpa are polish and very stubborn. I can be a bit obstinate myself... – mari Mar 27 2011 at 22:40
	@sean- watch out for crazy drivers on the "highways"...which are all one lane :D Poland does have a terrible vehicle fatality rate. – Goose Mar 30 2011 at 3:02

Shari Bambino · Answer 1 · 2011-03-29 00:52:53Z UTC

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Partially Polish. I find many polish recipes easy to paleotize. Golabki potato pancakes, Pikeperch, goulash, and bigos are all basically paleo as-is.

Of course, if anyone can come up with a paleo pierogi I would kiss the ground you walk on. I still eat them twice a year because well, I just love them!

answered Mar 29 2011 at 0:52

Shari Bambino
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Potato pancakes can be very very bad- my family fries them in soybean oil and drowns them in ketchup. But they can be very very good. They just take a long time to make. – Goose Mar 30 2011 at 3:04

Yoannah_offca · Answer 2 · 2011-03-29 00:35:20Z UTC

yep, a polish gal here :) Out of Poland for over seven years, at the moment in MD.

I am just now convincing my Mom to switch to Paleo... there is nothing close-minded about Poles in general, no sense to generalize so much.

There is a lot of good paleo Polish foods. Bigos for exaple! and variety of fowl, beef or pork meals. and the use of heavy cream? or raw dairy? yum.

of course the best bread is from Poland as well... ;-)

Bread-Eating Beelzebub · Answer 3 · 2011-03-29 00:39:40Z UTC

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On my Mark's Daily Apple post I mentioned this pork knuckle I had in Krakow: alt text Mmmmmm

answered Mar 29 2011 at 0:39

Bread-Eating Beelzebub
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golonka! I haven't eaten it in ages, and now I won't as I don't eat pig anymore. oh, well.. – Yoannah_offca Mar 29 2011 at 1:13

tdgor · Answer 4 · 2012-05-09 14:56:43Z UTC

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Family in this country for 100 years, but definitely of Polish descent. My great-grandfather was a Lancer officer during the November Uprising!

Beet kvass is very paleo!

answered May 9 2012 at 14:56

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Any Polish paleos?

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