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Is it necessary to soak marrow bones before cooking?

I read in Jennifer Mclagan's book, and others online that one should soak marrow bones before cooking to remove the blood. Is this purely for appearance or is there a safety issue? …
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Soaking/Sprouting, What’s the Difference?

I want to lower the Phytic Acid I eat from Nuts (my diet is 60% fat, so they are one of my favorite good fat sources), and I want to soak them at home myself, but they sell Sproute …
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White or fermented brown rice with meal?

My question.. Which is better: 1) straight out of the package white rice or 2) properly prepared (fermented) brown rice. The conventional wisdom is that brown rice is better and …
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How effective is soaking for getting rid of lectins from nuts?

Hey Guys, I have had major digestive issues, and some other nonsense, so I am considering trialling robb wolfs auto-immune protocol, or an approximation of it. Because of my gut …
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How Would You Design a Cheap Grain Diet with Paleo Principles?

Sounds like a contradiction I know. But if you were to design a diet for someone, say they were going through financial hardship or something, what would it include and what ways w …
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Soaking and Sprouting Nuts and Seeds

I have purchased sprouted seeds at the store but they are extremely expensive. I'd love to learn to do this myself at home with seeds and nuts. I can't find a good source of inform …
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White Rice and The Perfect Health Diet

In The Perfect Health Diet, the authors list white rice as a safe starch. I have began experimenting with soaking then cooking white rice as I run better on more carbs. Has anyone …
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Soaking Chia/flax seeds

I have seen chia smoothies around a number of paleo cooking pages, as well as other recipies that use chia as a 'gelling' agent to make pudding/jelly like deserts. Is breaking (or …
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Soaked, fermented, nixtamalized corn: how bad, really?

I have some corn flour that has been treated with lime water. This is supposed to break down the kernel and help increase the bioavailability of many of the vitamins, especially B3 …
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Why do we use an acidic medium like ACV to get rid of phytic acid when soaking nuts?

If ACV is acidic, wouldn't it make more sense to use something alkaline like plain baking soda to get rid of the phytic acid? How exactly does using water or ACV/lemon juice/whatev …
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Infra-red oven hack — can I change the timer to longer than 1 hour?

I want to make crispy almonds, etc like Sally Fallon recommends and I need a way to roast the nuts overnight at temps under 150 degrees. Has anyone figured out how to turn the oven …
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Shelled macadamia nuts

I just found macadamia nuts in shell on sale, bought a couple lbs. Now knowing that they are literally impossible to crack, so I'm searching online for options, all of which inclu …
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Best Legumes to Eat?

Not technically a paleo question, but I'm not sure what other nutritional community to ask :). Hypothetically, if I were to eat legumes, what would be some of the better ones to e …