tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83495748145692858772024-09-14T09:09:33.217-07:00How a family of three eats frugally while following the Paleo Diet.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-34646626985732174402012-06-12T06:27:00.001-07:002012-06-12T06:30:07.406-07:00

Source   One of the local stores had a sale this week on pork butt roasts - 99 cents a pound - yum!  The moment I saw the ad, I have visions of pork carnitas, pork chili (yes, with beans - shoot me), and yummy meat for paleo-friendly dishes dancing through my head. So, I sent one of my roommates, R, over to the stores to buy one.  I thought she'd come home with the usual 4

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-57986247959247112372012-05-30T08:57:00.003-07:002012-05-30T08:57:26.383-07:00

Source - Not our collection of canned goods....but our pantry looks similar!   I'm a lucky duck - not only did I move into a household where they follow a strict Gluten-Free diet and are proponents to the Paleo Diet, but they almost believe in the wonders of a home garden.  Most of the tiny yard about our mobile home is garden space, not to mention the nice patch at the community

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-74165260921437225772012-05-30T07:42:00.003-07:002012-05-30T07:42:48.565-07:00

The ladies over at Food Your Way are doing a Break the Sugar Habit Challenge this June.  Now, if you're reading this website, you've probably already given up the sugar monster but if you haven't....or if you have friends that could use a little "motivation", check out the great links at More Reasons to Give Up Sugar.  Lots of great information to get your moving towards your "sugar

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One of my good friends lost her battle with cancer today.  This is a very distressing event for everyone who knew Ms. M.  The illness happened so quickly!  One moment, she was fine and bouncing off the walls....and the next, she was fighting for breath in the ICU of the local hospital.  I had just had coffee with her 5 weeks ago.  She was bubbly, happy, and ready to

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-47911108373816014052012-05-17T09:32:00.003-07:002012-05-17T09:32:41.314-07:00

source I got 15 lbs of onions at Family Harvest on Friday.  Add that to the boxful that we already had (my roommate, A, gets a weekly brown bag from the Senior Assistance program here in town and there's always onions and potatoes in it), and we have enough onions to keep a Italian village happy. So, now we're on the lookout for good Paleo onion recipes.  I woke up Saturday morning

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To answer some questions I've received via email in the last month or so: Yes, I'm alive. Yes, I'm still Paleo. Yes, I'm still watching my pennies when it comes to our food budget. The last few months have been a bit crazy....but really, every month since I broke my leg (July 2011, if anyone is interested) has been a bit insane! The biggest change of the year - the kids and I moved. 

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-497109982546665032012-01-04T02:44:00.000-08:002012-01-04T02:44:15.651-08:00

source Yes, I know - I'm a little late with my end-of-the-year wrap-up but with the holidays and a couple big projects that seemed to take over most of my December....  Well, you get the idea. So, let's discuss health first: I haven't stepped on a scale since ..... oh, early December-ish, I think.  At that time, I was a solid 190.  My goal for this year was to get under 200.&

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-85603457335394570022011-12-05T17:36:00.001-08:002011-12-05T17:41:06.376-08:00

This is a great video on how one woman cured (yes, cured) her MS with a Paleo Diet!  I had to share! The YouTube link is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KLjgBLwH3Wc - please pass it on!

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-44619378737756646172011-11-27T21:44:00.001-08:002011-11-27T21:59:55.107-08:00

While I was out shopping this morning, I decided to stop by our local Smart & Final.  I mean, I was in the neighborhood and I did need some more sugar-free vanilla coffee syrup (not Paleo, I know...but it's a lovely treat in my tea in the morning)...so in I went.  I grabbed two bottles of syrup and made a side track though the meat section on my way out....and was completely

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-34179366577897943312011-11-24T20:01:00.001-08:002011-11-24T20:06:07.467-08:00

Clockwise, starting at the top: Roasted vegetables (Brussels sprouts, carrots, broccoli stems) Spaghetti squash Turkey Fried potatoes Paula Deen's sweet potato souffle (minus the flour and about 1/2 the sugar) because it's not Thanksgiving unless you have some sort of dessert!  ;-) Yum!

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-85437487819152202332011-11-23T10:37:00.001-08:002011-11-23T11:10:14.112-08:00

First of all....yes, I am still alive.  Secondly, 2011 can kiss my ass. This year has been going downhill ever since I broke my leg in August.  I'm barely keeping my head above water these days.  When I'm not trying to drum up work (which has hit the usual holiday lulls), I am either writing or playing World of Warcraft.  (Hey!  Don't laugh!  Some people drink

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-42514283545636319352011-10-18T13:00:00.000-07:002011-10-18T14:22:08.970-07:00

My fridge is having issues this month.  It's still snowing in the freezer and the bottom refrigerated section is ....well, let's just say that it's having some mold issues.  I've been trying to ignore it for the last couple of weeks or so - I just haven't had the energy to tackle emptying the fridge and bleaching everything.  (Hey, you break your ankle and see what you let go, okay

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I, "Gimp-Along Annie", have three different appointments to get to this morning, including a fun trip to physical therapy - ugh.  (Can you tell I'm thrilled?)  So, I crawled out of bed at 5:30 AM so I would have a few minutes of peace and quiet to check my email, drink some tea...and make a lot of food before the kids got up. See, I have these nice friends who have offered to babysit

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-90601804101823794202011-10-10T08:56:00.000-07:002011-10-10T08:56:18.697-07:00

Just a quick stop before my Monday takes off to pass along this link to y'all - Slice Your Own Steak @ LifeHacker.   Years ago, pre-divorce, we used to do this - buy a "chunk of beef", bring it home, cut it down into cuts that we could use, wrap and store in the freezer for later yumminess.  I don't (or really can't) do this anymore - those chunks of beef just cost too much for

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-8328400493292935112011-10-07T08:06:00.000-07:002011-10-07T08:06:23.611-07:00

Once a year, I get tired of the state of the freezer and decide to enact a moratorium on freezer items and make it a goal to eat through what's in there before I buy anything else to go into there.  We are having one of those moment right now.  I enacted this moratorium two weeks ago after the chicken avalanched and tried to take the stack of ground beef with it.  I just took a

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-19699861426879323822011-10-04T13:43:00.000-07:002011-10-04T13:43:36.668-07:00

Someone recently commented on this blog that I'm not following a true "Paleo" diet since I periodically eat potatoes, only buy commercially-produced fruit, veggies, and beef, and do not partake in coconut oil.  And let's not get into the "you're poisoning your children" because my kids do not follow a 100% Paleo Diet. I deleted the comment but her words have stuck in my head for the last

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-55552957605541645402011-09-26T12:19:00.000-07:002011-09-26T12:19:09.262-07:00

I spent my Saturday cleaning and restocking the fridge.  It was pretty easy - the old baby was getting pretty empty thanks to a week and a half of no rides to the grocery store.  (I can't wait until I'm driving again...) Sunday was a cool day here in the San Jose Valley - cloudy and cold - but after spending the day before running (okay, hobbling) around Costco, Trader Joe's, and the

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-85172119730008861772011-09-14T16:26:00.000-07:002011-09-14T16:26:32.098-07:00

I'm FREE!!!  Finally!   Of course, this doesn't mean that I tap danced my way out of the doctor's office.  My ankle and leg are very stiff and yesterday, it was so swollen, my moms were comparing my toes to "little pink sausages".  (Yeah, real funny, people...real funny!)  This morning, my leg was still swollen but not as bad as yesterday and as the day goes by

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My mom woke Saturday morning with a nasty toothache.  After hemming and hawing about it for a couple hours, I called a friend and asked her to take my mom to the Urgent Care at the hospital.  They returned a couple hours later with antibiotics and instructions to see her dentist in two weeks.  Ever since then, Mom's been feeling under the weather.  Pain and infection will do

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-63883505001352353252011-09-06T20:11:00.000-07:002011-09-06T20:11:03.074-07:00

Source A friend came by my place this morning with a plastic grocery bag full green tomatoes, straight from her garden.  Being one who can't stand wasting food, I spent the rest of the day washing, sorting, and processing tomatoes. The larger, more ripe specimens (ones that were the hue of the one in the pic) were placed in my front window to finish ripening. The small dark green ones

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Tonight's dinner was a favorite of mine - Spanish Tortilla.  I usually use these moment to clean out the fridge, making one of my famous "Everything But The Kitchen Sink" tortillas, but not tonight.  Tonight was a simple one with potatoes (yes, we eat potatoes - deal), onions, and carrots.  Yum!  Everyone was quite happy...even the 4-year-old known as Mr. I Hate Eggs! (I

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-46690193126620825062011-08-30T18:42:00.000-07:002011-08-30T18:44:34.601-07:00

I'm a big fan of Alton Brown so when he did French Onion Soup over a decade ago, my then-husband and I decided that we had to try it.  It was some GOOD soup and I added the recipe to my repertoire for use when I found some cheap onions. Over the years, I've used the concepts I learned in that show to make some damn good bases for soups and stews.  Nothing like 4+  lbs of stewed

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-45495360456762943912011-08-24T18:04:00.000-07:002011-08-24T18:04:33.610-07:00

Hi everyone!  Sorry for the no updates lately.  I've been enjoying my convalescence - actually I've been spoiling myself, lying in bed, writing, reading, organizing paperwork, crocheting, and watching Netflix, while someone else cleans my house and keeps the kids in shape. ;-)  (This is about where my sister throws things at me!) I realized this morning that I hadn't updated my

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-22490208294618906412011-08-03T10:57:00.000-07:002011-08-03T10:57:52.188-07:00

I had my an appointment with the orthopedic surgeon yesterday morning to discuss having my surgery next Monday.  Of course, we didn't just see the surgeon, but another doctor, a PA, and (my absolute favorite) a financial counselor to get my Medi-cal figured out.  Nothing ends a perfect morning of poking and prodding and sickening discussions of pins and plates like spending an hour

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349574814569285877.post-55814534354362719802011-07-30T23:01:00.000-07:002011-07-30T23:01:20.733-07:00

Today was the day I discovered that I have a VERY high pain threshold.  How do I know?  I broke my leg this morning. Went for a hike with a friend.  We were maybe 10 minutes in, still near the road, when I hit a patch of loose sand.  One foot went one way, the other went another...and I heard a pop.  Oops!  I tried to set weight on it and realized that No, that

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