Paleo Variety

So, I've been doing a lot of research on the Paleo Diet.  I've even made a couple of the recipes (in the Primal way out of necessity), and while I haven't made anything organic and grass-fed, I have to say that it's all very tasty.  That's far more than I can say for the several recipes I tried to make with the plant based diet that left my pallet and my stomach wanting.  It was so bland I stopped eating once the true edge of hunger wore off.

With the paleo diet, however, I have the whole world opened to me still.  I have found ways to make tortillas (or a rough equivalent) out of coconut flour, and it takes far less coconut flour than wheat flour to make them.  I find myself excited about the menu, and I mean genuinely excited.  Not excitedly hopeful.  I can tell these meals are going to be divine.  They use seasonings I'm used to, and have easy milk substitutes.  I made soy milk for two weeks and found it super easy and I'm looking forward to trying my hand at coconut and almond milk (mainly to make the super pricey flour and get milk at the same time).

A lack of variety in the paleo diet?  I don't think so.  I find myself looking forward to winter so that I can have access to winter squashes.  I want to make my own pumpkin puree so that I can make all sorts of pancakes, muffins, and pies for my husband.  I want to try vegetables I'd never touch before.  Do you know how many vegetables there are in the world?  I'm going to try most, if not all of them.  I'm going to buy meat I never thought of buying before, and I'm going to get creative with everything.

Heck, during my shower I was thinking about how good it would be to have a spinach and salmon mixture stuffed into a sweet pepper and wrapped in bacon and baked.

Can anyone say heck ya?

So I'm going to give up most of the food I have been eating every day for the majority of my life.  Food that is bad for me and food that has done me no favors.  Will I miss the texture and taste of bread?  Maybe for a few weeks or months, but I can't think of any reason I would need it when I can get so much more from things I wouldn't even try before.

For now, there is a meat crust quiche baking in the oven.  Before yesterday I had never made a quiche before, but this is the second one.  The idea scared me, and I'm ready for my culinary and dietary adventure to begin.

Bring it on!

(But first everything I already have in my kitchen must be devoured.  Waste not, want not.  So the saying goes anyway.)