“Visualize a positive feedback loop: eat well, rejoice in the effects, and then do it again (and again and again because you love what it does for you). That’s the beauty of the living Primally.” -Mark Sisson
Being primal means eating GOOD. Hearty, balanced, nutritious, delicious meals. Here’s a look at some of the food I’ve been chomping on.
Breakfast! Bacon, fried eggs (fried in the bacon fat), tomatoes and spinach, spicy guacamole. This type of meal with sustain you for HOURS and HOURS. No hunger 2 hours later; which seems to be common with grain based breakfast foods.
I usually follow breakfast with a square or two of dark chocolate…goes great w/ my coffee (that I cream with full fat coconut milk and sprinkle with cinnamon). I prefer 90%, but it’s hard to find. This is my favorite brand though! Chocolate bars aren’t exactly primal, but they are a sensible vice.
This is cod fish “breaded” in coconut flakes, coconut flour, flax seed and cooked in coconut oil. The taste is very tropical! The greens are baked kale…pretty much my favorite primal discovery. So easy to make and has the perfect crunch and salty-ness. Recipe here. I will tell you, they don’t keep well…so only make as much as you’re gonna eat at the time.
Snack time! I adore Bhakti Chai (a local Boulder-made product). It’s a spicy chai tea with hints of ginger. I buy the unsweetened variety to avoid added sugars and add unsweetened almond milk. I usually add some powder cocoa (just plain chocolate, no sweeteners) and then top it off with some coconut crystals (a reasonable sugar substitute). I love this drink so much I could live on it. And that’s my favorite mug back there. My mom used it when I was a kid and then tried to garage sale it at some point; that’s when it became mine.
Here are the supplements I’m currently taking. The most essential one is a high quality fish oil. Everyone should be taking fish oil. Read about the many benefits here.
Grass-fed organic beef that I bought on sale at Whole Foods a while back and froze, cooked with onions and that amazing hot sauce you see there. The orange blob is butternut squash that needs no additional spices or sauces b/c it’s delicious naturally. And then some mini bell peppers with some more hot sauce for dipping.
Snack!!! I’m a snacker, what can I say. I adore organic baby carrots and they’re great plain or dipped in almost anything. Today I dipped them in my favorite primal sauce, Ali Baba’s Baba Gghanouj (another locally made product). It’s a eggplant based dip and it’s so freaking delicious. Creamy and garlic-y….yes please.
So that’s not necessarily a typical day; I collected photos over a few days and just threw some together for this post. My point is that you get to eat real, delicious food when you’re eating primal. Really not once so far have I been sad that I can’t eat a piece of bread or have some cereal or chips. No biggie. I LOVE MY PRIMAL LIFE! As you might imagine, I feel like rock star eating this way. Full of energy but never an overly full gut. Next post will be about my primal fitness regimen!