How to fit Paleo eating into your menu

from palaeoblog.blogspot.com

I’ve been seeing the term “Paleo eating” lately, and I assume this is the newest form of the Caveman Diet that was introduced back in the 1970s: Paleo as in Paleolithic era, which ended ten thousand years ago. So we’re not talking about some brand new concept here. In fact, it’s a really old idea – like about ten thousand years old. Except that, ten thousand years ago, I doubt it was a ‘concept’ or even a ‘diet.’ I expect it was whatever you could forage, capture, or otherwise find to put on the Paleolithic dining table, such as it was.

Think veggies, fruits, nuts, meat and fish. Berries. Berries are good. Cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting?

Not so much.

Although, if the caveman’s diet was based on hunting and foraging, I think cinnamon rolls would fit right into that menu plan. I know I’ve been hunting for the perfect cinnamon roll for the last thirty years.  Clearly, I still have that hunting-for-food instinct working for me. I can be just as much a caveman – or cavewoman – as my ancestors were. Just ask my husband.

“Is your wife a caveman?”

“Absolutely,” he’d agree. “She’ll beat the bushes for a good carrot cake any day.”

It’s nice to know I’m on top of a trend. In fact, I’m going out to forage right now. I hear Perkins Restaurant has a rhubarb pie to die for.

Wish me luck…