You are what you eat!

Check out this great recipe from Mark’s Daily Apple If you don’t have a slow-cooker, the dish can be cooked in the oven, covered, for 1-2 hours. 2 pounds ground pork (or a combination of pork and beef) 4 large green peppers 1 large onion 2 carrots 4 cloves of garlic 1/2 head of cauliflower […]

Energy Bars from Mark’s Daily Apple Ingredients: 1/2 cup slivered almonds 1/2 cup pecans 1/4 cup almond or sesame seed meal 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut 1/4 cup almond butter 1/4 cup coconut oil (check your local health food store) 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1/2 tsp of raw honey 1/4 teaspoon sea salt 1/2

. Someone sent this to me in an email the other day, and I couldn’t resist posting it.  We know the facts about junk food, but I think this brings some perspective pretty quickly. Each cube represents a teaspoonful… Let’s take a look at some drinks! Dessert, anyone? OR, you could eat these yummy things

Carob Goodie ———— 1 cup toasted unsweetened carob 1.5 cups pecan meal 1/2 cup or less coconut oil Mix well together. It’s a little soft for fudge, but has a similar bittersweetrich experience as chocolate. It helped me get off a significant chocolate addiction. From: Lynnet Bannion on the PaleoFood list Give it a try

Apple Cinnamon Paleo Pancakes – recipe from the  Performance Menu Time: 20 min Ingredients: Coconut butter 1 egg 1/4 C of ground walnuts or almonds 1/4 C coconut milk 1/2 small apple, or 1/4 large apple 1/2 – 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 C blueberries I think that I used to live for breakfast with pancakes. 

Lemon Chicken on Cauliflower Mash ~ From Primal Mama Cooks Doesn’t this look fancy? It has the look of a gourmet meal. You can make this dish with bone-in chicken or with boneless breast or thigh. It’s really up to your preference. The cauliflower mash is super simple and not bland at all with the

You should all be familiar by now with the CrossFit Fitness Pyramid As you can see, the foundation of the CrossFit Pyramid is Nutrition.  Each level of this Fitness Pyramid is dependent on the foundation beneath it.  If that foundation is not solid, then the above levels will certainly suffer.  The bottom foundational level is

We recently received an email from a Maluma Bison distributor from the mainland, Karsten Schellhas Co-Founder of Maluma Bison. They raise 100% grass-fed bison without antibiotics or growth hormones. They have sold to a few CrossFit gyms on the mainland over the last few years. They have been in business for 6 years and also

Every single human being needs vitamins and minerals in order to survive. Bar none. Vitamins are those organic food substances which are found only in living things such as plants and animals. The body is not normally able to synthesize or manufacture vitamins, and so they must be supplied either directly in the diet, or

Just for a moment, allow me to play Devil’s Advocate here. I’m going to explore the possibility that sugar is a drug. Yes, you heard me correctly: a DRUG. I did some research, and there was so much information out there to support this topic that I just had to write about it. Did you