Broccoli with Vegan Cheese Sauce

Here's a super-easy dairy-free cheese sauce for broccoli. It's so tasty and quick! Broccoli is an important source of calcium for folks that don't eat dairy, like Paleo and Vegan folks. Instead of cheese, the recipe uses coconut milk, lemon juice, and nutritional yeast. I love broccoli stems, and they're chock full of healthy...

Healthy Paleo Brownies? A shocking comparison

By Jane Barthelemy. I love all brownies! But hey, they're never what they claim to be. I analyzed three brownie recipes to see which is best. All of them taste great. But which one is healthiest? We believe Paleo brownies are always low-carb and healthy. Right? Nope. Not always. These Nutrition Facts will shock and surprise you!...

Dairy-free Cheddar Cheese

I love sharp cheddar cheese! This Paleo-Vegan cheese tastes almost exactly like Wisconsin cheddar, except it's dairy-free. It is a firm, rich, creamy cheese, with a slightly tangy flavor. Delicious on crackers, slice it for sandwiches, grate it into salads and soups, or use it to make vegan cheese sauce for ...

Paleo Lamb Stew with Thai Spices

It's cold outside today, and I'm in the mood for a hearty winter stew. This savory lamb stew is warm and deeply satisfying. I used grass-fed, grass-finished lamb, and a tantalizing curry spice mix with hints of Thailand. The spices are free of nightshades, which are common allergens for many ...

Why is healthy food so expensive?

By Jane Barthelemy. We lament the high cost of healthy food. But perhaps there's another way to look at it: Why do we even try to compare original foods prepared with care, to cheap, industrial foods? These are two completely different types of "food", with huge nutritional differences. It makes no sense at all to compare Paleo hunt-and gather foods to factory farmed and junk "food"....

Can I Substitute Almond Meal for Coconut?

Yes! Convert almond flour back and forth to coconut flakes! It's easy with this chart. Many people ask why I don't use much almond flour in my recipes. Almond meal/flour is more expensive than shredded coconut per pound. Many people have tree-nut allergies. ...

Paleo Pizza with BBQ Chicken

This 16" pizza is a full meal deal, alive with the flavor of tender barbecued chicken chunks, mushrooms, and onions. Everybody knows that a great pizza needs cheese, however dairy isn't Paleo. So I top it with my Vegan Mozzarella Cheese, or use your favorite grass-fed cheese. The crust is easy to make, with yummy savory herbs. To make this pizza nightshade-free, ...

Dairy-free Mozzarella Cheese

An accidental discovery, this is now my absolute favorite "cheese" for Pizza. We DO want cheese on our pizza! It slices beautifully, and uses pure coconut instead of dairy. It has a milder flavor than Vegan Cheddar Cheese and Paleo Parmesan Cheese. Easy to blend, it's not quite an exact duplicate of the mozzarella taste. However it's so close...

Paleo Crepes with Chocolate Sauce

If you go to Paris and ask for chocolate crepes, they'll give you "Crêpes Sucrées avec Crème Pâtissière and Sauce au Chocolat" or "Sweet Crepes with Pastry Cream and Chocolate Sauce". Just so you guys aren't deprived or anything, here's the same recipe re-designed Paleo and healthy. ...

Paleo Chicken Parmesan

I used to love my Mom's baked chicken parmesan because it was crispy, flavorful, and the whole house filled with delicious aromas. This easy recipe is Paleo-adapted, free of gluten, grains, dairy, and I promise you'll love every bite. Instead of cheese, it uses lemon, coconut butter, nutritional yeast and ...

Paleo Wraps

I love wraps because I can eat them with my hands like a sandwich without bread. These amazing green crepes are super-easy. Just blend and cook in 5 minutes. Blended veggies make them green. You can fill them with anything - egg salad, chicken salad, salmon, leftovers, raw or cooked veggies, whatever you have on hand....

What are the best healthy thickeners?

By Jane Barthelemy. This post is for all you mad scientists in the kitchen! Every chef needs to know the best thickeners. When I was writing my Paleo Desserts book I felt like a blind person searching in the dark. My goal was to re-invent recipes for all our favorite sweets with no gluten, grains ...

Wild Berry Crepes – Paleo & Gluten-free

Refreshing, beautiful, with intoxicating flavor! That's how my guests described these wild berry crepes last night. Let the berries speak for themselves. This recipe is so simple, with Paleo Crepes, mixed berries and Coconut Whipped Cream. I guarantee it's worth the effort! If you use the zero-glycemic natural sweeteners suggested, you'll enjoy these without spiking your blood sugar. BTW I suggest organic berries, especially strawberries, which have porous skins that absorb pesticides much more than other produce. ...

Paleo Chocolate Crepes with Strawberries

Easy to make. Luscious to eat. After my discovery of how to make guilt-free, grain-free Paleo Crepes, these chocolate crepes are the natural next step! It's hard to find a dessert that tastes decadently delicious, but is totally healthy for your body. These are extremely low in carbs so they won't spike your blood sugar or cause weight gain...

Paleo Chocolate Biscotti

Biscotti are made for dipping - and why not dip them in chocolate? I admit the thought of Paleolithic Chocolate Biscotti seems over-the-top decadent. When you taste them you'll forget about all that! It took several tests to get them to stay together, since these are gluten-free. ...

Paleo Caramel Sauce

Traditional caramel sauce is creamy, dreamy, and oh so thick, with heavy cream, caramelized sugar, and butter. But dairy and sugar are OFF the Paleo diet. So the challenge was HOW to make it Paleo? Oh boy! This Paleo adaptation takes just 5 minutes, and it tastes just as dreamy and creamy as ...

12 Healthy Tips for Enjoying Parties

By Jane Barthelemy. Everyone loves to go out and relax with friends. However when you go to a gathering, do you feel challenged to stay true to your diet and eat healthy? Sometimes we are offered a scary array of delicious food. It's easy to give in to temptation and suffer weight gain or digestive consequences later. ...

Paleo Lemon Meringue Pie

This lemon meringue pie is refreshing, tart, rich, and luscious, just like Grandma's, except it is loaded with whole food nutrition, and a flavor that tastes truly delicious all the way down to your toes. Look for Meyer's lemons if you can, for the very best pie! The filling is uncooked, to preserve the authentic lemon flavor, ...

The Skinny on Obesity – Video Series

By Jane Barthelemy. The data is in. Sugar causes fat deposits and obesity. Sugar causes diabetes. It's that simple. Here's an amazing new video series from the U of C showing clear scientific evidence that obesity, diabetes, and many diseases are caused by sugar and ...

Paleo Chocolate Pudding Cake

Here's an easy chocolate treat that looks beautiful and tastes amazing! A luscious moist texture and deep chocolate flavor make it great for holidays and special-occasions. The ingredients may surprise you - shredded coconut, high-anti-oxidant blueberries and apple! It is gluten-free, grain-free, low-carb, Paleo, diabetic-friendly, ...

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