Monday marks the start of the third week of HEAVY strength training in my garage. Things are going extremely well. I’ve deviated from Pmenu quite a lot over the weeks and feel like I have a solid workout routine for each of the 3 days per week.
The eating portion is getting easier. Pounding 17 blocks per day x5 fat is getting easier – and I’ve been eating a dozen eggs a day. Here’s a typical batch that lasts me a little over 2 days
jared mass gain, zone / paleo
Pic of my sister’s pantry while I was dog sitting this weekend. Def had to make a special trip to Trader Joe’s for some legit paleo food.
Also tried a new asparagus recipe with the help of Cody bear
jared zone / paleo
Mmmmm paleo salad. Been eyeballing everything lately so I’ll measure it out for zone proportions and post ingredients.
jared zone / paleo
Just got Mark Sisson’s (from marksdailyapple.com) new book. I dig his take on paleo and fitness so this should be a pretty good read.
jared random health & fitness, zone / paleo
Not even close, but so good. I got a frozen chocolate dipped banana. Not nearly as good as Josh’s frozen chocolate dipped cheesecake with nuts.
jared zone / paleo
Mmm two protein singles at In-n-Out burger.
jared zone / paleo
Wednesday night LOST zone dinner theater. Tonight was london broil salad, glass of wine with side of asparagus. VERY filling at 4 blocks with x2 fat. I <cough, Cara> am such a great cook!
jared zone / paleo
So I recently read The Paleo Diet and The Paleo Diet for Athletes and have seen some recipes here and there for paleo-friendly meals. While researching paleo alternatives I stumbed across a recipe for paleo cookies. As my food log has sadly shown, cookies are one of my biggest weaknesses – especially oatmeal choc chip. After the St. Patty’s day cookies fiasco I thought it’d be a good experiment to see how my paleo cookies stack up against regular sugar & flour based cookies. Time to go shopping. For convenience sake I went to Whole Foods which is spitting distance from my house.
Ingredients:
2 cups raw honey
2 cups ground walnuts
4 cups almond flour
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 cup dried fruit chopped
Why Paleo Cookies Suck reason #1 – ingredients are EXPENSIVE! The total cost of 36 cookies was $50.30, or $1.40 a piece. Maybe it was the premium you pay at Whole Foods, or maybe it was because RAW honey and almond flour cost an arm and a leg. I’ve never seen raw honey before – still had waxy crap and non-processed honeycomb chunks in it. Smelled awful. I had to scoop the bee crap off the top before bringing it to a boil in a sauce pan. I got the honey melted and started mixing everything into a bowl as per directions, which leads me to my next point…
Why Paleo Cookies Suck reason #2 – mixture is way too dry! The only liquid in the bowl is honey, which means these babies are going to be rock hard after baking. For the second and third batch I added 1/2 cup of egg whites – night and day difference in both taste and consistency. Into the oven they go…
End Result – cookies are surprisingly good! Dry as all get out, but crazy delish. The two batches where I added 1/2 cup egg whites were 100 times better and didn’t fall apart when picking them up. Time to plug everything into excel for nutrition / cost analysis. This ain’t gonna be pretty…
Why Paleo Cookies Suck reason #3 – even healthy cookies still aren’t that good for you. Broken down to Zone blocks, one cookie yields the following: 1p, 2c, 11f. Yes, 11 fat, and 253 calories for 1 cookie – adds up quickly when the chief ingredient is almond flour. All in all it was a fun little paleo experiment – learned a lot about paleo ingredients – and where NOT to buy them. I’m willing to bet these things would last as long as twinkies in a sealed bag, def time capsule worthy. I’m going to continue trying new paleo recipes every weekend. Next up – primal pizza as seen on PCF.
excel data / nutrition calculations
jared zone / paleo
