Week 10 in Review

Living a Paleolithic lifestyle (well, kind of).

I never thought that I would feel so fabulous not eating dairy or gluten.  The only grains I ate this week were quinoa, teff, and oats.  I have found that my body does really well without those other glutenous grains. I have also found that the paleo recipes that I have tried are pretty family friendly. I just add some noodles or rice to theirs and quinoa to mine and everyone's happy.

This week I tried to push myself with my workouts, BUT I'm just bored to tears with them right now.  I think that I have to mix up my weight lifting regimen every 3 weeks. I ended up running longer, slower runs. I still continued to lift, but I felt a little bit burnt out.



Friday night at my house, can you guess which dessert is mine? Even though I have given up sweets, except for maybe once a month at book club, I still crave a cookie once in awhile. I have done pretty good with eating fruit instead of dessert, but enough's enough!!! So I went searching online for a paleo cookie recipe. I found this recipe on Everday Paleo

Nutty Cookies
2 bananas smashed
1/3 cup coconut flour
3/4 cup almond butter
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/3 cup raw walnuts
1 apple finely chopped
1/3 cup coconut milk
1 tbsp cinnamon (or more if your 2 year old is measuring…)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium mixing bowl, use a fork to smash the bananas to baby food consistency. Add the coconut flour, almond butter, and baking soda and mix well. Using a hand held chopper or food processor, chop the walnuts and apples to a very fine dice. Add the walnuts, apples, coconut milk, and cinnamon to the bowl and mix in remaining ingredients. Cover two cookie sheets with parchment paper and spoon heaping tablespoons of the cookie mix onto the parchment paper, placing an inch or two apart. Back for 25 minutes. Makes approximately 20-22 cookies.

I had to make some adjustments though. I used almond flour instead of coconut flour; natural peanut butter instead of almond butter; and almond milk instead of coconut milk. After I mixed it all together it was a little runny so I added some coconut flakes. They are super yummy!!!