I mentioned in the 6-week-cure post that Dave and I were headed to Costa Rica for a week in November.  We thought of this as a belated honeymoon for us since we never had a wedding and all that.  In fact, we got married at a lawyer’s office on an otherwise uneventful Thursday afternoon in February when I was 11 weeks pregnant and on crutches from a sprained ankle.  It’s all a blur now.  Actually, so...

Before I started eating primal, I used to sit down with my cookbooks on the weekend and plan out each meal for the upcoming week.  I would make a detailed grocery list that included every ingredient I didn’t already have.  Then I set out on a mission to buy everything I needed as cheaply as possible.  In retrospect the meals seem disjointed.  They were not only disconnected from each other but totally...

Pardon my absence as of late.  I haven’t been feeling like posting much mainly because I haven’t been cooking much.  Here it is the fall harvest season and I’ve done little more in the kitchen this last week than whip up a few meals for the kids and cut up a rotisserie chicken.  The reason?  In a very un-primal manner I have been drinking protein shakes for breakfast and lunch followed by a simple...

The Primal Blueprint Health Challenge that is going on throughout the month of August at Mark’s Daily Apple is in full force. I’ve been checking in there daily to get updates on the latest contests and to check out the contest entries of my fellow primals. Some of the haikus, including my own, were a little painful (though the winning entry was inspired), but I loved reading the entries to the Quotable...

I am so excited to finally get started on this blog! Ideas have been swarming around in my head for weeks about things I’d like to write about.  I even started making a list until Dave could get this site up and running for me.  Unfortunately, when it came time to actually sit myself down and write this first post, I experienced what I can only imagine is some bizarre form of blogger’s stage fright –...