Thanks to everyone who left a comment suggesting recipes you’d like to see on This Primal Life. The winner of the Primal Blueprint Cookbook is Caroline Bull! Caroline, send me an email with your address and I’ll ask the good people at Mark’s Daily Apple to send your cookbook out. I also decided to choose another winner to receive a free bracelet courtesy of Synergy Beads. I love these bracelets...

Okay, so I said I was going to have a giveaway and here it is. The prize: Mark Sisson’s The Primal Blueprint Cookbook To enter to win this fabulous prize, complete the following tasks: 1. Like This Primal Life on Facebook Be sure you use this link so that you are liking the PAGE, not joining the GROUP (which was a mistake and will probably be deleted eventually). 2. Then, leave a comment on this post...

Releasing my inner Grok In case you haven’t heard, this year’s Primal Challenge is going to begin on September 7, the day after Labor Day.  It looks like this year’s challenge is going to be better than ever. For those of you who weren’t around for the challenge last year, here’s how it worked.  In addition to encouraging individuals to make a personal commitment to the primal lifestyle for 30...

There are two things you may not know about me.  The first is that I enjoy eating large quantities.  I don’t know how I developed this inclination, but there it is.  I distinctly remember the day I was able to eat entire can of Spaghetti-O’s, just like my big brother.  I was so proud.  I once asked my husband if he had ever dated a woman who could eat more than me.  He responded with a nervous look...

It’s six in the morning and I’ve just started the coffee. Today is the day of our big trip. The whole crew will be returning to my birthplace, Portland, Oregon and then the coast. This will be the girls’ first plane trip and, subsequently, my first plane trip with them. Until now I’d have preferred chewing tinfoil to sitting next to my kids on an airplane for any length of time. “Family vacation”...

A photo from my lazy summer Hi there.  As some of you have noticed, this blog has been sitting here, neglected, for about 9 months.  I don’t have a very good explanation – no family crises or sudden deaths.  I appreciate all of the emails I have received and I apologize if I didn’t get back to you.  I feel guilty about the kind and generous emails I never responded to.  Please know that I did...

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...