Morning has broken.

I have just added my first recipe (see recipe page) – remember all my recipes are and will be grain, dairy and sugar free.

Banana and Walnut muffins:

MAKES 10 – but don’t go crazy and make sure you don’t eat them all because we all know that that’s actually possible. Don’t pretend you haven’t baked and realised five hours later that your ‘weekly snack’ is now hiding in your stomach. So chill, self control is not easy but it can be done. Just keep busy and stop thinking about food! There is so much more to do – like watch your kids so they don’t fall into the pool and converse with homeless people on the side of the street oh and of course avoiding your fathers calls because it’s a trick, when you answer it’s actually your mother and we all know… they have got asking the same questions in 14 different ways (impressive mum) down to a fine art.

This morning I am making date and walnut loaf (wish me luck) then I am off to yoga (because you all care about my daily events, don’t you?).

Accidental Paleo

I have just began to lead a new lifestyle which excludes the following:

Wheat

Dairy  (minimal)

Sugar

Grains

Nothiiiiiingggg.

For those who have no idea how this can be possible. Let me enlighten you, like you’ve never been enlightened before…

I don’t eat wheat but I still have bread, I don’t eat oats but I still have porridge, I don’t eat sweets but I still have muffins, slice, cake. I don’t eat pasta but I still have spaghetti. The list is endless. So what are the alternatives to all these things?

Bread:

Homemade out of flaxmeal or coconut flour.

Milk:

Almond milk.

Porridge: 

Homemade out of chia seeds.

Pasta:

Zucchini (yes, zucchini sliced like pasta)

Rice:

Cauliflower rice (100% cauliflower)

Sugar:

Natural sweeteners; Stevia, Xyitrol.

Grain fed cattle:

Organic meat.

Farmed fish:

Wild fish

Eggs:

Always free ranged (this has been the case for me for years) I can’t eat caged eggs, not only are they treated like shit but they are fed so much rubbish that is then transferred into you (as with grain fed animals). Large amounts of Omega-6 for example.

Now… it takes some time to go from eating pasta for dinner to eating zucchini based spaghetti and going from a milky way for a snack to homemade organic chocolate nut balls (they are amazing by the way), cows milk to almond milk, oats to chia seeds. You get the gist. It is more expensive and takes a lot more thought. However, the benefits are endless and the change in my physical well being has been incredible.

I have started making my own snacks as I can’t eat much when I am out. These snacks include…

Banana and Walnut muffins.

Organic Chocolate Nut Balls.

Date and Walnut loaf.

Coconut flour and flaxseed bread.

Almond milk.

Organic ginger and cinnamon cookies.

Brownies (Yesssss really)

The list is endless. I can make anything. The only difference is, they are all wheat, dairy, preservative, chemical and sugar free. It seems unrealistic and unbelievable but these things I create are real and they are amazing.

So this blog began years ago, when I was younger and more interested in listening to and researching music and books than I was recipes… but now I spend a lot of my internet time looking for new ways to make exciting and interesting meals. It hasn’t been easy, but I have finally maintained this way of eating for over two months. There are always those slip ups, all of which are for reasons like being somewhere where I didn’t bring homemade snacks with me. When I have been travelling and not staying at my own house. Going to parties, friends places etc. Sometimes it is not possible to eat this way but it gets easier and I find ways around it.

I quickly want to address the ‘accidental’ part of my subject line. I started this way of eating to help improve my well being, but as I started looking for recipes and reading about the best seeds and minerals etc I realised that the way I am eating is very similar to the Paleo diet and hence… I am on an accidental Palaeolithic diet. By which I intend to continue for the rest of my life. It really is not that hard… you really just need to not be lazy and start nurturing your body instead of unknowingly poisoning it.

So basically: Coconut flour and chia seeds are amazing high in fibre alternatives. Chia seeds are superfoods as are goji berries (which I use instead of sultanas – extremely expensive but worth every penny). Nuts and seeds are snacks. I go decaf, soy lattes when I am out. I am not into coffee for the cherpy side of it but I do like a bit of the bitter taste and no one uses almond milk in cafes (hence the soy, otherwise I try to stay away from soy) and soy in hot chocolate is not okay… hot chocolate is also full of refined sugar.If anyone sticks their nose up at me drinking decaf… get over yourself I can drink decaf if I so wish.  I also drink all herbals teas, chia and green mostly but I love peppermint and white too. These are mostly at home, work and uni because I feel they are a bit boring if you are going out to catch up with someone.

So this is the beginning of the beginning… stay tuned.

Study Blues

The Police – Do Do Do De Da Da Da

Fleetwood Mac – Albatross

SebastiAn – Embody

Simon and Garfunkel – Me and Julio Down by the School Yard

Kansas – Dust in the Wind

The Weepies – Vegas Baby

Billy Joel – It is Still Rock and Roll to Me

The Beatles – Help!

Lena Horne – Moon River

The Whitest Boy Alive – Keep A Secret

America – Sister Golden Hair

Cut Copy – Hearts of Fire

Mamas and the Papas – Age of Aquarius

Band of Horses – No Ones Gonna Love You

Boy & Bear – Mexican Mavis

Taken by Trees – Day by Day

Asobi Seksu – Yesterday

Surfer Blood – Take it Easy

Queen – Killer Queen

The Smiths – This Charming Man

Emma Louise – Jungle

In fact this is a pretty good playlist for any occasion (in my eyes).

Pardon my French.

But fuck they were good!

The Beatles – Help!

And again…

The Beatles – Yesterday

Last time…

The Beatles – Across the Universe

Stairway of heaven

My only concern with these stairs is the fact that I have spilt tea a countless amount of times all over my parents stairs (much to my fathers detest) when I’ve been going down to watch, undoubtedly, Seinfeld (when you own the Seinfeld box set, you don’t muck about). This makes me worry about the cosmetic damage to the books if this were to happen whilst going down the stairway of heaven. I am also guilty of (once) slipping down stairs with a bowl of pasta in my hands and having the pasta strewn all over the stairs. Now these kind of incidents make me wonder if I should be the owner of such a work of art? Perhaps they would need to be leading to somewhere less desirable to eat (bathroom?). I wonder if practicality could be an issue here. We shall see.

Without a Cause

Working at a community radio station means you get to meet really good people like… Paul? He has got something going out, I wish I had of filmed this… but he plays like no one I have ever seen. I actually would put him in the same category at Johnny Winter… if he had a website I’d plug it on here but he doesn’t… he looks younger than he is in this picture. He is pushing 57 would you believe.

It is a Catch 22.

I don’t think this book is everyones cup of tea (like many things) but I am enjoying it. Whether it be because I have this really dry sort of humour or if I just find it interesting is hard to tell. I guess I have found myself laughing a lot and I am not too sure if that is normal or not… anyway.