Paleo Slow Cooker: A Sassy Cavewoman Makes Fire
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Authors: Megan White
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A Sassy Cavewoman Makes (Slow-Burning) Fire:
A Paleo Cookbook With 40 Gluten-Free, All-Day, $4-or-Less Per Serving Paleo Slow Cooker Recipes to Slim Your Waistline and Put Pep in Your Step
by Megan White
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Chapter 1: The Paleo Diet: Why Do It?
Problem Number 1: Not Enough Time in the Day?
Problem Number 2: Not Enough Money?
Chapter 2: Paleo Slow Cooker Breakfast Recipes
Bed and Breakfast Beef Casserole
Vegetarian-Friendly Paleo Sweet Potato Breakfast Pie
Turkey Bacon Breakfast Casserole
Chapter 3: Paleo Slow Cooker Soups, Stews, and Chilis
For the Caveman’s Soul Chicken Soup
Mexican Chicken Green Chile Stew
Slow Cooked Thai-Inspired Beef Stew
Chicago-Style Italian Beef Stew
Ground Turkey and Sweet Potato-Based Chili
Flavor-Explosion Moroccan Lamb Stew
Sweet Potato Spiced Vegetarian Chili
Paleo Minestrone Veggie-Friendly Soup
Butternut Squash Vegetarian Fall Day Soup
Chapter 4: Paleo Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes
Honeyed Chicken Wings with Garlic Flair
Down on the Farm Chicken and Gravy
Paleo Indian Inspiration Tikka Masala
Vibrant Cinnamon Spiced Chicken
Stuffed Mediterranean Chicken Breasts
Korean-Style Slow Cooked Chicken
Rosemary and Balsamic Summer Day Slow Cooked Chicken
Chapter 5: Paleo Slow Cooker Beef Recipes
Irish Man’s Corned Beef and Cabbage
Live Well Mediterranean Meatballs
Chapter 6: Vegetarian Slow Cooker Recipes
Easy Slow Cooked Paleo Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
Indian-Inspired Vegetarian Curry
Paleo Zucchini Noodle-Based Bolognese
Vegetarian Delight Ratatouille
Chapter 7: Paleo Slow Cooker Dessert Recipes
Slow Cooked Maple and Vanilla Pecans
Natural and Organic Slow Cooker Stuffed Apples
Stunning Fall-Time Paleo Apple Butter
Southern Living Blackberry Cobbler
About this Book
A Sassy Cavewoman Makes (Slow-Burning) Fire is a book about time and money.
Just like everything else, your diet plan has to coincide with your busy schedule and your tight budget. Too often, people sway away from the Paleo diet because they think it’s “too expensive” or that doing the recipes will take too much time.
But I’m here to tell you:
The Paleo diet is the essential way to:
Maximize your weight loss goals.
Look to a more natural plan to lose SUSTAINED weight.
Keep your glucose levels in check.
Refute your depression and anxiety.
And find all the nutritive, energy-boosting, organic foods of the world.
This book walks you through forty of the most delicious, most enriching Paleo diet slow cooker recipes ever.
Learn how to create stunning Paleo slow cooker breakfast recipes.
Understand the (not-so-intricate) ways in which to create delightful, multi-layered Paleo diet slow cooker chilis, stews, and soups—for Paleo vegetarians and Paleo meat-eaters alike. (There are many of both kinds!)
Learn how to create ethnic slow cooker Paleo meals, oh-so-American beef-based slow cooker Paleo recipes, and even Paleo slow cooker DESSERT recipes for when your sweet tooth comes a-calling.
The world of more time and more money is waiting for you with this delightful cookbook, complete with an outline of how much each serving of each recipe actually costs you. You won’t want to make a meal outside of the comfort of your slow cooker again.
Good luck on your Paleo slow cooker endeavors.
Preface
I am a (sometimes) poor writer. But I still want to create stunning recipes that are alive with nutritive qualities, that can help my boyfriend and I retain our “slim” waistlines (at least until the holidays come around), and that can keep my metabolism revving, every day of the week.
Our schedules are rushed and harried, which meant I had to get my grandmother’s old slow cooker out to start doing whatever I could do to have a good, complete meal for us, ready when we got home. (I’m usually too exhausted after a day of too much writing and too much caffeine to even slice up an onion. I’m much more calm in the morning.) Therefore, I began slicing and dicing a few of my very favorite Paleo-loving ingredients and dropping them into the slow cooker. What started as a “fun” experiment in sunny September has evolved into warm soups and stews in this ever-chilly December. But there’s absolutely a recipe for every time of the year: for every climate, for every person looking for nutrition and quality in their everyday meal.
Furthermore, I’m very much a good-deal searcher. But I evaluated what I generally pay for mid-grade beef, for good, fresh chicken, and for fresh vegetables, and I brought what I understand about the grocery store climate into this book. Not a single serving in this book is going to put you over your bank account limit, just like not a single serving in this book is going to make you lose a button in your pants.
Every serving is economically feasible and absolutely PERFECT for weight loss. My boyfriend and I have never been so happy to open our slow cooker and find these recipes (especially the ethnic ones; we’re suckers for curry), and I guarantee that they will bring you happiness and nutritive wealth, as well. (Without skimming the barrel of your wallet.)
So: if you’re a mother with a large family. If you’re a college student with student loans pummeling you from every direction. If you’re simply struggling to get by. The Paleo diet is still for you. It is the most natural way to live your life, every day of the week.
And this book I’ve put together, the Sassy Cavewoman Makes (Slow-Burning) Fire, is essential on your ride to better health.
The Paleo diet is pulsing with a plethora of benefits. It bases itself off of the way our bodies have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, and it initiates us to eat organic, natural, and weight-loss-capable foods. It enriches us with powerful energy to help us refute modern-day diseases, like Alzheimer’s, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and so many more. In a currently dying society, it’s important to turn back to the root of our problems: our food.
The Paleo diet is, essentially, the only diet plan—or lifestyle alteration—you require in order to live the best version of your life.
Benefits of the Paleo Diet
Look to the following benefits of the Paleo diet below.
1. Build lean, powerful muscles.
Note that the Paleo diet fuels you with a fair amount of good, grass-fed protein. As such, you’re better able to build a lean physique, one that can work to build better muscles. When you have good, powerful muscles, you are much more able to lose weight. This is because your body requires these muscles to help store extra “sugar” you have in your body. Your muscles accept extra bouts of glucose—or the sugar that is formulated when you eat carbohydrates—and utilizes it for later times (when it initiates into fight or flight mode, like when you’re doing interval training or simply concentrating very, very hard). Furthermore, your muscles require more calories to support themselves. So: you’ll be able to eat more, weigh less, and look fabulous.
2. Balance out the levels of glucose in your blood.
The Paleo diet completely refutes refined, processed sugars in pastas, breads, and, of course, candies. Therefore, it’s much easier to avoid blood sugar spikes.
When you monitor your blood glucose levels, you’re better able to boost your insulin sensitivity. Insulin sensitivity is something that is essential to help you lose weight. When you intake glucose, your body immediately creates bouts of insulin. This insulin allows your cells to “eat” that glucose to make the energy they require to do everything they need to do. However, if your glucose levels spike too often, your body is not able to create enough insulin to promote this glucose acceptance. As such, you can rapidly gain weight or develop diabetes. You are resistant to insulin, rather than being insulin sensitive.
You want to remain insulin sensitive; the Paleo diet promotes this sensitivity.
3. Keeps you satisfied.
The Paleo diet disallows hunger.
How many other diet plans have you been on that have promoted hunger? They tell you to go to bed hungry, to skip meals, to count every single calorie? The Paleo diet doesn’t allow you to count your calories. Instead, it fuels you with all the nutrition, protein, and good fat you require in order to feel full. The Paleo diet works alongside your body rather than fighting it, limb for limb. It allows you to lose weight gradually, without you feeling like you’ve been depriving yourself.
4. Helps you lose weight.
When you eliminate a lot of the carbohydrates that are afloat in our current society—breads and pastas, for example—you already give your body a better path toward weight loss. This is because, as mentioned previously, carbohydrates in your body automatically trigger the creation of insulin. When you have insulin in your bloodstream, your body disallows any weight loss or any “using” of fat cells. Your cells already have the energy they need with the carbohydrate-supplied glucose. Therefore, your fat lives on in all the places you don’t want it to: your butt, your thighs, whatever.
As such, your body enters a state of ketosis on the Paleo diet in which it “eats” your fat energy particles—known as ketones—because it doesn’t have a ready supply of glucose. Your body is able to work just as efficiently with the ketones, and you can feel the weight falling away. It’s actually amazing.
Note that I discuss more ways in which the Paleo diet can seriously alter your lifestyle and reverse several diseases, like inflamed gut, Alzheimer’s, depression, and so many more in my book, Paleo Diet for Beginners: Lose Weight and Age Gracefully. Seriously: check it out! It also comes with a 7-day diet plan to help you kick-start your Paleo diet.
But do you have problems beginning the Paleo diet? Here are the two most central reasons people think they should begin the Paleo diet—followed by my earnest refutations.