Chicken Salad

Ingredients:
2 thighs, chopped
1/2 celery, diced
2 Tbsp onion, diced
1/2 apple, diced
1 FrogRanch all natural peppered pickle, diced (optional)
1 hard boiled egg, diced
2 tsp raw sunflower seeds
1 tsp dill weed
1/3 c mayo
Salt & pepper to taste
Preparation:
In a bowl, combine the chicken, onion, celery, apple, and egg; toss to blend. Add the remaining ingredients, mix well. Pile onto romaine lettuce, and enjoy! 

Easy Marinara Sauce

Ingredients
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoons onion powder
1 can chopped tomatoes
1 (15 ounce) cans tomato sauce
8 oz sliced mushrooms

Place all ingredients in a large pot, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes. 

Meatballs

Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef
1 (14 oz) can of diced tomatoes, drained
1/3 head of cauliflower
1  carrot
1/2 an onion, diced
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 egg
2 Tbsp coconut flour
Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper to taste

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350'. In a food processor, shred your carrot and rice your cauliflower. Squeeze out excess liquids with a cheesecloth. In a medium bowl, break up your ground beef, and add the shredded veggies,tomatoes, onion, garlic, egg and coconut flour. Mix well, and shape into 1" balls, squeezing tightly to get any excess liquids out. Place 1-2" apart on a greased cookie sheet, and bake for 45 minutes.

Serve with marinara sauce (next recipe!) 

My journey to primal

Welcome to my foodie weirdness. I was going to use this thing to keep my journey typed out, but honestly, I don't have time to do a daily post. A weekly update might work... But if my other blog is any indication of that... We shall see. I will, however, explain my reasoning for the lifestyle switch. My kids have some kind of reaction to a food source. Whatever it is, they break out in extreme eczema all over their little bodies. Sometimes it bleeds, mostly its just itchy and unpleasant. We don't use chemicals in our house, so rubbing them down with a steroid cream doesn't work for us. Especially since the rash is your body's way of signaling something is wrong. Mask the symptoms, it will next appear in a harsher spot, to try to signal there's something wrong. The usual next place a food reaction will try to go is the lungs, in the form of asthma. I am trying to heal the body from within by eliminating the usual suspects: grains, gluten, pasteurized dairy, and processed chemical laden crap. Between reading the GAPS book, and Primal Blueprint, and taking what works for us out of it, I am slowly healing my children. Bug hasn't had an eczemic rash since starting this food journey, except in the second week, when I gave him... BREAD! He also had half a slice of bread this week, and lo and behold, he has eczema across his bottom today. Little is having an allergic reaction to something other than bread. Not sure what... Thinking dairy will be going for me (breastfeeding) and him next. If that doesn't work, we'll eliminate something else. Mostly, though, this blog is for posting up my "primalized" versions of my favorite recipes.

Without further ado... Here we go. Enjoy!