HUNTER / GATHERER FARE (The Paleolithic Diet) - The concept of returning to a more caveman-like cuisine is what our fore bearers HAD to do for food, for sheer survival. We are hard-wired by genetics to that existence; it is relevant eons later.

Very basic and simple ... simple for us now, not for them. That's the problem. We have too many choices, too much variety and very little nutritional wisdom behind the ease and accessibility. Begin honing down your shopping sprees to purer foods. Yes, you'll need to be in the kitchen more, but that's where nutrition and tender loving care happen.

The Muscle Kitchen© is founded on these basic human principles which dove-tails with most of the new USDA Food Pyramid (but with more of a testosterone twist).

BREAKING IT DOWN:
It's mostly protein with organic vegetables, quality dairy and occasional fruits that grow close by and NO creme brule or cheese croissants!

VEGETABLES
Since you're now wisely eschewing all the nasty carbs and icky sticky starches and fillers, you can put that money into better quality, vitalized vegetables. I'm talking ORGANICALLY GROWN. They're the one thing that balances the nutritional scale with all the protein we bodybuilders need and constantly ingest.

So, get up off your sorry butt every on whatever morning yours is locally and go to your friendly farmers market to buy some real produce. Some are certified organic, some are just 'certified' that they're local and are the actual growers or their employees, direct from the farm, no middle-men, freight or storage. Either way it's better than the preservative-laden, superficially pretty produce, shelf-toughened stuff at most chain stores. The hipper, more savvy ones try to add organic produce, due mostly to OUR requests and follow-through with continued purchases.

Yellow onion, turnips, apples

Now, if it's something exotic like, guava or kiwi fruit you've got in mind, then let's give that a moment here. Indigenous foods (local and native) provide subtle nutrients, locally unique micro-pollen, allergens which are climate and region specific. To wit: root vegetables from a local farm just might HELP your allergies, whereas beets from states away could not possibly. Oh, sure, the occasional oddity makes things fun and a little infrequent change is fine just don't make it more than a rare quirk, flip thing.

Always thoroughly wash ALL produce before slicing into them. Residual bacteria, germs or soil from other shoppers or a careless worker aren't always visible. There are some great natural produce sprays to make it quick and easy.

COOKING THEM RIGHT.....

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