Kitchen Tips and Tricks for A Busy Life

I know that many of you are wondering how you will ever be able to implement the Paleo diet or the Paleo Autoimmune Protocol when you work long hours and have little time to cook. Here, I will give some tips and tricks to make accomplishing cooking from scratch achievable on a busy schedule.

One huge time and stress saver is to make most of the food you will eat during the week on your day off. Make 6 dishes in big enough quantities that you can have each dish once a day for 6 days.

I would recommend 3 meat dishes and 3 vegetable dishes. One of your meat dishes should be a sweetmeat, otherwise known as an organ meat. Organ meats include brains, liver, kidney, heart, etc. These should be grass-fed ruminants such as cows or sheep or pasture-raised omnivores including pork and poultry.

You should be careful to not eat poultry too often because it is very high in omega-6 fatty acids. Buying wild-caught frozen fish will significantly reduce your seafood bill, as opposed to buying fresh seafood at the grocery store.

Nutritionally, freezing meat retains the nutrient density of meat very well. Frozen meat is usually less expensive than the same quality of meat bought fresh, and it is just as good for you. If you have a fish or shellfish allergy or sensitivity, it is essential that you consume grass-fed brains on a regular basis, because brains are the best mammalian source of omega-3 fatty acids.

My baked vegetable recipe is a very good one for cooking large batches of vegetables. If you have an autoimmune, immune, or toxicity disease like cancer, it is important to cook most of your vegetables. Cooking improves nutrient absorption and digestibility in people with impaired digestive function, which includes almost everyone with an immune, autoimmune, or toxicity disease.

Portion out each dish into 6 freezer bags and label each bag with your trusty label maker, including an expiry date of 7 days in the future. Place on the shelf in the freezer you have set aside to store the next week's meals. Than during the week, you can take one meat and one vegetable portion for each meal, remove from the freezer bags, and reheat in the microwave for 1 to 3 minutes on a ceramic plate.

NEVER REHEAT YOUR FOOD IN A PLASTIC BAG OR CONTAINER. The same goes for silicone or rubber. You should never cook or reheat any type of food in a plastic or silicone container. Borosilicate glass and microwave and oven safe ceramic or stoneware only.

If you keep that rule in mind, reheating your meals for the week in the microwave is perfectly safe, and should not cause you any more health problems than conventional cooking. It also makes achieving this diet on a busy schedule much easier.

In the case of soup or bone broth, you can store a large pot or pitcher in the fridge for a week and it should keep fine. You just need to add water to the broth when you place it into a bowl or mug. I drink it out of a mug as a substitute for coffee or tea after noon.

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