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    Shopping Paleo and Progress

    As I shared previously we are gradually making the switch over to the Paleo diet.  I’ve had a couple of queries as to how it is going, and requests for a menu, recipes and details. The first week before shopping at the greengrocers, I calculated just how much a month we(family of 10) spend on bread, milk and cereal a month, the shocking result was $280! This justified our weekly greengrocer bill of $90 a week to increase to $160, in reality the first week I spent $190. This included three boxes of fruit; bananas, apples and oranges at $78. Second week we had some vegetables left so the bill…

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    ‘Dietary Cure for Acne’ and the Paleo Diet

    All three of our teens have degrees of acne; two have mild acne intermittently, but one child has suffered for two years with moderate acne. Therefore I have been reading and digesting The Dietary Cure for Acne, last night I broke the news to the children that their diet is about to have a drastic change! Obviously they wanted to know just what this entailed, we will be eating; lean meat, fish, fresh fruit and vegetables. We won’t be consuming dairy, grains, processed/refined foods and potatoes. Professor Loren Cordain has studies and scientific explanation to back up his discoveries, but we didn’t really need that to convince us.  PC and…