Howdy y’all!!
So one of the most common things I'm hearing at the moment is that people are finding it
hard to find a quick snack or meal. Well frequenting sites that I normally do I came
across a link to http://paleokits.bigcartel.com/. There it listed the ingredients used for
these so called “kits” which contained natural ingredients some how crammed together
for an “on-the-go-situation.” So I wrote them down and hit up the local TJ! (Trader Joes
for y’all that aren’t privy). What I bought was the following:
1) Dried fruit - freeze dried - Strawberries.
2) Super Cranberry and Pomegranate blend.
3) Natural Beef Jerky - Teriyaki.
4) Blue Diamond Natural Oven Roasted almonds-no salt (I bought these buggers at
Ralphs)
Here is what I did to make my own little paleo snack kits. I tired to cook it into my own
kind of cookie or bar, but really didn’t have a binding element, so nothing stuck. I
basically just ended up cooking it longer and it just turned out crunchier. Feel free to mix
in whatever the heck you want as long as it contains the basics. (Basics= lean meat,
veggies, some fruits, seeds and nuts, no sugar.) If you can think of a binding element or a
better/ more creative way to put this stuff together please let me know, any advice is
wanted, this was just an experiment.
NOTE: Notice the list and the pictures, nothing but natural, fresh ingredients. Hhmm,
meat, fruit, nuts….pretty basic…pretty easy for all of those “i-don’t-know-what-the-hell-
to-eat-people” or “IDKWHEP.”
Step 1: Bought ingredients.
Step 2: Cut the ingredients up. I did this for the sake of things fitting on the fork/spoon
and for possible use of just doing multiple shots of food while say driving or walking
without choking or looking silly.
Step 3: Added the ingredients. NOTE: I did not weigh or measure, I guess-ta-mated (I
know, bad caveman Chris, bad!). I used 2 spoonfuls of the cran/pom berry mix – 1
handful of the dried strawberries – about 30+/- almonds and ½ small plate of cut jerky.
Step 4: Packaged and Ready to Eat on the Go!!: Here is the final product in their
containers, waiting for me to leave the house late and hungry. Why is there a duck?
Because that duck is BADASS!! And I have two more just like him guarding my meals
in case other “foragers” happen to roam by. Don’t f*k with the duck, trust me.
Final:
So there you have it. Again, there was no weighing or measuring involved. Rough guess-
ta-mates puts this at about 2 block protein/2 block carb/3 block fat (or at least that’s what
I was aiming for, for those zone Nazi’s out there). I might have come up somewhat short
but this was literally my first trail. Feel free to make them out of what ever ingredients
you want as long as they contain the basics. Also, feel free to make these as big or as
small as you want. I picked the containers first and then just filled, next time I will
probably make some what bigger ones in case I am real hungry. If you come up with
snazzy and tasty ideas, please share! We are a community. Any questions please email
me (xfitnut@yahoo.com) Thank you for reading, enjoy, take care and keep eating well
and training hard.
Other Notes:
Regarding meat: try to buy grass fed – no hormones – no preservatives – pretty much
natural meat which hasn’t been screwed up by man and their little experiments they play
on each other. It will be stated on the package if the meat is “clean” and with out
additives. Do this for your beef, chicken, turkey etc. Also try to buy products that don’t
contain WHEAT or SOY or even MILK. The products that contain those listed above
could have effects on your body that are harmful and unbeknownst to you at the time.
Trust me, finding products that don’t contain those additives is a tough and annoying
process, but hey, sorry, that’s the way it goes. You don’t like it, write your congressman
and join my cult.