Pocket Paleo: Snacks

By Nell Stephenson

When it comes to eating Paleo, trainer, nutritional consultant, and author of Paleoista Nell Stephenson knows that snacks can be especially challenging. But a snack and a meal should contain the same ingredients: Fresh, real food and nothing else!

Start with a base of veggies, followed by some lean protein and finish off with some healthy fat and fruit, and you'll have your perfect Paleo (tem)plate. Whether you're having a snack at home or at work or school, following this schematic will ensure all of your meals have the ideal Paleo balance of protein, carbohydrate and fat.

Keeping on top of what you're eating as a snack between the other meals in a day can truly be the dealmaker in staying on track with your Paleo regime, and maintaining an even keel in your blood sugar is key to keeping your fat–blasting metabolism on high.

POCKET PALEO: SNACKS includes:

• 50 recipes, like homemade beef, turkey, and salmon jerky, savory smoothies, tuna Nicoise, Tex–Mex fish tacos, turkey and kale cobb, and more
• Building Paleo snack basics
• Quick and easy, in the office, kid–friendly, seasonal and holiday, on–the–go, holiday–inspired Paleo snack recipes and more

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Release date: Feb 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9780857995919

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POCKET PALEO: SNACKS

Nell Stephenson

www.harlequinbooks.com.au

paleo

trainer, nutritional consultant and author of Paleoista Nell Stephenson knows that snacks can be especially challenging. But a snack and a meal should contain the same ingredients: fresh, real food and nothing else!

Start with a base of veggies, followed by some lean protein and finish off with some healthy fat and fruit, and you’ll have your perfect Paleo template. Whether you’re having a snack at home, work or school, following this schematic will ensure all your meals have the ideal Paleo balance of protein, carbohydrate and fat.

Keeping on top of what you’re eating as a snack between the other meals in a day can truly be the deal-maker in staying on track with your Paleo regime, and maintaining an even keel in your blood sugar is key to keeping your fat-blasting metabolism on high.

POCKET Paleo: SNACKS includes

•  Fifty recipes, like homemade, salt-free beef, turkey and salmon jerkies, savory smoothies, tuna Nicoise, Tex-Mex fish tacos, turkey and kale cobb and more

•  Building Paleo snack basics

•  Quick and easy, in the office, kid-friendly, on-the-go, seasonal and holiday-inspired Paleo snack recipes and more

pocket_snacks_title.jpgacknowledgments

To Mom,

Thank you for planting the seed very early on that eating a bell pepper or a tomato or any veggie or fruit out of the garden makes for the absolutely perfect snack just as it is!

For all of you who’ve easily taken to the regime of Paleo-friendly lunches and dinners but get caught up in the busy day-to-day chaos of modern-day living and end up either going far too long without eating or resorting to less than ideal options, please take these ideas with you and use them to fill in the blanks and keep on track during even the busiest of days.

foreword

In case you don’t already know it, Nell Stephenson is the coauthor of The Paleo Diet Cookbook (Wiley & Sons, 2010) with me and my wife, Lorrie. She is also the sole author of Paleoista, an acclaimed Paleo Diet book, which focuses on female diet and health issues. Nell has lived the Paleo Diet for years and knows how to make it work for people of all ages, especially women. In this minibooklet, Nell provides you with fifty incredibly delicious and healthy snacks that conform to pure Paleo Diet principles. Whereas many popular Paleo Diet cookbooks include honey, dairy, date sugar, potatoes and legumes in their recipes, you will not find any of these non-Paleo ingredients in Nell’s appetizing snacks. Go for it. These snacks taste great and are good for you, too.

Loren Cordain, PhD

Professor Emeritus,

Colorado State University

toc

1. Part I: The Concept of a Snack

2. Part II: Building the Basics

3. Part III: Mixing, Matching and Getting Creative

4. Part IV: Recipe Chapters

4. Chapter One Recipes

4. Chapter Two Recipes

4. Chapter Three Recipes

4. Chapter Four Recipes

4. Chapter Five Recipes

5. Conclusion

part 1

Don’t snack between meals. Snacking between meals is the ticket to weight loss. Grazing throughout the day is the ticket to steady energy levels. "Eating too often can wreak havoc on