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Is the price of grass-fed meat getting you down? Why not try some delicious nutritious meat for free in NYC this Sunday? Try some samples of meats our ancestors would have loved and which are enjoyed by many hunter-gatherer cultures. The cuts will be kind of small, but it's hard to get large steaks from these animals. I am a little worried that the animal rights protesters will be there holding up signs like "Don't squash their lives away," but just ignore them.

Yes, I am talking about eating bugs. They are a 100% paleo and a 100% sustainable source of protein. I've eaten them from time to time. I can't say they are delicious, but why not? Bug Biters Brooklyn is serving them. Be there or be square.

 What do people eating an evolutionarily appropriate diet eat? Well. lots of things, as I try to demonstrate with my paleo foods section.Eating Paleo in NYC had a great party last night and it was wonderful to see the huge diversity of food on the menu and to meet everyone!

Berries, sprouts, nuts, raw beef, grassfed butter, chili, Indian lamb, duck, asparagus, garlic greens...

Everyone at the party was doing paleo for different reasons ranging from weight loss to celiac disease to interest in eating nourishing real foods. There were normal paleos, WAPFrs, raw foodists, and everyone in between. It was interesting to talk about dietary preferences, it really showed me how you can't put this movement in a box. 

Blood sausage, raw beef, wild boar leg, spinach, london broil, liver pate...pics from the farm tour!

The party was generously hosted by the Sanocki brothers and I hope everyone had a great time! Here is what else I've been eating:

Seaweed plate at Souen! This is the seaweed salad. I also ate a bunch of oysters and pumpkin. Souen is a great example of how flexible the paleo diet can be....you can even eat it at a macrobiotic primarily vegetarian restaurant! Seaweed is very nutritious and so are oysters. The only caveat here is that they use vegetable oils in their cooking like safflower oil. 

I often get brunch at Get Fresh Table and Market. This morning I had this lovely pastured pork belly and beet salad, plus a side of garlic greens and roasted potatoes. Last week I had grass fed steak and eggs! 

Are you still putting your leftovers in Tupperware or old plastic takeout containers? Well, you are not alone and that just mystifies me. When I see someone putting their short ribs into a scratched container that they got when they ordered Chinese food ten years ago, I want to tell them about Ball jars...and how they are ballin'

You see, plastic isn't all its cracked up to be. It scratches, possibly getting plastic into your food and leaving a nice little home for bacteria. Many plastics also leech cancer-causing toxins, especially when put in the dish washer or god forbid, the microwave. Tupperware is probably the safest, but some contain the dreaded BPA and have they really done studies on long-term use? 

I always hated how difficult it was to get grease off of plastic containers anyway and I eat plenty of grease. 

Luckily, one day out of the blue I was given a large amount of small wide-mouthed Ball mason jars. I started putting everything in them and they are awesome! They don't scratch and you can easily put them in the dishwasher. We can all agree that glass is just about the safest thing you can put things in. 

But don't they shatter if you even look at them the wrong way? Nope, I have the visual acuity of a naked mole rat and the grace of a hippo and I have carried them on the subway, on horses, and pretty much everywhere and I have never broken one ever. 

Anyway, I think jars are awesome and I scavenge them greedily, trying to stay ahead of my main competitors: the sugar-loving canning crew. I have bought some awesome ones too, mainly large ones from the dollar store that now proudly hold lard and bone stock.