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Farms, Markets and Boucheries

Vegetables and Fruits Farms

The Panier Gourmand is very esay to find as it’s just off the Nyon highway exit towards Nyon direction and is a farm run by a nice family. They offer products from their farm, eggs, meat and wine.  In winter they’re open only Friday afternoon from 4pm.

La Ferme Courtois located in Versoix near [...]

Treat, not cheat

We thought this was worth a post all by itself, courtesy of Gretchen:

“Son of Grok posted a Primal Waffle recipe. I adapted it to make it Paleo (subbed mashed banana for cream cheese). Ingredient list is:

1 Banana
4 eggs
1 cup almond flour
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1-2 teaspoons vanilla extract (I ran out)
Cinnamon

Makes 4 to 5 waffles. Even [...]

What is a Macro Nutrient?

There are three macro nutrients: Carbohydrate, Protein and Fat.

Every food we consume is made up from one or more of these three macro nutrients, by food I mean ‘real’ food. It is important to understand this. Let me use Broccoli, Tuna and Almonds as examples:

2 Cups of Broccoli contain [...]

Online Paleo Resources

We are only a couple of days into the Paleo challenge and from the look of the food logs, everyone has a firm grasp of the concepts of the Paleo diet. Part of the process of trying out this kind of lifestyle is not just blindly following an expert’s instructions, but educating yourself in the [...]

No cereal for breakfast? NO NO NO

That’s right, no cereal for this first meal of the day. But what do I eat? In our world it’s became tradition to indulge yourself with all sorts of bad carbs for breakfast.

Well, why don’t you think of breakfast as just like another meal of the day. Here again you get [...]

How should a Paleo meal look like?

How do we get a Paleo meal ready?

Like we said in the description of the Paleo Challenge, a meal should always contain a source of protein, a source of carbs from vegetables/fruits and healthy fats.

How do we get it started?

After this first day of the PC [...]

Coconut Curry Rabbit

Thanks to Jon for this one:

Very easy to make:

Fry the rabbit for 2 min on each side on a non stick pan and set aside
Fry some onions with olive oil add the rabbit, the coconut milk and the curry and stir
Simmer for 30 min
Meanwhile cook broccoli, steaming (7-8min) allows to keep the vitamins and makes [...]

Signed on

Here we go, the following participants have enrolled into our first Paleo challenge:

Tatiana
Anna R.
Jon
Olga
Gavin
Ken
Gretchen
Madalina
Carole
Claudia
Angie
Alex W
Marie-Sophie

If anyone else wants to join you still can but do it sooner rather than later so that you have a chance of winning!

Paleo Challenge

Welcome to CrossFit Leman’s Paleo Challenge website. Here you will find resources to help you successfully complete the challenge.

Please ask any questions you want or have.

Good Luck!