A list of resources to help you successfully complete our Paleo Challenge:
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 the French border. Has a nice selection of fruits and vegetables, aswell as some fish and meats.
La Petite Lignière is located between Gland and Dully near the Lignière Clinic. They’re specialised in biological products. They’re open seasonaly.
La Ferme des Pralies is in Arnex sur Nyon and has a good selection of varied fruits and eggs.
The Weber Farm in Gingins is known to have good food quality as well as meat from their farm. It’s after the Shummacher stable coming from Arzier towards Nyon. They’re open on Friday from 3pm. They also have a stand in the Nyon market on Wednesdays and Sundays.
The O’Fruitier farm specialized in biological fruits is a good place to get your fruit fix, also in winter as they’re open everyday.
Markets
There are some good opportunities to get good local products at local markets, such as:
The Nyon market taking place on the Grande rue on Wednesdays and Thursday from 7am-12am, Saturdays from 7am-1pm.
The Divonne market just across the border in France every Sunday from 7am-1pm.
The Ferney market towards Geneva is even bigger than the Divonne one and takes place every Saturday from 7am-1pm.
There are numerous market places in Geneva on different days of the week to find out about them click on the following link.
Boucheries/Butchers
The place to go for good meat is La Cézille Boucherie they have good quality meats (grass fed beef in summer/silage fed in winter/some grains) that they tend to get locally and also some good quality canadian wapiti or french duck. They also have fresh eggs and very good smoked salmon. They can tell you where the meat they sell is coming from. Next door there is a restaurant where you can taste all their specialities.
There is also a boucherie in Genolier in the center of the village.
Supermarkets
Migros, Coop and Manor are all good quality supermarkets and they are everywhere. But if you want to stock on good quality nuts, fresh wild fish and other sources of protein then you have to pay a visit to Aligro, it’s a bit far but worth it! Good quantities and matching quality. You can get 2kg bags of frozen fruit or shrimp. 1kg bags of almonds for 15.-Frs and other good deals. Get their card and you’ll get an even greater discount. There is one in Geneva near the Vernets sports center, just off the highway at the Accasias exit. The other one is near Lausanne in Chavanne-Rennens.
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Websites:
The Paleo Diet – Dr. Loren Cordain’s paleo diet website, his newsletter is worth subscribing to.
Robb Wolf – is the Paleo guy go check his web site for useful info.
Jon Ingram – has also provided us with great Paleo ideas in his blog. Such as Paleo breakfast ideas and also home made almond butter amongst others.
Drs. Micheal and Mary Eades – This husband and wife combo are the authors of the Protein Power Life Plan, a massive bestseller which espouses the myriad benefits of a low carb diet. Both have blogs which do a superb job of explaining the complexities of nutrition and human metabolism to the lay person.
Mark Sisson – A former marathon runner and triathlete (he finished 4th one year in the Hawaii Ironman) Sisson preaches a primal lifestyle – and if you check out some of his pics, you will see that he practices what he preaches. The web site is a great resource with tons of quality content. Gretchen also very kindly brought in a copy of his book, the Primal Blueprint, for anyone who wants to take a look.
Videos:
We have some interesting videos for you to watch aswell: Paleo in a nutshell
Dr. Gary Taubes’ Good Calories, Bad Caloris: lecture
Paleo Challenges from around the CrossFit world:
Our fellow CrossFitters from around the world also have their Paleo Challenges, have a look at their web-sites for inspirations:
A video from CrossFit Jacksonville to give you ideas for shopping
This one is from CrossFit Santa Clara about their Paleo Challenge.
Recipes:
CrossFit Santa Cruz Central with some good looking recipes.
A good source for recipes from Paleo foods where you can find good substitutes for your treats that you miss like pancakes and crusts. So go ahead and dig in the resources you have, these are just a few to give you nice ideas. If you make something nice we want to hear and read about, share it with us.
And here is what most of you been waiting for the Paleo-Primal Pancakes recipe! Just make sure you don’t use butter for the cooking, use olive oil instead.
Books:
The paleo diet – by Dr. Loren Cordain.
Gary Taubes’ book Good Calories Bad Calories (of which there is also a copy in the gym if anyone is interested) is a fascinating, if slightly heavy going, look into the science of nutrition and the dogma surrounding the government recommended low fat/high carb diet.
Protein Power Life Plan – by Dr’s Michael and Mary Eades.
The Primal Blueprint – by Mark Sisson.