Paleo Cookbook For Dummies (2 page)

You're open to the idea of making lifestyle changes — avoiding certain foods, making sleep a priority, reducing stress — to enhance your quality of life.

You want to encourage yourself to continue the Paleo lifestyle by finding great-tasting recipes that are easy to make.

You're adopting a level of commitment to Paleo that has you craving an all-around useful guidebook that has everything you could possibly need to jump back into your kitchen — and into your life.

You have control over your food choices and those of your family, and you want to help your loved ones enjoy a healthy, Paleo lifestyle, too.

Icons Used in This Book

To make this book easier to navigate, I include the following icons to help you find key information about the Paleo lifestyle and Paleo cooking.

This icon indicates practical information that can help you in your quest for improving health, adopting a Paleo diet, or making one of the recipes.

When you see this icon, you know that the information that follows is important enough to read twice!

This icon highlights information that may be detrimental to your success if you ignore it.

This icon gives you a heads-up that what you're reading is more in-depth or technical than what you need to get a basic grasp on the main topic at hand.

Beyond the Book

In addition to all the material and recipes you can find in the book you're reading right now, this product also comes with some access-anywhere goodies on the web. Check out the eCheat Sheet at
www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/paleocookbook
for helpful insights and pointers on food principles you should and shouldn't follow for Paleo success, tips on using fats and spices, and some advice on food quality and snacking. You can also discover the ten biggest Paleo myths and how to bust them at
www.dummies.com/extras/paleocookbook
.

This book is packed with Paleo recipes — 136 of them, to be exact. But I couldn't stop there, so I include nine more tasty Paleo recipes online at
www.dummies.com/extras/paleocookbook
.

Where to Go from Here

This book is organized so you can read it in the way that makes the most sense to you; feel free to jump around to the information that's most relevant to you right now. You can use the table of contents to find the broad categories of subjects or use the index to look up specific information.

Do you want to know more about the Paleo superfoods so you can get started on the Paleo path? Start with
Chapter 3
. Ready to clean out your kitchen? Turn to
Chapter 5
. Feeling hungry and want to get started on the recipes? Feel free to jump right into the recipes in Parts II through IV.

If you're ready to detox your body with the Paleo lifestyle, you may want to jump right into the 30-Day Reset by reading
Chapter 4
.
Chapter 6
provides an in depth look at where you can find Paleo foods.

And if you're not sure where to begin, read Part I. It gives you the basic information you need to understand why and how eating and living Paleo can help you improve your health and quality of life.

Part I

Exploring the Paleo Lifestyle

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In this part . . .

Understand what makes Paleo a lifestyle (not just a diet) and how what happens outside the kitchen is as important as what happens inside.

Load up on Paleo superfoods that give you the most bang for your buck to get you well and keep you well.

Discover the power of detoxifying Paleo fruits and vegetables.

Launch your Paleo lifestyle with a cleansing 30-Day Reset, which primes your body to achieve all the positive results of eating Paleo.

Get advice on how to clean out and restock your kitchen with Paleo-approved foods.