SARAH D.TUCKER - Paleo Instant Pot CookBook: 80+ Delicious Paleo and Gluten-Free Pressure Cooker Recipes For Busy People and Beginners

Paleo Instant Pot Cookbook

80+ Delicious Paleo and Gluten-Free Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Recipes for Busy People and Beginners

By

Sarah D.Tucker

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. ~Anthony Robbins

We live in a very busy world today.

In between running errands, showing up at work, and taking care of the kids, theres barely enough time to cook.................

Let alone follow a strict diet like the Paleo diet which discourages you from eating take-outs or packaged foods that you can just pick out from your refrigerator, warm, and be done with it.

You have to cook most of your meals if you really want to do the Paleo diet the right way, and enjoy the benefits.

Of course, there are a few restaurants that claim to serve Paleo friendly meals but you cant even trust them to cook their meals with only grass-fed meals or eggs from cage-free birds; these things are expensive and the average restaurant is out there to earn as much profits as they can.

And thats not even considering the huge bills that usually come with those barely-filling meals.

The best way to do the Paleo diet still remains cooking your meals at home and this brilliant innovation, the Instant Pot, has made it possible for even the busiest company executives to cook their own meals within minutes.

The Instant Pot is like your traditional pressure cooker but with improved features.

It is a smart, electric programmable pot that can do the work of 7 different kitchen gadgets.

Your instant pot can function as a:

• Pressure Cooker
• Slow Cooker
• Rice Cooker
• Porridge Maker
• Steamer
• Saut/ Browning Device
• Yoghurt Maker
• Food Warmer

Theres even a newer model called the Instant Pot Smart Bluetooth, which can be programmed using your smartphone or Bluetooth-enabled tablet.

There is no question that the Instant Pot will make a difference in your Paleo diet but not without healthy Paleo-compliant recipes.

This book has more than 80 different Paleo, Gluten-free recipes that you can cook in your instant pot within minutes.

Chapter One

WTF is the Paleo Diet?

O H NO! NOT ANOTHER diet!

If these were your first thoughts when you heard about the Paleo diet, you have every right to feel that way.

There are just too many diets in the world today and it doesnt help that they all contradict one another.

While diet A says carbs are the enemy , another diet comes along and says its the fats you should cut out of your diet , and then another says No, its just your calories you need to watch .

For someone who is desperate to lose weight, or improve their health, all of these contradictory dietary advices can be extremely frustrating.

But what if I told you that the Paleo diet is not necessarily a diet but a return back to the status quo?

You see, back in the days, our ancestors had very different eating patterns than what we have today and from what we have gathered about them, they were muscular, athletic, agile, and mostly healthy- at least they didnt have cancer, HIV, SARS, and all the other new age diseases.

But when you look at the average human today, many are overweight or at least constantly struggling to stay in shape, many others are depressed, sleep deprived, unhappy or unhealthy.

So what the hell happened?

Well, agriculture did.

Our ancestors were hunter-gatherers who ate mostly fruits, vegetables and no processed foods but as soon as agriculture came into the picture, humans started changing the way we eat.

People learned how to cook so the food was no longer as fresh as it used to be.

With cooking came food storage, because they sometimes had to store some of the foods they cooked and eventually, the idea of processed foods was born.

The problem however, is that the human body has not completely evolved to deal with the way we eat today- the human body hasnt quite adjusted to eating so much grains and processed sugar.

Paleo Guru Robb Wolf explains that human evolution can be compared to a 100-yard football field. The first 99.5 yards of the field represent the length of time that humans spent being hunter gatherers, while the last half yards are how long our dietary choices have been impacted by agricultural evolution.

Humans have been around for thousands of years, and have always been hunter-gatherers. The concept of agriculture only began a few thousand years ago but our genetics havent changed quite much.

The human body has not really adjusted to being fed with all the corn, bread, pasta, rice and other grains it is being fed today because we spent thousands of years surviving on seasonal fruits, vegetables, and meat.

This is why 33% of humans today are obese, while around 66% are overweight.

Its clear that something is wrong somewhere.

The proponents of the Paleo diet make us understand that grains consist of carbohydrates that are converted into sugar within the body. The sugar is either converted to glucose which is burned as energy, or stored up as fat if the body doesnt have immediate need for it.

Grains also contain some components known as gluten and lecithin.