Smith - Paleo Slow Cooker Made Easy: 75 Delicious Healthy Recipes to Help You Lose Weight

Paleo Slow Cooker Made Easy

75 Delicious and Healthy Low Carb Recipes to Help You Lose Weight

Jen Smith

Copyright 2015 by: Jen Smith

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Table of Contents

Intro into the Paleo Lifestyle

Getting back to your roots is what the Paleo diet describes! In a nutshell, it is literally also known as the caveman diet! Also known as a diet that meant to be for Neolithic food, the Paleo diet heavily stresses on returning to adopting an ancestral approach to eating.

The recipes here focus on the Paleo diet and trying to stick to foods that our ancestors would have survived on. That is the basic idea of a Paleo diet, with a few additions and subtractions. This diet is aimed at creating a natural digestive pattern in your body that cleanses your system of the harmful chemicals that accumulate with years of junk food eating. Of course many paleo diets including mine add ingredients and cooking methods that were not available during the Neolithic time period, but that is ok, because the main components are still the same and still considered paleo. We just want to be eating the same main components of their diet, but why shouldnt we try to make ours more tasty and delicious if we can.

With the paleo diet the metabolism is enhanced naturally which aids in the process of burning up stored fats and helps you shed extra pounds effectively and permanently.

This book has been created with the purpose of providing you with a host of tasty options that help melt away fat for the good and give you increased energy levels at all times. The collection of recipes offered in the book is based on proven weight loss formulas minus the harmful chemicals which may cause unwanted side effects at a later stage. The technique described in the book has long term and permanent objectives for your body.

This book offers you a mix of recipes, stressing on slow cooking in the main dishes. This is done so that you have an idea of what kind of recipes can be created while on the Paleo diet.

Why you should try Paleo?

Its exciting and it can be done and of course it is one of the healthiest diet options available out there!

Our modern day diet is taking us far away from anything that is healthy to our bodies. We are headed in a direction leading to cardiovascular diseases, rampant diabetes and obesity only because of the outreach of industrialized and processed foods.

This is why one must try and adopt the Paleo approach to dieting, in order to bring back our ancestral ideas. They didnt live long for any reason, they did so because of their food tactics and how they lived in general.

Benefits of Paleo and Slow Cooking

Simply put, there are only benefits that can be seen in following this diet. This diet contains all things healthy and all things good for the body to adopt. Heres a short list of the benefits of slow cooking your food and eating Paleo style:

Eating natural, raw foods brings out the bodys nutrients to a great extentProvides protein muscle building- essentially high protein, this diet will enable you to build muscleProvides fibre, healthy fats and low carbs to maintain a healthy lifestyle and help you lose weight while gaining leaner musclesGoing paleo can help you lose belly fat, this diet helps you cut that belly fat that everyone wants to lose but has a lot of trouble with, this can be achieved with a low carb diet that paleo providesSlow cooking saves time for youSlow cooking makes things delicious by cooking them for hours and hours making food taste so much betterYou can leave your slow cooker on while you go to work or sleep and let it cook

Mental Preparation for Paleo Diet

Truth be told, like any other diet, this one wont be easy in the beginning either. Your stomach will start craving for all things that you have left and cannot touch during the course of this diet.

But some sort of mental preparation is required while journeying into this diet because once you prepare your body, mind and soul for this, there really si no stopping you from anything!

Follow the diet to the T from the beginning- if you follow it strictly right from the start, it will be easier to follow it throughSimple and quick- dont get too wrapped up in creating complicated recipes all the time.When you crave sugar, try satisfying it with an extremely sweet fruit or fruit juice. Once you condition your body to think that this is the only sweet that it will be getting, then your cravings will also begin to reduce.

Breakfast Recipes

Recipe 1: Slow Cooked Chicken

This is a Middle Eastern preparation that will keep you quite filled till lunch.

Serves: 6-8

Ingredients

2.8 lbs. boneless skinless chicken thighs3 onions, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced (I used the food processor fitted with a slicing disk)2 Tbsp. olive oilPinch of sumac, cinnamon, all spice, cloves, saffron, salt and pepperHandful of pine nuts and mint leaves

Method

Mix all the spices with the onions and cloves and toast. Add the chicken to the slow cooker for about an hour or more with seasoning and then add onion mixture to it. Cook for 6 hours on low. Serve with a smattering of pine nuts and mint leaves.

Recipe 2: Sweet Potato Apple Spread

Serve this spread over toasted bread for breakfast.

Makes 2 jars

Ingredients

6 apples, peeled and chopped3 sweet potatoes, peeled and choppedcup cinnamon2 tablespoon ground ginger2 tablespoon pure chocolate powdertablespoon nutmegteaspoon ground cloves

Method

Add everything to a slow cooker and cook on a low heat for 6-8 hours. After that use a blender and puree it into a smooth spread.

Recipe 3: Slow Cooked Beef Chipotle

Everyone loves the flavor of smoked and charcoaled flavor of jalapeno flavors and thats what you get in this beef recipe, which so versatile that it can be used anywhere.

Serves : 4

Ingredients

6 pound beef strips2 cup of my Chipotle sauce4 cups of beef stock2 small white onion, diced6 large cloves of garlic3-4 tsp. of oregano1 tsp. of ground cloves2 tbsp. of apple cider vinegar3 bay leaves

Method:

Puree all the ingredients except the beef and the bay leaves. Pour part of this liquid into the slow cooker and add the beef strips. Follow with the remaining liquid over this and let this entire dish cook for about 8 hours or more on a low setting. Once done, cool the beef and shred. Enjoy this rolled up in tacos or over salad.

Recipe 4: Slow Cooked Roast Squash

This wonderful combination of the bland squash and spiced beef steak goes supremely well with each other.

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

4 pound chuck steak roast3 pound butternut squash, halved and seeded1 can of tomatoes, diced and pureed6 cloves of garlic, cut in half2 tsp. cumin2 tsp. paprika2 tsp. onion powder1 tsp. black peppersalt to taste

Method:

Scoop out the squash and remove the seeds. Make holes in chuck and fill it in with garlic cloves. Make a rub of all the spices and let it evenly coat the chuck roast. Add the chuck roast to the slow cooker along with tomatoes and add the squash halves too. Cook on a low setting for at least 7 hours. Once done, remove the squash and mash with a fork or hand. Shred the beef separately and serve both together.

Recipe 5: Slow Cooked Prosciutto Chicken

This slow cooked meal is a healthy mix of two meats for breakfast.

Serves: 2

Ingredients

2 lb. chicken5-6 eggscup coconut milk2 bunch kale, roughly torncup chives, finely choppedSeasoning, to taste10 slices of prosciutto, halved

Method

Add all of the ingredients to a slow cooker and let it cook for about 4 hours on low. Serve with a side of prosciutto.

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