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AIP Tid Bits

Lisa Mimm-Petric
Feb 12, 2017
3 min read

My mind keeps racing with all of the ideas that I want to share with you so bear with me as there may be a flourish of ideas coming. How to narrow it down? What do I think is most important for you to know next? I thought that I would go with the resources that I felt are the most important and some more tips that I have thought about since my last post. The best resource that you can use is your common sense. Everyone's experience and life is different. Just because I think that something is amazing for me, doesn't mean that it is amazing for you and vice versa; just because I don't like something doesn't mean that it won't be amazing for you. Be open to new ideas and experiences.

Resources:

1. My number one go to resource of sound information is Dr. Sarah Ballantyne's book The Paleo Approach. Caution though there is a lot of mind numbing science in it that is important to read. I have 3 college degrees and one of them is in Psychology so reading science journals has been a regular event in my life but I had to take the first half of this book in chunks. Read it. It is important to understand the whys and hows of AIP.

2. Once you have read her book, read her blog Paleo Mom and subscribe to her newsletter. I purchased her cookbook via Kindle but then returned it. I found most of her recipes cumbersome and needed expensive, hard to find ingredients. Remember my 30 minute rule?

3. A Squirrel in The Kitchen is by far my favorite blog. I think it is because her recipes are so simple and use ingredients that I have already.

4. Other great sites for recipes are Pheonix Helix, Wellness Mama, and Autoimmune Paleo though I will admit that I am a Pinterest junkie now too.

5. Pubmed.gov is a great resource for scientific research if you're into that thing.

Other useful tips

1. Always.... I mean always have bone broth on hand. It is easy to make. Below is a pic of this morning's bounty. I'll post the instructions for mine later but there are a million recipes out there.

2. I buy a jar of an organic spice and then refill the jar with spices I buy in bulk. I get my bulk spices at a food co-op near my work or Whole Foods. They are much cheaper that way and I already have a container for the spice.

3. Grow and dry your own herbs. The are pretty easy to grow (however I can't seem to grow cilantro). Be careful with parsley, it will over take anywhere you plant it. I dry my herbs by placing them on a wire rack in the oven, then turn the oven on its lowest temperature, once it is preheated, I turn it off and let the herbs sit until they are dry. I then crumble them in my hands and put them in containers in my spice cabinet. I do this all summer. They usually last me through the fall and then I have to buy them at the store.

4. Mason jars are your friend. I store flours, spices, bone broths, live pate, coconut milk.... pretty much anything in my mason jars. I can get the big gallon size glass jars at Walmart for under $5. I reuse my lids and rings as long as there isn't any rust and I'm storing them in the fridge or freezer. Hint....if your putting your bone broth in a mason jar in the freezer leave a good 2 inches in the top so the jar doesn't crack. My first batch all of my jars cracked and I lost all of that bone broth.

5. Stay organized! As my life changes, my organizational strategies change. Meal prep should not be meltdown time. Keeping things organized means you can put your hands on them quickly. This saves time and energy.... to me energy is a very important commodity since my job is so stressful and I can lose energy quickly.