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You may remember my review of Go Raw Bars from last June.  This is a great company that makes pretty pure paleo ingredients.  I’m not a fan of the bars, but I’m addicted to their Flax Snax!

Once you go paleo, one of the things you long for are snacky things like crackers or chips.  Especially with guacamole, which I eat all year round (California rules!).  Kale Chips just aren’t sturdy enough, and even though I love my chips made from root veggies like rutabaga and beets, it’s just takes so friggin’ long to make, and when you want to crunch on something, you want it now!

These flax crackers are 100% paleo, but the only drawback is they’re tiny.  Still, I manage to scoop up some guac with them, and when their tininess gets too frustrating, I just throw some in a bowl with the guac and eat it all with a spoon.

I wrote the company and asked if they were planning on making bigger ones, and they wrote me back (always a sign of a quality food company with nothing to hide) explaining that they tried, but they would break while shipping.  Bummer.  Still, these are a quality paleo product (there aren’t that many out there), that provides really good crunch satisfaction.

They taste pretty plain, but I like that when dipping them into something, so I don’t mind.  But my friend who turned me on to them claim the pizza flavored Flax Snax are outrageously good.  I checked out their ingredients, and if you don’t mind some sea salt in your diet, it’s 100% paleo (you know me folks, it’s got to be 100% organic for me to consider it paleo, and this company really holds itself to my high standard), so those could be the go-to paleo snack for when I want something crunchy.  I can’t wait to try them.  They also make a sunflower flavor that has coconut amino, which also contains sea salt.  I’m not big on salt, but if I eat it, it HAS to be sea salt, and a little in your diet won’t kill you.

Let me know if any other cavemen out there have tried it and what do you think!

1. sheloveswinter said: How do you keep the top of your bread from splitting? Are you a lucky bastard or is there a trick?

No trick, sometimes my bread splits, and sometimes it don’ts.  Either way it tastes delicious!

On Monday’s Dr. Oz show, he had the founder of the paleo movement Dr. Loren Cordain, and my friend Nell Stephenson, the Paleoista, on to talk about the Paleo Diet!  As long time readers of my blog know, I HATE Dr. Oz!  Every time that quack opens his mouth about organic food or the paleo diet he sets our movement back 10 years!  In the past he has said it’s not all that important to eat organic food, and that the “meat heavy” paleo diet leads to too much cholesterol, using bad study after bad study as his references.  But I absolutely loved seeing Nell and Dr. Cordain shatter his misconceptions on national television, leaving him completely at a loss for words, which is how I prefer him (and that goes for his daughter too, who shat all over my dating site on national TV just last week).

First, Nell and Dr. Cordain busted the myth that paleo is all meat.  This is a pet-peeve of mine since I first went paleo.  Paleo is not all meat, folks, as Nell explained to him.  She showed him what a typical meal should look like on paleo, and he was SHOCKED to find out two-thirds of a paleo plate should be filled with vegetables!  And another myth was shattered too, in that, no, people should NOT be eating handfuls of Oscar Meyer bacon with each meal (I’m talking to you with the greasy fingers on his keyboard, Porky)!  Dr. Oz thought paleo was like Fred Flintstone, but the only stone-age thinking was being done by him!

Then when Nell told him to avoid grains and legumes, Dr. Oz nearly shit himself.  This guy preaches to people that whole grains and beans should be absolute staples in a healthy diet.  You could tell he was completely thrown off his game and didn’t know what to say.  Wait, it gets better.

The show moves fast, and I don’t blame Dr. Oz for that, it’s a TV thing, and he’s paid to keep things moving.  So there was no long discussion on organic food, grass-fed beef, pasture raised poultry, etc. but these things were mentioned by Nell, even though they weren’t explained in depth.  This would have killed his cholesterol theories, but hey, one victory at a time.

Speaking of which, finally at the end of the segment came the best victory of all!  A woman who had been diagnosed with MS appeared.  She explained she was paralyzed from the waist down and was told by doctors she would remain that way, as well as remain on drugs for the rest of her life.  But that didn’t sit well with her at all, so she did some research, found the paleo diet, and soon she was up and walking again!  Today she has NO symptoms of MS in her body, and she credits paleo with the recovery!

So here’s Dr. Oz, this man of science, and he’s more confused than he’s ever been in his TV life.  He had no idea how to react when a women told him she cured herself without drugs, and by eliminating foods he claims are healthy for you!  He just didn’t know how to process this information.  Which just goes to show you, doctors have no nutritional training whatsoever!  Dr. Oz only knows what he reads, and he follows the herd like the sheep he is, believing whatever the attention grabbing headlines say, without looking into matters for himself.  He hears “paleo is all about meat,” so he goes on TV and tells people that.  He hears “non-organic food is just as nutritious as organic food,” so he goes on TV and talks about it, without mentioning the dangers of pesticides.  The man is an idiot, and if I ever go into cardiac arrest, I don’t want that shitty heart surgeon anywhere near me!  I don’t care how beloved he is in middle America.

By the way, Nell looked STUNNING, so I hope that was a good enough ad for paleo right there.  Relax boys, she’s married, keep it in your cave.  I’ve mentioned Nell numerous times in my blog (even though that stunning bitch only mentioned me once in hers), and if you’re not following her yet, you should be.  Visit The Paleoista today for paleo tips, recipes, books, and more!  I’ve learned a lot from her about paleo and you will too!  Ugga-Bugga!