Great recipe!  The only thing I haven't managed to figure out yet is how to hide the coppery taste with spices...a little bit of it still pokes out in the aftertaste, despite my best efforts.

And yes, "more butter" is part of the key to making it taste good.

I still cheat with Coke occasionally, but I can't finish a whole 14oz bottle of Mexican Coke anymore, even after dinner...too much sugar.

JS

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There's a reason I cite goldfish crackers as an example in "Why Snack Food Is Addictive".  And yes, it's fun to eat a huge slab of prime rib, a salad, some full-fat yogurt, and a box of Bottle Caps.

JS

Also, J, I snorted out loud, laughing, when I read this, "but sometimes it's nice to just hork down a bunch of candy."

Some Wonka candies (Sweet-Tarts, Bottle Caps) are pure dextrose (= glucose), with no fructose at all -- and many others are at least half dextrose (= less than 1/4 fructose).  And they cost a shitload less than GU or any other nasty energy snot.

Not that I eat or drink any of that junk anyway...the last time I ate anything before or during exercise was several weeks ago on a six-hour epic ride, during which I consumed one 160-calorie roll of Sweet-Tarts.

However, with all the riding and running I do, I do need to bump up my glucose intake a bit so I don't become glycogen-depleted.  Usually it'll be starch with dinner, but sometimes it's nice to just hork down a bunch of candy.

JS

* delete as appropriate. Much enjoyed, anyway!

Now a sour dough loaf, hollowed, smeared with dripping and then filled with all the things a traditional Yorkshire Pudding gets filled with would work well. Good idea ... one for the growing list of cool paleo foods to try out.

That being said, I will admit that the toughest time of year for me is just after Easter... WHEN ALL THOSE GODDAMNED REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER EGGS GO ON SALE.

Strangely I'm not eating much coconut cream anymore either, though I still regularly cook with coconut oil.  Lately it's been eggs.  My recent cheats have all been either candy or soda after a meal.

Pate is a great lunch-on-the-go idea!  Unfortunately it's very hard to find here in the USA.  And occasional IF is probably good...somehow I doubt our ancestors managed to kill their prey at the same time every day.

JS

A dish of simple batter poured into well heated dishes with near-smoking dripping. Left to rise into "plates" and filled with meat, vegetables and gravy. It's been over three months ... this Sunday, I'm having a Yorkshire pudding with Silverside beef and some damn good veggies. I have a perfect bone marrow gravy ready to roll and it's going to be fantastic! It'll be a real treat and something I'm going to mark up as a non-sensical indulgence.

My processed cheese fancy has dropped right out ... no more ... no thanks. Coconut cream was an impulse buy and I've not had any for a good while now.

I do like a mushroom pate I buy from my local farm shop - it's blended with chicken livers and tastes amazing. For breakfast, I have a good helping of that on a lettuce leaf, chew, savour and enjoy ... follow up with a couple of tablespoons of natural probiotic yoghurt. It's all I can manage first thing and sets me up well 'til lunchtime. I have to play by the same rules as non-paleo people and eat at certain times at work.

I've also found two jerky/biltong producers that I really like. Lunches are difficult for me, preparation-wise, so a couple of bags of jerky, some pate or guacamole and a few things to scoop 'em up with are good for me. It's laziness and unpreparedness ... if I have not bothered, I starve and pig out in the evening on proper food. IF is happening quite naturally for me now. My poor body has no idea what's going to happen!

Fried Spam with a fried egg is good.  I'd save it for camping food, personally...to me, Spam only tastes good outdoors.  And faggots sound delicious, actually...I'm sure you could make your own with rice or coconut flour, but they sound like a somewhat elaborate PITA to make.

As far as non-paleo junk food cheat/treats, that's really a personal thing, so I can't offer advice.

PDW:

Milk is delicious.  Half and half is even more delicious.  But liquid calories are very, very dangerous if you're trying to lose weight: that's why I proscribe them in "Eat Like A Predator".  It's easy to drink hundreds of calories in a few seconds with full-fat dairy.  Better to get the calories as fat attached to meat or eggs, which will leave you sated for longer.

Did you know that three eggs contain only 225 calories?  (Plus the frying oil...)

JS

Having only done this for a week (I know, I know, but a cub!) bare with me. 

Milk.  It's the one thing I do not want to let go of.  Regular old processed whole milk from Clover farms.  Just THINKING about it makes me drool. 

I did have a brief craving for a burger, but, y'know...having been on diet after diet, that kind of thing I can easily let slide from my mind.  Why would I want a burger when I can have a frickin' STEAK?

I never really ate many desserts, but two I did like were plain vanilla ice cream and any kind of set (not baked) cheesecake.

Using prunes and smashed macadamia nuts for a base is good, load up the mascarpone and let it set in the fridge. Squeeze out some passion fruits over the top just before serving and enjoy.

I'm still thinking through the lacto-paleo thing. I'm very much with you and Harris on this matter - milk is not a big deal so long as you are not intolerant; and there are many hunter-gatherer cultures which partake, be it cow, bison, buffalo, reindeer, yak, whatever. I've said before that I drink so little "milk", but do really enjoy heavy cream, fermented cheeses, yoghurt and so on, and find them very beneficial to my diet.

Aside from this kind of dairy and spirits (single malt Scotch whisky and Russian/Scandinavian vodka) I have been very straight with my paleo diet and I'm really enjoying it.

While we're on junk food, I do have two cans of Spam in the cupboard! They're from an elderly couple who were clearing their house out before moving on to a retirement home. Should I eat them? Slices of Spam with a fried egg of top is really damn good!

I need a new non-paleo junk food cheat/treat ...

I think the only thing I really enjoy (and have had once since my initial '30 Days of Paleo' challenge) is faggots. This is a pork meat and offal meatball set in a thick marrow gravy. There is some flour in these. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food) - if this is as much off trail as I eat, and only very occasionally I think I'd doing well.