I’m here to help empower you to live your very best life and teach you how to make it easy to enjoy eating real food!
Eating real food is HARD. Or is it?? While changing your diet can seem like a huge, overwhelming challenge at first, I don’t believe that it always has to be that way. After all, I’ve learned to easily sustain this lifestyle, and because of this, I’m sharing all of my BEST tips with you today for how to make paleo easy!
How To Make Paleo Easy:
1. Keep It Simple:
One of my best tips for how to make eating real food easy is this:
Cook up a super simple protein (I like to have 2 different kinds on hand) and roast up a bunch of different veggies, and keep everything stored in your fridge. I season the protein and veggies with just sea salt, garlic powder and pepper and completely mix up the flavors of my meals with easy, homemade sauces!
This is exactly why I created my eBook, Get Sauced, which is filled with 33 EASY and DELICIOUS sauce recipes that are all designed to make eating real food so simple. Seriously, these sauces change the game and you’ll get this eBook for free, just for signing up for my newsletter!
If you’re brand new to making your own sauces, be sure to check out THIS post & video, where I show you just how easy it is to make my Chipotle Aioli. I ALWAYS have a batch of this aioli in my fridge!
2. Make Ahead + Freeze It
Whether life suddenly becomes extra awesomely-scheduled, you’re planning for the arrival of a baby or are having surgery, making meals ahead and freezing them can be the biggest lifesaver!
I’ve put together an entire guide for my top tips for freezing meals as well as separate ingredients (bone broth, ginger, etc), along with my recipes that freeze the best!
3. Let Go Of Perfectionism
This one is HUGE.
I constantly see others stop themselves in their own tracks with diet changes because they believe that they need to be perfect. I’d shared in my Instagram stories that I grabbed a rotisserie chicken from Whole Foods, and I received many messages from concerned readers. The rotisserie chicken has plastic…isn’t that toxic?? Shouldn’t I be worried??
Often, we’re our own worst enemies, and we’re the ones that sabotage our own success. One of the ways that I’ve been able to easily sustain this lifestyle for many years, and how I found true health, was by NOT being perfect. I simply do the best that I can in every situation.
I learned that the key to my happiness has been letting go of fear. While I recognize that the rotisserie chicken is in plastic – I simply don’t worry about it. For me, eating real food is what’s most important, and rotisserie chickens are a huge time saver. When you let go of the need to control everything and worry about every little detail, that’s when the MAGIC happens. That’s when eating real food becomes sustainable.
I know just how difficult this all seems at first, as I was once there, too. I truly hope that this post helped you to see just how to make eating real food easy, and how you can make this work for your own life!
Now I’d love to hear from you in the comments! Are you new to eating this way, or do you have a hack for how to make paleo easy that I didn’t cover in this post?
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Always love your posts Kristen! I’ve been straying but trying to be paleoish most of the time with a cheat day allowed. I’ll be using your tips and recipes for a
Sure!!!
You got this!
Thank you for #5! I go in waves of perfectionism and obsession and am slowly (after 3 years) coming in a rhythm that works for us…and you’re a big part of helping me find it. The thing that keeps me going in addition to seeing success for myself is that I’m know I’m setting my kids (one with rheumatoid arthritis) up for a lifetime of having the tools to keep themselves healthy. That makes it worth it!
Love that you have such a HUGE “why” Shanlyn!
Hi! I”m doing AIP right now and have NO desire to eat anything I can actually have. Sauces would definitely help! Are there a good amount of sauces in your ebook that are AIP compliant?
Never mind! I saw the part above where you talk about egg-free, nut-free variations. I bought it!
Awesome, enjoy Katie!
When I’m in a flare, it’s super hard for my body to digest all the veggies! I imagine it would have been the same for you? How did you ease into the new diet?
Totally get that, Hillary! I wrote about this topic here – https://livinglovingpaleo.com/2017/03/22/supercharge-gut-health/
None of the links are working. I’m getting a 404 error. I’m starting from scratch, type 2 diabetes, and my gut is a mess.
Hi Ilona! I have updated this post, and the old links were removed. Stay tuned for our course on how to heal your gut! I will be sending the gut course information out first to my newsletter subscribers. If you want to be on that list, you can enter your email here: https://crafty-inventor-5459.ck.page/d6c93843aa. Thank you!