Hunt, Gather, Sautee: Paleo Cooking 101
Check out the post and this video from the first HGS101!
HGS101 is an all-inclusive cooking lesson and feast. The knowledge and skills you’ll acquire will get you started efficiently making gourmet-tasting meals to improve the long-term quality of life of you and your loved ones.
You’ll be walked through the prep and making of breakfast, lunch and dinner for about 5 day’s worth of gourmet paleo food for two people. As we go along, we’ll eat the food, and I’ll answer questions.
This class will get you started by learning in the most effective way: learning through doing. You’ll get complete instruction on how to use the simple yet elegant ingredients, tools and methods you’ll use week in and week out. I’ll be teaching only the most time-efficient methods for making paleo food. This is not a class where you’ll learn to make a 25-step dish that you’ll only have time to make once a year. We will cover about eleven mouth-watering paleo dishes and paleo staples.
To actually get efficient at using them, they require *doing* which is up to you after the class. Along with the class itself will come some handy planning tools to help you and your family execute on cooking efficiently and nutritiously every week including a guide for cost-effective shopping in the South Bay, an index of paleo foods and tips, self-education resources, and all the recipes from that day.
Sign up here for the next HGS101 as these fill up quick!
When: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. Sunday November 13th, 2011 OR Sunday December 4th, 2011
Who: Taught by Remy. Class is open to CFSB members and friends. Cap is 15 people. Strongly recommended: Nutrition 101 prior to this class!
Where: Redondo Beach/PV (address will be sent to attendees)
Cost: $75 - discount for armed forces, fire, public school teachers, under 18 and over 60. Discount for those who sign up for Nutrition 101 the prior week! Email remy@crossfitsouthbay.com for discount code.
Why: What’s paleo? Here’s the short version below, or check out past CFSB Nutrition posts.
Our bodies adapted best to perform with over millennia of human evolution: a diet based on plants and animals. This is often called the ‘paleo diet’ as it mimics the types of foods a person (hunter-gatherer/stone tools) ate prior to the Agricultural Revolution (from 2.5 million years ago to 12,000 years ago). This period of time comprises 99% of human history and is the diet to which the human species is genetically adapted.
Modern diets are ill-suited for our genetic composition and under-serve our metabolic and performance needs. The rate of lifestyle-related disease and the cost to our collective quality of life is on the rise, filling our journey with unrewarding side-trips: frustrating diet plans, ineffective exercise efforts, in most cases eventually prescription and coping drugs, and ultimately a reduced quality of life. You chose the most efficient form of training. Why wouldn’t you choose the most efficient fuels?
Quotes from participants:
“I highly recommend this class to anyone looking to better their nutrition, regardless of whether or not they’re looking to live a 100% Paleo lifestyle for health reasons or just want to clean up their diet to improve athletic performance and lose the body fat. Even if you already eat a Paleo or Paleo-esque/clean diet, you are likely stuck eating the same, bland foods and recipes repeatedly. If you’re an athlete and you have to eat more than the average person, this can be even more grueling and lead to burnout. Remy will show you how to prepare recipes that taste better than most “cheat” foods and how to do so in a way that will provide several meals or days worth. She is a wealth of nutritional knowledge from both textbook and personal experience. This is an excellent “How” lesson in Paleo cooking and eating.” – Matt, fire fighter
“I highly recommend this class to the beginner through the advanced. I have been cooking most of my paleo meals for the past year and still learned a ton. Remy rocks!” – Cheli, high school asst. principal
“Definitely, without any doubt Kale, Avocado and Bacon salad. This may be my new favorite salad…. Though the Curry Shrimp was delightful as well! Thanks Remy for teaching us how to use greens I would never be brave enough to try to cook with!” – Amanda, USAF
“I really enjoyed how practical and reality based it was. There was no complex or time consuming recipeies and I learned quite a bit and broadened my paleo food scope.” - John S., writer/comedian/filmmaker
