Have your heard of the Paleo diet? Have you ever wondered what the hype is all about? Do you think it’s just another fad?  When I first heard of the Paleo diet, I thought whoever designed it is crazy! How could I ever give up grains?! When I was in school they said grains were supposed to be the biggest part of the diet. I was totally cool with going through life and eating as much pasta as possible. I mean homemade mac and cheese was a lunch staple and seriously, our grass fed cheeses are amazing! How could we not eat it every day?! Unfortunately, recently we found out my son has a reaction to dairy and we have had to cut back for the time being.  According to the dictionary the Paleo diet is based on the types of foods presumed to have been eaten by early humans, consisting chiefly of meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit, and excluding dairy or grain products and processed food. That being said, I don’t know what the early humans ate, other than the fruit from the Garden of Eden. I do believe that God made everything on this earth to help us and nourish us but throughout the years that humans have been on the earth, we have tried to change things and in recent years we have really started messing up agriculture. We started making hybrids to resist disease or yield a bigger crop. GMO’s have been designed to allow extremely poisonous chemicals to be sprayed on crops to kill weeds but not the GMO plant. Our food system has gone through many changes in the last several decades and not all these changes have been beneficial. So many of our grains here in the United States have been hybridized and genetically modified; these changes are big enough reasons to avoid them. Take a look at this great website http://paleoleap.com/paleo-101/ it gives you a list of 15 Do’s and Don’ts of the Paleo diet. My family and I have made major changes recently to improve our health and I wouldn’t have been successful without the Freezer Meal Workshops.

Since the day my dad told me I couldn’t date if I couldn’t cook until now I have been in a love affair with cooking. I am now happily married to an amazing man who can cook eggs for our 3 beautiful children on Saturday morning but that is about the extent of it. I am ok with his lack of interest because he is always there to help clean up my mess.  Unfortunately, my busy life does not always allow for endless hours in the kitchen. The John Henry’s Freezer Meal Workshops have been a personal life saver.  We have always focused on REAL foods, healthy meats and veggies but we also ate our fair share of grains and not enough fruit. Since our family’s health issues we have had to eliminate grains, conventional dairy and all refined sugar while healing our guts. We have been putting a big focus on Bone Broth to help speed up the healing process and eating a more PALEO diet.  If any of you have had to do a drastic diet change like me and cut out over 75 % of your normal recipes, you know where I am coming from. This has been a BIG change for my little family but the Freezer Meal Workshops have made that transition so much easier. We are seeing great progress in our health and we may continue eating this way indefinitely but I will definitely continue to have my freezer stocked with these amazing Freezer Meal Workshop dinners.  John Henry’s offer’s several great menu options if you are following a special diet. We have combined taste tested Wildtree spices, oils and recipes mixed with John Henry’s grass fed beef, free range chicken and pork cut to the menu’s specifications.  Check out our Freezer Meal Workshop page to see some of our most popular menus.  If you would like to save time and money and host a Freezer Meal Workshop my mom Kellie and I (Katie) will come to your home and help you and your friends and family put the meals together. It is so much fun and I know you will benefit from it just as much as I do!