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Recipes • August 18, 2009, at 9:11 pm
The perfect 3 block paleo-zone breakfast2.5 oz. Nova-lox style smoked salmon, and 1 banana. What makes this so perfect? Well, it’s quick to prepare and easy to digest, making it a perfect pre-workout meal. And the salmon is filled with heart-healthy anti-inflammatory Omega-3 fatty acids. It supplies plenty of fuel for your WOD, helps activate fat burning pathways, and stimulates the creation of positive eicosanoids. In comparison, two eggs have less protein, more saturated fat, far less or no Omega-3, and too much of the pro-inflammatory Omega-6 fatty acid known as arachidonic acid; this is a so-called “essential” fatty acid — but our bodies can produce plenty of it themselves. For humans, Omega-3 is the true “essential” fatty acid we cannot synthesize ourselves. Pick your lox with careLox can be expensive and not all smoked salmon is created equal. You can sometimes find a much better deal on lox at a store like Sam’s Club or CostCo, but look at the package first. You want a lox with a minimum of 7 grams of protein per ounce, and no more than 1 gram of carbs per ounce. The best lox has less than one gram of carbs per serving, i.e. it has 0g carbs. Some people say smoked salmon is too expensive. But I buy “smoked salmon trim,” which is much cheaper than the premium lox, like, 4x cheaper. I get my lox trim for $7.99 per pound at a health-food store. That’s $1.25 per breakfast, and my one pound package lasts 6 days. That’s not too bad! 3 comments to The perfect 3 block paleo-zone breakfast |
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You came up fist in my search. Very cool. I am glad to have someone else to geek out on this stuff with.
I have noticed that my willpower breaks down with Alcohol. Ended up having a little ice cream and desert tonight. Have not done that in a long time. No worries as long as the cheating does not become the norm.
MIke
What about the super high sodium content of smoked salmon? Isn’t that a pretty big problem?
It hasn’t proven to be a problem for me. But some people may need to watch sodium content. I am a bit of a contrarian in dietary matters; saturated fats, sodium, cholesterol, I don’t worry too much about them.
Orthodox “paleo” diets don’t include added sodium, and so, smoked and cured meats are excluded. That wasn’t something I knew about when I originally posted this note.
One thing I am curious about though, is that I saw a lecture by Loren Cordain in which he claimed that high sodium has been implicated in insomnia, which IS a problem for me. He suggests eliminating added salt and seeing if that doesn’t address sleep issues; it’s not something I am ready to try yet.