Day 22: LARD! and my new favorite grocery store!

Shopping while hungry at Sunflower Market was like foreplay!

I finally made my way over to Sunflower Market in Colorado Springs for the first time today, and I'm really excited about it!  It's like Whole Foods but cheaper!  I found grass fed beef for cheap, plantains, wild caught clams on the half shell, kale, avocados for 75 cents each, chicken thighs for $1.29/lb, all kinds of stuff.  Plus they even had a "make your own almond butter or peanut butter" station, which was a machine which ground up almonds or peanuts and dispensed the creamy goodness right into your plastic tub.  Yum!  I guess I grew up under a rock because I've never seen something like that before.  I actually considered hanging around near that thing all day making myself more peanut butter one squirt at a time.  I know peanut butter isn't "paleo", but I think it tastes better than almond butter, so when the fantasy played out in my mind, I was thinking of the peanut butter.

These grocery stores are fun, but I'm going to make it my goal in October to try to find a local farmer to sell me grass fed beef in a quantity that my small freezer can handle.  I'm also going to see if I can find a good source for grass fed beef stock bones, bacon, pastured whole chickens, and grass fed fat.  Ok, this might sound kind of gross to 90% of my friends, but cooking in animal fat--grass fed fat, not grain fed--is supposed to be good for you!  Yes, it actually helps you absorb fat soluble vitamins like vitamin E, and yes, it helps keep you full longer, and yes, it's a lot better than the vegetable oils of today which turn rancid and are treated with chemicals over and over again so you don't taste the rancidity.  I might stick to bacon fat for now, but I'm willing to branch out and investigate other forms of lard and render it myself.  Lol.  The more fat I eat the more I'm losing weight and the more energy I have. Hate all you want, the primal foods are working!