Are You Ready for Some Football?

This Sunday is Super Bowl Sunday. I don't know about you, but I love to watch the Super Bowl and go to the parties. In years past, part of the fun was coming up with yummy foods to serve or bring to the party. In preparing for Sunday, I began to plan what I would bring to the table. Have you seen the advertisements and TV commercials this week? They are full of party snack ideas, enticing you to eat gooey, sugary, starchy, & fatty foods. Now that I have gone Paleo, those foods just don't cut it anymore. I can't force my friends to necessarily follow the Paleo plan, but I can make something that we can eat. Who knows, my friends might even like it! But, I suspect that not all the foods there will be Paleo friendly. So, what do you do - load up on only the food that you brought and drink water? That will surely draw attention to you and shift the conversation to your "diet" and the questions about "why no grains" and "why no dairy."

So, what do you do in situations like these when you have no choice in what can eat? Just not eat? Our friends at the Paleo Chronicles Blog (http://www.paleochronicles.com/) talk about situational awareness. Look at what is before you and make the best choices. Follow these particular tips and you can make the best possible judgement:

• Be honest with yourself, don't use it as an excuse to get off the Paleo Plan


• Choose wisely: Focus on whatever meat dishes are there (regardless if it follows the Paleo Plan exactly), load up on veggies, skip the pastas and the grains.


• Dip veggies into guacamole and salsa if available. If you must have dip, then only take a small teaspoon size.


• If you are dying for something sweet, head for the fruits.


• Know your body, know your enemies - know what foods affect you - that will help you make choices that are best for you.


• If you are going to go off, then choose the ONE thing that you would go off of it for, rather than having a "taste" of everything.

In the end there is a choice...you don't have to eat anything there. Use your best judgement, and if there really is no choice...then note how the food has effected you and go back on Paleo in the morning. Just don't beat yourself up.

However, we plan to help you out this week. We will be featuring some snack foods that you can take to those Super Bowl parties that might even have your friends devouring. Who knows you might even recruit some folks to Paleo.

For more information on Situational Awareness check out the Paleo Chronicles Blog at http://www.paleochronicles.com/ And oh, by the way, GO STEELERS!! Sorry "Cheeseheads" you are dairy to me!