okay so there was no sound here we go I've been curious about the Paleo diet and I have a guest tonight that's full of information an expert at Paleo diet also an author of this yummy yummy book her name is Jane and she'll be on in a couple minutes warning you will be hungry during this show hello and welcome to g3 and happy that happens every Monday night at 7:00 p.m. 10 p.m. Eastern and I'm your host Cathy I've been sensitive to gluten for years and I thought why not start a show about connecting with other G free and happy people and learning some new things and tonight I am learning about the Paleo diet I have a wonderful person her name is Jane she'll be on in a couple minutes she's really generous about sharing there's a picture of her about sharing her knowledge and expertise we'll have some great questions for she's going to show us some wonderful desserts and that'll happen in just a couple minutes first I'd like to say that episode 9 of G free and happy is brought to you by 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chef at Disneyland and I'll be in the kitchen with him and I get to sample food from Disneyland and I'm going to film it all and have it for us for March 8th or March 11th it will be 7:00 p.m. Pacific time 10:00 p.m. Easter time I'll have a ton of details coming up this week too but I couldn't wait to tell everybody and this is why I do this kind of stuff because I get to go to Disneyland yeah okay so let's get to let's get to Jane and go all over the Paleo diet and the desserts and let's get her in here hello Jane hi Cathy so nice to have you it's been so much fun getting to know you and so let's tell everybody a little bit about you well a gluten free chef of course and I'm also health practitioner and I've done many different things in my life as a child I was very robust and strong and when I got to be about 30 I began to have weight problems and digestive sluggishness and some serious health problems and I at the time I was working for Rudy's bakery this was the original Rudy's bakery long before it was gluten-free and I I was a chief financial officer everies bakery for 10 years during which time I had my fill of any kind of sweets I wanted I started the day with a nice cup of coffee and a chocolate croissant and for lunch I have a nice sandwich and then I get you know all the sweets I wanted and plenty of coffee and after 10 years my my body collapsed and I didn't know what was wrong so I started I eliminated gluten that was back in the 80s but I don't know the reason I'm I'm paleo now is because we're always looking for a solution that one solution that is going to be the answer to our health problems but in my case it was many solutions so I first gave up gluten and then I gave up coffee and then I gave up pesticides and then I finally gave up sugar and just the last month or so I gave up nightshades which is potatoes tomatoes Oh peppers and and I don't think okay eggplant yeah I saw this on you so nice shades are are are any common allergens so I finally got so desperate for sweets that I had to invent the desserts myself and being a chef that you are yes so I started out as dessert chef at the bakery and then I went to school and became a chief financial officer so I had all that background and I sold my business and I started working like a mad scientist in my kitchen making paleo desserts for the world so so and so this is my book it's called paleo desserts and it is 125 delicious everyday favorites good and grain-free and so that's basically the story are you sure we're showing some of the pictures right now of the bugger thing but I want to ask you something that I read on your website hi small businesses do it better so oh I love those okay stop with the because I'm gonna get hungry Jamie one of the things I just love about you is that you're kind of the jack-of-all-trades you've done so many different things over the years plus you've done all this evolution of dieting or or lifestyle I should say in foods it's true so I read that you lived in Italy oh gosh yes so yeah hello an opera singer I have an opera singer on my show which I I mean that's amazing in itself you'll see in my dessert book and you'll see on my blog lots of Italian dishes that are invented paleo style and healthy because you lived there how long did you live there I lived you're actually about six years I lived in Venice very nice so you have oh there's a beautiful picture of another desert and Italy yes the one with the berries it's like a strawberry shortcake but with berries in it some of these look like they're in Italy yes well I absorbed the aesthetic shall we say I would say whoever is your photographer did an amazing job with your photos well I'm a good friend and I do a lot of it myself oh it's gorgeous um okay so let's talk about the Paleo diet I've been curious I know a ton of people have asked me about this tell us a little bit about the Paleo diet well the diet was invented by dr.
Loren Cordain a brilliant man who noticing that the modern diet had some drawbacks to it shall we say asked the big question if our ancestors survived and they didn't eat all of these processed foods or sugars and so forth what dinner ancestors eat and he wrote a book and he has website the Paleo diet and now it's become very very popular because it's basically a reaction against modern industrial food and has a lot of good points going for it so the Paleo diet includes you could define anything positive or negative I will define it positive it includes fresh vegetables yeah you have those yeah you can have those it includes fruits but only targets not sweet fruits oh really cuz yep because our fruits now have been selected and very carefully genetically created to be sweet but let's say for example that apples that worked the Paleo period is from 2.6 million years ago to ten thousand years ago pre agriculture so these are the Huns and gather ancestors and so apparently so I understand their apples for example or not as sweet as our apples now apparent more like our bowels so they just don't have access to sweet food so they couldn't have all this this this sugar that we sometimes overdo so anyway tart fruits are included nuts are included wild meats eggs and oils on the Paleo diet are coconut oil or olive oil and that sounds limited but just think of all the vegetables and fruits that you could do anyway you have to be positive so know what's not in the Paleo diet what's not is refined and processed food I'm all for that like corn flakes and donuts and loops anyway we could go on about that also sugars any kind of sugar even organic cane sugar it's not yeah that has been in fact looking at your book because I went through it a couple times over the weekend you know by the way if you order Amazon fresh you can put this in your shopping cart and get it overnight I would actually look at her website for some of the ingredients before you buy this because then you'd have it already because one thing I didn't do was I didn't buy the sugar that she suggests on my blog selfie kitchen you click on ingredients those there's the list right there where to get all the ingredients for the best prices I think baby steps thank you and going back to the refinement sugar and things like that and and I'm all for getting rid of that if you ask me but I'm older I've experienced all the sugar stuff I worked at a bakery - what else doesn't it include is there any major thing yes Oh candy bars no snack bars so are we done with sugar now yes so it doesn't include sweet fruits such as pineapple well made mango that type of thing where it will really give you a sugar lift those are not really a lot of food is it banana part of it banana I'm sorry no now here's something that's good news the Paleo diet is not it's not a religion it's a lifestyle and you get to make your own room but if it's high in fructose which a banana is well you need to be careful bananas are high in fructose they are and they're very high in carbs so I don't eat bananas but I so many I eat like a king every day but if you want to eat bananas and define it paleo you can do that but you won't find bananas in my cookbook except I did make one banana bread so you see um you have to kind of play with it it's whatever you feel like eating yes yes I'm gonna make the produce in the banana bread he's a huge banana man so what's not on the Paleo diet is any kind of high carb sweetener we know that honey is is a natural food and it is a paleo sweetener but you won't find it in my book because it'll give you a huge sugar rush and my book is not only paleo but it's also addressing the epidemic of diabetes and childhood obesity that we have problems with now in this country so I I'm very interested in low carb sweeteners and though I had never heard of these sweeteners by the way we have a question can you ask her where we find that link for the best places to purchase the ingredients it would my website James Cal vacation calm okay on the home page on the top navigation there is the link called ingredients click it and it's the first 20 lines of that page order those things that's the best prices and then just free shipping yeah you and you do have I mean a ton of information besides just the deserts of what you need and how you I mean it's just amazing because it is kind of a whole new way of cooking it is but I have two websites one is James healthy kitchen this is my blog this is all types of healthy food for everybody it's not a paleo although everything happens to be paleo paleo happens to include a lot of other diets so it's paleo it's gluten free it's diabetic friendly it's celiac friendly it's hand anti-inflammatory it's it's actually good for everyone in fact if you have a family where you have one person as a special life you can cook from my recipes for that person and no one will know the difference oh I love that that is wonderful because you you can kind of tell with those processed foods too if they're g-free or not or you know any hen allergies yes yeah but let's go back to the thread we're almost done with what's not on the Paleo diet we have no refined foods no sugars no candy bars no sweet fruits now we have no grains no bread no means no genetics no beans you see our hunter-gatherer ancestors during the Paleolithic period didn't have agriculture and that is that full of carbs too beans are they full of carbs or a very linear combination of carbs and protein but this this is um not on the Paleo diet because if you're eating eating in theory if you're eating the way our our ancestors did during that period they could not raise food they didn't have gardeners they didn't have agriculture so they didn't have beans or grains they didn't have livestock so they didn't have dairy either that's true they did not know they didn't want to know no so pretend you live in a cave and the thing you can go out and gather with your hands that's over the sphere or whatever means that's what you can eat so many things but there's one more thing okay extracted vegetable oils are not on the Paleo diet that's the last thing I'm gonna say such as safflower oil oil soy oil corn oil sunflower oil almond oil these types of oils are not on the family are dominant so my cookbook uses primarily coconut oil but olive oil is also on the Paleo diet I like coconut oil I think it's a nice blend of I mean it adds to the flavor I think alright so let's talk today I did and of course I don't have my my plate with me but I did the coconut macaroons and I put it on Instagram Kathy K Nelson and on Twitter and they were not because I didn't have the sugar so I kind of played with the sugars it's use you can actually use any sweetener in my recipes okay you don't need this weaker but this wheat happens to be very special yeah we're gonna talk about that but oh my goodness I couldn't yes yeah the whole you know the batter was the best if you ask me I'm half of it it was so good it was it felt healthy to it didn't feel you know not healthy for me I traveled all over Europe I know what the tape with look those great desserts are supposed to taste like and if they don't taste like that they don't make it in my book okay and so um let's talk about your dessert book and of course what you which you've got in front of you too well today I made a special apple pie for you so I'm just gonna hold this I'll see you see it oh it's gorgeous it's a Dutch apple pie and you make it's made just like you would make a Betty Crocker apple pie acceptance it uses my special chicory root sweetener that is 0yc macand zero calories and the crust is very special Cathy oh it took me about ten tries to get this but some people say that the pie crust is worth the price of the book and it's sort it is a mixture of coconut Oh hold on dine mixture I heard her her computer heating up there should be back April I love oh good thank you for sharing that everybody's subscribed to Jane's healthy kitchen calm April's on the chant she's a subscriber wait a minute hold on because you froze you froze and I just I mean it's a gorgeous picture of you showing your pie maybe it'll come right back on there in just a second is I heard your your computer was getting hot do you want do you want to call right back and yeah okay you want to call me I'm sure she'll be right back so ask some questions she's gonna bite into this apple pie and I don't want her to I don't want her to do it unless she's on live and that screen was frozen hold on Jane we're gonna get rid of you hold on there and I'm gonna call her back now it's very nice that she's in the kitchen - oh the Cheesecake we're showing which is one of her number one desserts truffles okay this yes okay Jamie you see me yeah I do I see you hold on and do not do not bite into anything yet get me on there oh do you okay so your life now you can do it okay all right so I'm gonna try to serve this this piece of pie Oh gorgeous now no I have it piece of pie and now I'm going to put some whipped cream on it now I'd like to tell you about this whipped cream you take a cam of thick coconut milk you open it and you in you in and there's a thick cream that rises to the top at least in this Thai coconut Thai Thai Kitchen coconut milk I try to buy the thickest kind of can and I actually shake the can in the Sun oh is that because you saved get the thickest so you just shake it yeah this is the brand I used but if you can find a thick brand that's just great then you punch a hole in it and drain out the water under well I did that and then you put two tablespoons of sweetener a tiny bit of vanilla stir it up you get the most beautiful and I've only seen this on Pinterest so having it live is amazing oh don't eat it I want some Jane while you're eating that you have a couple questions here from Twitter and the chats by the way Chris is saying she's dying I know okay be quiet this is really bad I know this is painful watching you eat this but boy yummy okay so a question is coconut palm sugar allowed it has a low glycemic index you know the paleo community is divided about sweeteners and a lot of paleo chefs are using coconut palm sugar but if you go on my website and look up paleo sweeteners just there's a search a search bar in the upper right hand corner and search paleo sweeteners you will see a compare of carbs in sweeteners that will blow your mind okay so that's her sugar it's low glycemic that's because it's low in glucose but it's loaded with fructose and fructose is a sugar that is very hard for the liver to digest and it actually is the basis of high fructose corn syrup so coconut sugar is not going to do you any favors uh health-wise okay it's just wonderful so but the Palin community is divided on that and I have come down on the side of no carb sweeteners I found the sweetener that I like it's chicory root it's natural and it has zero carbs so that makes all my desserts very very skinny I want to try this yes I'm gonna buy that and I think you could get it can you get it and Amazon the chicory sweetener yes of course okay and that's on your website all kinds of prices I mean one of their vendors sells it for 27 dollars a pound you can't pay that you should pay no more than eighteen or nineteen dollars a pound for it and that already is very expensive yeah it is but apparently it's really good for you and it tastes yummy so we have some more questions so do you need to purchase a different type of chocolate than usual like the Nestle chocolate oh goodness we're showing more pictures of your stuff well you know the word chocolate in the industry is defined that it can include sugar so if a chocolate has sugar in it it's not paleo okay you can use on any kind of unsweetened chocolate I actually use cacao powder in a lot of my recipes which I happen to have here because I hope capital let me make some chocolate mousse and it's just cacao powder on me show it to you it's just it's pure cacao powder and it's unsweetened can I use that can you buy that at like Whole Foods - absolutely look for pure cacao make sure just look look at the label make sure it's unsweetened and not April us saying that a hundred percent unsweetened cacao with a chicory sweat a sweetener it just it tastes just like regular chocolate so we'll have to try that you can try that okay all right so let's do the the mousse we're getting out of time I still have it I mean there's so much I could ask you so I want you to do the mousse because sometimes people think paleo diets a lot of work but watch her dance one moose here okay I wanna show you this is one of the easy recipes it's called instant locomotives and it's absolutely delicious so what we're going to do is we're gonna start with I brought my super blender here one of 3/4 cups again this is Thai Thai Kitchen coconut milk you see how thick it is on the top I'm putting a whole can write to blender there we go starving metal okay let's move this you can see it and then we're gonna put a quarter cup of sweetener in this on I'm using the just like sugar tabletop sweetener 2 tablespoons of coconut oil see health white and that is okay so that goes in and now one teaspoon coffee I use this organic caffeinated coffee this is a mocha flavor I don't know what that green is oh I'm gonna get a clap alright and then you put two tablespoons of raw cacao powder in here alright and then I get the cinnamon but you can do it if you want a pinch of unprocessed saw and this is the secret ingredient this is one whole avocado Oh see I've seen these on Pinterest but I haven't tried them yet okay you're gonna you're gonna see it in action now okay um Jane by the way your website says raw honey is not paleo then followed by but can she explain why you're doing that yes well I'm taking the stance that honey is something that a paleo caveman what if you maybe once a year because he'd probably get stung really good collecting that and but it's it's I know ancient cultures considered honey a sacred food it's a wonderful food but if you eat it every day it's all 50% fructose and 44% glucose and there are a couple of other sugars in there too which makes it loaded with carps and we'll give you a giant sugar rush which sugar rush is what he stabilizes the metabolism that is the beginning of diabetes metabolic disorder obesity and all this that's the road you're going down and so I don't I don't I don't use it but then I'm not gonna say it's not it's not for you because you get to make your own choices I like that you can make your own choices so okay she just made this okay oh and then the whipped cream oh I guess so I wish you could share these live demos that looks amazing and with avocado in it too instant meaning you feel like you need to pick me up or you want a two-minute dessert or it's two o'clock in the afternoon and you just have a little your laundry oh and you didn't have to put it in first oh my gosh oh okay that's enough of this I don't think I've oh yeah tell us again what this is called so we can all look it up instant mocha mousse okay uh we Jane we're out of time and I still you know we're gonna have chain back because oh my gosh do I love this lady or not and I know you have fans here I want you guys to all get on her site Jane wait hold on it's on the bottom no do you have the other one Jane's healthy kitchen calm there's one thing I wanted to talk about tonight but we don't have time and it's one of her blog posts it's called ten gluten cross-reactive foods to avoid and I think it's very interesting on those ten points and we're gonna have Jane back or I'm gonna have her back because she's gonna have to demo some more desserts and yeah yeah Oh in studio wouldn't that be fun so I can taste happy to talk about the ten Lewton cross reactors because that's a whole session I know you have so much information on your website you're so generous and sharing everything with us especially all the desserts can you just show us one more time the pie - Wow and this is one of my most popular recipes and the paleo pizza and the pizza crusts are two of my most popular recipes but the instant mocha mousse is still undiscovered so you guys take it away all right we're gonna try that in fact I will try it and put it on my Instagram and Facebook - and please share it if you guys try any of her recipes I'd love to see that please pick up Haley Oh desserts - I have to say it's an amazing book of recipes not just desserts - there's a bunch of stuff in there okay so Jane you'll be back right I'd love to come back and Kathy thank you for the good work that you do oh thank oh it is it's this show has been a lot of fun and so much fun to meet you and we will look forward to seeing you next time thank you okay so next week I have the lovely sweetest little girl not good little girl she's called g-free Laura it's actually GE Laura calm her hashtag to start off February which is the theme is love is G free love so I have G free Lord Monday night check it out please tomorrow this will be live on my blog if you want to check out Jane's lovely demonstrations please do and then I guess let me see if I have anything else nope thank you for watching G free and happy please check out my website at G free and happy calm until next week thanks for watching .
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Jane Barthelemy, a chef and dessert book author explains what the paleo diet is all about. She reviews the differences between paleo sweeteners, talks about recipes in her book, Paleo Desserts and even does some demonstrations for us.
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I am looking forward to Monday nights guest Jane Barthelemy, the author of Paleo Desserts! I have been in contact with her for about a month now and she has given me so many great healthy cooking tips. I am very interested in the Paleo diet. There are so many fillers in some of the gfree products out there and more sugar than my body can digest recently. I have learned to read the labels more closely!
Her recipes are mouth watering yummy goodness and her tips for cooking Paleo are amazing! I have learned so much from her since meeting her online. She is very generous about sharing her knowledge of the Paleo diet.
Looking forward to hearing about her story and talking Paleo desserts and fun recipes Monday night 7pm PST Gfree and Happy Show
