eating gluten-free doesn't mean you have to skip out on taste that is if you have the right recipe and the right cook I love this woman this is Alana Amsterdam and she is a gluten-free cookbook author you have two cookbooks out right now and we're going to be cooking something today from the Paleo diet that goes one step beyond that gluten-free and we're going to talk about that but Alana what are we going to be cooking today Joanna today we're going to make paleo breakfast bars a finished product they're delicious they're low glycemic high in protein we're starting with a bowl of almond butter high protein almond almond butter full of heart-healthy good fats adding some high protein eggs and we have to point out you actually do have a cookbook out there that's all about cooking with that almond flour I cook with almond butter what does that mean does it add more nutrition to your cook well first of all I think what's most important for any chef is that it tastes great and my husband and kids love it yeah second of all very high in protein and heart-healthy fats which I mentioned I also like to use coconut flour which is high in fiber I basically want to stay away from your traditional gluten-free flours like rice flour details our potato starch because those spike your blood sugar then leave you with that high carb hangover feeling what you really don't want to get out of Yui yeah and when you're eating a lot of the processed foods when you're doing the gluten-free diet that's really all that's out there right house so you're giving me an option yes if you hit the nail on the head those foods are highly processed I'm adding in pure vanilla and stevia which is a super low glycemic sweetener and that will just kick up the taste and flavor of the honey a little bit yeah then we're going to add in I'm cinnamon and I use an entire tablespoon of cinnamon and so good for you so good for you and that also helps with your glycemic index and stabilizes blood sugar and it also makes food a lot sweeter so I just try and spike things with cinnamon anytime I can't all that looks so yummy yeah this recipe for paleo breakfast bars is just has the perfect flavor with the cinnamon then we're going to add our salt and our baking soda okay and you keep mixing there I'm going to ask you a lot of people are probably asking themselves what is the Paleo diet it's gluten-free but as I said one step beyond so explain to us well the Paleo diet basically we haven't changed that much since Paleolithic times which is made man tais two and a half million years ago there were cavemen you and I basically have very similar genes to those cavemen however the diet that we're eating today is radically different and I believe in other people also believe that those of us who are going from Doctor to doctor with unrelenting undiagnosable health conditions who simply may not have the genes that adapt us to eat grains and greens are really new to our diets from where you were telling rates are very new the Agricultural Revolution which was one cereal grains were introduced was only ten thousand years ago we've been around 2.5 million years that's less than 1% of our existence Wow so the other thing I love about the Paleo diet and these kinds of recipes is you're not just getting rid of the grains which can be inflammatory and difficult to digest for people like myself I've been on the Paleo diet for about 11 years now you're also cutting out all those junky processed food right it's kind of fake food and you're even cutting out rice which was surprising yes I cut out rice potatoes corn beans so everything I'm eating is extremely nutritionally dense and high in protein and good fats so this is our batter and here's just another version of our batter and we're gonna put it into a pan Hey baking dish that I greased with coconut oil YUM which is a lovely oil that is very good for you and we're going to bake these and you have all of the recipes on your website yeah those up at the NS Dianna's Alana's pantry calm and you also have two great books we're gonna bring those up one of them is cupcakes free cupcake free cupcake and the other one is gluten free almond flour gluten free on the flour cookbook and you give some advice on how to find that almond flour right actually on my website Alana's pantry com I linked to all the challenging to find ingredients yeah so that you can just in the click of your mouse go straight to a place where you can purchase them I always select the highest-quality ingredients for the best prices okay I'm a dive into that's our finished product I can chase the cinnamon out I love it and she also brought me some cookies today I brought you some superfood cookie I'm not sharing those with my kids I'm just high-protein chocolate chip cookies made with dark chocolate and high protein almond flour dark chocolate is antioxidant rich genetic you know a health food well I just love all this I'm gonna take it to my party that I'm having this weekend great it's gonna be fabulous Thank You Alana thanks Jillian as I'm eating I'm gonna give you more information on her recipes and her menus and her cookbooks she has this awesome website it's Alana's pantry got to pronounce that right Alana's pantry dot-com and you're gonna get all the information you need right there .
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Elana Amsterdam makes Paleo Breakfast Bread live on FOX31 and the Colorado's Best show.
