Paleo, in case you’ve been hiding under a rock, is the new food craze. Embraced by cross-fitters as well as the gluten-free crowd, it eschews grains, dairy and processed food: the principle is that our bodies are adapted to eat the way our ancestors ate when they were evolving, so that’s what we should eat, too. Think vegetables and organ meat.
The Paleo food trend has indeed gained a dedicated following, and it’s no wonder given its focus on clean, wholesome eating. While the concept of emulating our ancestors’ diet has sparked culinary innovation, there’s something inherently satisfying about exploring local flavors while traveling. Trying indigenous dishes offers a glimpse into a region’s history, culture, and traditions, making each meal a cultural immersion.
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This Thursday, from 11 am – 2 pm behind Wine World, the Outside the Box mobile Paleo Food Truck will be serving up caveman cuisine.
The menu sounds unremarkable until you dive in a bit: Pork Carnitas, with a lettuce wrap in place of the tortilla, tabouleh with cauliflower instead of bulgar wheat.
If you make you way up there, please send in a review!
Last week, there was a wood-fired pizza food truck serving dinner on Thursday. Not sure if they’ll be back.
It’s an interesting premise. They avoid wheat but some of what they sell will make you fart up a storm. Farting is caused by your body’s inability to process what you ingested, causing the creation of methane gas. The other interesting part is they charge restaurant prices even though they in theory should have way less overhead than the thousands of dollars a month restaurants pay in rent. I’ll certainly give it a try though. They might be onto something or it may just be yet another gimmick.
The life expectancy during the time this was people’s diet was what again?
*I’ve been to the truck a couple times. Food is delish! Not sure that meat and veggies make me fart. I know that beans do make me fart and they don’t sell that.
Not sure that $8 is considered restaurant prices? I’ve been to plenty of trucks and $9/10 is the avg price. And your getting mostly rice or bread to fill you up. I’ve tried shopping for good quality grassfed beef and making dishes at home and it’s ridiculously expensive.
*how many diseases killed those people at that time.
How many known diseases kill us today?
I’ll be a regular customer for sure!!
Good food = good health
there’s quite a lot of medical literature supporting the health benefits of avoiding wheat (and thus gluten) and other grains, legumes, dairy, and processed foods with chemical preservatives–all things avoided with the paleo diet.
a diet of veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, and meat doesn’t sound nearly as concerning to me as the typical american diet. below are some interesting articles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/wheat-gluten_b_1274872.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?pagewanted=all
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/its-the-sugar-folks/
http://chriskresser.com/diabesity
@breadbaker: the life expectancy thing is a bit of a myth, actually. Life expectancy AT BIRTH was much shorter due to high infant mortality rates, but if you lived past your first 10 years, life expectancy wasn’t that much different than it is today.
The high death rate of infants and children due to disease drags down the average.
The archaeological / skeletal remains evidence suggests that the introduction of grains helped provide humans with massive amounts of cheap calories, allowing for population growth, but also came with a cost of an increase in a number of diseases. Average human height actually went DOWN when grains were introduced into the diet.
The well-respected author Jared Diamond on the topic: http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
Ive been mostly paleo for a couple years now. Dont know about the gassiness though. That may just be a personal problem. The food here is great. I know that when I eat here everything is CLEAN and I get my moneys worth, unlike restaurants who don’t give a rats @$$ about what they feed their customers. Def give this place 5 stars! Oh and I can’t get enough of their paleo iced coffee!!
I’ve been moving towards becoming Paleo over the last couple months, so I’m very excited about this!!
I’m a regular at Outside the box. I’ve been buying food from them since last year via meal delivery. I was very ecstatic about the food truck opening since I enjoy they’re food very much. I LOVE the pork belly…
They’re price may seem expensive but remember you’re paying for Grass-fed beef and heritage pork. And by the way, they’re meat supplier is Corfini Gourmet; the same company that supplies some of the finest restaurants in Seattle….just sayin’
I’ve been eating Paleo since ’09 after I joined a Crossfit gym. After having 3 kids, this was the only combination that helped me! CrossFit and Paleo…
And for the record, I’ve never had any gas issues from eating Paleo…
Come back on a weekend! This Paleo teacher wants to try sometime!
It takes agriculture and processed foods to build our society so that you can now readily choose any diet you would like without actually expending your efforts on the hunting/gathering part yourself.
So kudos if you feel it’s a more sustainable diet.
That’s not me saying modern society is uber great. That’s just me wondering out loud of you see the irony in buying your paleo-diet plate from a petroleum guzzling van that sits on a cancer-causing asphalt parking lot, in an environment polluted with toxins — some of which was added while obtaining said foodstuff?
Batman, Paleo isn’t really an environmental movement per se, it’s a nutritional movement. Buying organic is key, and local is only bonus. But I suppose there’s the argument that it still takes a petroleum guzzling truck that parks on asphalt to deliver local meat to PCC.
The gassiness issue is probably due to your own personal digestive system being low on the enzymes, bacteria and acids needed to digest food that it hasn’t had much experiencing digesting lately because of your own personal diet. Usually the body adapts after a while.
As for life expectancy; the longest lived communities are found where people eat a primarily vegetarian diet with perhaps some meat and fish and a fair amount of cultured food.
Eating lots of grains, especially processed grains, is found to be not so healthy and processed food is definitely not healthy nor are foods grown with chemicals, hormones, anti-biotics, etc.
Find what works for you and what you enjoy. Its a diverse world.
Must confess, I laughed when I saw this headline. A Paleo truck outside a place that sells liquid carbs?
Love the Paleo food truck!! Please come back.
If you missed Outside the Box on Thursday, we’ll be hosting them this Monday the 30th at The Lab CrossFit. We’re on Interlake between 36th and 37th and OTB will be there from 11-2.