Time - or a lack of it

While I am thoroughly enjoying paleo nutrition, I am not enjoying the extra work.  It's kind of a catch-22 actually.   I do like that eating paleo forces us to eat at home more often, that it keeps my husband from eating a lot of junk (he works from home and used to satisfy his boredom with crappy foods), and that it makes me feel GREAT.  I don't like that in order to eat from home more often, I have to cook (and clean) more often.  I also have to plan ahead to have things ready to pack for lunch every day as well.  It's beginning to stress me out a bit because I've actually sacrificed workouts in order to cook or clean and this is NOT a benefit.  The last little piece is that because we are new to this, I don't know where to find all the essentials yet, so getting the ingredients we often need requires multiple trips to multiple stores to find the things we need (like coconut oil or raw almonds).

My guess is that with time and experience, we will get better at this.  I'm hoping to create a system of managing the fresh food in the fastest and easiest way possible.  I also need more paleo cookbooks so that I can just leave a recipe and ingredients for my husband and he can cook it while I workout.  As we find recipes we like, I also hope to build up an arsenal of good 'make ahead' meals that I can prep over the weekends for use during the week.  In fact, I should do a little research and see if there is such a cookbook out there for this exact type of meal.

My only other complaint about Paleo is that today's world has tied it to Crossfit.  I've now had three people mention this to me.  One found out that I was eating paleo and immediately noted "but you don't do Crossfit!".  Another found out and asked if I had plans to start Crossfit.  And a third said that I was the first person they had ever met who wanted to eat paleo but wasn't a Crossfit-er.  OK people - you do realize that The Paleo Diet and Neatherthin were both written and published before anyone had given the concept of multi-functional cross training the marketed name 'Crossfit', right? ;-)