Welcome to our new home on the web – The Food Lovers Kitchen. This website is one big step towards providing you with a highly functional and interactive Paleo website. We’ve built some great features into this website to make it more useful and functional for day to day use. We’ve been blogging for almost 2 years now, and have tried to incorporate two years of feedback into the construction of this website.
We’ve built The Food Lovers Kitchen to incorporate all the features you’ve come to love about The Food Lovers Primal Palate over the last two years. We’ll still be blogging here on the new site, with new recipes each week. You’ll still be able to print the recipes and look through all sorts of photos. There will also still be a way to search through all the recipes on the site by photo – our signature “Visual Recipe Index.”
Here are some of the great new features:
- Over 150 previously unreleased recipes! Below are just a few of the many new-to-you recipes. All of our recipes are now available with slick navigation and a refined user experience. We’ve expanded upon the idea of a visual recipe index and made it more user friendly by providing several different sorted views. Click the “Recipes” tab in the upper left to get started!
- You can filter all of our recipes by special dietary needs. Do you have an Egg Allergy? How about a FODMAP aversion? Dairy or Nut allergy? Or are you trying to cut out sugar? All of these filters are available on the website to alert you to allergens or dietary restrictions within each recipe. This filter is located in the left column.
- Over a dozen special menus for occasions and events. From birthdays, to holidays, to making any night of the week special – we have a menu for you and your loved ones to enjoy a perfectly paleo meal.
- A hand-picked 30 day “Intro to Paleo” meal plan, in which we guide you through some of our best Paleo recipes that can help you or your friends get going quickly and easily. The 30 day Intro to Paleo meal plan also includes 4 weeks of shopping lists so that trips to the grocery store are no mystery.
- A 21 Day “Sugar Detox” meal plan that will help you tackle Diane Sanfilippo’s 21 Day Sugar Detox with ease. Everything is planned out for you – all you have to do is click.
- Each recipe has its own macronutrient breakdown, as well as a calorie calculation. We know not everyone is concerned with these numbers (nor should they be), but they are a mouse-click away for those that wish to know and are trying to dial things in, nutritionally speaking.
- Expanded “About Paleo” resources. We tell you everything you need to know to get started if you’re new to paleo. From how to select the best meats, to buying produce in season, to explanations about the best fats to use – it’s all available in our “About Paleo” section.
- Ye old virtual store. We have links to buy all of our favorite things: our book (and books we recommend), our shirts, ingredients, cooking utensils, camera gear that we use – you name it. We have one place to find it all.
- Resources out the wazoo. If you run out of ideas and inspiration on our site, we have a comprehensive list of links to the very best resources on the net. If you’re new to paleo, this will help you along your way. We have gathered the best sites for Health and Nutrition, Recipes, Lifestyle, Fitness, and even Podcasts.
But wait, we’re just getting started.
Here are some features we have in the works:
- Interactive Meal and Menu Planner
- User generated shopping lists and ingredient sourcing
- Online collaboration with other members
- Supporting membership opportunities
We are excited to share all of our hard work (and our team’s hard work) with you. Please take a moment to look around the site and give us some feedback on the new format. You can do that on the contact page, drop us a line to [email protected], or simply comment on this post below. We’d love to hear what you think, because this site is for you guys. We want it to be as useful and helpful to you as possible – your comments will help us get it there. Please keep in mind this is a new (and very large) website. We are counting on you guys to help us catch bugs and report any errors you see. If you come across a glitch, please report it here.
And now, the really fun part: A BIG giveaway!
The giveaway has closed, as of 3/12/12 – Thank you to all who entered
- Le Creuset 5.5 qt French Oven ($265)
- Le Creuset Roasting Pan ($250)
- 12.5″ Le Creuset Stainless Frying Pan ($140)
- $100 US Wellness Meats Gift Card
- Diane Sanfilippo’s book “Practical Paleo – A customized approach to Health and a Whole-Foods Lifestyle” (winner will receive book late Summer 2012, $40 value)
- Nom Nom Paleo Pack: An app code to her forthcoming recipe app, a pair of NNP socks, and your choice of shirt from her spreadshirt store! ($50 value)
- 1L Kasandrinos Olive Oil ($30 value)
- Steve’s Original Seasonal Sampler, Steve’s Original Sampler, + $50 gift card ($115 value)
- A 1-year subscription to Chris Kresser’s Meal Plan Generator ($120 value)
- Register for this site (it’s in the top navigation, at the far right). It’s free, and takes 5 seconds.
- Share this contest with your friends. The sharing buttons appear if you are in the post itself, so click the title of the post to view the sharing icons.
- Like the pages that have contributed to this giveaway (including ours):
Thanks for the new site and all the recipes – they are wonderful! I’ve completed the steps and am ready to win 🙂
Love the new site and all the recipes. I’ve completed all the steps and would love to win.
All steps completed. The new layout looks great. Awesome!
Done! Done! and Done! The site looks wonderful! Can’t wait to jump into some recipes YUM! Thanks for all you do!!!!!!
Wow, since I am just starting out this would be great. Thank you for the opportunity as I have completed all three steps.
All right, this looks awesome! I’m super excited about the new recipe searching indexes 🙂 I’m always interested in new paleo recipe resources. I expect I’ll be utilizing your new (seriously lovely!) site. I’m already loving the printables and meal plans. Thanks!
ps… shared contest, liked pages, registered for the site. Keep the good stuff coming!
Completed all the steps!
Love the new site! Completed all the steps!
Done!! Thank you!
Done, done, and done. Thanks for all you do. Love the new filter feature!
Registered, Tweeted and Liked 🙂
Thanks for this contest. I’ve completed everything you outlined. And I’m excited to see how many cool things are yet to come.
Did it all! Thanks for the giveaway, I just love your site. Thanks so much.
Completed all steps and keeping fingers crossed! Your site is lovely, you have pleasing photos, and delicious recipes. Your cookbook was my first ebook (and first paleo cookbook) I purchased after receiving my iPad for x-mas and I’m so happy with it. You obviously have a passion for what you do…keep it up! Thanks!
All registered, liked, and shared. This is a great website! Please enter me in the contest.
Done! Can’t wait to try more recipes!!! Thanks 🙂
Yay! Looks like a great contest! Have done all of the steps…
Followed all the instructions though when I post the giveaway on FB it just takes you to this page. Is that acceptable?
Liked √
Registered √
Shared √
I have done all the steps! Here’s to hoping.
Awesome site. Love the content and the tools. I’ve been hesitating about full out paleo. This site is what I need to make the switch.
What a great giveaway!! Loving this new sites–one of the most helpful Paleo sites I’ve seen. Thank you!! 🙂
Excellent site! All steps done:)
Thanks so much for hosting this!
Thank for the chance to win this great package!
All requirements have been completed. Can’t wait to use the new site! Great giveaway!!
Love your new website! I am sending it to all my friends.
All of the above – check! Super excited!
So very cool to find this site. I am constantly looking up new recipe ideas. Turning to paleo has given me incentive to learn how to cook. So excited about this giveaway!!!
registered!
Done! Registered, liked (already liked most) and shared.
Completed all steps. Love the new look!
Registered and steps completed. Here’s me crossing my fingers!
I registered and completed all the steps, and like all the sites
Registered, shared and liked all facebook listed (only two I already didn’t have liked. Whoohoo). Much luck to all of us!! 🙂
Done, done and done! Pick me, pick me! 😉
This is sooo exciting! I can’t wait to do some more exploring of the new site! Thanks for the great work, and the awesome giveaway!
Completed, and fingers crossed!
Couldn’t get through earlier….might be too late
Great! I’m in, and I found you in time to change my lifestyle!!
Completed!!! Can’t wait to hear who wins…
I’m loving the new site! Great work! And thanks for the giveaway! I’ve registered, shared and liked 🙂
Done, done, and done! How exciting!
The new site looks great! Thanks for the awesome giveaway! Keeping my fingers crossed!
I was referred here from Chris Kressler’s site, and completed all the steps. I hope I win, but even though I don’t I’m eyeing those chocolate cupcakes. Cupcakes are my weakness.
What a stupendous giveaway! I’ve registered, liked and shared on FB. You guys put a lot of thought and effort into your new site and it shows. I know I’ll enjoy delving into it further.
This site is great!! And so easy to navigate. Thanks for all your hard work. It’s really going to help me stay on track. My doctor insists this is the best way to live. And thanks for the giveaways.
Registered! Thanks, I think I’m gonna really like this! Shared on Pinterest and Twitter!
Site looks well programmed, very easy to use and navigate. All steps completed – thanks for making the giveaway possible. Fingers crossed for the win, would be an awesome addition to help me broaden my cooking possibilities as well as trying to get more of my friends in college to eat better. Good luck to everyone and hope it all gets put to good use by the winner.
I think I shared the right link, if nothing else I have shared by word of mouth at my box! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway your site really has some great resources that have been helpful in staying on the paleo path.