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):
I’ve completed all the steps and I’m hoping to win! Thank you for a great giveaway!
I have completed all steps! Thank you for such a great giveaway!
Steps complete
Great site! Registered and shared!
Registered, liked, and shared!
All done! New site is FAB!!! Love your cookbook, and all the companies contributing to your giveaway.
You guys are the best!
Registered and completed all the steps 🙂 Fingers Crossed 🙂 Thanks for such a great site
Completed the steps. I am impressed with the site change!
I have followed all the steps!
Very exciting prizes 🙂
Registered, Shared, Liked!
I am just starting to venture into Paleo. This site is great, thank you. Did all the steps to enter the contest, now I am crossing my fingers :).
Did all the steps mentioned! Thank you so much for your wonderful site, by the way. I’m excited to see the new improvements. Your recipes have really helped me stay motivated on the paleo diet to help control my autoimmune condition (ankylosing spondylitis). You guys find such good ways of making things more tasty, and I hardly miss the food I used to eat. Keep up the great work!! 🙂
Whoo Hoo!! Did it all! Registered, shared on Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook and liked everyone on the list (not a problem). Nice giveaway!!
1. Registered
2. Shared on Twitter
3. Liked ’em all!
Check, check, and check. 🙂 Amazing resource as I transition my family to paleo… I plan to be here a LOT!
Done. I just discovered this site through Chris Kresser: it’s loaded with awesome stuff. Great job.
The site looks great. Thanks for the awesome contest, I’ve completed all the entry requirements.
I completed all the entries! Love this giveaway.
Registered. Love it.
Registered!
Great Site..glad I got a link. Registered for the contest. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Registered! Just found you guys and the site is AMAZING!!! I can’t wait to check out all of the recipes!
I just finished like-ing the sites and sharing the contest on my FB page. I’m definitely going back and trying out some of those yummy recipes. Thanks!
Patiently waiting, hoping my name is picked.
Liked all the sites – the ones I didn’t already like! And finished registering. Hope I win! Love your site!
I did all the steps!
Complete!
Thanks for such a great giveaway, love your site!
Registered and love the site. Thanks for the giveaway competition.
Registered. Only had to like one page which I had not previously. And shared the contest on my facebook page. Good to Go.!
I’ve completed all the steps! Thank you for introducing me to more great paleo pages on Facebook!
Registered, shared and liked…so much wonderful content!
Registered, shared on Pinterest & Twitter, Liked all, and crossed fingers. Thanks!
Love the new site! Registered, shared, liked all! yay! Thanks for offering such a great contest!
Registered
Shared/Tweeted https://twitter.com/#!/Quantmlife/status/177834573688877056
All FB pages liked.
Thanks for a great giveaway.
All steps completed! LOVE the site, it’s phenomenal. One bit of feedback, although someone else may have mentioned it – in recipes, the ingredients link to nutritional info, which is SO AWESOME. But in the event that the ingredient is one of your other recipes (like the sun butter dipping sauce in chicken satay, which also needs the recipe for sun butter), it would be nice if there were a separate link to the needed recipe, or if that recipe followed the original recipe on the same page. Am I making sense? Like if the page for Chicken Satay also had the sauce and sun butter recipes farther down, or if there were a separate link on the ingredient list that took you to the recipe.
Am currently browsing and making next week’s meal plan. You guys rock!
I registered, like you on FB, and shared 🙂
Completed all the steps! What an awesome giveaway!!! I really can’t say enough about your book, it is used almost daily in my kitchen. My kids think your carrot cake recipe is the best treat ever!
Love your site! Registered for the contest. Fingers crossed!
I love this site.Another tool to give me guidance.My family and I
eat a vegetable based diet and 20-30 percent meat.We follow a paleo diet.Truly has it benefits.We are also growing our own garden,chickens and processing a grass fed pig.I love the Paleo way!
Love the site, the book, all of it!!! Completed all the steps! Good luck everyone!
Excellent giveaways! Followed all directions.
your new website is amazing! is there a way to tell which recipes are new? I also have your cookbook and sometimes find myself printing out recipes that are in the book. it would be nice to see which ones are new and not in the book. thanks!
I liked all the pages I didn’t already like, and I shared on Facebook & Twitter. Here’s hoping I win something!
I did all of the above! Great giveaway =)
Awsome giveaway. Even more awsome new site!! Love it! YOU GUYS ROCK!
liked everything I wasn’t already like-en’. This site is amazing. kudos! I’m thrilled to find the macronutrient listing – thank you!!!
All steps completed. Thanks.
All steps completed. Thanks
I did it all, registered, liked all the pages I hadn’t already liked, and posted on Facebook. Site looks nice!
Completed everything! I am looking forward to using your new site!