Paleo Lunches and Breakfasts On the Go: The Solution to Gluten-Free Eating All Day Long with Delicious, Easy and Portable Primal Meals

The short version: If you're looking to expand your repertoire of interesting, delicious breakfast and lunch options beyond bacon and eggs and are comfortable spending a reasonable (not excessive!) amount of time preparing your food, you'll love this book. Don't hesitate!The longer version:Originally, I purchased the book just to support Diana. I was unsure if there was room in the market for such a niche book and wondered if I'd use it very much if at all. I've no problem eating dinner for breakfast and generally do. My mess of cookbooks generally provide plenty of options to keep us well fed with leftovers from dinner.However, when I finally had a chance to flip through the pages of this perfectly-sized, lie-flat volume, right away I knew that not only would I regularly be using this book, but also that ANYONE looking for healthier, whole foods options would enjoy it as well.Not only is this a great book for paleo foodie looking for breakfast and lunch (and dinner!) options, but I think this is a great book for foodies who are getting bored and need to inject some new ideas into breakfast and lunch. While there are some super quick ideas, many of the items do take some (generally minimal) prep time; it's reasonable for someone who knows their way around the kitchen.Trying to increase your produce intake? Here you go!Expanding your kitchen repertoire? You'll love it!Low-carb? This book is for you!Not low carb? This book is for you too! Just add a side of potato, rice or banana and you're set.Just need some REAL FOOD? Voila!Chapter 1 is quick wraps. I was surprised to see so many creative, tasty ideas throughout the 25 pages of the book dedicated to *quick* lettuce wraps. They all look amazing and contain combos I've never thought to put together like orange/avocado/herb chicken, lemon/chive/beet/boiled egg/, and some super creative spins on chicken salad. I thought I'd eaten every lettuce wrap combo known to humankind. Diana clarified that there are many delicious options still available.Next up: Cook-and-Run Paleo Wraps--wraps that require a little more prep like Cinnamon Beef in a Sweet Potato Pocket or Cajun Fish Po' Boy Wraps or Lamb Dosa Purses with Coconut Creme or Pulled Pork with Sauerkraut and Avocado and many, many more.Chapter 3 is salads. Chapter 4 is Office-Ready Soups and Stews. Up today: brazilian seafood stew.Chapter 5 is Busy Morning Breakfasts. Full of the make-ahead-then-reheat options. Though really, anything in the book could be made ahead and consumed. Cherry tarragon breakfast sausage? OMG. Bacon, lemon and greens egg muffins. I miss them and look forward to the day when I can freely eat egg whites.Other notes:Though I am currently following the autoimmune protocol (AIP, which excludes egg whites, nuts, seeds, included seed spices, nightshades), there are lots of recipes in Diana's book that I can use as is. Almost all of the remaining recipes can be adapted. How wonderful that so many of the recipes are free of eggs and nuts! Because Diana tends to focus equally on a variety of protein sources, this book really does offer new, interesting, yummy ideas for breakfast beyond eggs.If you're a foodie who doesn't mind a reasonable amount of prep time to make delicious food, and if you're comfortable with the idea of moving beyond traditional breakfast foods and will consider eating for breakfast from the wide variety of available options, then this is a GREAT book.

I am a fitness and health care practitioner and managing partner at a successful training facility in the Boston area. Like many fellow fitness professionals that have adopted the Paleo diet template for their athletes and clients, I have seen this way of eating change lives. Paleo's low inflammatory, nutrient dense approach to eating revitalizes people. We see it improve body composition, health, quality of sleep, and increase daily energy levels and overall quality of life. As Robb Wolf likes to say, people notice improvements in how they "look, feel, and perform." Success stories include dramatic, but healthy, weight loss, return of normal lipid profiles without the aid of statins and blood pressure meds, and effective management, and sometimes reversal, of autoimmune disease symptoms.I found reading Diana Rodger's Paleo Lunches and Breakfasts On the Go an absolute pleasure. The layout and the photography in this book is beautifully done and the recipes are delicious and approachable. She spends just enough time on critical but often misunderstood principles of ancestral eating (food quality, auto-immune protocols, carbs/starches, dining out, common pitfalls, and has included a great resources section). For me, this is an important characteristic for a Paleo diet cookbook. I am always looking for a resource I can hand to my clients that will support the seminal works I often recommend, (Robb Wolf's The Paleo Solution, Loren Cordain's The Paleo Diet, Mark Sisson's The Primal Blueprint, and the much anticipated end of the year release of Paleo functional medicine doc, Chris Kresser's first book, Your Personal Paleo Code) but is detailed and structured in such a way that it can act as a stand alone resource, and get people on their way with easy on-the-go recipes and insightful advice.I see Paleo Lunches and Breakfasts On the Go as an excellent entry level Paleo resource with delicious and unintimidating recipes that every ancestral health practitioner will want in their library.My wife and I have had the pleasure of visiting The Clark Farm, meeting Diana and her husband Andrew, and getting a very informative tour of their family-run farm in Carlisle Massachusetts. It is great to see that she lives what she preaches. I am personally very excited for her next book which reportedly will further address food sustainability.

The recipes in this book are quite good, but the title is a bit of a misnomer. Almost all of them need to be cooked in advance and are not quick recipes. In that sense almost anything you make the night before is a portable lunch. This really is no different in concept than other Paleo recipe books. Following a Paleo diet is not for people who don't want to spend time in the kitchen, at night or before work. It is a time consuming lifestyle, but the recipes are wholesome, healthy and tasty. So I do recommend this book.

I purchased this book hoping to find some ideas for Paleo breakfast and lunches, which I find more difficult from a variety perspective than Paleo dinners. This book has tons of great and relatively simple recipes and is the best Paleo recipe book that I have found. The Introduction of the book also contains a fantastic summary of Paleo eating, a guide to eating out, kids and paleo, pitfalls, and other resources. The Introduction was an unexpected bonus. Lastly, most of the books that I purchase are through my Kindle. For this book, I bought the hard copy since I don't want to have the Kindle in the kitchen with me. I am glad that I did; the hard copy book is constructed of quality paper/binding with nice photographs. A very well done book and excellent Paleo resource!