This Christmas 2009 almost ended up as a paleo diet dinner except for those pot luck contributors from outside the household.

This holiday was brought to us by the celebration of Christmas.

So my wife’s family had a pot luck dinner (traditional noche buena) and we had to contribute something, we contributed raw fish sashimi totalling 3 kilos:

1 kilo of raw salmon (farmed)

1 kilo of raw tuna – grade A ocean wild

1 kilo of raw blue marlin – ocean wild

Plus for the Japanese effect had grated radish, wasabe and kikkoman soy sauce from Japan. And I contributed chopsticks.

My mother in law roasted fatty prime rib (cooked paleo) — I’m pulling her in little by little, she now recommends the fat because her chiropractor said fat was essential.

The non-paleo food item was the pasta contributed by my sister in law.

At noche buena by 11pm my mother in law brought out a gifted Majestic ham from a very prominent national politician.

Chesa is a wild crafted fruit. There is no industry or plantation for commercial cultivation. Sometimes in the fruit market you may see a few of them. A new batch we chanced upon came from my in laws’ ancestral home in Los Banos Laguna. A chesa tree full of creamy ripe fruit.

I find this chesa pretty good. The best I’ve eaten. But my father in law says he has tasted the best in Ilocos in his far home province. None of us know what this ice cream tasting fruit is good for. Nutritional value?

My mother in law thinks its good for the eyes due to its squash like color. Anybody know? Please post a reply. Thanks.

The theory behind Raw Paleolithic Diet is that the optimum human diet is that which humans evolved in, which is a vast amount of time prior to agriculture, prior to commercially processed food… the human diet in paleolithic times which is mostly meat / animal food, fruit and vegetables. Pre-pending with the word RAW means going even further back to paleolithic times BEFORE cooking.

We are not trying to imitate the lives of cavemen, we are cherry picking what evolutionarily makes sense and optimally applicable that will bring about the best health possible. We are health nuts to the max. I think of raw paleo diet as raw paleo curative diet. Raw paleo lifestyle is the cleanest possible lifestyle devoid of chemicals with an environment that his health giving… fresh clean air, pure clean water, stress free living.

Raw is what separates us in the raw paleo diet camp from most of the (cooked) paleo diet camp. While the (cooked) paleo diet camp claims that all meat should be fully cooked for sanitation and against parasites, we in the raw paleo diet believe that herbivorous meat like grass fed beef, lamb and goat — are optimally eaten raw. That sea food is optimally eaten raw. We are looking for nutrition to the maximum from sources such as raw blood, raw oysters, raw liver, raw bone marrow, raw muscle and raw fat etc.

Raw paleo diet is not backed up by any well funded studies. Raw paleo diet and its variants is backed up by testimonials of healers and cured people. I view raw paleo diet as representing the broadest and the best of the raw food movement.

Raw paleo diet is curative. I would not be practicing raw paleo diet if it were any less. As the family healer, raw paleo diet and lifestyle forms the foundation of curing all diseases. Raw animal meat and raw animal fat are a different class of food from its cooked cousins. Raw fat with raw protein has “magical” properties where it is easily digestible, alkalizing, lubricating and hydrating… everything good and nothing bad.

Raw paleo diet and lifestyle can lay claim as the foundation for curing the incurable diseases such as all diseases of toxemia and tooth decay where a cooked meat paleo diet is simply ineffective.

I’ll have to go in depth and improve on this article where the final version will be posted in my cure manual. I will ask the raw paleo forum community to chime in on this.

Christmas time is a hard time for most of us when it comes to sticking to our diets. Most of the people bringing the pot luck food are on the regular standard urban diet and standard high carb food pyramid. Well I get away by being forthright among friends and family that I’m on raw paleo diet and the most I will compromise myself with is a bit of cooked meat which still falls under cooked paleo diet.

I was fortunate in the Friday night party, these people had a penchant for meat, they served no rice, they served a combination of raw sea food Japanese sashimi style and cooked fatty meats… yeah, paleo diet men!

In the Saturday party I brought my own food, a large chunk of raw fatty beef brisket. No shame in eating in front of my wife’s relatives. Yes they know what I’ve been through. They see I look healthy and look good with my new long hair. In fact, a 15 year old girl was curious and had a taste of raw beef herself.

To sum things up, my strategy for surviving the christmas binges is to eat my raw food before parties and at parties either have raw fruit or raw fish or at worst cooked meat… which is still paleo diet, albeit cooked.