He went to stay with his mother a few days ago and had lots of pasta - which resulted in painful bloating (I got the blame!). 

Now that's unfair!  I hope the blame was only from his mother and not from your son.

I wish every market in every town in America would have unique food choices that you have in Spain. You have to drive to find unique foods. 

This morning - I'm happy to report - a perfect number 4 on the BSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale

I'm equally happy to report that this morning the dog produced a perfect number 3 - hopefully that's him settled into his natural diet.

Today's human and dog shopping for the weekend was - beef mince for burgers, lamb ribs and neck for stew, sausages, 2 pig's trotters split down the middle - half a trotter each for me, the kids and the dog, pig's ear for the dog, pig liver for everyone, turnips, parsnips, onions, asparagus and the usual salad and fruit.

My daughter and I had sausage, panceta and fried egg for lunch - at the same time I cut off some raw liver for the dog and cut some small pieces to cook up for myself (my daughter has always said she doesn't like liver). When we sat down to eat she looked at my plate and asked why she didn't have any of "that stuff" - "Liver?" I said - "here try some" - so she did and said it was fine - nothing special but she wanted more.
 

I had a couple of fried eggs for breakfast for a change - I'm getting up at 7.30 every day and going out with the dog - some days I've had some very fatty chorizo sausage, a bit salty unfortunately but then I think I'm getting salt every time I swim in the sea or eat mussels.

Went to market and got horse ossobucco, horse liver, horse jamon (raw horse ham made in the same way as the famous Spanish Iberico hams), pigs tongue, pigs kidneys, mussels, chard and fruit.

Lunch was the germ (pun intended) of an idea for a new recipe - Onions sweated in coconut oil, add fresh coconut milk, then the cleaned fresh mussels and steam them open - serve with chopped coriander leaves. I might try it with a bit of chopped pineapple as well.

This was followed by some horse liver (unfortunately a bit overdone) cooked in tallow with savoy cabbage added towards the end.

Off out now to an Argentine place for their homemade burger with all the fried eggs and bacon etc - but without the bread!

   

Yesterday for lunch we had tripe to start (I simmered it for a couple of hours then dried it in the sun then fried it in tallow until it was crisp) it was pretty good - think I'll introduce some curry style spices next time. This was followed by mackerel cut into slices across the way and fried in the same fat (mackerel is a great fish to use with spices as well) - we also had a green salad and some grapes.

While I was cooking lunch I was preparing the evening meal - this was horse meat, beef heart and turnip stew, with onions, garlic and Jamaican style curry spices - the classic Jamaican curry is curried goat - this was similar but with horse and heart. The cheap cuts of horse take a good 3 hours of slow cooking to tenderise nicely. I'm looking into a solar oven for this kind of dish.

So - we had the stew at night with some spinach wilted in tallow. I've been telling various people about what I'm eating - it wasn't long ago in Spain that all children were given Spanish omelette made with brain and a dish including liver, kidney, heart, lung....

Sadly times are changing fast here - each step in the destruction of any semblance of a healthy diet seems to begin in the USA, move first to the UK then to other European countries (I can only comment from a European point of view). Spain has resisted, and is still resisting - my city has a population of around 350,000 and only has one MacDonalds in the centre - a couple of drive ins in the suburbs. It's only been in the past year or so that I've noticed ready made meals tucked away in a corner of the supermarket - in the UK there are huge aisles filled with nothing else.

I'm going to be without children for a day or two so I've decided on a 24 hour fast - 10pm Friday night was my last meal so I'll plan a nice big fatty meal for tonight!  

I've also included a torso pic - there is a clear improvement since the last pic (page 3 but taken when I started paleo 8 weeks ago)
 

So far this week has been as normal - beef tongue yesterday for the first time - liked by son and I but daughter wasn't so keen.

Food wise things are more or less as before - I've been buying a fish called Melva in Spanish (Auxis rochei rochei) - a blue fish in the tuna family - it's very cheap - usually only 2 euros a kilo and is easy to fry in tallow and have with a salad. Generally I don't find this way of eating to be expensive - I'm saving a fortune on evoo and buying the cheaper, fattier cuts of meat and offal.

I realised that I'd been over doing the fruit - gorging on it in fact - so this weekend, again with no kids, I bought a leg of lamb cut into chops and more or less just had that with fried eggs several times - and then a horse rib and root veg stew on Sunday night with my son. Horse ribs are half the price of horse ossobucco and are great stewed - I really must get a solar oven sorted out.

I feel thinner and more energetic after the low fruit weekend - my only cheat is still beer - but never more than a litre and usually less.

fish day today - I got a bonito cut into slices (head and tail for lucas) and some chard - I'm going to grind up some curry spices, dip the fish in it then fry them in tallow. I'm getting my grass fed tallow free from the market - it's great stuff - I love how it can be reused or incorporated into stews.

Tonight we have 2 kilos of mussels between the 3 of us - I'll do them with coconut oil, onion and parsley and we'll have a green salad. Generally I'm making the effort to have more fish - mainly blue fish, sardines, mackerel, bonito, grey mullet.

I've been drinking a lot less (and have decided to stick to wine when I do) - about once a week and feel better for it. I think I'm addicted to fruit though! I've had no problem with bread, even if it's in front of me, or rice, or pasta - but once I start on fruit I find it hard to stop. We're in mandarin season now and I get a kilo or 2 in every day for the kids with the idea of having a couple myself - I can't usually stop at 2 though. I'm not concerned about weight but I think it causes me to have lethargic crashes.

Talking of weight - everyone I meet comments on how thin I am since they last saw me - strange how many people associate thinness with ill health, when I've never felt healthier. A few women have said I'm less attractive now - I suppose a more filled out face is subconsciously associated with wealth.