Sorry for the blurriness

In the tradition of primal peach patties, I bring you Caveman cookies. These are a little more moist than the peach patties for those of you that were looking for something more moist. Once again the wife is enamoured with them while I am not overwhelmed (although I do admit they are pretty tasty).

The flavors shown above are Apple, Apple Strawberry and Apple Blueberry.

Apple Caveman Cookies:
Ingredients
- 1 granny smith apple de-seeded
- 1 cup almonds (or other nut)
- 1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
- 1 teaspoon evoo
- 1 Egg

Directions:
1. Combine all ingredients except for egg in a food processor and pulse.
2. Mix in egg.
3. Form into patties. (I made 5 per batch)
4. Bake at 350 degrees until done. (Mine took 45 minutes. These definitely have more moisture than the peach patties)

Apple Strawberry, Apple Blueberry or Other:
- Add in 1/2 cup of berries for pulse. (I used freeze-dried because I had them).

These were very easy and turned out quite good. The wife is happy.They would be pretty good with a dash of cinnamon or nutmeg as well.

Primal Blueberry Apple Pie

Change of plans today, the Larabar can wait an extra day.

I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about this past holiday. It truly turned out great. As I mentioned briefly before, I was hosting my family of grain and sugar lovers. Everyone got along, everyone enjoyed the food and everyone had a good time.

The thing that I want to talk about though is an interesting thing that happened when it came to dessert.I had made blueberry apple pie (no sweetener added). To me and my wife, this pie was SO sweet but to my family, they did not think the pie was nearly sweet enough. (The pie truly was delicious by the way)

This prompted my mother to recant a story from her experience.During her pregnancy with my sister, she was not able to eat sugar. She made a peach pie (no sweetener added) for her and her friends. It was almost too sweet for her to eat but her friends thought she was crazy and could not eat the pie themselves as it was not sweet enough. Sounds similar to my pies that were not sweet enough for my family.

For my wife and I, a simple piece of fruit or a couple berries is more than enough to satisfy any sweets cravings. I wonder how long it took us to get here though… I never really noticed the transition. I would like to be able to tell someone that is addicted to sugar how long it will take them to get to where a piece of fruit is sweet enough but I am not really sure that I know the answer?

The rest of the food was phenomenal though and family did not complain once about not having bread or grains which was nice. We had a spicy buffalo chili Christmas eve and for Christmas day, everyone got their own cornish game hen. As I said, everyone enjoyed time together which in my opinion is the most important part of the holiday!

What is your experience in weening yourself off refined sugar and sweets? How long did it take you? I hope everyone had a great holiday as well.