It’s Paleo Shake ‘N Bake, and I helped! Older cave-holes like me will remember the commercial for Shake ‘N Bake that I’m referencing in the title of this post. I used to love that sodium laced shit. I’d beg my grandmother to use it on our Friday night chicken as an occasional switch from her regular chicken seasoning of garlic powder, salt, and paprika. Every once in a while, maybe two or three times a year, she used it, and I was in heaven! I don’t know why, but shaking food in a bag to coat it is fun! When I got older and started cooking for myself, pork chops in Shake ‘N Bake was one of the few things I could cook. That’s right folks, the ol’ Caveman wasn’t the gourmet he is today. The need for cooking on paleo has turned me into a good cook. Since the day I decided to go paleo, the biggest obstacle was overcoming my fear of the kitchen. My knife skills still suck, but the food tastes gooooooood!!!! So four years into my paleo journey, recreating Shake ‘N Bake is something that comes relatively easy for me. Not as easy as using Shake ‘N Bake itself, but still pretty easy. So here are the main ingredients for real Shake ‘N Bake for pork chops: enriched wheat flour salt partially dehydrated soybean and cottonseed oil sugar (less than 2% of the following) paprika dextrose dried onions spice (whatever the hell that means) caramel color (Mmm, yum, color!) yeast food coloring natural flavoring Read labels, folks. According to the government, you can call practically anything “natural” simply because it exists in nature. Natural flavoring is usually nothing more than chemicals, imported from New Jersey. Dextrose, or anything -ose, is usually sugar. So they use sugar, and sugar as two ingredients. No sugar on the caveman diet, folks. One of the worst things you can put in your body. That includes the raw organic honey I use from time to time, as well as any other fake paleo sugar, like coconut sugar, agave, maple, etc. It’s all just sugar, so stop looking for approval to use it in your meals from the paleo police. If you want though, by all means, use it, just understand that it’s a cheat ingredient. And if you want to know my thoughts on salt, just go to my page and search for salt. I’m tired of talking about salt, so read about it yourself. All I recommend is, if you DO eat salt, use an organic salt, like sea salt, that doesn’t require major chemicals in its production, like most conventional table salts.
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