...crockpot shredded beef!

Today is GROUND ZERO... for a Whole30 challenge! As part of my Yoga Teacher Training program at Cleveland Yoga, we are supposed to do a "cleanse" for 3 weeks. As in no Alcohol, Animal Products, Dairy, Caffeine, Gluten, or Sugar. But all the "karma yogi" food such as rice, beans, corn, tofu, quinoa is allowed. What's a Paleo girrrl to do? Well, I can't bring myself to eat such a diet for 3 weeks. I've read too many primal nutrition books to do that to my body (especially the corn) so I enlisted danimal and decided to conquer a Whole 30 instead. Still no Alcohol, Dairy, Gluten or Sugar, but delicious and good for you grassfed meats, free range poultry and eggs, no grains of any kind. I'm also making a very conscious effort to decrease my caffeine consumption. I don't think I'll be able to get off the morning cup of Philz (oh sweet nectar of the gods!) but I'm substituting my afternoon cup for tea. Turns out Yerba Mate is pretty delicious!

Which comes to the point of this post... cooking. There's some prep work that comes with a Whole30 in addition to buying tons of Steve's grassfed paleo stix and the Just Mangoes from Trader Joes. One of the girls from Crossfit Distinction, Janine, pointed me over to paleOMG.com. This hystical crossfitter out of Colorado has one funny food blog. I poked through some of the crockpot recipes and found one that I had all the ingredients for in the house, but made some adjustments. I'm on a huge cumin kick - the spice of life! - and needed to add that in there along with a bit more heat. The final version came out pretty tasty. Equally important, it was super easy and produced a ton of grassfed meat to get our chow down on.

Easy Shredded Beef

Ingredients

• 2-3lb round steak (I used one from our CSA - buy whatever beef is cheap)
• 2 large yellow onions, sliced
• 1 4oz can of diced green chili peppers
• 1/2 cup chicken or beef broth
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
• 2 teaspoons of Penzey's BBQ3000 (more to taste at the end)
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon ancho chili powder

Instructions

1. Pull out crock pot.
2. Put meat in pot.
3. Put broth in pot.
4. Put onions on top of meat.
5. Put spices on top of meat and onions.
6. Cover.
7. Put crock pot on low for 8-10 hours
8. Take 2 forks and shred
9. Pour off excess juice
10. Season to taste
11. Eat it like you mean it.