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Old 07-08-2011, 09:38 PM
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Anyone doing the Paleolithic diet?

Paleolithic diet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think this is great but am looking for something that is adapted to the local environment here in Texas and found this:
Natural Hygiene network - What did Native Texans eat?

PREHISTORIC EATING HABITS IN TEXAS - THE COAHUILTECANS inhabited the inland brush country in south Texas - between San Antonio River and the Mexico border - an arid rocky semi-desert plain with thorny shrubs, mesquite trees and cacti. The famous Spaniard Cabeza de Vaca lived with the Coahuiltecans for eight years from 1538.
Of all Texas natives the Coahuiltecans lived the harshest, most difficult life. They led a roving life, starved in winter, and there seems to be very little they failed to eat that could be eaten. Large animals were scarce - there were occasional deer, antelope, javelina pigs - plus rabbits, rodents, reptiles, birds and bugs. Some tribes had access to pecans, some mesquite beans, others fish. "Few living creatures were overlooked as source of food .... spiders, ant eggs, worms, lizards, snakes (incl. rattle snakes), earth, rotten wood, deer dung.
Second harvest ... removing seeds and the like from human feces, grinding them up, roasting and eating them." "Fish were ... set aside for eight days .... until larvae and other insects had developed in the rotting flesh ... then consumed as an epicure's delight, as also the remaining flesh."
The principal food was vegetables: agave bulbs, mountain laurel beans, peyote cactus, prickly pears, mesquite beans. Wars between Coahuiltecan peoples were common, dead captives were often roasted and eaten (ceremoniously), powdered bones from own tribe members were eaten (with hallucination-inducing peyote). Tools were made from wood and flint.
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Old 07-08-2011, 10:13 PM
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DANG! They must have been pretty heavy into the peyote to eat that krap(literaly)! Seriously though it says alot about their abillity and drive to stay alive.
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Old 07-09-2011, 06:39 AM
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And I was just about to make me some breakfast!!!
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