{"id":691,"date":"2012-11-17T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2020-10-19T20:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T20:43:31","slug":"thanksgiving-stuffing-meatballs-from-practical-paleo-mostly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/thanksgiving-stuffing-meatballs-from-practical-paleo-mostly\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Stuffing Meatballs from Practical Paleo (mostly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sorta think of Thanksgiving as a trial-run for Christmas. All the lovely recipes start appearing in my Facebook and RSS feeds and it gives me a six week headstart on Christmas dinner planning because we don&#8217;t actually celebrate Thanksgiving here, obviously. But this year I&#8217;m not in charge of dinner at Christmas. So I just have to make the scrumptious sounding recipes as and when!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1936608758\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1936608758&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=whangdoodlela-21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-693\" title=\"61U8JUnOo6L._SL160_\" src=\"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/2025\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/61U8JUnOo6L._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/61U8JUnOo6L._SL160_.jpg 124w, https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/61U8JUnOo6L._SL160_-47x60.jpg 47w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/><\/a>I love my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1936608758\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1936608758&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=whangdoodlela-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Practical Paleo cookbook<\/a>. It is hands down one of -the- definitive guides to the health and reasoning behind eating and living a &#8216;whole-foods lifestyle&#8217; along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1936608898\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1936608898&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=whangdoodlela-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It Starts With Food<\/a>. These two books explain in simple yet comprehensive terms the reason your body thrives when you adopt this lifestyle. I love &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>Now, even though I have this cookbook (and countless others), I tend to look to my feeds and <a href=\"http:\/\/fastpaleo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FastPaleo<\/a> and the rest of the internet when deciding what to cook. I&#8217;m a geek that spends a lot of time in front of my computer, what can I say? Then <a href=\"http:\/\/balancedbites.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Balanced Bites<\/a> posted up <a href=\"http:\/\/balancedbites.com\/2012\/11\/easy-recipe-thanksgiving-stuffing-meatballs-from-practical-paleo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thanksgiving Stuffing Meatballs<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1936608758\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1936608758&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=whangdoodlela-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Practical Paleo book<\/a>. And I thought &#8211; that sounds pretty darn cool &#8211; I&#8217;ll make that today.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as ever when I &#8216;follow&#8217; someone else&#8217;s recipe, I do my own amends. Not because I think they&#8217;ll taste better or I can improve on a recipe, but usually because I haven&#8217;t planned\/ran out of ingredients\/am lazy\/can&#8217;t be bothered to measure\/etc.<\/p>\n<p>So I followed the recipe for <a href=\"http:\/\/balancedbites.com\/2012\/11\/easy-recipe-thanksgiving-stuffing-meatballs-from-practical-paleo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thanksgiving Stuffing Meatballs<\/a> exactly except:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I used half pork and half beef mince<\/li>\n<li>I guesstimated the amount of carrots, chestnuts and celery<\/li>\n<li>I ran out of sage for the spice mix<\/li>\n<li>And most importantly, I was too lazy to make a separate cranberry sauce, so I threw dried cranberries into my meatball mixture!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And you know what &#8211; they turned out great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sorta think of Thanksgiving as a trial-run for Christmas. All the lovely recipes start appearing in my Facebook and RSS feeds and it gives me a six week headstart on Christmas dinner planning because we don&#8217;t actually celebrate Thanksgiving here, obviously. But this year I&#8217;m not in charge of dinner at Christmas. So I &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}