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This chopped broccoli salad was awesome! Fresh greens, bacon, dried fruit, nuts/seeds, and did I mention bacon….simple and delicious. I got the recipe from Health-Bent.com (check them out in the resources tab at the top of the page), and made just a few tweaks.

Feel free to mix or match your favorite dried fruit and nuts to the recipe. I used golden raisins and would like to try dried cherries or cranberries next time. I also added sunflower seeds in addition to the chopped almonds. I prefer cooking bacon on the stovetop, so I ignored baking the bacon. Give it a shot and post a comment on how it turned out!

http://www.health-bent.com/salads/paleo-broccoli-salad

Ingredients
1 lb broccoli
3/4 c slivered or chopped almonds
1/2 c raisins
6 slices bacon
1/2 c rendered bacon fat (drippings) or olive oil
1/4 c red wine or apple cider vinegar
s&p

Method
Set your oven to 375ºF. Place the bacon slices on a baking sheet and bake until they’re brown and crispy, about 25 minutes.

While the bacon is cooking, get out a large bowl. For the broccoli, use your hands to remove the leaves on the base of the broccoli. With a knife, trim off the tough outside of the broccoli stem, so you’re left with the tender, pale green center. It shouldn’t be more than a couple millimeters thick–so don’t hack! Chop up the stem into tiny, bite-size pieces and do the same with the florets. Complete broccoli utilization–woohoo!

Add the broccoli to the bowl, along with the vinegar, almonds, raisins and salt & pepper.

Once the bacon is done, remove from the oven and let it cool. Once cooled, chop or use your hands to crumble up the bacon and add it to the bowl. Pour 1/2 c of the rendered fat (drippings) from the bacon directly into the bowl.

Toss everything to combine. Serve immediately, or wait until it’s cold. It’s good either way.

I think this graphic is probably a little exagerated, nontheless prolonged time spent on your ass is not a good thing.  Find a reason to get up at work, do 10 squats/lunges every 15 minutes throughout your day….that is 320 squats over an 8 hr workday! Stand and work if you are able, or work from the paleo chair.  Take breaks to stand up, move around the office and stretch; let other people think you are weird because you are!  

You are different, you are refusing to settle for a poor diet, poor health, poor fitness, and a poor body position (sitting).  I sure don’t want to be normal in the American categories of weight, fitness, or health, so yeah call me weird I will get up and do some dynamic stretching in my office……of course we are pretty liberal with that sort of thing here at BOLT Headquarters.

Please make this commitment….
Dear Ass,
I probably spend to much time on you. I commit to making the effort to stand up, move around and spend less time sitting in a chair, on my couch, or in my bed. I am sorry to always suffocate you in some apparatus, no wonder these actions result in dormant glutes.
Respectfully,
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