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When I worked for the corporate overlords, I packed my lunch every day. Over the course of 4+ years at my full-time gig, I think I ate out at lunch about a dozen times. I loved packing my lunch! What a great excuse to crack open a book, leave the world of email and meetings behind, and stuff my face full of dino-chow. It’s kind of embarrassing how much I enjoyed my paleo lunches. Now that I work at home, I still relish lunch — a respite in the middle of the day to fuel up on protein and veggies.
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All of which is why I was honored and pleased when Stormy Sweitzer of Maoomba approached me to write the foreword for her new cookbook Paleo Power Lunch. The 26 Power Lunch recipes are fresh, bold, and inspiring — but Paleo Power Lunch is more than just a collection of recipes. Stormy includes strategies and tips so that packing your lunch every day is a joy instead of a chore. |
As I said in my foreword…
With her charming, effective cookbook, Stormy Sweitzer completely redefines the phrase “power lunch.” Forget about professionals taking deals and making calls from the corner table of a swank dining room. These are real power lunches: meals packed with body-building protein, vibrant produce, luscious nuts and oils, and — most importantly — flavors that will satisfy your taste buds and make it easy to be true to your healthy habits.
More than a cookbook, Paleo Power Lunch is a how-to guide for creating easy-to-make, easy-to-transport meals that will make lunch a welcome respite in the middle of a busy work day — whether you’re in a corporate office or CEO of your household.
The basis of the Power Lunch is a salad. But forget about bowls of tired greens and grilled chicken. Stormy’s vibrant salad ideas combine elements of sweet and savory, chewy and crisp, all-American and international — along with homemade dressings of endless variations. With Stormy’s simple instructions, even cooks with limited kitchen experience will be paleo power players.
It’s available in both a print version from Amazon and an ebook. As side dishes to the main course of the cookbook, Stormy has created five bonus “Quick Guides” that cover everything from no-cook meals to fool-proof methods to make homemade stocks and soups, as well as eight how-to videos. It’s like inviting Stormy into your kitchen for hands-on instruction!
Win Paleo Power Lunch!
UPDATE: We have our winners. Thanks so much for reading and playing along, everyone!
We’re randomly picking two lucky people to win the whole shebang: the ebook, a Quick Reference Guide, the five Quick Guides, and the eight video tutorials… everything you need to become a lunchtime power player.
To Enter:
1. Follow Stormy on Twitter – or let me know that you already follow her – then post to my comments below.
2. Follow me on Twitter – or let me know that you already follow me – then post to my comments below.
Deadline to enter: Wednesday, September 12 at 23:50 CST, and the winner will be announced on or before Friday, September 14.
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followed and followed! Thanks for the giveaway!
Follow you both! We need more paleo inspiration! Thanks for another great giveaway!
Followed both of you – I’d love to win this!
Followed her and already following you!
Following both. 🙂
Following both 🙂
I follow you both! My Twitter handle @stacymo! Would love some help with my lunches as I begin the Whole Life Challenege (my gym is following Whole30 rules… For 56 days!) and work full time and struggle with my lunches!
Already follow you kid, and am now following stormy. You started on those Kate Mosse books yet?
Following you both (@rogue_dietitian). Pick me! Pick me!
Followed and Followed! Hope I win!
Following both!
Followed! Looks like a great book.
Followed you both. Thanks to you both for doing this!
Following both of you now 🙂
Following you both now! 🙂 Still researching recipes to start Paleo in a couple of weeks! @MrsBaze
I follow you both on twitter via chasingiron. Fingers crossed!!!
Following you both. I love the look of this book – I’m always looking for easy lunch ideas to bring to work. Thanks!
Following you both!
I’m not on twitter so I can not follow you guys but know I would if I did! I work in a very industrial area and always bring my lunch to work as there isn’t much around that is not fast food. It saves me time, money and I get a chance to check out your blog at lunch!
That’s OK. Your comment is your entry. Thanks!
Pick me. Pick me.
Maybe this will motivate me into something….
Done and done! Fingers crossed.
I don’t use Twitter, but I’d LOVE to win this! I pack lunch for six, five days a week, and we need new ideas!
Follow both: check! 🙂
Done and done! Would make a great birthday gift for me (the 14th!) haha! 🙂
Followed her & already following you
I had nothing to pack for lunch today and by the middle of the afternoon, I was ready to gnaw on the arms of my office chair. I’m not gonna beg. I really am not gonna prostrate myself on the floor wailing and sobbing. I’m just not! I’m better than that. Not.
PLEASE MELISSA . . . I NEED THIS LUNCH BOOK! I am not creative or faithful to taking care of my lunchtime needs; yet I know when I bring lunch I am a different person. I’m nicer, more efficient, steady as a rock, happy, even tempered . . . On second thought, maybe my co-workers would benefit more from this book than I would. 😉
I don’t have a twitter account, but I would LOVE to win this cookbook!!!!!
I’m following you both!
I already follow you & now following Stormy. <3
I’m following both!
Following both
Following you both!
Following and following!
Already following you and now following her – thanks!
I’m following the both of you!
Oh awesome!! Following both! 🙂
Followed and followed! Thanks for this! 🙂
Done and done
Followed & already following! Thanks 🙂
Following you both now.
Followed Stormy and already following you.
Haven’t been on twitter in awhile but now following you both in twitterland 🙂
Followed her now too, but I was already following you 🙂
I’m tempted to just get the book right now instead of waiting. The package deal offered online looks amazing with all the videos and guides included. I still need to get Well Fed though too. Decisions, decisions….
Looking forward to the seminar in Colorado!
Following both! Would so love to win so I could get my journey started!
follow you both now…would LOVE this one…in desperate need of lunch ideas to pack
Following you both on Twitter : )
Followed and following!
Not a twitter user, but my entire family loves your recipes and we think we’d become pretty attached to Paleo Power Lunch too.
Done and done!
Stumbled across this one last night and had put on my wish list
Now I wish to win!!
Following both, and love the thought of more LUNCH ideas!
Following both
Following both of you – even if I don’t win I’ll be ordering myself a copy.
i would love to own this book because i make the most boring paleo lunches (aka salads) every day for work and my coworkers are constantly ordering food! i am following you both 🙂
Well, I already follow you, but I follow her now, too!
Already follow you – now following Stormy!
p.s. I just got my Runner 5 t-shirt today and am so stoked to wear it while running from Zombies that you introduced me to!
Following Stormy on Twitter! Great giveaway!
Following you on Twitter! Thanks! 🙂
Following both 🙂
Already follow you, now following her as well! Coolio!,
I’m so loving the paleo life style… this book will be a great resource! I’m excited to follow you both on Twitter.
Followed both and wanting to become Paleo just need some direction!
I follow you on twitter! Muppetk! 🙂
Followed (thanks) and already follow. Big changes…my family is following my lead to a paleo lifestyle. It’s going to be so much easier.
I’m so bad at this Twitter thing… but now I’m following both of you!
I am following both of you!
Followed x 2 I pack a lunch every day and would love some new recipes.
Following you both! Sounds like a great book!
Following you already and followed Stormy! Love the idea of this book – as someone who works for government overlords it would sure come in handy! 😀
@lelanilovelox now follows both of you! day 7 of whole 30 and going strong. loving it so far!
Thanks!!
Already follow you, now following Stormy!
I follow you both ….you for the chicken =) and hopefully a free cookbook! Lol
Already a follower! 🙂 Lovin’ Well Fed!
WAHHHH! I follow you and I’ve seen Stormy on Pinterest, but I don’t follow Twitter but I do now. I would love to win her cookbook. Then I will have both her’s and yours! PLEEEEEEEZE
Just followed Stormy! 🙂
I don’t have twitter (I don’t think I’d have anything to say and all those tags confuse the crap out of me…sad, I know), but this looks like a great book.
Followed and followed.
Followed and followed! Day 26 of the Whole30, loving Well Fed! Thanks 🙂
I follow you on twitter @livestrongbaby
I already followed you and now I’m happy to be following stormy too! Thanks for this awesome opportunity, I would LOVE some power lunch ideas 🙂
Following you both! Thanks for the giveaway!
following & following! I SO need this book! Lunch is my biggest struggle, salads are getting way boring! 🙂
Followed! This would be an awesome solution to my never-ending dilemma of what to bring to school for lunch.
Not on twitter but have my kids so “Well Fed” that my son (6yrs old) beggs for me to cook out of “Well Fed”! He took “Well Fed” Paleo Pad Thai in his thermos to Kindergarten today and said “Mommy I’m so gourmet!” We love “Well Fed” we would chow down on your lunch inspirations for sure! Pick us eventhough we don’t “Tweet”.
Hello, I was already following you and I am now following Stormy as well. I still work for the “corporate overlords” and would appreciate the new lunch ideas. Thanks.
Already follow you, now following Stormy!
Now following you both! Awesome giveaway!
Sorry, I’m too old to Twitter. Cant even text. I’ll just have to shell out dinero for the book.
Following you both! Thanks so much!
Following Stormy on twitter!
I am already following you on twitter 🙂 @rebeccaablock
I follow both and I really want to win!
Now following Stormy, have been following Melissa.
The book looks great!
I follow both of you!! 🙂 @jlautry
Followed Stormy, and already following you. I could use this!
I used to have a cat called Stormy. She was a love!
Following you both. Looks awesome!
Done and done… Thanks really enjoying your book well fed just got it in thesis today
Followed Stormy and was already following you 🙂
this book looks awesome! i pack my lunch (and my boyfriend’s) every day too 🙂 i follow both of you on twitter
Follow you both! @klwilliams85 on twitter.
Followed the both of you (@hayleyjane)!
I don’t use twitter — I try not to have too many accounts and distractions! I read your blog daily, and have gotten a friend on board with Paleo thanks to your fabulous Cookbook (which I bought for her at your Philly book signing!).
Following you 🙂
Folllowing stormy & already following you!
Following both! I bought my tickets yesterday for Colorado…Can’t wait!!
Following! Thanks for the giveaway!
I am following you both now!
Following you both!! Lunch is one of this things I really struggle with since I began Paleo- I need inspiration! 🙂
Following! Both of you, too. Lunch!
Following you both. Love, love, love Well Fed!
Following both. I’ve been struggling with my lunches recently. I tend to do the same thing over and over. I love the site (and the Eat Well cookbook). Keep up the good work!
Following both of you. Thanks for the giveaway!
Count me as a new follower of you both. This would be fantastic to have in the weeks ahead when I begin my first “Whole Life Challenge”. Power lunches are what this full time working mother of 2 small kids needs!
I Follow Stormy on Twitter
I Follow me on Twitter
Started following you on twitter (already follow you on fb!) Love your recipes and of course Well Fed!
Also just started following Stormy on twitter! Excited about the giveaway since I also bring my lunch every day to the office.
followed her and already following you!!! =^.^=
Following you both – excited about the giveaway. Thanks!
Following both – I need to get back into bringing my lunch. Once you get out of the habit it’s sometimes hard to get back but here I come…Thanks!
I’m following you both now! I’d love to win this. My lunches need help!
Follow both of you. Let’s do lunch!!
I already follow you on Twitter, and now I follow Stormy as well. Lunch is by far the hardest meal of the day for me, so I could use some inspiration!
I’m following both of you on Twitter!
Followed both of you -and I’m crossing my fingers!
Followed! Wow, I’d really love to win this. The only thing that staved off a candy detour today was the promise of a yummy salad… which I need to learn to save money on! This would save my sad dining hall life.
Following both of you!
Done!
Followed and followed:)
i’m following you both! yay! @karen_eliza !!!!
Following both of you now.
Followed you ages ago… but now following her as well!
I’m already following you (I’m flag_gal), and am now following Stormy.
Done! I hope I win this. It would help being that I live out of hotels for work!
followed and followed! Love the concept for the book.
Followed both of ya! Thanks for the giveaway. I’ve been lurking on your blog for a while, but starting a Whole30 recently lead me to raid your recipe stashes. You’re just excellent at this, I hope you know that.
Awesome! Ive followed you both for a while now, I have your book, but havent been able to get Stormy’s yet – so heres hopin I win! 🙂
Awesome! Ive followed you both for a while now, I have your book, but havent been able to get Stormy’s yet – so heres hopin I win! 🙂
Follow you on RSS feed!
Followed! Just received Well Fed in the mail last week, looking forward to trying all these recipes!!!
Following both! Thanks for the giveaway. I’m just getting started in the Paleo lifestyle and need all the help I can get!!
I am following stormy on twitter.
i follow you on twitter.
Wow – I’m so excited by your excitement over lunch! Thanks, Mel, for holding the contest, and I look forward to connecting with the rest of you. : )
Just “followed” you both! I’m just getting into the paleo lifestyle and am looking forward to building my library with useful guides.
Followed you both!! I would love to have this book! I’m starting my first Whole 30 today – I don’t think I’ll be drinking as much coffee as usual – no sweetener 🙁
I follow you on Twitter. I am very interested in any Paleo information as I have just recently shifted from counting plus points (Weight Watchers) to Paleo.
Thanks for all the info on your site.
I just started following you on Twitter! I’m on day 8 of my first Whole 30.
Already followed you, and now following both!
Following you both…great giveaway!
check… on both accounts!
I’m following you both! I hope that Paleo Power Lunch is as good as Well Fed. I never would have made it through the Whole30 without homemade mayo and Bora Bora Fireballs.
Now following you both on twitter.
I follow both of you on Twitter (OliviaofLovely)!
Following you both! (@disrunner)
I followed both.
following you both!
Already follow you… I am now following her:) Thanks!
FOllowing & Following! Great contest, would LOVE to win these, just started my paleo “journey” last week, need some cookbooks 🙂
Done and done. 🙂
Following both!
Just signed up to follow both!
Following you both!
Just followed both!
Followed you under MrsSmith01 on twitter
Followed Stormy on twitter under MrsSmith01
I started following Stormy, but I already follow you @laurenislost
Done and done!
Following both