Reddit reviews Paleo Comfort Foods: Homestyle Cooking in a Gluten-Free Kitchen

I'd get a paleo cookbook if I were you. Most of those dishes are low-carb and gluten free (obviously) and the salt and spicy level would be up to you. Paleo Comfort Food is a pretty decent one to start with and it will turn out recognizable looking dishes. Nom Nom Paleo is another good book with really good food, but the recipes aren't as "American standard" cooking and it's pretty preachy (you can also go to NomNomPaleo.com and see some of the recipes there before you make the commitment to purchase the book).

To get you started with a recipe though, here's a recipe for cauliflower pizza crust. Make it, bake it, top it with your favorite fixins.

Don't forget that almost any veggie can be roasted. Toss it in oil, roast on a sheet until brown and a little crispy on the edges, give it a dash of lemon juice and voila!

I have several cookbooks that I used (and you still have time to get them from Amazon if you wish).

Everyday Paleo Family Cookbook

Well Fed <-- GET THIS ONE IT IS AMAZING

Paleo Comfort Foods

Some of the recipes needed some tweaking to remove added sugar / whole30 non-compliant foods. All the recipes in Well Fed are 100% compliant though, and they're AMAZING.

The good thing is that many of these cookbooks have a "meal plan" in their intro pages, so you can look to that for guidance.

Additionally, these resources should help you out:

http://nomnompaleo.com/recipeindex (She also has a whole30 guide here)

http://www.theclothesmakethegirl.com/category/recipes/

As always, vet these recipes to make sure there aren't any added sugars or tamari or anything like that. In general, though they should be ok. I sat down beforehand and made 3 weeks of meal plans and shopping lists so I had NO EXCUSES, and then sort of winged it the last week (LOTS of leftovers).

From my experience, I was unprepared for the amount of food I was cooking. I only planned dinners, and budgeted the leftovers for lunches. Even so I was still overwhelmed with food (especially because my husband was only eating the dinners about 4 times a week).

The secret is to plan plan plan so you cant' fail :)

EDIT: They just posted this over at the Whole9 blog today! http://whole9life.com/2013/07/whole30-meal-plans/

I left a box when my contract ended. They were REALLY big on paleo and I was vegetarian at the time. They even wrote a cookbook. I was also going 5 days a week and I should have been going maybe 3 and doing something "easier" on my not-crossfit days. And then this girl I COULD NOT STAND who always critiqued me (like, another member) was about to become a coach ... Anyways, I was like eff this. And I left.

I took a year long break from CrossFit. But I had a hard time really going back to a regular gym tho. So I finally re-signed up with a new box. And I visited ... talked to the coaches. Liked their programming. So I signed up.

Anyways, I ran into Charles (the owner of my first CrossFit box) at a 5k (He was GREAT!). And we chatted and they had moved locations. So he was like "yeah, you should drop by and do a workout!" It was really nice.

I am really glad I did the Intro classes at the first box. They were one of the first crossfit locations around so they had a great format. And my new box lacks some things my first box had. Like equipment (rowers, we hardly do rowing wods at my current box bc they only have two of them and GHDs ...).

But I'm glad I made the switch. And I can see how some of the fault lies within myself. Like ... bc I am such a huge whiner. And I make a lot of excuses. I will still not go to CrossFit sometimes when I see certain movements on the blog (that's why I just cant look at the WOD sometimes bc I wont go!). But if I feel like I need guidance, I just ask the coach to look at me while I lift. And they always do! But because I've "been around" CrossFit for awhile, the coaches always seem to have someone else who needs their help more!

Hopefully you have a lot of boxes to choose from! With a year under your belt, you'll be able to see what you like and what you dont like a lot easier.

edit: You're paying decent money for a gym. Get what you want from it! At the end of the day, you're paying for a service. You should get some enjoyment out of it?