Happy Friday! Today I’ve got a very special guest post for you with the wonderful Arsy of Rubies and Radishes! Arsy and I connected via our blogs and she has truly become one of my favourite go to paleo bloggers and she’s also just super sweet! I recently asked Arsy if she would be interested in doing a Q&A type guest post for me and she kindly said yes! So get to know the face behind Rubies and Radishes… enjoy!

Welcome Arsy! Before we get into the questions can you give Cinnamon Eats readers a brief background of who you are?

Sure! First of all I want to say thank you Naz for inviting me here today. I am a huge fan of your blog and I’m excited to connect with your readers. What can I tell you? I’m Armenian, my parents are from Iran. I grew up in a very traditional culture with lots of traditional food. In my teens I believed all the media hype and thought my parents lifestyle was unhealthy, so I adopted a vegetarian diet which caused a whole host of health problems for me. I spent the later half of my 20s trying to understand them and recover.

Your blog, Rubies and Radishes (p.s. I LOVE the name) is focused on living a paleo lifestyle. Can you tell us how you came to paleo yourself and what has come out of this journey for you so far?

I started Crossfit in 2008. Shortly after some friends and trainers at the gym started talking about the paleo diet. When they described this “caveman” diet I thought it sounded strange. But being an information seeker I picked up Dr. Cordain’s book to read up on it and instantly a light bulb went off in my head and I understood the cause of all of my health problems. [Read more…]