Above the Grain

We make fresh individually portioned & packaged healthy meals. Paleo approved....gluten free, dairy free & soy free! Available for pickup or delivery to your gym, home or business.

Above the Grain meals are prepared in a certified, licensed, sanitary, professional kitchen. We prepare your meals fresh and deliver them to you in airtight, sealed, microwavable, BPA-free containers. We use the best products we can find which always include antibiotic and hormone free meats and organic vegetables whenever possible. We get our products from safe and traceable sources to ensure the quality of food we are serving you is top of the line. Cooked meals are known to have a shelf life of 6 days from the date of production excluding seafood which has a general shelf life of 3 days using refrigeration at 33-36 degrees following delivery. If any of our products do not remain fresh during the guaranteed freshness period, please contact us at (941) 753-2038.

Why try our Paleo option? To start things off, here’s a little Paleolithic timeline for you. Humans started eating the Paleo way about 2.5 million years ago, and then drastically changed our diets about 10,000 years ago when we began cultivating grains and legumes. That’s not much time for evolution to catch up with us, meaning our bodies are still most adept at eating the way we used to eat: meat, vegetables, fruits, and some nuts and seeds.

When I say not a lot of time, think of it like this: 10,000 years out of 2.5 million is equivalent to a little under 2 months of a 40 year old man’s life, or .4% of his life – not very much. Switching from our evolutionary diet of animal products, veggies and fruit to a diet full of grains and legumes is like that movie Super Size Me where Morgan Spurlock goes from eating his normal diet to eating only McDonald’s food for 30 days. His health plummets – he gets fat and depressed, and he develops fatty liver and sexual dysfunction.

That’s basically what’s happened on a grand scale over the last 10,000 years of humanity. We've replaced wholesome, clean plant matter and animal foods with a high carbohydrate, low nutrient, high toxic chemical diet and we have gotten sick. We have shrunken in size, our bones are osteoporotic, we have more cancer, obesity and diabetes, an alarming incidence of heart disease, inflammation of all kinds, skin problems and the list goes on. And on. We are sick. But our Paleolithic ancestors were not and the hunter gatherer tribes that still exist are not. So lets bring our bodies back to how they are supposed to function and the foods they are supposed to function on.