Holy smokes you guys have a lot of questions! Most of them revolve around three things:

1. What is Paleo?
2. Are your cookies Paleo?
3. Why are your high-quality kick-ass cookies more expensive than the artificially flavored Oreos I used to eat?

What is Paleo?
Paleo eating is based on the idea that we evolved for over 2.5 million years to eat a certain way (lean meats, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds) and it’s only in the last 10,000 years that we’ve started eating processed and cultivated food (wheat, corn, gluten, sugar, and the wide assortment of chemicals in most supermarket food aisles.)

Modern Paleo is a diet of ingredients vs a diet of proportions, so there’s a lot of freedom to blend and mix many different foods that cavemen normally wouldn’t have had sustained and/or combined access to (i.e. eating almonds, which are harvested only in the fall with cacao which is harvested year-round) not to mention geographical constraints such as different foods growing in different climates.

Truly strict Paleo eaters hunt and gather their own food, and we dig that. At certain times of year we go out and enjoy practicing those skills in the mountains and on the sea.

However, we also live in modern times with computers and cars and bad-ass rifles and we really dig enjoying modern conveniences like balanced weight bars and bumper plates, so for Paleo Treats stuff we go with Modern Paleo rules.

Are your Treats really “Paleo”?
Yes and no. Cavemen didn’t have access to ovens (we bake our Mac Attacks instead of putting them on hot rocks) and they didn’t pound out cacao beans and then mix ‘em with cacao butter and nuts and honey, so in the purist’s sense, no, they’re not Paleo.

In the sense of Paleo as a diet of ingredients then yes, they are Paleo.  If a caveman or woman could have found and eaten an ingredient more than 10,000 years ago, then it’s Paleo. You can find quite a few internet Einsteins who will debate this endlessly, but that’s our take on it.

What about all the (insert “fat” or “carbs” etc) in your Treats? That CAN’T be Paleo!
If you start with the idea that these are cookies, not meals (PaleoBrands make great meals) or snacks (PaleoKits make great snacks) you’ll get “it” pretty quickly.

Paleo Treats are designed for modern Paleo people who want something sweet but don’t want to suck up a pint of Haagen Daaz or wolf down a pack of Nutter-Butters and feel like shit the next day because of all the chemicals and artificial garbage that’s in those products.

What’s up with your shipping, it’s so pricey!
We would really dig it if you could send us someone who will ship these across country in 5 days or less for cheaper and pay our shipping department to pack ‘em up. Our cost just to ship (packaging and labor not included) hovers around $10.

Well, what about the cookies? I mean, $2.50 a cookie is really expensive!
Part of the Paleo diet is eating the cleanest ingredients you can find, not the factory farmed processed and cheap plastic bullshit that you can get in any chain grocery store.

As a company, we think it’s important to provide the highest quality ingredients possible, and that is our first priority. All our ingredients are natural and most of them are certified organic, and that quality costs more to make.

Each cookie is hand poured or formed, we don’t have a huge processing plant cranking out 400,000 cookies an hour, and we make sure to pay our workers a living wage.

All that translates into a cookie that costs more than a Chip’s Ahoy, but if that’s what you want then eat the hell out of ‘em and don’t look in the mirror when you get out of the shower!