thanks Paleo redhead, we are still deciding..well I have plenty of time, we are selling our house and living with others at the moment 

Sorry samjohn, I'm really tired and the post was kinda lost on me, didn't quite get the relevance.

Will put meat cleavers on my check out list.

I believe what samjohn means is that nut flours are like candy cigarettes:  even if they aren't clearly nonpaleo, they acculturate one to nonpaleo foods.  Better to give up the cigarettes/flour/faux baked goods entirely and instead learn cuisine more suited to standard paleo foods.