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This week's Utah Crowd-Funding Project is for the caveman with a sweet tooth.

Lauren Montalette is a 24-year-old Salt Lake City entrepreneur, a Bay Area transplant who learned to deal with her food allergies by taking to a paleo diet — sticking to the kind of foods our caveman ancestors might have eaten.

Montalette has turned her interest in healthy food into a business, Paleoful, and has developed a line of baked-good mixes sweetened with coconut sugar. Paleoful offers : a chocolate-chip cookie recipe using almond flour; a chewy chocolate-chip cookie mix using sunflower seed flour; and a brownie mix using almond flour and ground flaxseed meal.

Almond flour and coconut sugar are not cheap, so the price of Paleoful mixes is higher than the usual supermarket fare. But, as Montalette's company boasts, her products are "free of gluten, grains, dairy, eggs, corn, soy, preservatives, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs)."

So far, Paleoful is available in a handful of stores in four states. To expand, Montalette has gone on Kickstarter to raise $50,000 — to custom-print bags, rent a co-packing facility to fill those bags, and fulfill their crowd-funding rewards.

Rewards for backers range from a sticker with the Paleoful motto, "Be Bold, Be You" (for $10) to a free weekend trip to Salt Lake City to meet the Paleoful crew (for $10,000).

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