What should you eat on the Paleo diet?
All diets and all ways of living involve one key concept - BALANCE!!!
Use your head and listen to your body to stay healthy or regain health. Your body is constantly communicating with you if you will only listen.
When you begin the Paleo remember it's not an all or nothing situation. Nothing wrong with edging into it and also nothing wrong with straying off it occasionally. Don't be rigid in your acceptance or rejection of the Paleo, or more correctly, Caveman diet. Modify your eating habits and move at a comfortable pace that fits what you body is telling you.
This should be fun and you should enjoy the shopping for foods, the new recipes and cooking techniques and find yourself enjoying becoming healthier.
In most American diets the key healthy benefits are derived not from what you eat, but what you learn not to eat. Eliminating bad foods, such as sugars, will work wonders for your health. The substitution of fresh herbs provides the flavors one misses when sugars, salts and fats are extracted from your diet.
Starting with meats, eat as much as you want for breakfast, lunch & dinner. Cook the meats simply without too much added fat - broiling, baking, roasting, sauteing or browning, then pouring off excess liquid fat, or stir frying over high heat with a little oil (No deep fat frying except when you "got to have it!!"):)
Lean Beef (trimmed of visible fat)
Flank Steak
Top Sirloin Steak
Extra lean hamburger (7% fat or less)
London broil
Chuck Steak
Lean veal
Any other lean cut
Lean Pork (trimmed of visible fat):
Pork loin
Pork Chops
Any other lean cut
Lean poultry (white meat, skin removed):
Chicken breast
Turkey breast
Game hen breasts
Eggs (limit to 6 per week)
Chicken (enriched omega 3 variety)
Duck
Goose
Other meats
Rabbit meat (any cut)
Goat meat (any cut)
Organ meats
Beef, lamb, pork, chicken livers
Beef, pork and lamb tongues
Beef, lamb and pork marrow
Beef, lamb and pork "sweetbreads"
Game meats:
Alligator
Ostrich
Bear Pheasant
Bison (buffalo)
Quail
Caribou
Rattlesnake
Elk
Reindeer
Emu
Squab
Snapping Turtle
Goose
Kangaroo Venison
Muscovy duck
Wild boar
Wild turkey
Cervena & Whitetail deer
Fish:
Bass
Perch
Bluefish
Butterfish
Red snapper
Cod
Rockfish
Drum
Salmon
Eel
Scrod
Flatfish
Shark
Grouper
Striped bass
Haddock
Sunfish
Halibut
Tilapia
Herring
Trout
Mackerel
Tuna
Monkfish
Turbot
Mullet
Walleye
Northern Pike
Orange roughy
Any other commercially available fish, preferably local origin.
Shellfish
Abalone
Mussels
Clams
Oysters
Crab
Scallops
Crayfish
Shrimp
Lobster
Substitute herbal seasonings in place of sugars, salts, fats.
