What Food is Paleo?

An illustrated Guide to what is (& isn't) part of a paleo diet.

What is a Paleo diet?

Well lets start with the basic question: What is a paleo diet?

The Paleo diet (or Paleolithic diet) is a nutritional plan based the things that our ancestors (aka caveman) ate from around 2.5 million years ago until just about 10,000 years ago.

The Paleo diet primarily involves eating lean meats, vegitables, buts, seeds, and some fruits in order to try and fight agains the diet-related diseases that come along with the modern American Diet.

There are a ton of other, more in-depth resources than this one on the topic of Paleo diets, such as: Robb Wolf, Practical Paleo Living, The Paleo Diet

What can you eat

I know this seems kind of complicated, but the idea is pretty basic, just eat things that caveman probably would of eaten and stay away from over-processed or chemically enhanced foods

Things Like:

egg
pork
chicken
steak
fish
shrimp
clams
crab
pistachios
orange
carrots
peas

What can't you eat

The Paleo diet stays away from manufactured good, overly processed goods, and most of all Dairy & grains.

Things Like

bread
butter
cheese
frenchfries
icecream
pasta
milk
corn

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