Palio Diet (back to basics)

[Eve]

Hello :) T'other half has been asked to try this and am looking for some interesting receipe ideas.

The essentials of the Paleolithic Diet are:

Eat none of the following:

� Grains- including bread, pasta, noodles

� Beans- including string beans, kidney beans, lentils, peanuts, snow-peas and peas

� Potatoes

� Dairy products

� Sugar

� Salt

Eat the following:

� Meat, chicken and fish (other half won't eat fish though)

� Eggs

� Fruit

� Vegetables (especially root vegetables, but definitely not including potatoes or sweet potatoes)

� Nuts, eg. walnuts, brazil nuts, macadamia, almond. Do not eat peanuts (a bean) or cashews (a family of their own)

� Berries- strawberries, blueberries, raspberries etc.

Try to increase your intake of:

� Root vegetables- carrots, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, Swedes

� Organ meats- liver and kidneys

Any suggestions welcome :)

[theonlyone]

Glad you are doing that diet ..sounds
yuk ...

[ethandron]

it's really not very different from the normal, healthy diet which we follow every day. i never buy potatoes, we eat very little dairy, eggs or pasta, and sugar and salt are only in the cupboard for visitors.
instead of using potatoes, substutute root veg for chips, and broc and cauli for mash, and generally fill yourself up with loads of veg at each meal, and fruit for afters. this time of year, you can make some lovely salads to include fruit as well as the usual salad stuff.
i buy wholegrain bread which i have a sandwich of at lunch time, so that's about the only thing on your banned list that i actually eat. you don't need special recipes, it's just a matter of getting your head round finding substitutes for the things you would normally eat that are on the 'do not eat' list.