Reddit reviews Everyday Paleo

Everyday Paleo by Sarah Fragoso

This cookbook is an absolutely great starter! Tons of really good recipes, pictures, 30 day meal plan with shopping list. I always recommend/give this cookbook to people first starting out.

Also, remember Paleo is not just a "diet" its more of a way of life. Go strict for at least 30 days and I guarantee you will notice a huge difference in yourself and not want to go back to eating the way you used to. Good luck!

Welcome! I'm a single mom to a 15 month old so I understand where you are coming from

-I make a lot of chicken thighs and buy in bulk at BJ's

-Check out Local Harvest for farmers markets in your area. I can get a weeks worth of fruits, vegetables and eggs for around $25

-Pick a day on the weekend and prep all of your fruits and vegetables for the week. It saves so much time during hectic week days.

-Macadamia nuts tend to be pricey so I try to buy raw almonds in bulk

-I recommend Well Fed or Everyday Paleo. The hot plates in Well Fed are awesome. Some of the recipes take a bit of time but are delicious.

-I use my crockpot faithfully, I prepare everything at night before bed that way in the morning, when we are rushed all I have to do is pull it out of the fridge and plug it in.

-As far as a picky toddler I don't keep anything that is not Paleo (other that whole milk from a local source) in the house. That way I'm not tempted to give in and just make mac and cheese. I give my daughter a variety of foods to try. Usually she eats everything but in the off chance she doesn't she knows she gets what's on her plate. We've had some tantrums because she would rather have fruit but I stick to my guns. I also try preparing vegetables different ways, she doesn't like cooked carrots but loves raw carrots or prefers one spice over another.

Please feel free to PM me if you need anything else and hope this helps.

This is really good http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Paleo-Sarah-Fragoso/dp/098256581X

I learned about the Paleo diet from Cordain's book. I learned about the various related diets from the practitioners who designed them.

I'm not aware that any of the people you list claim that they follow a strict Paleo diet. Rather, they (mostly) advocate starting with a Paleo diet, and then transitioning into a more self-experimental mode for long term health. Hence the explosion of spin-off diets-- Archevore, PaNu, Perfect Health Diet, Primal diet, etc.

Robb Wolf:

>"Fourth Shade of Paleo – The Lacto-Paleo (Also known as Primal)
>
>This one is exactly what the name implies. The lacto-paleo follows a traditional paleo style of eating but includes dairy products."

Okay, if you want to call it lacto-paleo instead of primal, I'm on board. Because that still lets me know before I click on something that it contains dairy.

Chris Kresser:

>"More recently, some authors/bloggers have advocated a diet based roughly on Paleo principles but that also may include dairy products and even certain grains like white rice and buckwheat, depending on individual tolerance."

Sounds like he agrees that "Paleo principles" exclude dairy. He goes on to advocate what he calls a "Paleo template", which starts with Paleo, but may then go on to add things that are outside of the aforementioned Paleo principles... like dairy.

From page 10 of Everyday Paleo (the "What Is Paleo? section):

>"Anything that I did not list above should be eliminated-- meaning all processed foods, dairy, legumes, any form of sugar, and grains!"

That's pretty straightforward.

Diane Sanfilippo:

Here is the informational graphic that she displays on the "FAQs: What is Paleo?" page of balancedbites.com.

>image

Notice that the category "Raw, grass-fed dairy" Is outside of the bracket encompassing Paleo, with a little asterisk next to it, corresponding to the PRIMAL descriptor. Almost as if she thought dairy was part of the Primal diet, but not the Paleo diet.

And so forth.

There is a difference between saying "I think dairy is fine if you self-test and discover that you tolerate it well; in fact, I consume dairy myself!" and saying "Dairy is Paleo!". Namely, the first statement is true, and the second statement is false.

And guess what? I also consume some foods that are not approved on the Paleo diet! I occasionally eat... wait for it... WHITE RICE! But it would honestly never occur to me to call it Paleo. Why? Because it isn't.*