The Paleo Diet Cookbook: More than 150 recipes for Paleo Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks, and Beverages by Loren Cordain Read Free Book Online

feedlot-produced meats, keep them. But next time, try to buy grass-fed meats or the leaner cuts of commercial meats.
     

Non-Paleo Foods Checklist
     
    As you scour your kitchen, you’ll be amazed at the amount of unhealthy foods you’ve accumulated. Most of the items to be purged will be obvious, while others are not so clear-cut. Use the following comprehensive guide if you have any doubts. Finally, don’t forget to check the labels on any vitamins or supplements you may be taking for any non-Paleo ingredients.
     
    DAIRY FOODS
     
    • All processed foods made with any dairy products
    • Butter
    • Cheese
    • Cream
    • Dairy spreads
    • Frozen yogurt
    • Ice cream
    • Ice milk
    • Whole milk
    • Skim milk, low-fat milk
    • Nonfat dairy creamer
    • Powdered milk
    • Yogurt
    • Whey protein powders
     
    CEREAL GRAINS
     
    • Barley: barley soup, barley bread, and all processed foods made with barley
    • Corn: corn on the cob, corn tortillas, corn chips, cornstarch, corn syrup
    • Millet
    • Oats: steel-cut oats, rolled oats, and all processed foods made with oats
    • Rice: brown rice, white rice, wild rice, ramen, rice noodles, basmati rice, rice cakes, rice flour, and all processed foods made with rice
    • Rye: rye bread, rye crackers, and all processed foods made with rye
    • Sorghum
    • Wheat (bread, rolls, muffins, noodles, crackers, cookies, cake, doughnuts, pancakes, waffles, pasta, spaghetti, lasagna, wheat tortillas, pizza, pita bread, flat bread, and all processed foods made with wheat or wheat flour)
    • Bulghur (cracked wheat)
    • Couscous
    • All grain-based flours, including gluten-free flours
     
    CEREAL-GRAINLIKE SEEDS
     
    • Amaranth
    • Buckwheat
    • Chia seeds
    • Quinoa
     
    LEGUMES
     
    • All beans: adzuki beans, black beans, broad beans, fava beans, field beans, garbanzo beans (chickpeas), green beans, horse beans, kidney beans, lima beans, mung beans, navy beans, pinto beans, red beans, string beans, white beans
    • Lentils
    • Peanuts, peanut butter, peanut oil (peanuts are a legume and not a nut) . Be particularly diligent when reading labels; even packaged mixed nuts labeled as peanut-free sometimes still contain peanut oil.
    • All peas: black-eyed peas, green peas, snow peas, split peas
    • Soybeans and all soy products: tofu, fresh or frozen edamame, miso, tempeh, soy sauce, tamari, ponzu, soy milk, soybean oil, and soy protein powders
     
    STARCHY TUBERS
     
    • Potatoes and all potato products
     
    SALT-CONTAINING FOODS
     
    • Almost all commercial salad dressings and condiments
    • Bacon
    • Cheese
    • Deli meat
    • Lunch meat
    • Frankfurters
    • Ham
    • Salami
    • Hot dogs
    • Ketchup
    • Olives
    • Pickles and pickled foods
    • Pork rinds
    • Salted nuts
    • Salted spices
    • Virtually all canned meats and fish
    • Sausage
    • Any other processed meat
    • Smoked, dried, and salted fish and meat
     
    FATTY MEATS
     
    • All fatty cuts of fresh meat
    • Fatty pork chops
    • Fatty pork roast
    • Pork ribs
    • Bacon
    • Pork sausage
    • Fatty leg of lamb
    • Fatty lamb roast
    • Fatty lamb chops
    • Chicken and turkey drumsticks, thighs, and wings
    • Beef ribs
    • Fatty beef roast
    • T- bone steak
    • Fatty cuts of beef
    • Fatty ground beef
     
    SOFT DRINKS AND FRUIT JUICES
     
    • All sugary soft drinks
    • Freshly squeezed fruit or vegetable drinks (okay only for athletes)
    • Canned or bottled fruit drinks
    • All frozen fruit juices
    • Popsicles
     
    SWEETS
     
    • Candy
    • Chocolate
    • Honey
    • Molasses
    • Corn syrup
    • All refined sugars, including maple syrup, date sugar, and any product that contains fructose, sucrose, or glucose
     
    MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
     
    • All vinegars and foods containing vinegar
    • Foods containing artificial colors or flavors
    • Foods containing preservatives
    • All spice blends containing salt
    • Vitamin supplements containing rice starch, soy, wheat, and