Steak is, pretty much, about as expensive as you can get.
EDIT: I've occasionally considered a low-carb diet, it must be said. But there would be mutiny in the lower ranks. On the whole I count myself lucky that it is industrial quantities of bread and pasta that we consume, rather than industrial quantities of sweets and fruit juice.
Although 8 oz of steak is actually not as much as you'd think compared to recommended levels of protein intake, particularly on a high-protein diet. Check out the WHO's recommendations - they're quite enlightening.
(It's also worth noting that both Becca and I have a lot of muscle for our respective heights, which affects recommended protein intake - and the cost of a Paleo diet, sadly.)
I don't have the specifics here, but apparently Paleolithic man was also not as short on meat as is popularly assumed, either.
While I can't eat meat everything else looks and sounds really tasty. See, this is what it should be called: The Tasty Awesome Diet And By The Way It Is Healthy Too.
Jules (my wife) is cows' milk intolerant (not an issue), gluten intolerant (not an issue), nut allergy (probably an issue), and vegetarian (not sure, but by the looks of your diet, probably an issue).
We generally eat a lot of quorn, rice, onions, courgettes, aubergines, peppers, salad, spicy Indianish things, stir fry-ish things, and at the weekends a Sunday lunch (involving gravy, potato, GF Yorkshire pudding, boiled veg, and more quorn). Sometimes we go Mediterranean, and have halloumi and humous. I tend to eat meat when we're out. I try to have All Bran with raisins and banana for breakfast, when I remember. Lunch is generally either a tuna sandwich or a baked potato with tuna.
I believe you can do vegetarian Paleo, but it's not easy. Eggs would feature prominently.
You'd probably also want to avoid the Quorn (Soya), you'd definitely want to cut out the rice, and you'd need to be preparing your own food. Other than that, you're good to go.
(BTW, sounds like a pretty healthy diet already! )
Quorn is made from mycoprotein (and eggs), so that might not be too bad. It's also something that we both like and can eat. We do largely make our own food from scratch (well, if you're okay with pre-chopped tomatoes).
By the way, I was reading (top 2 or 3 hits on google) about beans and lentils. Apparently they're off the paleo diet due to phytates and lectins, although I've also read that if you cook lentils for at least 15 minutes at 100 C, or 2 hours at 80 C, then you denature the lectins, and the residual levels could be really healthy. Also, nuts can contain quite high levels of phytates, so that blurs the line too.
Yeah, the beans thing is by far the sketchiest bit of the diet. As I said in my uberpost, we're mostly skipping them because we don't really want to eat beans.
Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten Quorn wasn't soy. Arguably alright, then, if you trust the process that it's made with!
And yes, I think Paleo as a whole is fine with pre-chopped tomatoes, thank heavens.
Eggs: Dietary cholesterol != blood cholesterol. Google it.
Meat: In general, the saturated fat / red meat / heart disease debate is rather significantly more complex than it's usually presented as being. Notably, there are some significant problems with most of the "landmark" studies that led to current mainstream dietary recommendations.
It's a big topic and I'm not very interested in being an evangelist. I'm convinced enough by both studies, science and anecdotal evidence that I'm giving this a try. I am, however, keeping an eye on my weight, BP and HDL/LDL levels.
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Having said that, we won't be eating steak every day...
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EDIT: I've occasionally considered a low-carb diet, it must be said. But there would be mutiny in the lower ranks. On the whole I count myself lucky that it is industrial quantities of bread and pasta that we consume, rather than industrial quantities of sweets and fruit juice.
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'8 ox ribeye steak'
That's a -lot- of steak. This diet would be based on what Paleolithic sabretooth tigers ate?
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Er. Yeah. See above. Not so much :)
Although 8 oz of steak is actually not as much as you'd think compared to recommended levels of protein intake, particularly on a high-protein diet. Check out the WHO's recommendations - they're quite enlightening.
(It's also worth noting that both Becca and I have a lot of muscle for our respective heights, which affects recommended protein intake - and the cost of a Paleo diet, sadly.)
I don't have the specifics here, but apparently Paleolithic man was also not as short on meat as is popularly assumed, either.
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We generally eat a lot of quorn, rice, onions, courgettes, aubergines, peppers, salad, spicy Indianish things, stir fry-ish things, and at the weekends a Sunday lunch (involving gravy, potato, GF Yorkshire pudding, boiled veg, and more quorn). Sometimes we go Mediterranean, and have halloumi and humous. I tend to eat meat when we're out. I try to have All Bran with raisins and banana for breakfast, when I remember. Lunch is generally either a tuna sandwich or a baked potato with tuna.
How far off are we right now?
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I believe you can do vegetarian Paleo, but it's not easy. Eggs would feature prominently.
You'd probably also want to avoid the Quorn (Soya), you'd definitely want to cut out the rice, and you'd need to be preparing your own food. Other than that, you're good to go.
(BTW, sounds like a pretty healthy diet already! )
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By the way, I was reading (top 2 or 3 hits on google) about beans and lentils. Apparently they're off the paleo diet due to phytates and lectins, although I've also read that if you cook lentils for at least 15 minutes at 100 C, or 2 hours at 80 C, then you denature the lectins, and the residual levels could be really healthy. Also, nuts can contain quite high levels of phytates, so that blurs the line too.
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Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten Quorn wasn't soy. Arguably alright, then, if you trust the process that it's made with!
And yes, I think Paleo as a whole is fine with pre-chopped tomatoes, thank heavens.
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Meat: In general, the saturated fat / red meat / heart disease debate is rather significantly more complex than it's usually presented as being. Notably, there are some significant problems with most of the "landmark" studies that led to current mainstream dietary recommendations.
It's a big topic and I'm not very interested in being an evangelist. I'm convinced enough by both studies, science and anecdotal evidence that I'm giving this a try. I am, however, keeping an eye on my weight, BP and HDL/LDL levels.
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