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.
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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