Rules Refresher

I had to refresh my own mind as to what the rules of keeping a Paleo diet are. I wrote them in my first blog entry a couple years ago if you're interested, but here's the basic breakdown:

What you CAN'T eat:

• grains (including oatmeal (for the most part))
• breads (unless you made it from a Paleo recipe! yay, loophole!)
• any type of alcohol (unless they're apple based, like ciders)
• all legumes (that means peanuts, too!)
• junk food, sodas (which, well, duh)
• all processed sugars
• all packaged/pre-made desserts & meals -- basically, anything that comes out of a box or bag
• all dairy
• all non-nut oils, vegetable oils, and mixed or mystery oils (what the heck is 'canola' anyway?)

What you CAN eat:

• vegetables
• meats
• eggs
• fruits
• nuts
• coffee (black - and thank the Lord), tea, water
• coconut oil, olive oil & some nut oils.

(This site has more details if you like.)

So those are the rules of the diet. That is a SHORT list of allowed foods!!

The holidays are coming up. HA! This is going to be rough!