25 Super Healthy Paleo Dinner Recipes (2024)

FAQs

What is a paleo dinner? ›

The Paleolithic Era dates from around 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago. A modern paleo diet includes fruits, vegetables, lean meats, fish, eggs, nuts and seeds. These are foods that in the past people could get by hunting and gathering.

Whole fruits like apples, pears, bananas, and oranges make perfect portable snacks if you follow the paleo diet. Fruits are loaded with fiber and powerful plant compounds that help decrease inflammation and reduce your risk of chronic disease ( 4 ).

First of all, anything that is Paleo is automatically gluten-free as well. The Paleo diet excludes gluten and other grains (like oats, rice and corn), legumes (like soy, peanuts and beans), dairy, refined oils (like canola, soybean, cottonseed) and sugars.

Plant-based drinks that are made with fruits, vegetables and other plants combined with water are paleo-friendly. For example, that includes tea (although the caffeine content is controversial), fruit juices including pulp, smoothies, and sparkling waters.

Most kale chips use a dehydration process and no oils are used at all. Zucchini and cauliflower chips are other veggies you may see advertised as a grain-free alternative to chips; just scan their ingredient list for refined oils before buying. Another paleo-friendly chip are pork rinds.

If you're Paleo because you're a Crossfitter or you're restoring your gut health, bananas are an excellent part of your diet. Athletes can benefit from several bananas daily, especially long distance runners as bananas have been found to be as effective at replacing electrolytes as non-Paleo sports drinks.

Popular (and delicious) paleo substitutes for wheat flour include almond flour, coconut flour and cassava flour.

Technically, no. Removing the caffeine from the plant is usually done through chemical processing that we consider too far from a natural, mechanical process. Our Paleolithic ancestors would not have had the ability to remove caffeine from coffee beans.

a combining form meaning “old” or “ancient,” especially in reference to former geologic time periods, used in the formation of compound words: paleobotany.

The Paleo Diet is considered a low-carb, high-protein diet. The focus is on whole foods, or foods in their 'whole' state. The Keto Diet is considered a low-carb, high-fat diet in which the intake of carbohydrates is so reduced, the body turns to burning fat instead of carbohydrates for energy.

Are potatoes paleo? ›

Generally, unprocessed potatoes of all types can be part of a paleo diet. Similarly to grains, which are off-limits on paleo, potatoes are starchy and rich in carbohydrates. However, potatoes are actually a type of starchy vegetable that grows underground, known as a tuber ( 2 , 3 ).