If you’re looking for an easy way to eat healthily, you won’t find one. They all take time in planning, cooking, and prepping. Trust me, I know.
Even the Paleo diet can be difficult.
But not when you have cookbooks that have Paleo-specific recipes. Some even have weekly meal plans so you don’t have to wonder if you’re following the diet correctly. That can make life a lot easier.
In A Hurry? Here Is The List
- The Paleo Hacks Cookbooks
- Robb Wolf Paleo Guides
- Paleo Diet Slow Cooker 101 Paleo Recipes
- Paleo for Beginners: Essentials to Get Started
What Is The Paleo Diet?
In a nutshell, the Paleo Diet also referred to as the “caveman diet”, follows the seven fundamentals listed below [i]:
- Higher protein consumption
- Lower carbohydrates / glycemic index
- Higher fiber
- Moderate to higher fat
- Higher potassium / lower sodium
- Higher consumption of fruits and vegetables for alkaline load
- Higher consumption of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and plant phytochemicals.
What Are The Pros and Cons?
Like everything else in life, there are pros and cons. Here are a few that may help you decide if this way of eating is for you:
Pros [ii]
- No calorie counting required
- Balances blood glucose levels
Cons
- Very restrictive (prohibits grains of any kind)
- Not vegan-friendly as it emphasizes meats and prohibits legumes (including peanuts)
The Top 5 Paleo Cookbooks:
1. The Paleo Hacks Cookbooks
These are six cookbooks. According to their site they are:
- The PaleoHacks Cookbook: Over 125 Mouth-Watering Recipes
- The PaleoHacks 30-Day Jumpstart: To help you get going immediately!
- The Eating Paleo at Restaurants Guide: So you can still eat out and have fun!
- The Paleo Foods and Fails Guide: All the healthiest Paleo foods + shopping lists!
- The Paleo 4X Cookbook: How the “pros” often eat each day!
- And The One-Month Paleo Meal Plan: So you always know what to eat!
Paleohacks offers the six cookbooks to show that the Paleo diet is not boring or hard to follow if you have the right tools.
They include recipes for snacks, meats, soups, salads, omelets, and desserts from more than one Paleo expert. That means the recipes have been tried, tested, and taste-approved.
2. Robb Wolf Paleo Guides
By Robb Wolf, has three guides, as mentioned on his site:
30 Day Paleo Transformation – a 60-page digital guide to your first 30 days on the Paleo diet.
A summary of what you’ll find:
- Introduction: Totally transformed: real people, real results. What is the Paleo diet? Why does it work?
- Part One: Real food & real life
- Part Two: Paleo Nutrition
- Part Three: Exercise
- 30 Day Plan: 30 Days of Paleo Meals; Paleo Recipes; Troubleshooting & Resources
Paleo on a Budget Guide – a 70-page digital guide that shows you how to make healthy Paleo meals for yourself and your family while saving time and money.
This guide is interactive. It comes complete with original videos, audio files, and bonus reading.
Some of the lessons include:
- Learn to cook
- Meal Planning 101
- Money Saving Tricks
- Budget Shopping Priorities
Paleo Dining Out Guide – a 36-page digital guide that teaches you how to dine out healthfully on a Paleo diet.
A summary of what you’ll find:
- Chapter One: Learn to eat Paleo
- Chapter Two: Dining Tips & Tricks
- Chapter Three: Building Your Paleo Meal
- Chapter Four: What’s Safe To Order
- Chapter Five: Resources (Such as links to blogs, apps, etc. It also includes Gluten Free Dining Out Cards and a guide called “Avoiding Gluten Contamination – Tips for Restaurants”.)
You can get them separately or all three at a discounted price.
3. Paleo for Beginners: Essentials to Get Started
This cookbook, written by John Chatham; starts with what the Paleo diet is. It then teaches you how to start on the diet with a chapter on shopping and planning.
There’s also a chapter called “Setting Yourself Up for Success”. The focus here is on getting the right mindset and making the transition to Paleo.
This cookbook includes:
- A 7-day step-by-step plan for beginners, complete with a Paleo shopping guide.
- 145 Paleo-friendly foods that you can enjoy—and an extensive list of what food items you should avoid.
- 114 easy, mouthwatering recipes for every meal, such as Eggs Benedict Paleo Style, High-Protein Grain-Free Burgers, Chicken Avocado Wraps, and Paleo Waffles.
4. Paleo Diet Slow Cooker 250 Paleo Recipes:
For Fat Loss And A Healthier Lifestyle-250 Newest And Delicious Paleo Recipes Shon Brooks.
For those of you that can’t live without your slow cooker. Or if you want to experiment for variety’s sake.
This one’s for you.
This cookbook starts with an overview of the slow cooker and how to choose one. Then it goes into what Paleo is, do’s and don’ts, and what foods are Paleo and what foods aren’t.
It contains recipes for entrees, soups, stews, chilies, beef, pork, lamb, chicken, seafood, side dishes, stock, sausages, desserts, and more.
5. The Paleo Recipe Book
According to their website, their cookbook includes the following:
- Recipes such as Waldorf salad, cabbage & apple stir-fry, zucchini noodles in tomato sauce and chicken Marsala.
- Instant access to the cookbook on all your devices.
- Tips on finding food online, an easy cooking time chart and a guide to good fats.
- If you can’t eat eggs, nuts or nightshades, the cookbook has 108 autoimmune-friendly recipes.
- A quick protein/carb/fat breakdown of each recipe to help make sense of what you’re eating.
- And they cover everything from Soups, stews, vegetables, desserts, side dishes, vinaigrettes, stir fries, eggs, poultry, snacks, seafood, smoothies, condiments, etc
You also get these bonuses:
- An 8-Week Meal Plan
- Paleo Desserts
- Simple Paleo Meals
- Herbs & Spices
- Cheat Sheets
- Your Paleo Staples
Conclusion
The Paleo diet can be daunting when you don’t know exactly what you’re doing. The cookbooks mentioned in this article all make the process of transitioning to a Paleo diet doable.
The meal plans save time because you don’t have to start there. Once you’ve gotten the hang of what foods to shop for and staples to have on hand, you can start experimenting on your own.
