Paleo Slow Cooker Recipes That Will Simplify Your Life (2024)

FAQs

How do you eat Paleo without cooking? ›

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, know that paleo is an anti-inflammatory diet that aims to remove sugar, legumes, most dairy, grains, and refined vegetable oils like corn and soy oil. Essentially, paleo sets out to eliminate processed, so-called modern foods from our diets.

In recent years, several studies have found that the paleo diet may help increase weight loss. For instance, one study in 70 women observed that following the paleo diet for 6 months resulted in 14 pounds (6.5 kg) of fat loss, on average, and a significant reduction in belly fat ( 4 ).

This diet may lead to significant weight loss (without calorie counting) and major improvements in health. Anthropologists also speculate that the paleo diet influenced anatomic and physiologic changes in humans, including increased brain size and reduced gastrointestinal tract size ( 1).

Pick a no-cook meal.

We're talking about the stuff that you just have to assemble and eat. Think salads, sandwiches, and wraps. If that feels intimidating, just throw a bunch of stuff in a bowl (like canned beans, canned veggies, shredded cheese) and call it a day.

Choose the right cut: Chuck roasts, short ribs, pork shoulders and lamb shanks (think fatty and tougher meats) become meltingly tender with the moist, low heat of a slow cooker. Leaner cuts like pork tenderloin tend to dry out. Likewise, dark meat chicken — thighs, drumsticks, etc.

Processed meat contains additives

Read the labels of most lunch meats, processed meats, canned meats, sausages, salamis and bacon, and you will invariably find numerous additives listed above. Clearly refined sugars, salt, soy, dairy and cereals added to processed meats are not “Paleo” ingredients.

What I eat in a day on paleo? ›

Strict paleo dieters exclude all grains from their diets — including rice — primarily due to their high phytate content. Although it's technically prohibited, many people still consume small amounts of white rice while following a paleo diet because it's lower in phytates, compared with other types.

The diet excludes cereal grains, legumes, dairy, processed oils, refined sugar, alcohol, caffeine, artificial sweeteners, and trans fats. Some paleo-friendly foods include lean meats, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.