We do a combination of paleo and just clean eating in general, basically trying to follow the basis of:
Could we grow this ourselves? and
Can we identify exactly what's in this?
We are not by any means strict as we do eat fruit and some healthy whole grains (as well as a couple of cheats a week like if we go out to eat, have birthday cake at a party or something like that.
Breakfast looks something like:
Eggs with peppers, onions and mushrooms
Steel cut oats with flax, dried fruit and sweetened with agave -or-
Crepes/pancakes (which with particular flours so you can maintain in the spirit of paleo)
Lunch:
Poultry or fish with a piece of fruit and any veg (usually raw, green beans, peas, cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower or cooked squash, zucchini, cabbage etc or any combination and as much as we want)
Dinner:
Poultry, fish or beef, again with any veg and something like whole grain pasta, quinoa, wild rice etc.
Snacks are fruit, veg, nuts or healthy whole grains (usually raw in form, or homemade kind bars, granola etc)
If you're invested you can find loads of paleo/clean eating recipes (hello Pinterest!) so you can still keep eating the foods you love, but in the healthier forms (like instead of enriched refined bleached flour pasta - you can use spaghetti or zucchini squash to make your noodles and they taste virtually the same).
****I have yet to meet ANYONE who follows a strict paleo diet. It isn't as restrictive as you think and actually includes a percentage variation depending on dedicated you are. I'd venture to say most enthusiasts are 80/20's or at a stretch 90/10's. So 80% on, 20% variation
