How Can You Tell If a Food Is Allowed on the #Paleo Diet?

This question seems to come up all the time, so here's a nice article from RobbWolf.com to help you decide if that borderline food is okay to eat or not:

“If you have to ask, you probably can’t afford it.”  This little piece of wisdom comes in quite handy when buying high-end merchandise and dining in fancy restaurants whose menu lists -‘market price’ as the cost.  Now, many of you have probably been in situations where you or someone with you did the unthinkable and actually asked.  The result – rude looks, perhaps chuckles from those that may have overheard, and in the end no fancy diamond necklace or $1000 bottle of wine ends up getting bought.  What does this have to do with Paleo?

Now that Paleo eating is becoming ‘cool’ everyone seems to have their own version and opinion of what is and isn’t allowed.  You see it on paleo forums and blogs and hear it at the gym.  If you are a working as a trainer or nutrition coach the emails and questions are never ending…  “Is (insert food item here) paleo?  Options include: soy milk, oatmeal, agave, honey, quinoa, vinegar, tamari, Italian dressing, canola oil, chocolate, wine, hard alcohol, potatoes, coffee, Splenda, coconut ice cream…  These questions are asked over and over again until finally, someone, somewhere, in their very own version of paleo considers the item fair game.  This makes the asker of the question happy and all is well; until… “Paleo stops working” for them.  What’s next?  The questions start again -usually with a new food victim this time.

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