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Welcome!Primal is basically paleo lite - it allows various foods that are considered cheats from the paleo standpoint because they would lose you some of the benefits of a paleo diet.By the most strict interpretation of paleo, the only allowed fats would be the fat on or rendered from meat - for example, grass finished tallow or unhydrogenated lard. However, as those can be difficult to find, many people fats that are not quite paleo, but still not too bad for us, like grass finished butter, preferably clarified, or olive oil. Of course, fats that are in paleo foods are fine even if they don't work as cooking oils - egg yolks, for example.
Welcome, and congrats on your weight loss! Paleo should enable you to continue losing weight, while being better for your long-term health than Atkins. For cooking fat, I use drippings saved from roasts, tallow that I render myself from grass-fed beef fat, lard rendered from our own pigs (or unhydrogenated store-bought if I've run out), clarified grass-fed butter or organic coconut oil. For salad dressings I use cold-pressed olive, avocado or macadamia oil. I also use grass-fed butter on its own or with herbs to melt over vegetables, or garlic butter on grilled mushrooms, or to make hollandaise sauce. Only the animal fats are strict paleo, but most of us include some other fats. Personally I think butter from grass-fed cows is a miracle food, great omega6:omega3 ratio and loaded with fat-soluble vitamins and CLA, and nothing else tastes so good! I'd be happier if I could get it raw, though. I have a friend who is moving nearby who is planning on getting a Jersey cow, so hopefully soon ...The fats you must avoid for good health are soy, corn, canola, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, rice bran, peanut, flaxseed, "vegetable", vegetable shortening, margarine, and anything hydrogenated or heat/hexane extracted. These all have major problems, either way too much omega-6, or lectins/other antinutrients/toxins, or damaged fats. Most nut oils other than macadamia and walnut are way too high in omega6, too.
Hello, welcome! Congratulations on your weight loss...here's to the next 60 pounds! I'm in the UK, too.Things that are included in some loose primal diets that should be avoidednut flours and "paleo" baked goodswhite riceyamswhey proteinThings that are 'primal' but definitely not paleohigh fat dairy such as double cream, natural yoghurt, butter, high fat cheesesweet potatoesThings that are primal and borderline paleonightshadesCooking fats. Let's break it down, in no particular order1) beef or lamb tallow- prosbest o6/o3 ratio, reasonably easy to find grass-fed suet and render yourself. If not, 'Britannia' brand beef dripping may not be grass fed but it is completely unprocessed. Stable at high temperatures- consnot necessarily the nicest taste/texture2) ghee- prosbest o6/o3 ratio if home-rendered from grass fed butter stable at high temptasty- conshormones present in the butter due to milking cows in late stages of pregnancy. Goats butter may be better3) lard- proshigh in mono-unsaturatesgood texture and taste for cooking- consvery hard to find pig fat from pigs that haven't been fed soy or corn4) goose or duck fat- proseasy to find in the supermarketgood texture and taste- consnot great o3/o6 ratio5) olive oil- prosoil, so easy to usehigh in mono unsaturates- consnot stable at high temp6) coconut oil- prosvery stablepleasant texturelow o6- conslower in trace vitamins than animal fatsOils for dressingsOlive oilAvocado oilmacadamia oilhazelnut oilI prefer to use lard but have not been able to find any that satisfies my criteria in a while, so am currently using tallow, coconut oil or goats ghee, with olive oil sometimes on veggies but never for cooking. Tallow is good for some things, like sauté-ing onions and frying meat but on veggies I find it's high melting point leaves an unpleasant coating in the mouth.
Thanks for your input. You own your own pigs? Lucky! Those fats I avoid anyway. Is there something wrong with having too much omega-6?
Thanks for that, cleared up a bit for me. I'm fine using olive oil for cooking, if needs be. Grass fed butter, however, I don't think you can get that in the UK, if you can it's been hiding from me!
