Paleo Vegan: Plant-Based Primal Recipes

I love the idea and have customized things to my taste but I find most of the recipes gross. I love all vegetables and I like many types of cooking but the recipes vary from bland to bizzare. The kale salad with cooked mushrooms had a nasty texture combination and the lentils tasted like pea soup etc etc. I basically rewrotethe recipes for myself and was much better off. I am pretty picky with this stuff you the average person may not feel the same way.

I have a wheat allergy, so I have found that following a paleo/primal/PHD leaves me feeling much better and with a lot more energy. However, the devil is in the details. There have been so many great diets that people have taken to the extreme and it has, effectively, ruined their credibility. For example, both Paleo and low carb (such as Atkins) started with the right approach. Then someone came along and said that you could eat all the bacon that you want and the health aspects fall apart.No matter what diet program you choose, it will only be healthy if you eat more fresh produce and healthy fats and reduce the amount of processed foods. There is just no way around it. So Paleo is an extremely healthy way to eat if you don't eat 10 lbs of meat and 1/2 lb of vegetables a day. That is why I love this book.I just can not be totally vegan...I have tried and my body just does not do well on it. But I love vegetables and it is hard to find vegetable recipes that use healthy fats and no grains. This is the answer to my prayers. If I want to eat vegan, I can. If I want to add a piece of fish or an egg, that is the easy part. Either way, it is healthy and delicious.The recipes are amazing and creative. I have so many that I want to try. Mixed berries with berry puree and lemon verbena; fruit salad with blueberry almond cream sauce; curried pumpkin soup, baby kale salad with balsamic-braised mushrooms; mustard greens with ginger blackberry vinaigrette; arugula with grapefruit reduction and hazelnuts; cauliflower tabouli; artichokes stuffed with quinoa, olives and capers; butternut squash with hazelnuts; stuffed acorn squash; ginger chocolate tart in a raw crust. YUM YUM YUM!!!This book also has a short but thorough description of Paleo in the front that is also very good if you are new to the Paleo movement. All in all, a really great idea with solid execution. Thank you!!!!!

I followed the Paleo diet for several years; it helped me to discover that the source of my poor health was gluten (despite my doctor testing me and telling me I did not have celiac disease). I thought I'd try Paleo-Veganism. The reviews looked good, so I bought it...I'm glad that I bought a used copy! In my opinion, most of the recipes in the book are pretty "out there." There are so many more great, mainstream foods that could be easily adapted to be both vegan and paleo diet-compliant.

I gave the book three stars because it is nicely laid out. As a person who has gone paleo for health reasons...can't eat soy, peanuts, legumes or quinoa...I feel cheated. Jones justifies this approach by talking about the "cheat method" of Paleo eating. I don't prescribe to the cheat method and was hopeful for some really good recipes to sustain a vegan diet. Sadly, I am disappointed. There are redeeming recipes in the book that sound tasty, but the majority of the main dishes are a no-no for the true Paleo eater.

This is an attractive book, but it uses more carbs and legumes than I have been advised by one of my docs to use in my diet. So it has been less useful to me. Also the recipes are more complicated than some the othe paleo vegetarian books.

fun collection of salads. Not overly impressive but not terrible either. Most recipes are quick & easy. Great for busy & new cooks.

Pretty much what we expected. Several good recipes. It helps to get a couple of books as you shift to this lifestyle. I was vegan already, but the paleo part takes an adjustment. Worth it though!

Great introduction to a very interesting topic. As someone follows a plant-based diet it was interesting to find a book that detailed the similarities between omnivore Paleo diet and the vegan Paleo diet. the recipe is simple easy to follow and I love the little informational tidbits in between each one

I was quite excited about this book, hoping it'd really broaden my horizons within the world of vegan paleo. I'd been milling around in the dark for a while and thought this would illuminate me a little. There's a lot of 'cheat' options (infact an entire section dedicated...) to do with cooking with quinoa and buckwheat, even some with chickpeas and potatos. I've been plantbased for years now, paleo was the next step, so these were already basics for me before going grain free. That's not to say there aren't some good ideas in here as there are, some of the condiments sound lovely but other than that, it's mostly salad. Also with a lot of produce I wouldn't know where to find in UK.

I follow Alan Roettinger online and find his comments, and food based adventures extremely entertaining.This was a much anticipated book, and pre-ordered, and I was not disappointed, the recipes are both delicious and as a bonus has helped with my weight control; which for me is a life saver.I would highly recommend this for anyone wishing to move to a plant based vegan diet; and enjoy Alan's recipes.

The concept of Paleo vegan is appealing and Ellen Jaffe Jones gives plenty of useful information regarding the health benefits of both a vegan diet and many aspects of Paleo philosophy that vegans would share.However, I found it annoying that almost every recipe in the book called for an extracted oil of some variety, when the author acknowledges that our Paleo ancestors were unlikely to have been stomping on olives to get the oil out, but rather eating the whole olive. She also points out that nuts come packaged in hard shells so we can't eat too many too quickly. How many nuts do you need to shell and process to get a tablespoon of walnut oil, let alone 1/4 cup? And we've lost the fibre and most of the other nutrients in the process. Any extracted oil is still a processed food, in my view, even if it isn't omega-6 heavy. And where did Paleo guy get his dark chocolate from? ( or is this part of the "cheat"?).Overall, I found the theory to be compelling - lots of whole plant foods in their natural state. But the recipes were inconsistent with the theory imho.

I find this book to be quite disappointing. I thought I was buying a book on paleo and vegan cooking, the so called pegan diet, and this is more of a vegan cookbook. Although legumes are indeed accepted on a pegan diet, I personally would have avoided publishing recipes with peanuts, as peanuts are not paleo at all. Very few poor quality pictures for this time and age.

Love the info. Would like more pics.