

Chilies and paprika is admittedly harder to kick – especially if you like your food to have a bit of kick itself – and also, paprika is found in many pre-made spice mixes.īut here’s the real catch: tomatoes. Lots of people don’t like peppers and they’re pretty easy to avoid too. Many of us already limit or restrict our intake of potatoes.
Tomato paste substitute paleo full#
See a full list of nightshades as well as an explanation of why they’re problematic for people with autoimmune disease here.įor the most part, for most people, nightshades aren’t all that hard to give up – except for the tomatoes. The AIP diet calls for the elimination of all nightshade vegetables – the edible members of the solanaceae family – which include potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers, hot peppers, chili, paprika, eggplant and various others. It’s not only difficult to cook for, but also difficult to live with.

I concede that a diet void of tomatoes is… devastating. But no nightshades?! NO TOMATO?! *hands fly up into the air. Now, on the autoimmune paleo diet, my family and my girlfriend have basically thrown their hands in the air. Then I went SCD, and I took my own food everywhere and my family happily boiled eggs for me. When I first went dairy and gluten free, it was okay because I could eat everything else, and my family happily cooked chicken and sweet potatoes for me. I’ve become one of those people that no one wants to cook for.
