Paleo Diet Meal Plans. You want ’em – we got ’em. Yup, we’ve got you covered.
When starting a new health plan, meal planning is the #1 key to your success. How many people do you know that had really great intentions on starting a new diet, but when things got busy or they ran out of time, they fell off the bandwagon.
Maybe that’s even been you?
If so – meal planning is going to be your savior. It not only helps you think out in advance of what you’re going to eat every week, but also how you’re going to go about it.
If you want to stay paleo this year, this article is going to be your paleo meal plan survival guide. Let’s get started!
Meal Planning 101
This article is pretty in-depth, so here’s what’s inside:
- Quick, 1 week Paleo Meal Plan (+ PDF Download)
- How To Build Your Own Paleo Meal Plan
- A Special Offer To Make Paleo Meal Plans As Easy As Pie
1-Week Paleo Meal Plan & PDF
Below is a plan for one week of meals on the paleo diet. If you’d like, you can download the PDF file of this paleo diet meal plan from the bottom of this section. 
Monday
- Breakfast 2 eggs and bacon
- Lunch Big salad with romaine lettuce
- Dinner Rotisserie chicken with sliced apple
Tuesday
- Breakfast Green smoothie (kale and kiwi)
- Lunch Grilled chicken strips and asparagus
- Dinner Grilled tuna with celery
Wednesday
- Breakfast 2 eggs and bacon
- Lunch Mixed veggies and strip steak
- Dinner Grilled chicken with a side of mixed berries
Thursday
- Breakfast Fresh strawberries and bananas
- Lunch Tuna salad with an apple
- Dinner Grilled steak and mashed cauliflower
Friday
- Breakfast Sausage and sautéed broccoli
- Lunch Hamburger patty and spinach
- Dinner Salmon and avocado
Saturday
- Breakfast 2 eggs and bacon
- Lunch Steamed vegetables and grilled chicken
- Dinner Grilled shrimp salad with romaine lettuce and spinach
Sunday
- Breakfast Paleo pancakes with strawberries or blueberries
- Lunch Pork chops and sweet potatoes
- Dinner Bison burger patty with steamed vegetables
(You can download this one-week meal plan for free here. Simply right-click and choose “save as.”)
How To Create Your Paleo Diet Meal Plans
Now if you don’t want to eat the same meals week after week (we don’t!), you might want to try planning your own meals. If you do, here are some tips from the pros (we’ve been doing this for years):
- Read our starter guide and get familiar with what “is” and “isn’t” paleo.
- Eat your vegetables. Paleo doesn’t mean “eat mostly meat.” Eat lots of vegetables. (To make vegetables taste delicious, try out these paleo recipes: Roasted Radishes And Asparagus, Garlic And Herb Cauliflower Rice, and Bacon & Red Onion Brussels Sprouts.)
- Seriously, eat your vegetables. I know I just said this, but plan to have a serving of vegetables with every single meal if you can.
- Make sure you’re eating quality & lean cuts of meat. Just because paleo includes meat, doesn’t mean you should be eating hot dogs. Keep it lean. Keep it clean. Focus on quality cuts of meat from great sources.
- Make sure you have enough fat in your diet. If you’re feeling hungry or you never feel full, add some avocado or coconut to your diet and make sure you’re getting some healthy fats into your system. Otherwise, you’ll feel hungry and try to fix it with carbs (which just bring back the cravings). Fat makes you satiated, not fat.
- Try something new. You might not be familiar with all of the paleo foods out there. You might not like all of ’em either, but give them a shot and try something new.
- If you’re running low on recipes ideas, check out our favorite paleo recipes or load up on some breakfast recipe ideas here.
- Check out our recent article Meal Planning for Busy People for more tips and tricks.
Overall, stick to the template of paleo, know what foods are paleo and eat until you’re full. Focus on quality over quantity and enjoy!
If you need more help, check out our meal planning service that does this all for you.
Want Paleo Diet Meal Plans Done For You?
Here’s the deal – meal planning is absolutely essential to your success on paleo.
“He who fails to plan is planning to fail.” – Winston Churchill
Not only does meal planning take time – but you have other stuff to do! Cooking & eating healthy is hard enough without planning it all yourself as well. You have better things to do – whether it’s your job, taking care of your family or spending time on what you enjoy.
That’s why we created Paleo Meal Plans – a done-for-you meal planning service that makes staying paleo & healthy oh, so simple. Oh, and did I mention how affordable it is?
Paleo Meal Plans is created by (and for) busy people JUST LIKE YOU. Every week, you’ll get a brand new weekly meal plans, recipes for every meal of the week and a shopping list of every single ingredient you’ll need.
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Whatever you decide to do, remember that meal planning is the most important thing you can do to stay paleo – even when things get hard. It’s simply not enough to want to stay paleo. No – you have to plan for success if you want to see it and meal planning is the best way to make that happen.
There’s a reason hundreds of people trust Paleo Meal Plans to make them delicious & healthy meal plans every week. Why not give it a try?
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I’m looking for a paleo meal plan that does all the work. Looks like your plans do. However when I sign up does it show me what to prep for the entire week? I like to prep as much as possible and then just throw it all together at meal time, or pre cook.
Thanks!
Yup – We include paleo meal plans, shopping lists & recipes in our meal planning service here – http://paleoguide.wpengine.com/meal-plan-monthly-service/
I was reading about your meal plans. Do you actually customize them per person? I don’t eat pork due to religious reasons, but I do LOVE bacon and have been able to find beef and turkey that follow the Paleo requirements. Also I don’t care for seafood…maybe tuna salad but have to really be in the mood. 🙂
Would this be a problem in creating menus for me?
Hi Elizabeth – our meal plans are made to follow the paleo diet – we let people customize them on their own if they have unique requirements (allergies, religious reasons, vegetarian, etc). If you’d like more personalized programming – you can look at our paleo coaching that’s available.
Hi,
I am in the military overseas so I need meals that are fast and quick to make. Such as breakfast. I have a hour after my command work out and to shower, change, get ready, drive 10 min to base to get to work. I often skip breakfast because of this… Is there a meal plan I can grab and go I’m sick of boiled eggs and fruit…
Holly – check out our paleo breakfast recipes here.
So am very busy in the morning, i have to leave the house by 8am, I dont have time to make breakfast am wondering if i can use fruits and some vegetables or almonds in the morning , and is it okay if i dont eat meat in this diet.
Fruits, veggies & almonds are great.
Hi, I was wondering how can I purchase your recipient book as it only asks for my acc details but not the address where I want it sent to?
Regards
Hi Sara, teh book is entirely digital – so you can download it immediately.
Do you guys have an android app that works with your meal plans?
Not yet!
I recently purchased the weekly meal planning service but I only need to cook for myself. How many people are the meal plans designed for?
Hi Alison,
The meal plans are simply meal plans. Depending on the recipe – you can make as much or as little as you need to!
Thank you, Brock. That’s what I have been doing when I pick out a recipe. I bought the weekly meal plan for the shopping list. I didn’t want to have to go through all the recipes, cut them down for one person, and then create a new shopping list. I was hoping to find out how many people the meal plans are created for so I could just divide the shopping list.
I’m VERY new to paleo. Don’t know very much at all. Just a few baics in regard to why, benifits, and some foods. I am not looking to spend money to find out more about paleo diets, but I am VERY interested. I’m looking to make serious changes but honestly….I’m brokedy broke peeps! Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!
Hi Ellie,
We have tons of content around this site for free. Check out our about page for a bunch of good links to get you started.
Which are allowed? : Lactose Free milk
I can’t believe its not butter
Glutten free corn chex
Tortilla chips
None of those are paleo Doug.
Hi, Thanks for this info – I am keen to use paleo nutrition for triathlon coaching and nutrition plans as part of my triathlon plans and I appreciate the information here. My aim is to show triathletes a way to eat for performance and health, and I think the stock advice from British triathlon and sports nutrition in general results in inflammation and ill health. Great website, thanks!
Can I have almond milk?
Yup – almond milk is paleo! Check out our list here (or the paleo.io reference app). Just watch out for the sugar in the sweetened kind!
Hi, this whole site is extremely useful, and the plan seems handy, however, I’ve noticed that eggs are listed as food products to avoid and on the meal plan there are a few breakfasts in which they are recommended. Are they allowed or not?
Thanks!
Hey Maja,
Eggs are just fine – where do you see them on a list of “foods to avoid”
Hey Joel! Basically wanted to take a moment to say Thank You for sharing the free info and to share the thrill of my story. My greatest joy would be to help my husband so I’m looking into the Paleo diet.
I was surfing web for free Paleo info & came across your site here. Without knowing everything about Paleo but having researched it in the past, I know it is a winner in many circles world-wide.
I have gathered a diverse knowledge-base on dietary venues over the last 17 years and what has worked for me as of the last month resulted in a 5lbs weight loss. I drink for 8 hours of the day and eat for only 4, and Sunday I eat. So without going into too much detail, my disciplined regiment consists of simple “clean” drinking (water, juicing, smoothies and bone broth – all DIY) from when I wake up to 4pm which is about 8 hours of only fluid intake. And then I enjoy “clean” eating from 4pm to 8pm (about 4 hours of eating my DIY meals – mostly salad/veggies and some sort of protein and sometimes a low glycemic fruit as last meal). Sundays I eat “clean” or take a couple of Bulletproof brand charcoal caps if off-diet-type food or eating out (which assists in promptly clearing out toxins.)
Anyway, I’m on a mission to help my beloved husband! He’s a youthful 61 and since a recent health scare, he’s decided to make changes to his deeply engrained all-American diet by yielding all nutritional decisions for his wellbeing to me! As much as I love this opportunity to come to his rescue and lead by example, he is extremely picky and since starting on his nutritional health journey 2 months ago has managed to lose up to 8lbs. Unfortunately, after he stopped weighing in 3 weeks ago due to a 2lbs weight gain, his diet discipline is half-committed and declining at this point and he appears to have gained all the weight back (maybe more?!)
I just watched a paid Paleo marketing info site (I believe it was Paleo Secrets) and decided to google “free Paleo info” since there’s a chance that it could work for him once he gets fully recommitted.
I am a Grand-Mother and full-time housewife dedicated to my man and family with a passion for “clean eating” as it continues to resolve my health issues (inflammation). I mainly cook a lot hence my DIY mention above. Improving my husband’s ailing health conditions is everything to me/us and the bright future we see ourselves enjoying together. I’m purposed to increase his quality of life while wanting to eliminate his medical expenses. I believe
unequivocally that food can heal all ailments which is completely dependent on the nutritional choices one makes. He tends to sway toward making error choices A LOT lately!
With all that said, I plan to dive into Paleo meal planning for him which will undoubtedly benefit me too. I suppose I may want to look into Paleo support sites if challenges arise with his pickyness. I’ll keep your site bookmarked to report back our journey outcome with this plan 🙂
CHEERS & Thank You again!!! – Bella
I am a vegetarian. No seafoods or meat. Do you have a vegetarian meal plan
Hi Beena – no, we just focus on paleo meal plans & let people adapt it to their own way of life.