Paleo (and SCD to a lesser degree) is all about eating food instead of 'food-like' products
I agree, however, the essential definition of SCD is
"no polysaccarides." In that respect, SCD is significantly more restrictive than paleo even if all you're eating is chicken and veggies, for instance, and requires significantly more work in the kitchen. I was on SCD for 10 months and there was a total of
one brand of chicken I could eat and that included locally processed stuff. On paleo I can have any brand, grocery store or grass fed or local.
My above point is if you're eating polys then you aren't on SCD, period. You're eating a paleo type of diet but not SCD.
I used to spend a lot of time at Mark's Daily Apple looking for recipes when I was on SCD. I had to change the majority of them to make them SCD legal and by change I mean being forced to make some ingredient from scratch like chili powder due to there being no SCD-legal version. At least with paleo if I wanted to make chili I could use premixed chili powder on occasion. It doesn't sound like a big deal unless you take into account almost everything was illegal on SCD and had to be made from scratch.
I'm really not down on SCD as it made me symptom free. It was just too much work compared to paleo. I'm in awe of those that can stick to it. :ybiggrin: