Give me some good food items to eat when you want to get healthy (not diet)

Produce section. Stay there until your cart is full.

Fruit and nuts.

Lots of vitamins, little fat and and bad stuff. Also it’s hard to go wrong with salads and fish.

Right now, I’ve been buying a LOT of fruit because it has been decent. Except nectarines which have been lacking the last couple of weeks. If you’re not worried about calories, most nuts are really good for you.

In my fridge I almost always have apples, orange juice, carrots and yogurt. Instead of lettuce, I make salads with spinach or cabbage.

I always have a jar of salsa and a container of hummus on hand, plus complex carbs (barley, brown rice, rice noodles, quinoa, amaranth), frozen organic veggies and fruits, Yukon gold potatoes, sweet potatoes, various nuts and nut butters and peanuts.

At this time of year, I buy melons, berries, pit fruits, grapes, cherries, sugar snap peas, pea pods, shelling peas, fennel, green beans, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots and celery and eat them all raw.

Skim milk, lo-fat cottage cheese, mozarella, organic eggs, a basil plant on porch, and water ices.

Fresh fuit and veg, wholemeal carbs (bread, pasta, brown rice), dairy products and white meat in small quantities. Fresh fish. No processed or pre-made products.

Fruits and veggies definitely. I try to eat an apple a day and as much as possible eat some kind of vegetable each day as well. As for meat I try to go with fish (fresh) as much as possible. Chicken (unprocessed if i’m pushing it lol) You can’t go wrong with that.

One of my favs. is to whip up some Albacore tuna with a little lite mayo and sweet pickle relish and stuff into celery stalks.

Berries, berries berries, with vanilla lowfat or non-fat yogurt as a topping.

I’m a Blackberry addict, have lots of fresh ones in my area this time of year and I freeze them for winter. The frozen bagged Blackberries are good too. No sugar added.

Soup! Make your own, load it up with all kinds of veggies, beans, cabbage.

I am also a cabbage junkie, and like to dip raw chunks into lite Miracle Whip. I usually have a big bowl of cabbage almost every day. Red, green, mixed. Cabbage is extremely good for you!

Tomato sandwiches! I make a ‘mock’ BLT with fresh tomatos, lettuce and soy based bacon sprinkles. It is really good! Toast your bread and use lite mayo, sprinkle the bacon bits on the mayo and then layer on your tomato, lettuce, and avacado too!

Hummus dip is great with raw veggies like cucumbers and zucchini and baked potatos with lite sour cream and salsa as a topping is delicious!

Cottage cheese with a sweet chili sauce and dipped with multi-grain tortilla chips is a great snack.

I also love drizzling organic raw honey over peanut butter on toast. Mmmm good!

Today for lunch I had 2 T from the jar of organic almond butter and a box of local blueberries, follower by 18 oz. of water. (NO dishes to wash.)

Fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds (pumpkin, sunflower), seaweed snacks, raw granola bars, yogurt, salmon, salad makings, water, water, water and a juicer or a blender for some yummy fruit and veggie smoothies.

Tomatoes. I have been eating tomatoes and drinking tomato juice like there’s no tomorrow. Tomatoes contain lycopene which is a super cancer-fighting agent, plus tomato skin is really good for your skin.

Mushrooms are really good at fighting off common colds and even the flu. Plus, they are full of potassium. A single Portobello mushroom cap contains more potassium than a banana.

Broccoli is chock full of iron.

Whole wheat pasta is better for you than regular pasta, plus it’s more filling. It tends to cost a little extra, but if you find it on sale, you’ll be saving money since you can make it last longer.

If you can buy free-range meat or, better yet, if you have a friend or family member who hunts and who is willing to give you fresh meat then you should. It is much better for you because it lacks a lot of the hormones and chemicals that build up in farmed animals. Plus, it tastes better.

I made a grocery list and added some of the items listed above. Thanks for the suggestions!

Vegetables, lots of them.
Fruit, lots of it.
Some dairy.
Some meat.

Avoid simple carbohydrates. (Flour, rice, pasta.)

I’m very restrictive about what fats I put in my body. I also do not eat food cooked over charcoal (or as little as I can politely eat). I try to eat meat grown without antibiotics or organic meats (I eat small portions). I eat low glycemic high fiber foods as much as possible. Also don’t drink soda pop, and avoid all artificial sweeteners, colors, and preservatives.

Foods that are as unprocessed or unrefined as they could be e.g. wholemeal brown bread, brown rice, grains, lentils, fresh raw fruit and veg etc. Can’t remember who said it but there’s a saying: “The white the bread, the sooner you’re dead”

Loads of green leafy veg
Nuts, seeds, lentils, etc.
Berries galore!

Broccoli and celery! Buy bags of them!

Sardines

Salmon

Eggs

Bought some raw almonds, plain probiotic yogurt, black berries, bananas, nectarines, bing cherries, mulberries, organic skim milk, and bran cereal, so far.

@Jude – yum. Making me hungry.

Just something to keep in mind. Skim milk is controversial. Go whole milk and drink it in moderation. Also, be careful of bananas. I think I was once officially addicted. They are so high in sugar, you can put on some serious weight. Also, have you tried them frozen and blended? It’s like ice cream.