If you had to add/increase 5 healthy foods that actually don't taste like

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dawnnys

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sawdust (oat bran, most whole wheat bread, etc.) into your daily diet, what would YOU pick? There are so many foods that claim they have been found to have "newly discovered, natural, disease-fighting" qualities that I read about every time I pick up a magazine, and half of them I've never heard of! Acai? Anyone ever try that?

I guess mine would be:

-berries

-walnuts

-tea

-whole wheat anything (Thomas's whole grain lite English muffins are great by the way)

-spinach

What would yours be?

 
A list of anti-inflammatory foods.

Perhaps this list will encourage you.
I eat everything listed except for fennel bulb and a few of the fish.

Anti-Inflammatory Foods



Vegetables



Bell Peppers

Bok Choy

Broccoli

Broccoli Sprouts

Brussels Sprouts

Cabbage

Cauliflower

Chard

Collards

Fennel Bulb

Garlic

Green Beans

Green Onions/Spring Onions

Kale

Leeks

Olives

Spinach

Sweet potatoes

Turnip Greens



Fruits



Acerola (West Indian) Cherries

Apples

Avocados

Black Currants

Blueberries

Fresh Pineapple

Guavas

Kiwifruit

Kumquats

Lemons

Limes

Mulberries

Oranges

Papaya

Raspberries

Rhubarb

Strawberries

Tomatoes



Herbs and Spices



Basil

Cayenne Peppers/Chilli Peppers

Cinnamon

Cloves

Cocoa (at least 70% cocoa chocolate)

Licorice

Mint

Oregano

Parsley

Rosemary

Thyme

Turmeric



Fish



Cod

Halibut

Herring

Oysters

Rainbow Trout

Salmon

Sardines

Snapper Fish

Striped Bass

Tuna

Whitefish



Nuts and Seeds



Almonds

Flaxseed/Linseed

Hazelnuts

Sunflower Seeds

Walnuts



Oils



Avocado Oil

Coconut oil

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

 
I really can't think of any food I eat that tastes like sawdust....

which I most certainly would not be eating. We buy most of our produce at the Farmer's Market and eat what is in season. The past two years I have added more grains to our diet, Bulgar Wheat, Quinoa, Faro, Wheat Berries, and Israeli Couscous. We love them all. Right now we are eating blueberries, strawberries, peaches, raspberries...usually a mixture of them all in the morning with a dollop of greet yoghurt and honey. Melons, blackberries are coming soon.
Our garden has many herbs, tomatoes, kale, swiss chard, lettuce, and the rest we get at the Farmer's Markets.

 
I love healthy foods. My problem is portion control. Beans- any way you want to cook them

Beans and greens with chile flakes, garlic and chicken broth. Delicious.
Almonds- tossed on salad or into couscous with a few dried cranberries.
Sweet potatoes-parboiled, brushed with olive oil and put on the grill
Yogurt- tzatziki used as a dip or a salad dressing- smoothies when you get that 3 pm hunger

I counted beans and greens as 2!


This is an easy time of the year for me to eat healthy and also lose the pounds I added over the winter. The hardest thing for me is to give up the bread. I know, I know bread is good but I like it slathered in butter and one piece leads to one more and one more.

 
I love healthy foods also. I guess my sawdust would be TV dinners smileys/smile.gif.

 
Oh, I know... I just thought it would be a fun poll and maybe I'd learn about a food that I've

missed somehow.

And see how my mind works? I don't think about what to omit, but rather what to add - lol.

And I remember back in the early-eighties about some bread company actually putting real, honest-to-goodness sawdust in their bread as an ingredient to increase the fiber content. It was listed as cellulose something or other, but once word got out that's what it actually was, they stopped adding it to their bread.

 
When our kids were little and we were arriving home for a car trip, we always stopped

at the grocery store and bought a box of Banquet Crispy fried chicken and a huge frozen carton of Mac and Cheese. That was the only take out type food I'd feed the kids...it was convenient and oh my was it good. I don't think the quality of the TV dinner food is very good, and it is rare that I like any of it. But those two sure were tasty. Weight Watchers has a nice lunch size TV type dish that I like, it is an angel spaghetti with marinara sauce. But they are all so small. I usually add a salad or some veggies.

 
I've had Acai juice several times...

in fact my massage therapist gives you a shot of it after every session. Tastes isn't bad at all. I like it.

I like Kashi cereal and real oatmeal.

a glass of red wine everyday would work for me too smileys/smile.gif

I try to add low sugar fruits; stop all added sugars when I'm being healthy

I try to up my protein and alway buy the omega eggs

wild salmon

blueberries or tiny pear tomatos as snacks

and eat lots of cilantro which everyone is touting as a super food; good thing I love it.

and I don't do caffine, but given I've become allergic to it now that's a no brainer

PS Mom use to sneak wheat germ in the choc chip cookies; never tasted it.

 
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