LOVES IT! Fav. fuel

I’m a foodie- and I LOVE going to new grocery stores, health food stores…etc and stocking up on new products and goodies!! I know, weird, but I could spend hours in a grocery store just browsing and reading about new products, foods, and healthy recipes. There’s so much to soak in, and I always love talking with the employees- they know so much!!

So, I figured I’d make a little list about some of my fav. foods, you can pretty much count on seeing all of these somewhere in my daily diet- I told ya, I’m a creature of habit (boooorrring!)

Dairy: (‘Primal Blueprint’ suggests in moderation)

Fage 0% Greek yogurt

Dannon Fat Free Plain Yogurt

Trader Joe’s Fat Free Greek Yogurt

Skim Milky

Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk

Whipped Cottage Cheese (1%)

Fat Free Cottage Cheese

Laughing Cow Light Cheese

1% Polly-O String Cheese (ya, I’m apparently still 7 years old!)

Whole Grains: *totally rid of white/processed carbs

All-Bran Extra Fiber (DAILY staple)

Wheat Germ

Ground Flax

Fiber-One Cereal

Trader Joe’s Fiber Twigs cereal

Oats (OATMEAL= Super-breaky!)

Teff

Quinioa

Bulgur Wheat

Wheatberries

Speltberries

Farroh

Ezekial English Muffins

Ezekial Hamburger and Hot Dog Sprouted Grain buns/rolls

Joseph’s Oat Bran & Flax Pita Pockets & Flat/Lavash

Fish/Seafood:

Packed Light Tuna

Salmon Burgers (Trader Joe’s variety ROCK!)

Any/All White Fish (Halibut, Cod, Sole, Tilapia)

Bay Scallops

Shrimp

Salmon

Ahi Tuna (rare/sushi style= YUMMERS!)

Canned Salmon(skinless, boneless)

Beans:

Black Beans

Chickpeas/Garbanzo Beans

Soy Beans (Edemame)

Adzuki Beans

Navy/Great Northern Beans

Veggies:

Libby’s 100% Pure Pumpkin Puree

Butternut Squash

Sprouts

Spinach

Sweet potatoes

Brussel Sprouts

Summer Squash

Zukes

Cukes

Cauliflower

Broccoli

Okra

Bibb/Boston/Butter Lettuce

Kale

Swiss Chard

Acorn Squash

Snap Peas

Green Beans

Fruit:

Blueberries

Peaches

Strawberries

Raspberries

Pomagranite

Watermelon

Prunes

Plums

Pluots

Nectarines

Oranges

Grapefruit

Clementines

Nuts/Healthy Fats:

Almonds

Avocado

Walnuts

Ground Flax Seed

Almond Butter (Barney Butter, Saratoga Brand & Jason’s Nut Butter Varieties are DIVINE!)

Misc/ Processed Food (Select list of NON-Whole Foods that are cool with me in small amounts)

Trail Mix (must have some little chocolate component- duh!)

Bran/High Fiber Crackers

Egg-Whites (carton style- I’m all about convenience like that!)

Quorn Chick’n “Breasts”- made of mushrooms/fungus….I know weird, but delish!

Amy’s Organic Soups (Lentil, Split Pea varieties- watch out for sodium AKA: Bloat-city!)

Fat-Free/Sugar Free Frozen Yogurt- I know, this is bad, but it’s a RARE treat, promise!

Annie’s Whole Grain Graham Bunnies

Graham Crackers

Digestive Cookies

Larabars (Amazing ingredients, but a little dense…1/2 bar= perfect most of the time)

Pure Protein Bars (sort of a long ingredient list…but 19g of Protein!! now that’s fuel!)

Luna Bars (rare- I don’t really eat these, but when I do, I’m OK w/ them)

Z-Bars- Chocolate Brownie, Blueberry (there’s the 7 year-old in me, again!)

Keri-Bars (delish and NOT processed AT ALL!)

Cinnamon (basically on everything!)

Kashi Whole Grain Crackers (Honey Wheat variety)

Kashi Go Lean! Cereal

Sarabeth’s Jams

Tempeh

Special K Protein Cereal

Jay Robert’s Whey (Protein) Powder

Vita-Muffins/Tops- YUM & Healthy dessert= a’okay in my book!

Food Vices (OOPS): (all very rare, but still not quite gone from my diet-getting there)

Splenda

Sugar-Free Maple Syrup

Diet Sodas (very rare, but not eliminated- eek!)

Caffeine-Iced Coffee (I’m not one to hack coffee, I love it! I have the tendency to over-do my iced-coffee obsession on occasion, so I just need to watch out for that )