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Foods for a healthy body.

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
What foods are in your shopping basket? My health oriented foods include:

eggs
mixed nuts
brocoli
salmon
oranges
mixed leaf salad
potatoes
milk
tomatoes

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Usually
    Pilchards/mackeral/sardines/salmon/tuna tinned and fresh
    Brown basmati rice
    Wide variety of veg/salad
    Eggs
    Semi Skimmed Milk
    Herbs and seasonings
    Chicken and lean lamb and beef/mince
    Lamb's liver
    Yoghurts
    Oranges, bananas, kiwi
    Wholemeal/nutty and seedy bread
    Low fat tins of soup like Baxters Broth
    Wheetabix

    They are just the healthy things though ;)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    healthy things on my shopping list are fruit, vegetables, seeds, nuts, plan cereals, honey instead of sugar, brown bread, pure fruit juices. I use lots of herbs too.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Fruit and veg, that's a given.
    Porridge oats
    semi-skimmed milk
    pineapple juice
    fish, normally frozen
    garlic - lots of
    chicken
    lean beef
    wholemeal bread and pasta
    eggs
    yogurt
    mixed nuts
    hummous
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ooh, I have garlic on my shopping list too, but why is it healthy?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    katralla wrote: »
    ooh, I have garlic on my shopping list too, but why is it healthy?

    It's good for your blood and heart - plus it flavours food naturally with no fat etc
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Also full of anti-oxidants. I love garlic, one of my favourite snacks is garlic that has been roasted until sweet and soft, then smeared over some ryevita :yum:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Oh god no - I only like the tiniest hint of garlic and only in some dishes
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    go_away wrote: »
    Fruit and veg, that's a given.
    Porridge oats
    semi-skimmed milk
    pineapple juice
    fish, normally frozen
    garlic - lots of
    chicken
    lean beef
    wholemeal bread and pasta
    eggs
    yogurt
    mixed nuts
    hummous

    That's essentially our shopping list as well, although we don't get our fruit and veg from the supermarket, we get it from the hippy box company with added dirt :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    go_away wrote: »
    Also full of anti-oxidants. I love garlic, one of my favourite snacks is garlic that has been roasted until sweet and soft, then smeared over some ryevita :yum:

    I trusted you and dutifully peeled some garlic cloves to roast with my carrots- not good, outside all tough and nasty, inside ok. I have since discovered the folly of my ways - http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001712roasted_garlic.php looks delicious and I will try again. I have loads of garlic coz it's cheap in lidl at the mo. fingers crossed i don't balls it up again. Truth be told, I don't even know what a garlic is, like is it a fruit? a veg? where does it grow? on a tree? weird!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Chicken
    Mince beef
    King Prawns
    Vegetables (shallots, sweet potatoes, garlic, potatoes, sugar snaps, carrots etc)
    Salad stuff (tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, cucumber, spring onions etc)
    Stir fry packs
    Eggs
    Semi skimmed milk
    Porridge/cornflakes
    Basmati rice
    Baked beans
    Tinned tomatoes
    Bread
    Pasta
    Copella fruit juice
    Not so healthy pre prepared jars of sauces :blush:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    bag of frozen assorted veg
    tinned kidney beans
    baked beans
    tuna
    mackerel, seabass, bream, snapper, trout etc
    brown pasta
    carrots
    apples
    tomatoes
    tinned tomatos
    garlic
    onion
    fish fingers or breaded haddock
    burgers
    olive oil
    chicken
    beef burgers
  • smitherzsmitherz Posts: 968 Part of The Mix Family
    Fruit & Veg
    Brown rice
    Pasta
    Oats
    Liquid egg whites (not from supermarket)
    Activated barley (not from supermarket)
    maltodextrin (not from supermarket)
    Flax oil
    Walnut oil
    Coconut oil
    Peanut butter
    Weetabix
    Semi-skimmed milk
    Linseeds
    Beans
    lean beef mince
    Chicken breast
    Beef steaks
    Onions
    Mixed herbs
    Fruit cocktails
    Eggs
    Low fat yoghurts
    Tuna
    Fruit juice
    Honey
    Sweet potatos
    75% cocoa dark chocolate
    ............... thats the main things i can think of
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The secret is not to peel the garlic :yes:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My diet is pretty awful but I do make a few attempts at being healthy.

    I take multivitamin, iron and vitamin C supplements

    Skimmed milk, have drank it for years, I cant stand full fat milk and not keen on semi-skimmed

    Most kinds of beans: black eyed beans, baked beans, chick peas, etc, I heat them all up together, add some spices and serve with rice for a cheap quick meal

    Multigrain or sunflower seed bread, hate nasty white sliced

    Natural plain yoghurt. Personal trainer told me off for eating so called "low fat" yoghurts as they can be very high in sugars and fake stuff

    Pure fruit juice - not concentrated

    Fresh soup, eg covent garden or supermarket own brand
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Rachels Organic Low fat/fat free yoghurt isn't high in sugars.

    It's one of the few, and also happens to be one of the nicest - go for that one :)
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