What are Whole Foods / some of your fav Whole Foods meal

jonesmyeasha

Hi there!

I know that when I Google Whole Foods it says like beans nuts etc. But can you help me with what are whole foods that you regularly eat?

What’s the easiest way to eat more Whole Foods? Also your favorite meal?

AdahPotatah2024

I guess coffee is minimally processed, so whole foods I consume most would probably be pecans, oats, eggs, and potatoes. I eat salad greens, bell peppers, and tomatoes almost every day, usually in a wrap or sandwich. (My favorite summer meal is a seafood boil with crab legs and melted butter-real butter- with corn and potatoes and Margaritas 🤪) For me, the easiest way is that I have a healthy grocery check list/ meal plan on my phone and I stick to only what's on there!:)

neanderthin

Dinner is a 16 ounce striploin and lunch is an 8 ounce. 😃

yirara

Seriously, I eat about 35-40 different types of plant-based things per week, mixed with a minimum amount of meat or fish. I love fruit and veg, some nuts or grains. And I have about 120 cookbooks that I use regularly for dinner. Breakfast and lunch are easier. And everything inbetween even easier, because I just grab a piece of fruit.

AnnPT77

Honestly, I'm more a "mostly whole foods, or close to it" person, maybe 80% whole-ish, 20% more refined or highly processed. For sure not 100% whole foods. It's an eating preference, what I find tasty, plus keeps me full and happy most of the time, adds up to overall good nutrition.

What whole foods, or near relatives, do I eat routinely?

Whole foods: Vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, eggs. Large variety of those. Most common choices are . . . common choices? Veggies: Cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, green beans, cooked dried beans, onions, garlic, edible-pod peas, edamame, sweet potatoes, spinach and other greens, potatoes, beets, sweet corn, avocados. Fruits: Berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries), apples, oranges, pears, bananas. Nuts: Walnuts, pistachios, the occasional Brazil nut. Seeds: Hull-less pumpkin/pepita, hemp hearts.

Semi-whole foods/traditional processed foods: Plain nonfat Greek yogurt, rolled oats, tofu, tempeh, cheese, prunes, nonfat milk, natural peanut butter, ground flax seed, raw sauerkraut and kim chi, miso.

Most of the things listed above I eat at least once a week. I think I probably eat 30 different plant foods weekly, or close to it: Lots of plant foods in overall volume, but not always large portions of any one plant.

I also eat some relatively highly-processed foods, like red lentil pasta, Ezekiel pita and tortillas, good chocolates, Yasso frozen Greek yogurt bars, soft pretzels from the farmers market bread guy, black bean tortilla chips, blackstrap molasses.

Favorite meals? I love my rolled oats with mixed berries, ground flax seed, hemp hearts, cinnamon, walnuts, blackstrap molasses, plain nonfat Greek yogurt, with cold matcha (with a citrus wedge) and hot coffee with plenty of hot nonfat milk on the side. This will make a lot of people shudder, but I like baked teriyaki tofu on an Ezekial tortilla with thin-sliced onions, cheese, dill mustard, heated; then add raw sauerkraut. A lot of easy dinners are a heap of veggies with miso and kim chi, plus some protein source (in my case, not meat or fish because I'm ovo-lacto vegetarian).

I don't really have lots of standard recipe-type meals because I tend to just put things together - I've been cooking for over 50 years, so it's easy.

Most of this is the same range of foods I ate when I was overweight/obese. I just eat the calorie-dense things in smaller portions or less frequently than I used to, and eat bigger portions more frequently of the nutrient-dense lower-calorie things like veggies and fruits.