New Food Finds You Can't Live Without?!

Alee4nia

Since starting your new lifestyle/diet (whatever your preference) what is a new food that you are totally in love with, but really didn't eat too much of before?

I am in love with honey and Chobani Greek Yogurts!!

Pangui

Kale! It's super nutritious, low calorie and delicious in soups and stews. This week I am going to try making Polenta lasagna with portabellas and kale. I never used to get excited about cooking before I began my pursuit of health.

Jennyisbusy

It was black beans.

shawnayy

Cottage cheese! Mmm, yummy

swilk627

Greek yogurt.

vypeters

Edamame/soynuts
Almonds
Plain Greek yogurt with fresh fruit mixed in
Natural almond or peanut butter (gonna try sunflower seed butter next)

azeiha

Pita bread with garlic hummus, avacado and peppers warmed in the over... Mmmmmm

Aerohead21

Clementines, apples, and yogurt

IndyPokerDad

Wasabi and Soy Sauce Almunds!!!!

jazziesaj11

Organic Coconut Milk esp chocolate!!! It has less cals, fat AND sugar and still tastes better than regular choco milk! Chobani Greek Yogurt, Oatmeal- seriously never thought i'd like that, but it's sooo yummy! Mangos, fresh green beans and snap peas... hmmmm, That's all I can think of now.

strawberrie_milk

Oatmeal and greek yogurt!

Alee4nia

These sound so yummy my mouth is salivating....can't wait for dinner!

arcticbutterfly

I cut cherry tomatoes in half and quarter cumber slices and some sliced onions and mix it together with just a little zesty iltalian. I think im addicted to it!!! ALso I keep bags of frozen fruit in the freezer and snacks on them, they taste like mini popsicles to me! My overall favorite is frozen fruit, low cal vanilla yogurt and skim milk in the blender. Amazing smoothies and low cal!!!

chaoticxinsane

Cottage cheese, hummus, and... just about any of the Campbell light soups.

... And monster absolute zero. It actually tastes BETTER than the original! Monster and various other poppy-ish drinks used to be my downfall (especially on the 1 graveyard shift I have to pull per week) but now they don't have to be!

lisaidem

Prograde Lean (chocolate), although I'm not sure this is considered a "food." It's really helping me meet my protein goals without blowing out my fat macro. And it's good and doesn't taste like wet chalk! Actually pretty sweet!

I really like quinoa now, and that was a first.
And I took someone's advice to just go into the grocery store and buy a vegetable without really knowing how I would use it, and then find recipes after. So I discovered eggplant, and that I like it in soup!

anewme99

PB2-especially the chocolate! It is powdered peanut butter that you mix with water. It has 85% less fat and almost no sugar! Just 45 calories 4grams fat, 4 grams sugar and 6 gram protein. And it is organic and all natural (NO artificial sweetener!) it does have much less protein, but I do not use it as a protein-it is my go to bedtime sweet treat! Great with some celery for a crunchy/sweet treat! They have regular peanut butter or chocolate.
you can get it from the manufacturer (bell plantations) the cheapest or from amazon

SCUBAMomofTwo

When I am craving a sweet, candy-like something, I grab an Atkins Peanut Cluster bar. It has kept my hand out of the Girl Scout cookie box a couple of times in the last two weeks.

Red7Basil

I never used to get excited about cooking before I began my pursuit of health.

ME TOO! Since I've began, my cooking prowess has soared! Tonight I made beef and broccoli that my family not only loved, but asked me to make it again soon (and it was only 216 calories a serving!). My love of Chinese food had driven my cooking skills because I can't afford the calories that Chinese food from restaurants cost me. I live near a world market, so the new foods I can't live without are ginger, brown rice, sesame seeds, pea pods, bok choy, cabbage, rice wine vinegar, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce and sesame oil (in moderation). Add garlic, onion, corn starch and a meat to the previous list, and I have found I can reproduce less-bad home versions of my favorite Chinese Take-out dishes.

vanillasugar

steel cut oats, asparagus, brussel sprouts and hummus.

shrdlicka23

Coconut milk blueberry yogurt, almond milk, daiya cheese, shiritaki noodles, my homemade soups, green monster shakes, flax meal and premade falafel from WF!

klhinrichsen

Bertolli frozen soups- all varieties. One bag yields two meals for me. Put it over a cup of rice and it's definitely a filler after a workout. Yummy !!!

tmarie2715

Kavli garlic crispbread (think chip or cracker replacement) and unsweetened vanilla almond milk! I can't even stomach real milk on cereal anymore.

andforpoise

Oatmeal (hated it as a child...love it now!)
Avocado
Smoked salmon
Almonds
Quinoa (even though I've only made it once - I hadn't tried it before healthy eating!)
Thin bagels

marcenepea

Black beans, Crunchmaster Multi-grain crackers, almond milk and edamame. They are all new and I love them

pokeelyy

Roma tomatos. Black and red plums. Cucumbers. Water chesnuts ♥

rachelpries

I have a great Kale treat for you!

Kale Chips
Preheat oven 350
remove stems and cut/break kale into 1" pieces
add 1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 t sea salt
1/2 t ground pepper
1 T olive oil

mix in large bowl

place parchment paper over a large cookie sheet
arrange one layer of the kale onto sheet
bake 11-13 minutes or until crisp but don't allow to burn (turn brown--it'll be carbon-tasting)

Enjoy like potato chips and just as addicting!

rachelpries

Chia Seeds
Hemp Seeds
So Delicious Coconut milk products (milk, yogurt, ice cream)
Prunes

driaxx

Bran Cereal and Cottage cheese!

yesthistime

Definitely Greek yogurt.

Natihilator

- Kale (steam it, make chips and put it in smoothies)
- Nutritional yeast flakes
- Reduced fat Ricotta cheese with pureed fresh fruit - I hate yogurt so this is a lifesaver, and almost tastes like cheesecake!

live4turns

-Fage
-Baby spinach
-quinoa