What do you do to get more fiber?

sjeffr
sjeffr Posts: 33 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm new to the site and through tracking my food, I'm realizing I dont get enough fiber most days. What type of healthy things do you include in your diet to help with your fiber intake?

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  • MensEtSalvere2013
    MensEtSalvere2013 Posts: 230 Member
    Fiber one brownies for a treat. Veggies such as lettuce. Apples are also a good source of fiber. I hope this helps! :)
  • holothuroidea
    holothuroidea Posts: 772 Member
    This question is really perplexing to me.

    There are very few things I eat that don't have fiber in them.

    How to get fiber in your diet:
    Step 1: Locate edible plant.
    Step 2: Eat it.
  • thestrawberrysays
    thestrawberrysays Posts: 31 Member
    There are so many to list. This website shows you hundreds of options:

    http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/063008p28.shtml
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    Eat whole fruits and veggies, including the peel if you can. Or if you like juice, get the kind with pulp.
    Go with whole wheat bread, pastas, ect. and be sure to check to make sure whole grains are at the top of the ingredient list.
    Eat beans, lentils, and legumes.
  • sjeffr
    sjeffr Posts: 33 Member
    I love beans, gonna start adding them to my daily salad! That should push me up where I need to be! thanks!
  • ellaloveslove
    ellaloveslove Posts: 166 Member
    I have organic applesauce with my breakfast and usually a pretty big spinach salad at lunch and dinner so those give me a lot of fiber, but I also love a fiber supplement that I got from Safeway. It dissolves in anything (food, liquid) and it is tasteless and doesn't change the texture at all. It's like Benefiber but it's the Safeway brand, it's not too expensive and it lasts me a long time. I love it!
  • toaster6
    toaster6 Posts: 703 Member
    Lots of veggies-- I try to have two servings of veggies with my lunch and dinner and that usually does it for me. Fruits and oatmeal are good too.
  • rlv2680
    rlv2680 Posts: 289 Member
    eat more fruits and vegetables.
  • haaaleyx
    haaaleyx Posts: 83 Member
    I add Chia Seeds to a lot of my foods.
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  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    I like to add a couple tablespoons of roasted flax to my yogurt in the morning. I also eat it with a couple ounces of raspberries. That reasonable breakfast accounts for 8g of the 21 I try and get for the day.
  • punkrockgoth
    punkrockgoth Posts: 534 Member
    I am very rarely under my fibre recommendation. In fact, usually, I am way over. I add flax seed to my yogurt every morning and I eat a lot of vegetables and whole grains. When I make salad, I sprinkle chia seeds on it.
  • splitdog79
    splitdog79 Posts: 106 Member
    Oh gosh, I usually get between 50-70g of fiber a day. I eat a ton of Oatmeal. Lots of days I'll eat it for Breakfast and then for Dinner, too.

    Of course, I'm a vegetarian so it's almost impossible for me to be low-fiber.
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    I eat a crapload(literally) of vegetables and fruits. I hit 56g yesterday, that included about a kilo of fruits and vegetables.
    I also have beans and houmous, nuts and seeds.
  • WVprankster
    WVprankster Posts: 430 Member
    Eat plants.
  • vypeters
    vypeters Posts: 475 Member
    The optimal choices for me:

    Veggies
    Fruits
    Steel cut oats (put fruit on 'em and they're a twofer)

    My self-indulgent fiber: a Quest bar a day. They have like 15-18 grams per bar. Also protein. And you can pronounce every ingredient.

    I often top out over 50 grams of fiber a day and never less than 40, without really trying.

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