Chocolate almonds, red wine, and other health foods

Joluru
Joluru Posts: 89 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Dark chocolate is an antioxidant, as is red wine. Almonds are full of healthy fats and are very satiating. I'm adding them to my daily menu, along with my green smoothies (dark leafy greens, berries, and chia seeds, plus other fruit), lean meats, whole grains, low fat dairy, and green tea.

What foods do you think aren't diet foods but are healthy and worth eating in reasonable portions without guilt?

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  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    Pizza, cheeseburgers, chicken wings.
  • drmerc
    drmerc Posts: 2,603 Member
    I don't feel guilt from any foods
  • Chief_Rocka
    Chief_Rocka Posts: 4,710 Member
    Pizza:
    -protein in sausage
    -calcium in cheese
    -lycopene in tomato sauce
    -fiber in crust
  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    I don't consider any food "diet" food. If it fits in my diary, I eat it!
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    Not sure what you mean by not diet foods? All wholefoods fit into a weight management programme with portion control, people who are the most successful at losing weight and keeping it off are those who change their habits for life not just a few weeks or months. Cocoa is packed with minerals, more worthwhile for many of us even than the antioxidants. Nuts, seeds and oily fish are the foods I consistently recommend people add to their diets.
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,473 Member
    NHS Choices has a report on "miracle foods" in the media http://www.nhs.uk/news/2011/02February/Pages/miracle-foods-special-report.aspx
  • Joluru
    Joluru Posts: 89 Member
    What I mean by "not diet food" is that it's not something that I've previously considered to be healthy foods to include while trying to lose weight. Previously, I was looking for the lowest fat, lowest calorie foods, and chocolate almonds certainly didn't fit those parameters - so I'd quit my diet because I couldn't live with long term deprivation.

    Since I'm trying to change and make healthy eating my lifestyle, there are foods that fit and are quite healthy (to my surprise) but don't feel to me like they "should" fit in a "diet." Maybe I wasn't so clear.
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    What I mean by "not diet food" is that it's not something that I've previously considered to be healthy foods to include while trying to lose weight. Previously, I was looking for the lowest fat, lowest calorie foods, and chocolate almonds certainly didn't fit those parameters - so I'd quit my diet because I couldn't live with long term deprivation.

    Since I'm trying to change and make healthy eating my lifestyle, there are foods that fit and are quite healthy (to my surprise) but don't feel to me like they "should" fit in a "diet." Maybe I wasn't so clear.

    Sounds like you have had a mini epiphany, great!

    Very oily fish like sardines or mackerel should certainly fit into a weight management diet, the long chain omega-3s have been linked to reduced body fat in studies. Other studies suggest including nuts in your diet doesn't negatively impact weight. With any high fat/ high calorie food the key is portion control, interestingly many people fail to exercise portion control with low fat/ low calorie diet products and completely ignore many of the healthy eating guidelines.

    My current favourite 'diet' snack is low fat soft cheese blended with nut butter, fat reduced cocoa powder and natural sweetener served with black forest fruits.
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    Pizza:
    -protein in sausage
    -calcium in cheese
    -lycopene in tomato sauce
    -fiber in crust

    ^ This. Can't argue with facts.
  • angela9887
    angela9887 Posts: 26 Member
    eat lots of spinach! high in calcium and iron
  • denezy
    denezy Posts: 573 Member
    Full fat anything.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    If you mean on a daily basis, wine.

    On an occasional basis, everything else I like that might not be healthy on a daily basis.
  • Erica_theRedhead
    Erica_theRedhead Posts: 724 Member
    avocado, peanut butter, red meat
  • Joluru
    Joluru Posts: 89 Member

    My current favourite 'diet' snack is low fat soft cheese blended with nut butter, fat reduced cocoa powder and natural sweetener served with black forest fruits.

    What are black forest fruits?

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