What traditional "diet" foods do you avoid?

healthypelican wrote: »

Celery and carrot sticks, blah! I don't like muesli bars (not particularly healthy), trail mix, plain popcorn, cottage cheese, pita bread, bran muffins, chili's, stir frys, garden salads...

Are those traditional diet foods? I thought they were just food and some are fairly calorie dense actually.
I avoid rice cakes, cabbage soup, diet shakes, diet bars, diet frozen meals, lite yogurt, low fat cheese, skim milk, just egg whites, diet pop, smoothies.
I don't eat much fish, oatmeal or brown rice. I eat chicken thighs more than chicken breasts.
I just eat what I like but fewer calories.

I'm not a fan of carrot and celery sticks either. I avoid bananas. I don't want to waste the carbs and calories on a banana when I can enjoy other fruits that pack more nutrition per serving.

I like carrots and celery. What will not cross my lips is cabbage soup.;)

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

I'm not exactly sure what it means to avoid a food. Do you like skip aisles where they are in the store? Run screaming from the room if the food is served? Forbid anyone to bring them into your house?

Avoid can be defined as "to refrain from". I interpret avoiding foods in this thread as "I do not consume these items commonly associated with dieting".

I don't buy the foods I am avoiding and I don't eat them if they are around. I have not forbbiden other people from eating foods I don't want to eat. I do not skip store aisles or run screaming from rooms. I avoid eating the foods I am allergic or sensitive to or just dislike.

healthypelican wrote: »

My apologies, my thread should have been ''anyone else hate carrot/celery sticks''- that's all I really cared about.

Yes. I hate them both.

I have taken my cue from Michael Pollan.
I eat real food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
If your great grandmother would not have recognized it as food, don't eat it.
If it has a) more than 5 ingredients, b) unfamiliar or unpronounceable ingredients, or c) high-fructose corn syrup, don't eat it.
Avoid products that make 'health claims'.
Stay out of the supermarket whenever possible. Shop at farmers markets or CSAs. Or grow it yourself.
When you do visit the supermarket, shop around the edges - produce, seafood, meat, dairy, bakery, deli - and only venture into the center aisles for staples like oils, certain condiments, and minimally processed products.
Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
Eat less seeds.
Choose meats that have been fed a natural diet - grassfed beef and lamb, pasture-raised pork and poultry, wild-caught seafood, and free-range wild game meats.
If you have freezer space, (or space for a freezer...buy one!), buy in bulk.
Eat like an omnivore. Diversify your diet whenever possible. Try new stuff.
Eat well-grown food from healthy soil...organic!
Plant a garden if you can.
Eat wild foods when you can. Make sure you get permission to pick beforehand; don't trespass or pick on public park land.
Pay more, eat less.
Eat meals, not snacks.
Eat at a table.
Try not to eat alone whenever possible.
Listen to your gut.
Eat slowly.
Cook.

anything that says low/non fat, diet, reduced sugar, gluten free, etc.

Cabbage and Carrots. YUCK! I Like all other veggies.. but those are just disgusting.

Low fat/cal dairy (besides cheeses that are naturally low cal like feta). There is nothing worse than skim cheese.

Mini 100 cal snack bags - are you kidding? I will eat the whole box. I'd rather just buy one regular kit Kat than a box of 20 100 cal kit Kat snacks.

Frozen low cal dinners - they're expensive and I can make something more flavourful and nutritious for half the price.

Low cal cream salad dressings - they tend to taste like aspartame to me

Diet sodas, yuck.

I'm sure there are more.

Some I love:

Half fat mayo, boathouse cilantro yogurt dressing, some of these new low cal bags of popcorn like boom chicka pop.

Liquid calories and granola bars