The diet foods you can't live without

I am loving the Atkins Advantage products, the shakes keep me so full. I pair that with some chicken or black forest ham deli meat (2-4 slices) in the morning and I stay VERY full.... also their peanut butter cups and chocolate coconut bars are AWESOME!!!!!!!

Careful. Those are filled with a lot of chemicals made in a lab and are not real whole foods. If it came from the ground or has a mother it's a whole food. (source Michael Pollan).

Here's the rules, figured this would work to share here:

In the post below, someone requested the list of rules from the book. Here they are:

1. Eat food

2. Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food

3. Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry

4. Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup

5. Avoid food products that have some form of sugar (or sweetener listed among) the top three ingredients

6. Avoid food products that have more than 5 ingredients

7. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce

8. Avoid food products that make health claims

9. Avoid food products with the wordoid “lite” or the terms “low fat” or “nonfat” in their names

10. Avoid foods that are pretending to be something they are not

11. Avoid foods you see advertised on television

12. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle

13. Eat only foods that will eventually rot

14. Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature

15. Get out of the supermarket whenever you can

16. Buy your snacks at the farmers market

17. Eat only foods that have been cooked by humans

18. Don’t ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap

19. If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.

20. It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car

21. It’s not food if it’s called by the same name in every language (Think Big Mac, Cheetos or Pringles)

22. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves

23. Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food

24. Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eating what stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs [cows, pigs and other mammals].

25. Eat your colors

26. Drink the spinach water

27. Eat animals that have themselves eaten well

28. If you have space, buy a freezer

29. Eat like an omnivore

30. Eat well-grown food from healthy soil

31. Eat wild foods when you can

32. Don’t overlook the oily little fishes

33. Eat some foods that have been predigested by bacterial or fungi

34. Sweeten and salt your food yourself

35. Eat sweet foods as you find them in nature

36. Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk

37. The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead

38. Favor the kinds of oils and grains that have traditionally been stone-ground

39. Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself

40. Be the kind of person who takes supplements – then skip the supplements

41. Eat more lie the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

42. Regard nontraditional foods with skepticism

43. Have a glass of wine with dinner

44. Pay more, eat less

45. Eat less

46. Stop eating before you’re full

47. Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored

48. Consult your gut

49. Eat slowly

50. The banquet is in the first bite

51. Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

52. Buy smaller plates and glasses

53. Serve a proper portion and don’t go back for seconds

54. Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like pauper

55. Eat meals

56. Limit your snacks to unprocessed plant foods

57. Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does

58. Do all your eating at a table

59. Try not to eat alone

60. Treat treats as treats

61. Leave something on your plate

62. Plant a vegetable garden if you have space, a window box if you don’t

63. Cook

Happy Cow light cheese triangles - 28 calories per triangle... I cant give up cheese!

breakstone doubles
fruit
yougurt
jello(sugar free)
Pudding(sugar free)
deli flat bread
eggwhites

Onesnap thanks so much for the list - my family has been doing this for about 3 months now (with some exceptions) and it makes a huge difference. My husband came off all cholesterol and blood pressure medication eating according to this list and walking on the treadmill 45 min ~3/5 times per week and between us we've lost over 20lbs since Jan 9th

Foods I cannot live without:

Sprouts (we have about 10 kinds in the fridge at all times, makes every salad different)
Butternut Squash Fries
Greek Yogurt
Laughing Cow Light Cheese
Turkey Pepperettes
Melba Toast
Hummus
Organic White Popcorn
Egg Whites

Special K cracker chips (sea salt) and Laughing cow Queso wedges. Yummy!
Thomas everything bagel thins (100 cal per serving)
Can't believe its not butter spray
Light and Fit yogurt

Not sure if you call this diet food but I include in my diet and have had good success so far!

I'm not sure these are really diet foods, but are generally light on calories and a tasty snack and/or meal

Homemade 'brown bag' popcorn - 1/4 cup popcorn kernels, a pour of oil, and whatever seasoning you feel like - mix in a brown lunch bag for a wonderful snack for about 60 calories.
Laughing Cow or String cheese
Sea's gift seaweed snack (nori)
Cottage cheese
Popchips
Muesli
Veggie Masala burgers from Trader Joe's
Roasted Yams w/ lemon juice, soy sauce, honey, and seasonings
Pamela's Whenever bars in lemon blueberry

Winter and summer lists are very different. Once the warm weather arrives, my list will change considerably. Right now, it's frozen sugar snap peas, and star ruby grapefruit.

At night, when I'm driving home from a class or from my internship and craving something sweet, I keep repeating to myself: just go straight home and you can have a delicious, sweet and juicy grapefruit.

It is not a food but an appliance....MY VITA MIX! I use it everyday at least once.

With it I make the things I eat almost daily!

Nut butters- Almond, peanut, cashew...etc
Soups- potato & mexican ( my favs)
Dressing- Hummus Dressing
Banana, Spinach, Flax seed smoothies (my fav brekkie)
Hummus
Blended Oats
"Ice cream" ( frozen fruit blended with plain greek yogurt)
Coconut butter