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| Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, and asparagus are satisfying to eat and especially nutritious. |
I hear from a number of people who are looking closely at the food being promoted and the alternatives being ignored.
I look forward to going to the grocery store, especially since most items cost almost nothing, especially with the recent declines in those areas. Frozen vegetable prices have dropped quite a bit, though 20 cents a package up or down is not traumatic or exciting.
Here is my shopping list and anti-list
List of Great Foods To Eat
Fruits are the first stop - lots of blueberries, large amounts of Crisp apples, some oranges. Pineapple is great to eat when it is available. Pomegranate juice is delicious and favored by many.
Chopped frozen spinach blends in with the vegetable soup. Fresh baby spinach is good for calming the appetite later in the day.
Other chopped frozen greens I have tried are turnip, kale, and collards.
More Frozen Items:
- Chopped onions and peppers.
- Peas and carrots.
- Mushrooms.
- Combos like chopped beans, cauliflower, carrots, etc.
- Asparagus.
- Edamame, seeds only.
The daily vegetable stew starts with many of those ingredients plus tomato paste and walnuts.
Salt Warning
Americans eat too much salt, especially fast foods, but also in grocery stores.
I buy garbanzo canned beans regularly for protein and many other benefits. The bean section is very large, and most of the beans are very high in salt.
Garbanzo (chick peas) are usually 110 ml of salt.
They can also be 220 m.
Flavored beans - like pork and beans - are usually 480 ml. So are black beans, which are also lower at 220 ml.
Be warned - when they promote flavoring and "seasoning," they mean higher price and much higher salt. Did you know salt cost so much? We are all too used to it, unfortunately, and it often pushes up blood sugar. "Seasoned" frozen vegetables are double the price and very high in salt.
Total Avoidance Shopping
It has taken time, but I no longer buy:
McDonalds
Donuts
Potatoes
Fried chicken
Prepared meals
Colas, whether sugared or "non-sugar" but the same in effect -- and salted up.
Fizzy water - expensive and salinated.
Chips, Fritos, popcorn.
Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a bit extreme in some areas, but his emphasis on vegetables, fruit, nuts, and seeds is correct, better priced by far, and medicinal.
The irony is that we spend a fortune on medicines that always have side effects and often do not cure the problem. I am not anti-medicine, just cautious. Two doctors laughed at vegetables improving eyes and the fragile macula (as in macular degeneration), but I laughed inwardly at their eye drops which lower eye pressure but do not cure it.
Vegetables, fruit, nuts, and certain seeds have powerful healing built in, engineered by the Lord of Creation, the Son of God. The nutrition in each of those delicious Creation medicines has been quantified. Google "nutritional value of..." and add the food.
Everyone can nod agreement about this - Desserts and fast foods are easy to eat, but they are not so appetizing after eating fresh fruit, vegetables, and nuts. Nothing is quite so good as eating a combination of fresh or frozen vegetables on an empty stomach.
