Does your family eat the top 50 healthiest foods?
The Huffington Post published a slide show of the top 50 healthy foods. I broke the list down into stuff my family eats every day, often, sometimes and never.
I think summer time makes it easy to eat all the fruit. They are shoveling down strawberries, blueberries, cherries, cantaloupe (not on the list), watermelon (not on the list). They’ll eat the spinach as a salad. We do the Brussels sprouts in the winter.
Tell me which of these foods your family is eating on a regular basis? Which won’t they touch?
Every day
Almonds –(We usually have almonds, pecans, walnuts or pistachios open and they dip in during the day.)
Apples – Always on the counter
Blueberries – Always in the fruit drawer
Brown rice (almost) – They don’t even comment on the difference. They also don’t mind whole grain pasta either.
Cherries – They love.
Coffee – This is just me.
Dark chocolate – All of us.
Eggs – Rose likes fried. Walsh and Lilina like scrambled, but none of them like boiled.
Oatmeal – Have at least three mornings a week for breakfast.
Olive oil – Sits on the counter and use in everything.
Pistachios — See almonds.
Greek Yogurt (almost) – Lilina likes the texture but the other two do not.
Skim milk
Spinach (almost – in salads)
Strawberries
walnut (almost)
Water – We carry re-fillable water bottles with us everywhere!
Often
Avocado – I have the best recipe for guacamole.
Broccoli – Walsh adores
Brussels Sprouts – Mostly in the winter
Cranberries – Mostly me.
Edamame – Costco sells frozen packages that you heat in the microwave and add salt. They love to snack on.
Ginger – Add into lots of dishes.
potatoes
salmon
sweet potatoes – they love cut into strips and baked with a little olive oil and salt.
Tomatoes – Rose loves in a caprese salad – with fresh mozzarella and basil.
Sometimes
Beets (roasted)
Beans
Red peppers
Raspberries
Black tea
Green tea
kale
Kefir
oranges
pomegranates
red wine
seaweed – on sushi
shiitake mushrooms
tuna
Never
artichokes
chia seeds
Flax seeds
Lentils
Quinoa
Sardines
Sunflower sprouts (never heard of it)
Turmeric – not in my spice drawer
White tea (don’t have any at home)
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17 comments Add your comment
homeschooler
July 16th, 2012
7:47 am
My list would look much like yours. I do love Quinoa but I have only recently started eating it and haven’t given it to my kids yet. (took it to work a few times).
Have you tried Kifer? We love it.
This is a great list. My 8 yr old is really into eating healthy. Think I’ll print it for her and let her choose things she wants to try.
jct
July 16th, 2012
8:26 am
This list looks like my refrigerator and pantry. We eat everything but sardines. I just don’t like the taste unless it is a Cesar salad.
Jessica
July 16th, 2012
8:44 am
If you want the benefit of flax seeds, try adding a little flaxseed meal to muffins, pancakes, cereal, smoothies, etc. Also, store the flaxseed meal in the fridge — one little bag lasts a long time, and the good stuff in it will deteriorate faster if you keep it in the pantry.
motherjanegoose
July 16th, 2012
8:59 am
I am all about trying new things. I have read that the more color you have in your diet, the better. My husband is a beige eater: corn, potatoes, noodles, rice etc. We give him grief about it all the time but it does not change. He WILL eat asparagrus but that is not on the list.
I love the fresh fruits in the summer. I will have to try the sweet poatotes in the oven. We loved to buy avocadoes when we lived in south Texas, as the were really cheap from the valley. TWG can you get them from California cheaper? $1 each here on sale.
Daughter is trying to get us to eat more fish. She fixed baked Tilapia on Saturday and we also love Salmon. We like Halibut but it was $17.99 lb. at Costco and I am not up for that. We do eat brussels sprouts…not my husand though.
I guess I will have to check into the seeds. I like sardines but rarely eat them…haha!
Good info!
FCM
July 16th, 2012
9:00 am
jct…sardines in a Ceasar salad? I have always used anchovies (or anchovie paste)..is there a taste difference?
Brown rice no. But mostly yes to the list.
I am working on “in season” going back to what was in season back in ‘78 – ‘85…you know before you could buy a tomato in January! I really think our bodies digestion is geared toward the agragarian (sp?) calendar.
BTW, Dreamfield pasta is 5g fiber and as healthy as whole grain but a texture like white flour pasta. YUM!!!
Augusta
July 16th, 2012
10:24 am
I don’t eat mushrooms, don’t care for tomatos or raw onions. Nor am I a big pepper fan, yellow, red, green. I love the hot peppers, jalapeno, habanero, pobano, etc.
My kids eat just about everything. They like to try different things. Our dinner plates are very colorful, and there’s a green salad with every dinner. They say you eat with your eyes first….
I keep trail mix, oatmeal bars, fresh fruit, etc constantly (I usually have to stock up on fresh fruit twice a week). We make our own trail mix, and I make oatmeal bars from a recipe on Food Network’s Pioneer Woman.
Techmom
July 16th, 2012
10:31 am
Quinoa has become a new household favorite. I basically use it in place of rice and have even experimented with a couple of other recipes. My son and his friend both looked at me funny the first time I served it to them but both went back for seconds.
We don’t eat a lot of nuts… well, I don’t. My husband and son eat them but I’ve never been a fan. I like peanut butter but not much else.
We try to eat fish once a week but no sardines here!
hey, jct...
July 16th, 2012
10:31 am
… those are not sardines on a Caesar salad – they are anchovies…
Becky
July 16th, 2012
10:56 am
My list is pretty much like your, with a few changes..We eat dried beans, potatoes and oranges a lot more than y’all do..lol..My two love fruit, so that is always in our house..I keep lots of different types of nuts around for them to snack on..
We don’t eat a lot of salmon, but we eat fish (tilapia) 3-4 times per month..And the boy loves sardines..? Not sure how that happened..lol..I haven’t tried most of the things on your never list, so will have to look for them in the grocery store and try them..
nelson
July 16th, 2012
11:21 am
Well, I started of with wheat chex,bran and raisins. Also, a multivitamin,fish oil, flomax, Q-10. Then a 10 mile bike ride and a scoop of potato salad, lunch i will have a tuna sandwhich, milk, dinner, 98%fatfree ham and potato.
After that[evening] it gets serious, a little cheese and crackers, diet coke, small bag of cheddar popcorn, ice cream, now i am winding down. top everything off with a cholesterol pill, mood pill, hypertension pill, niacin pill, a baby aspirin.
Fred ™
July 16th, 2012
11:44 am
Are we done bleeding? Is it safe to come back? We aren’t going to be using our phones to track bowel movements or other bodily discharges any time soon are we?
Class of 1990
July 16th, 2012
12:16 pm
Very, very boring and dull.
Mr. Todd
July 16th, 2012
1:27 pm
SALES SNACKS
Spike loved the museum gift shops and the Army/Navy stores more than the museums we went to. He always brought along enormous wads of his own money, stuffed in both pockets. I stopped anywhere he wanted because I like those places, too. So did everybody else. He’d pick out a military dagger or a wicked-looking survival knife out of hundreds by tapping the glass case with a fingernail; the wide-eyed shopkeeper would hand the knife to me; and then I’d hand it to Spike and Spike would silently inspect it, up and down. After Spike said he’d take it, he’d ask me for my cell phone and call his mother. Spike would always hunker over to the side somewhere, mumbling, and then he’d screech … Macaroni and cheese! He’d hand me back my phone and pay the shopkeeper.
At another Army/Navy, he’d find something else sharp and dangerous, such as a classic United States Marine Corps KA-BAR. I’d automatically hand him my phone. I could hear his mother squawk for a moment and then Spike would screech … A pig rib and some coleslaw! It was a weird and wild retail ritual, one of many from his Asperger’s repertoire that forever fascinated me and his loyal fans. All his mother wanted to know was if he had a good lunch or an early afternoon dinner. After he convinced her he ate something other than Skittles, Spike could buy anything he wanted.
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Denise
July 16th, 2012
1:34 pm
I think the reason that watermelon is not on the list is because it is high in sugar. Natural sugar, yes, but still sugar. My trainer doesn’t want me to eat it or pineapple right now, until I reach my goal weight because of the sugar content. (Meanie!)
Flax seed are good on oatmeal. Thanks for the advice on putting them in the fridge to let them last longer and for adding them to other foods like sauces. Flax seeds are good for, um, digestion. Salmon, tilapia, almonds, and walnuts went into the diet when my cholesterol was elevated and in a year my number went down over 20 points.
FCM
July 16th, 2012
4:12 pm
@ Mr Todd….you posted that already here.
Michele
July 16th, 2012
5:31 pm
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Melaine
July 16th, 2012
5:43 pm
Everything on the list but the sunflower sprouts are in our regular diet. I sprout the sunflower seeds for my chickens and never considered them for us as we prefer broccoli, alfalfa, and mung. We will be trying them soon. Flax seed meal goes into almost everything baked, salads, soups and stews. I make my own flavored add ins for oatmeal with flax seed meal and it beats any flavored oatmeal in the store. Fish should be wild caught instead of farm raised. I am surprised that amaranth did not make the list.