You guys are good. My diet consists mostly of milk, cheese, sugar, and white flour. The milk is skim and organic, but the cheese is CABOT certainly not low fat.
For flour I make my own bread as much as possible,… can go weeks and weeks without buying junk grocery store bread. My bread contains - flour, water, salt, yeast. no crap. Oil, etc. Can also make pizza this way + fresh tomatoes + organic cheese.
Pasta - Really enjoy, for a sane alternative to disgusting WW pasta - Trader Joe’s multigrain with flax.
There are usually two of us eating together - BF and myself. We’re both allergic to wheat, dairy and (him) soy, so we buy very little processed stuff.
apples
organic bananas
broccoli
cauliflower
acorn squash
avocados
mushrooms
onion
salmon fillets
tilapia fillets
pork roast
aidelle’s chicken and apple sausages
dijon mustard (for the salmon)
tia rosa tortilla chips
jardines medium salsa
nutella
corn bread crumbs (for the salmon)
Palema’s bread and muffin mix (gluten free baking mix)
cranberry juice
grape juice
sour patch kids (addicted)
brown rice
arborrio rice for risotto
I like this thread, but I SUCK BADLY when it comes to food. I am the pickiest eater, maybe not on the planet, but perhaps North America.
breakfast - 2 bagels in the car on the way to work with water (Kroger brand cinnamon raisin or blueberry). A handful of blueberries before a morning workout. If workout is short (30-45 min swim or 6 mile or less run), just water. Any time on bike, either Gatorade or Accelerade.
lunch (Mon-Fri) PB&J on whole wheat, lots of grapes, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers…midafternoon snack is a Clif bar…water throughout the day
dinners -
3x/week: pasta (regular, not whole grain) no sauce (pickiness) over grilled chicken cooked in Olive Oil, heavy on the salt and spices.
1x/week: grilled salmon with rice - usually white rice (Trader Joe’s frozen, can microwave in 3 min), sometimes wild rice (20 min slow cooking).
Other dinners in the family rotation:
breaded chicken (crushed cornflakes mixed w/ flour and melted butter to create breading)
tacos (mine consist of only cooked hamburger meat w/ fat drained as good as possible…nothing else…again picky)
Frozen Chinese - chicken w/ breading and rice
Tiny ham sandwiches on the King’s Hawaiian dinner rolls (Oscar Meyer deli select)
Cereal - frosted mini wheats or Honey Nut Cheerios
Snacks - pretzels, occasional apple or banana
Over the last month I’ve been bad about chocolate candy at night (trying to help the kids blow through their Halloween treasure)
No where in there did you see vegetables. When they talk about getting your recommended daily allowance of vegetables, that’s what I consume in a month. I wish that was a joke, but its not. My diet when it comes to veges is a joke. I’ll occasionally have baby spinach leaves with mandarin oranges. More often a handful of carrots. Sometime frozen veges - corn, carrots w/ the honey glaze, beans. There is OH SO MUCH room for improvement.
There is lots of good info on here, but I thought I would give you an idea that has worked for us. We now belong to an organic food vegetable co-op. Every week we get a new basket of fresh produce based on what is available at their farms. Creates a great variety and is pretty challenging for 2 people to get through on a weekly basis. We now augment that with SPUD, organic food delivery, where we get our meats, dairy, beverages. By shopping through environments that limit your selection of “bad” foods (fatty, processed, etc.) it create a means to live a very healthy lifestyle. Now if they would just close the wine store down the way we would be good to go.
I think eating/fueling well before, druing, and after workout can be just as important as what you eat. The timing of these fueling events correlates to recovery in my opinion. Especially important on longer workouts where you are going for 2 to 3+ hours where your kcal burn is 2000 plus. I have found if i do not fuel properly for these workouts, i tend to recover much more slowly regardless of what i eat.
I think what you eat will impact more on long term wieght goals and body fat goals. Broadly, the better you eat, the leaner/lighter/faster you will get. My definition of better is alot of fruits and vegetables although i am less discerning about canned vs frozen vs fresh. Also important is finding what your body can tolerate , and balance.
We do the veggie box thing too! Love it. Which one do you guys get?
I buy most of our meat in bulk at Costco and freeze it in smaller portions. Almost everything else comes from Trader Joes or the bulk section of our local grocery store. We do have a small percentage of snack food/processed stuff that sneaks in occasionally but I’ve been really trying to minimize it…
We do Tiny’s Organic (www.ilovetiny.com) primarily because they deliver to my office and we have a fridge here where I can store it if necessary. I think it is great, though they went a little overboard on summer squash this year. Some friends of mine were kind enough to take some of it off our hands, without me having to pay them since there was so much. The other one we considered was Diamond Organics, but word on the street is the fruit from Tiny’s, especially their stone fruit, is the best.
Processed food? That’s what work is for. No sneeking required.
I think eating/fueling well before, druing, and after workout can be just as important as what you eat. The timing of these fueling events correlates to recovery in my opinion. Especially important on longer workouts where you are going for 2 to 3+ hours where your kcal burn is 2000 plus. I have found if i do not fuel properly for these workouts, i tend to recover much more slowly regardless of what i eat.
What do you mean "The timing of these fueling events"? 1 hour before/ after etc?
It’s critical to eat well before and then right after your workouts… after, muscles can synthesize glycogen at a higher rate than at rest (the receptors in the cell responsible for that glycogen resynthesis are nearer the cell membrane) so after a workout, carbs and protein, sugar is fine here, it’ll get sucked right up into your muscles. High glycemic foods are good, anything that’s going to be digested rapidly (ie avoid fat and too much protein, which take awhile to break down into lipids and amino acids).
Before workouts: eat before a morning workout, glycogen stores drop overnight. That recovery nutrition is even more critical if you’ve got a second workout later in the day, as you’re going to be pulling on your muscle glycogen again. Before other workouts (ie not first thing in the AM), snacks 90 min before or so (mostly CHO, maybe a little protein… yogurt tends to work well for me).
link to a paper I wrote for a Nutrition for Sports and Exercise class - a bit long but it’s reader friendly, might help you:
