Healthy foods forum???

[Jiffer]

My weaknesses are the snack type foods. I love pretzles, nuts, and some sweet treats as well.

Nuts are great for you! Especially almonds. Just today I was eating nuts and told myself I needed to eat more of them (instead of cookies and chocolate). Of course, TOO much of anything can be bad, and you don't want to eat them just to eat them out of boredom when you're not even hungry, but if you're gonna have a snack, nuts are a great choice.

[abvnx]

heres a organic and vegan nutrition guide. it has meal plans and stuff.

http://www.organicathlete.org/index....108&Itemid=277

[deeaimond]

Nuts are great for you! Especially almonds. Just today I was eating nuts and told myself I needed to eat more of them (instead of cookies and chocolate). Of course, TOO much of anything can be bad, and you don't want to eat them just to eat them out of boredom when you're not even hungry, but if you're gonna have a snack, nuts are a great choice.

I like baked almonds with dried cranberries. They're a good mix and u can get organic and cane sweetened.

Chocolate is not bad either. Stay away from the likes of hersheys and cadbury, but some good dark chocolate once is a while is excellent for general well-being. try Green & Blacks organic chocolate range. They have a Mayan (Gold??) one, and its spiced slightly and orange scented. Not too sweet too. I love it, excellent pick-me-up on a dreary afternoon.

As for HFCS, when I was in the US, I generally found things overwhelmingly sweet. Even cookies and such. Packaged cookies here are not as sweet, and also when I look at ingredients lists I see identifiable ingredients (and I'm talking about some cheap run of the mill factory made cookies, not special bakery sort of cookies). I think its all in the tastebuds. Mainstream Americans have gotten used to alot of sugar in their diet.

[jillm]

I recently discovered the site 101cookbooks.com. Just bought her book "super natural cooking". Haven't used it yet, but there's a lot of whole grain goodness going on!