What are your healthy staple foods?

[tulip]

So I'd have to say my healthiest staple foods during Spring-Fall tend to be greens from the garden mostly.

Same here. Right now I'm eating alot of salads and kale. Pretty soon, peas, beans, and tomatoes. I'm behind on planting my zucchinis!

(I wish they made Rollos with dark chocolate!)

[Pedal Wench]

To get veggies into breakfast, I love putting spinach and mushrooms in a bowl, cover with a mix of eggwhites and whole eggs (or a mix of egg-beaters and an egg) and microwave it all. Sometimes a little turkey sausage for flavor.

Another thing I just discovered are little packages of roasted seaweed sheets. Crunchy, slightly salty and just a bit of fat from sesame oil. Gets me through a chips craving.

[GLC1968]

I've gotten into the habit of buying multiple bags of frozen organic veggies during the off-garden-season. It makes eating them super quick and easy and they never spoil if I can't get to them in a couple of days!

We eat a LOT of eggs. We've currently got upwards of 7 dozen in our fridge! Fresh, free-range...and WAY tastier than store bought eggs. I find myself altering 'healthy' recipes that call for only egg whites so that I can add the yolks. I just cannot toss away dark orange yolks! Both my husband and I passed our life insurance physical with flying colors. I've always had low cholesterol, but his has traditionally been borderline and his numbers were really good.

Other staples for us: tons of fruit, cabot 75% cheddar cheese, almonds, homemade granola, steel cut oats, our crockpot and our grill.

[Catrin]

I neglected to mention steel-cut oats, blueberries, really any kind of berry. Berries are my favorite fruit. I also tend to use walnuts and pecans quite often.

[Crankin]

My diet is similar to others here, but I still don't eat enough veggies. I do eat a lot of fruit. Lots of avocados, eggs, nuts, blueberries, and some Greek yogurt.
Eggs are low fat. Yeah, they have cholesterol, but since i started eating eggs for breakfast more frequently, my cholesterol has also gone down, too (well, 10 years of cycling helped, too). And Jiffer, I buy bags of those little packets of nuts and cranberries from Trader Joe's. They fill you up and are good for you. Last year, I made a concerted effort to eat tuna and salmon at least twice a week. I ate these foods before, but not always twice a week.
I only eat healthy food, but I eat a variety of stuff. I eat red meat (usually flank steak) and pork about once every ten days. Otherwise, it's chicken, turkey, fish, or vegetarian. I have dessert maybe twice a month? In the summer, I do indulge in soft serve ice cream with a dip of chocolate covering; it's low fat and I get a kiddie size.
I don't do supplements or any of the other things I read about, like fasting or detox. I try to eat a variety of natural, healthy foods and drink lots of water. Oh yes, and a glass of red wine at least 3 times a week.

[OakLeaf]

Veggie staples for me (besides onions and LOTS of garlic) would be mostly greens. Especially kale and chard, which have such a long growing season that they're available almost all year round.

I always have carrots and celery in the house, for soups and stews. Ordinarily I have tomatoes and tomato sauce, too, but last year's crop was mostly wiped out by bacterial speck, I've run through what little I was able to freeze, and commercial tomatoes in jars aren't easy to find around here. Squashes are high on my list too - costata romanesco zucchini in season, lots of butternut to overwinter.

Plenty of parsley, too - I think when you're using more than a half cup of something it graduates from a seasoning to a vegetable.

[KnottedYet]

All my food is healthy.

Nothing I eat has measles, or chicken pox, or mumps. All very healthy food.

Now, whether it's all healthful or not remains open to debate.

[/snark]
(I watched the word "healthful" die a sad unheralded death back in the 1990's. I still mourn...)

I do find it interesting how many of us either saw our own or our spouse's cholesterol improve eating whole eggs. Guess my doctor wasn't crazy, eh?

[indysteel]

I neglected to mention steel-cut oats, blueberries, really any kind of berry. Berries are my favorite fruit. I also tend to use walnuts and pecans quite often.

When we were in Utah, we went to a cafe for breakfast every morning call the Mean Bean where I got a daily bowl of steel-cut oats that came with almonds, raisens and dried cranberries. To that, I added a side of really fresh blackberries, raspberries and strawberries. It was delish!

[aadkins74]

A CSA share is my first staple - 3 years ago DH and I started with a half share of 20 weeks of vegetables/goodies. This year we decided to graduate to a full share because we spent last year buying local veggies and fruit to supplement our half share. I also have a 6 x 3 raised bed for extra greens and herbs.

Fridge & pantry:
nonfat greek yogurt
hummos
brown rice
canned low sodium & dry beans
whole wheat & unbleached white flour
eggs
egg whites (add equivalent volume of egg whites to whole egg to make b-fast burritos)
avacados
quinoa
dried fruit
local honey
steel cut oats
chopped nuts (I buy walnuts, almonds & pecans, mix them and add to oatmeal)
spices (mostly for mediterranean and indian flavors)
tomato juice
grapefruit juice
winter squash & sweet potatoes (to make baked chips or roasted cubes for salad)
kettle cooked reduced fat potato chips (gotta indulge every now and then)
5 year old whole wheat & rye sourdough starter
truvia & raw sugar (DH will only use sugar, seems to use less if raw)
oranges, lemons, & limes

Freezer:
fish (no farm raised, mostly wild caught cod, salmon & halibut)
locally raised chicken & turkey
locally raised beef
single serving size raspberry sorbet (i can't be trusted with a 'normal' size )

[txcyclist]

This is all great information! Here are my wholesome faves:

Eggs
Low fat cheese
Sourdough bread (put those three together and you've got an egg "mockmuffin"--a common breakfast for me)
Old fashioned oats (I prefer cooked with milk)
Milk
Maple syrup for my oatmeal
Extra lean turkey bacon
Deli turkey
Chicken breasts
Tons of salad -- baby greens, shredded cabbage, bell peppers, cherry tomatoes
Supplemented with other crunchies....nuts, water chestnuts, chow mein noodles (just a little bit!), seeds
And some sweet accents...in moderation as well...mandarin oranges packed in juice, golden raisins, chopped apple, dried cranberries
Grapes! Lots of 'em
Tofu
Brown rice
Extra lean ground turkey and beef
Salmon, shrimp, and other fish would be on the list but my husband hates seafood so I only eat it when I dine out (similarly, he abstains from some foods I find too stinky to bear)
Other treats...kashi chewy granola bars, kashi golean and golean crunch, skinny cow ice cream sandwiches (not health food but a step up from a drive thru milkshake)

[Poleride]

These are my healthy Staple foods
Grapes,
bananas,
blueberries
Almonds
Chicken breast
Peanut butter
Whole Wheat Bread
asparagus
brocolli
red onions
eggs
chicken
natural nut butters

[aquamoose32]

Looks like the tread of this is...fresh food, not packaged food. Pretty simple to eat healthy when its not processed.