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Menu planning

Your goal

  • Avoid refined foods.
  • Select a variety of natural foods for adequate intake of balanced amino acids, vitamins, mineral, and trace elements by eating "food as grown".

Best choice

All fresh fruits:

  • If frosen choose them unsweetened
  • If canned choose juice or water pack
All greens: Espacially turnip, mustard, collard, and radisch

All herbs


All legumes: Beans, peas, lentils, and garbanzos

All whole grains: Use three kinds daily

Use nuts in moderation : Almonds, fibers, pecans and walnuts are tops.

Use seeds in moderation: Sunflower, sesame, pumkin, etc.

Avoid
Refined foods:
  • Oil,margarine, shortening, mayonnaise, sugar, syrup or jams
  • White bread, white rice, degerminated cornmeal
Animal products: Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, mild products

Nutritionla needs (except for vitamin B12) can be secured from a daily use of:
  • Fresh fruit riche in vitamin C
  • Yellow or red vegetable
  • Green vegetable
  • Tree types of whole grains
  • Legumes (3-4 times a week)
  • Tubers as desired
  • Olives as desired
  • Nuts and seeds sparingly

A suggested shopping list of basic staples for healthful cooking

Grains
Brown rice
Oats, rolled
Millet
Craked wheat
Whole wheat flour
Cornmeal
Rye flour
Nuts and seeds
Almonds
Cashews
Walnuts
Pecans
Sunflower seeds

Legumes
Garbanzos, dry
Soybeans, dry


Miscellaneous
Dates
Carob powder
Unsweetened coconut
Do-pep or high gluten flour

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