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
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Legumes
Garbanzos, dry
Soybeans, dry
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Miscellaneous
Dates
Carob powder
Unsweetened coconut
Do-pep or high gluten flour |
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