The Best Practice to Choose Right Foods – A List of Best and Worst Foods
Written by Yasar Shahzad Friday, 02 July 2010 19:47
The Best Practice to Choose Right Foods – A List of Best and Worst Foods
Probably the best way to start learning how to pick the right foods and make fat burning meals is to tell you what NOT to eat. If you know what not to eat, then through a process of elimination, you’ll be much more likely to choose the right things. Make sense?
The 12 worst fat-storing foods you should never eat
1. Ice cream
2. Fried foods
3. Doughnuts and pastries
4. Candy, chocolate & sweets
5. Soda
6. Fruit “drinks” and other sugar-sweetened beverages
7. Potato chips
8. Bacon, sausage
9. White Bread
10. Hot dogs, fast food burgers
11. Cookies
12. Sugary breakfast cereals
How to Improve your Food choices: Some Healthy Alternatives to Junk Foods
If you’re in tears right now because I just took away all of your favorite foods, and you’re wondering, “What the heck does that leave me?” don’t worry. I’m going to tell you exactly what new foods to put in place of your old, “low grade” food choices. Although all the foods listed as alternatives are not “A-grade” foods, they are all improvements over the old “low grade” foods.
Poor Choice Choose Instead
Whole milk Non-fat, skim or 1% low fat milk
White Bread 100% Whole wheat or rye bread
Ice Cream Low-fat, non fat, or sugar free frozen yogurt, fruit sorbet
Tuna in Oil Tuna packed in water
Buttered Popcorn Light microwave or air popped popcorn
Regular crackers 100% Whole wheat or rye crackers, rice cakes
Dorito's, Potato chips Baked tortilla chips (Baked Tostitos or Guiltless Gourmet)
Doughnuts Sugar-free, whole grain muffins, bagels, English muffins
Whole Eggs Egg whites
Cheese Low or non-fat cheese (Weight Watchers, Lite & Lively)
Canned Fruit in Syrup Canned fruit in own juice, fresh fruits
Sugar & Sweets Fruit
Table Sugar Equal, Sweet N Low, Stevia
Fried Chicken Broiled or microwaved skinless chicken breast
Jelly or Jam All Fruit no sugar jelly (Polander’s, Simply Fruit, etc.)
Fruit Drinks 100% fruit juice
Regular Soda Diet Soda, Crystal Lite, etc
Prime Rib Round steak,lean sirloin, flank steak
Butter Fleischman nonfat butter spread, Molly Mcbutter
Supermarket Oils Pam cooking spray (light coating) extra virgin olive oil
Cream Cheese Low or non-fat cream cheese
Mayonnaise Low or non-fat mayonnaise
French Fries Baked potato
Jell-O Sugar free Jell-O
Sugary Cereals Shredded Wheat, or any whole grain, low sugar cereal
Flavored, sweetened oatmeal Old-fashioned whole oats (Quaker oats)
Ham, cold cuts, Bologna Turkey & chicken breast
Bacon, Sausage, hot dogs Very lean ham, chicken, turkey, turkey franks
Fried Chicken Broiled, baked, or micro waved skinless chicken breast
Popsicles Frozen juice bars, Frozen yogurt bars, sugar free Popsicles
The Top Twelve Best Foods you should eat regularly
OK, now that you know what you shouldn’t eat, let’s talk about what you should eat. This recommended food list, called “the terrific twelve,” might be the most
valuable resource in this entire program.
Although the possible variety in your food choices is nearly infinite, these are the staple foods that will make up the foundation of your program. Variety is important, but these are the foods you can’t go wrong with and the ones you’ll keep coming back to time after time.
The 12 best foods you should eat all the time
1. Oatmeal (or other whole grain cooked cereals such as barley, wheat, rye, etc)
2. Yams (or sweet potatoes)
3. Potatoes (white or red)
4. Brown Rice
5. Whole wheat bread and 100% whole grain products
6. Vegetables
7. Fresh Fruit
8. Low fat & non fat dairy products (yogurt, cheese, milk, etc)
9. Chicken or turkey breast
10. Egg whites (or “egg beaters”)
11. Lean red meat (top round, extra lean sirloin)
12. Fish and shellfish
