I didn’t just buy 16 drumsticks recently. I bought a Costco variety pack that had ice cream sandwiches and Nestle crunch bars. 40 items total, I think. I do love the extra bit of solid chocolate at the bottom of the Drumsticks. Nice finishing touch.
I’m no Michael Pollan or Mark Bittman when it comes to healthy but I have found a few (mostly nutritious) things that have been working for me as I get ready for this Ironmother. Thought I’d share my top five foods these days; Sarah will spill her list tomorrow.
1. My go-to lunch at least six days a week: two slices of toasted Ezekiel bread, half of an avocado on one side, a triangle of laughing cow cheese on the other, a little salt on the avocado. Sliced up apple. Small bag of the regular (blue bag) Sun Chips, which my kids don’t like so they pile up like laundry. The combo keeps me full for at least a few good hours. I know the sandwich sounds a bit gross, but I promise: it tastes really good. (Just don’t forget the salt.)
I am not a food stylist, but trust me: these NuttZo protein balls are dee-lish!
2. NuttZo protein balls. Whipped these little nutritious, protein-packed nuggets up recently—super easy to do, as they’re just five ingredients and require no baking—and pop at least one in my mouth regularly. (Translation: 2 balls at least 2 times a day.) While they’re not quite Mint Milanos, they’re a whole bunch healthier—and honestly satisfy my sugar cravings without the crazy ups and downs that the Milanos can bring.
55 or so grams of carbs in one serving of these puppies. And they taste good too.
3. Veggie Potstickers. When I went Clean last August, I stopped eating pasta (and just about everything else, save kale and almond milk). And it’s pretty much the one thing that I haven’t brought back into my diet (back to eating cheese, drinking beer, scooping large bowls of ice cream, etc.). The nights before big workouts, I consciously try to up my carb intake. I’m a Chipotle girl for sure, but that gets expensive, so these veggie dumplings are my at-home way to carb load. Plus, the salt in the soy sauce helps replenish what I lose in sweat the next day.
4. Fish oil tablets, Vitamin D, and probiotics. I gag down a handful of pills every night: the fish oil tablets were recommended by my chiropractor to help my shoulder joint (it hasn’t been too angry lately, so I’m sticking with capsules); Vitamin D, which was recommended by a friend to help with depression and, coincidentally, happens to be the one thing my blood is deficient in (yay for returned high iron levels!); and probiotics, which are, in my mind, a good alternative to prunes or fiber. (TMI?)
Sweet and savory all in one neat chip.
5. The fifth one is a tough call: it’s a tie between cantaloupe (boring, but I really do love a good, sweet ‘loupe) and eggs (3 eggs, 2 pieces of toast, one almond milk latte after a long weekend workout is pretty much a given) and Kettle Corn Chips by Food Should Taste Good, which I’ve consumed copiously over the past few months. Can’t choose one, so I’ll just take them all.
What are your super foods—meaning super nutritious or just that you’re super into them—these days?
Absolutely love some of your “super” foods. The chocolate in the bottom of the cone in a Drumstick is my favorite part (slight lactose issue here so I don’t eat them often).
I recently found Food Should Taste Good chips that are hexagons so look like crackers. Unfortunately, the boys also discovered them and the new thing of salsa at the same time.
I’ve been on a huge cheese kick recently. And Nuttzo. I have to hide the jar from myself. May try making those bites out of it.
Just started eating Ezkiel bread. Would not have believed a breakfast could turn my mornings around-but that bread did. Yum! And really any chip by the Food Should Taste Good company is worth it. Yummy again!
Eggs from our hens, fresh asparagus daily (until it’s gone), strawberry and kale smoothies, homemade granola bars. Then there’s the GF Peanut Butter pie that I keep making with Picky Bar crust. NOT that healthy, but oh so delicious!
A square of dark (86%) chocolate – I am not a coffee drinker so it gives me a little caffeine in the morning and is high in iron. Plain yogurt, good for calcium, protein, and probiotics and useful for baking as well as eating; I dress it up with honey if I need it sweeter. Now that the kale in my garden is done, I’m looking forward to all the summer farmers market veggies; we’re already getting peppers, eggplant is just starting, and soon it will be tomatoes.
I am obsessed with the raisin Ezekial bread, topped with natural chunky peanut butter (o.k., I’ll admit…I use the kind with honey in it so it is probably not the healthiest) and apple slices. So delicious! I keep meaning to give Nuttzo a try as a P.B. alternative, though.
Love this list and agree that anything by FSTG is a go to chip. I like to eat the sweet potato ones with a thing of Laughing Cow chips. I am a Justin’s Nut Butter fan and love the Maple Almond Butter or Chocolate Hazelnut Butter on a ww waffle with either a cut up banana or some blueberries. That’s my “go to” breakfast. I am also digging the Fage 0% with honey (that cold honey in the yogurt tastes like candy!) and Strawberry Goji. (What the heck is a Goji anyway?)And peach season is just starting here in Georgia. A peach with every meal and snack? Why not?
What is the recipe for the nutzo protein bars?
My go to heathly item especially in the heat it a protein smoothie with fruit(strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, banana), yogurt, orange juices, ( can add scoop of protein powder), ice and a ton of spinach.
Great way to recover after a hot run and a great way to get my son to get some veggies without him even noticing!
That sandwich sounds yummy!
Nutzo recipe here: https://gonuttzo.com/recipes/2013/nuttzo-protein-balls/
My newest addiction is Sunbutter (no peanut butter allowed in our house thanks to my daughter’s nut allergy). Mmmmmmmmm!
I just made Nuttzo “peanut butter cups” almost all natural. Yummy! I feel better eating Nuttzo instead of peanut butter, thanks for giving it away at your events (that’s where I got hooked).
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I actually think that sandwich sounds amazing. Nice list here of new things for me to try!
Triscuits with goat cheese. Only mildly healthy but very yummy.
Terra Sweets and Beets Chips are really good. (I love a good potato ship.) I too love that Nutzo spread;particularly on banana or apple slices.
Thanks for this list–looking forward to Sarah’s. Healthy eating is my achilles heel–I just have a hard time doing it and fall back too often on Goldfish crackers and the other “kid food” I have around the house. Your lunch sounds *tasty* and lunch is my worst meal for just scrounging. If I could have the same healthy filling thing every day, it might all go better. I’m signing on!
I have a ton of food allergies and a 32g pack of Justin’s Vanilla Almond Butter and a banana is my go to. The Vanilla Almond has been a bit hard to find in stores as of late (it was a Whole Foods Market exclusive product, but not anymore), but I actually bumped into Justin, the owner, recently and he promised me—when he saw the desperation on my face—that the supply will be back up soon.
Love. I am obsessed with avocado and Laughing Cow. I like a good egg sandwich on wheat with avocado, the LC queso fresco and grilled tomato. The most important thing is that the egg is still a little runny. Protein, good carbs and healthy fats.
green smoothies. Kale, apple, mango, pineapple, coconut water, greek yogurt and chia seeds! fills me up for half the day!
have you tried the maple almond butter? Its delicious as well. I don’t know if it comes in the tiny packs, but it does come in bigger jars
After a long run or bike ride I LOVE toasted whole wheat waffles with Juntine’s Chocolate Hazelnut Butter with a sliced banana. I make a sandwhich out of it!! SOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD:-)
My morning green smoothie I can’t live without (strawberries, blueberries, chia seed, swiss chard, avacado and banana). My morning snack is a scant cup of homemade granola (made with olive oil instead of butter) mixed with pumpkin seeds, nuts and a dried fruit.
Lunch is a boring salad that I need to learn to liven up but it usually contains beans (or I’ll eat hummus on the side).
I’m trying like crazy to be gluten free but really do hate to give up all bread and all baked goods.
Bought my first loaf of Ezekial bread last week after I read Matt Frazier of NoMeatAlthete talk about his avacado and Ezekial bread sandwhich for lunch. Nice recipe Dimity….can’t wait to try it.
I am into Calbee Snack Salad’s Baked Snapea Crisps. Instead of on a salad as the bag says to do, I eat them like potato chips…one after another. The bag is small enough that I don’t feel too guilty when I reach in and touch only the bottom of the bag!
Me too!! it is such a yummy combination isnt it?
I love a whole wheat waffle with pesto and and egg, it is delicious, if you are looking for savory! Your waffles sounds great too, just thought I’d throw that out there!
I started making flax granola (soaked flax seeds cooked for an hour, then with all kinds of stuff mixed in: coconut, dried apricots, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts, the kitchen sink…) and eating it with apple and almond milk. It’s pretty darn delicious, but as anyone who eats flaxseed knows: DEFINITELY a post-run food, not something to eat before a run. Plenty of fiber in those suckers.
I also love Ezekiel English muffins with peanut butter or almond butter and raisins before long runs, Picky Bars before shorter runs, and my new favorite easy dinner: coconut red lentil soup (takes like 30 minutes, 25 of which are hands-off).
I have been dying to try Nutzo since the podcast interview–it sounds perfect.
Ooh, what a great list! Thanks for sharing, and I’d never heard that about Vit D, so I might have to give it a try. My iron has been low on occasion and definitely have weird depression swings (thank goodness for running!). I appreciate this post!!!
I second the vote for Justin’s Chocolate Hazelnut butter. I could eat a jar in one sitting if I thought it didn’t matter. It is high-end Nutella.
Here’s my top five here lately:
1. Avocado in any shape or form. Didn’t eat these at all until January of this year when I did a Daniel Fast. Can’t get enough of them now…especially love them with eggs and salsa.
2. Chia seeds. I add them to my Nuun on days I run and to my green smoothies.
3. Pistachios. The calories you burn shelling them should make these a negative calorie food, right?
4. Watermelon with salt.
5. Coffee. I think our summer schedule is busier than the school year. Gotta have it :)
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