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VarietyOne of the keys to maintaining a successful healthy diet is variety. If you are eating the same old foods over and over every day you will get bored and end up quitting your healthy eating plan. By ensuring you eat a variety of foods, you will keep things interesting and you will obtain an array of nutrients from a number of different foods. Variety is the key to a healthy balanced diet. There are 6 main categories you can break foods down into 1) Vegetables 2) Breads, Cereals, Rice, Noodles and pasta 3) Dairy 4) Fruit 5) Meat, Fish, Poultry, eggs. 6)Sweets, fats and oils Within these categories there is an amazing amount of different foods you can cook for each serving. Each category also has recommended daily servings which are discussed more in the food intake section of this website. Below is a brief overview of what some of your servings for each category could be. Be adventurous and try different foods and recipes. Hopefully this list will give you some new ideas. 1) VegetablesAvocado Artichoke Asparagus Bamboo Shoot Beans Bitter Melon Broccoli Carrots
Celery Chick Peas Corn Cucumber Eggplant Fennel Garlic Ginger Jalapenos Leek Lettuce Mushrooms Nuts Onion Parsley Parsnips Peanuts Peas Peppers Potatoes Pumpkin Radish Rhubarb Shallot Snow peas Soybeans Spinach Sprouts Squash Sweet Potatoes Sweet corn Tomato Turnip Yam Zucchini2) Breads, Cereals, Rice, Noodles and pastaBread: pita, rolls, tortillas, muffins, buns, Italian etc Breakfast Cereals Couscous Muesli Noodles: Egg, Udon, Hokkien, Vercimilli Oats Pasta: spaghetti, macaroni, fettuccini, penne etc Pearl Barley Rice Wheat
3) Dairy
Cheese: Curds, Cottage, normal, feta Cream Milk: skim, buttermilk, goats, soy, coconut, rice
4) FruitBanana Blueberries Cantaloupe Cherry Cranberry Grapefruit Grapes Honey Dew Kiwi Fruit Legume Lemon Lime Mandarin Mango Nashi Pear Olive Orange Papaya Peach Pear Plum Rock melon Strawberries Tomato Watermelon5) Meat, Fish, Poultry, eggsBacon Beef Buffalo Chicken Crab Eggs Halibut Ham Kangaroo Lamb Lobster Pork Salmon Sardines Shrimp Squid Swordfish Tuna Turkey6)Sweets, fats and oils
Try to avoid these, we all know what they are!!!
Of course there are many more items of food under each category so go and visit your local supermarket and start to explore it and you will be amazed with the great healthy foods u find there.
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