In Spring/Summer 2009 we are working on a 15-week series of Super Foods, nutrient-dense foods that you want to get into your diet as often as possible.
Here you can find a list of the foods and links to all related posts: Food for Thoughts (nutrition info, click the food name for FFT), Monday Missions (simple steps to eating more of the right foods), and Recipe Connections. Thanks for joining us on our journey to eat more Super Foods!
Introduction to Super Foods Series
Ask not what you can take out of your food, but what your food can put into you.
Here’s the list of Super Foods that will put a whole lot of goodness into you, in order of appearance at KS, not of importance:
- beans and legumes, especially lentils and chickpeas
- Mission
Homemade Refried Beans - yogurt
Mission
What Homemade Yogurt has Done for my Family - eggs
Mission
Recipes
Potato salad with kids’ help
Best Scrambled Eggs Ever - tomatoes
Ideas
Frugal Homemade Pizza Sauce
- broccoli (and other dark greens like kale, brussel sprouts)
Mission
How to Use Broccoli Stems
Kale Green Smoothies
Crudite Platter – One Way to Eat Veggies at Dinner - garlic
Garlic Soup
Funny Garlic Story - onions
- red and orange peppers, hot peppers
Jamaican Meat Marinade (Food for Thought in this post too) - oranges (and other citrus)
- berries
Super Fruits
Summer Fruit Dip - olive oil (general FFT on monounsaturated fats)
Primer: How to Buy, Use and Store Olive Oil
Can You Saute with EVOO?
Best Price on Bulk Olive Oil; More info on EVOO safety - pumpkin and sweet potato
Katie’s Simple Cabbage Soup with Secret Super Food
- carrots
- sunflower seeds
- oats
Mission
Homemade Granola and Granola bars - wild salmon
Mission
Salmon Patties
How to Buy Safe Salmon - walnuts and almonds (and other nuts and seeds)
Almond Power Bars
Walnut-oat Pie Crust - turkey
Sausage, Beans and Kale Soup
Turkey Chili-Topped Turkey Burgers
Frugal, Healthy Turkey Sandwiches - green or black tea
- spinach
Mission
Sausage, Spinach Pasta Toss
Honorable Mentions
- cauliflower and cabbage
Mission
Cauliflower Substitute for Mashed Potatoes
- cantaloupe
- red grapes
- watermelon
- kiwi fruit
- apples
Super Fruits (includes 2-6) - avocado
Guacamole - natural peanut butter
- whole grains
How to Read a Bread Bag - flax
How to Use and Store Flax
Anecdote
Banana Flax Muffins and Subbing in recipes - brazil nuts
- cranberry juice
- pomegranate
- artichokes
- tofu (fermented)
- cinnamon
- dark chocolate
- honey
Condiment Awareness
Super Foods Nutrition Analysis
- Part one: What’s in the Super Foods (a breakdown by nutrient)
- Part two: Fighting Disease (which Super Foods fight which diseases)
- Part three: More Fighting Disease
I just want to comment that I have really been challenged and inspired by your posts! We are integrating so many more of these super foods into our meals, and it is really not hard at all. I love my homemade granola, my oatmeal made after soaking the oats, choosing sweet potatoes rather than white potatoes, etc. etc. Easy, and much to feel good about, as I am charged with the responsibility of feeding myself and my family.
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Katie Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Hip, hip, hooray! That’s the idea, Carolyn. I’m glad you’re still out there and reading. I told Amy that someday I’m going to invite you to guest post.
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