Do you have a favorite food? Is there a food that you look forward to eating no matter the time of year or time of day? This question was harder to answer for myself then I had initially thought. When I thought about doing a post on a favorite food I got stuck.
What is my favorite food, or do I even have a favorite? I could be all magnamious and say my favorite food is carrots but you guys might not believe me. Or I could tell you my favorite food is brown rice, but I’d be lying.
I’ve been thinking about this all day and realized that I don’t just have one favorite food, but rather some favorite foods from different categories. When I was morbidly obese my favorite food was chocolate. Chocolate is probably not the best favorite food to have!
I didn’t have favorite foods in categories such as:
Vegetables
Grains/Beans
Meats
Fruits
Dairy
I really only liked chocolate, and the more chocolate I ate during the day the less of those other foods I ate. These days I still do like chocolate, but it isn’t a mainstay of my diet. Now, I really do have some favorite foods in the categories above. I realize that I didn’t have to give up chocolate, but instead I added in lots of other yummy foods into my list of favorites.
So here are my favorites in those categories:
Vegetables – Asparagus
Grains/Beans – Black Beans
Meats – Chicken Parmesean (I know it’s a recipe!)
Fruits – Watermelon
Dairy – Greek Yogurt (I hate milk.)
It was hard to just list one food, as there are many foods in all the categories except dairy that I really like.
Are you up for sharing your favorite foods in all or some of those categories? I think it’d be fun to see what everyone loves! Diane
Vegetables – Broccoli maybe
Grains/Beans – I can’t choose!
Meats – Chicken Parmesean (I know it’s a recipe!)
Fruits – Watermelon is awesome. Apples and pears are great too!
Dairy – I like milk
Big fan of cheese too but I don’t eat it regularly.
This was tough!
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Vegetables: I can’t decide between artichockes and spinach
Grains/beans: peas
Meats: I prefer fish to meat, so gilt-head (sea) bream (translated from wikipedia, I don’t know the name in English)
Fruits: orangine
Dairy: mató… mmm… with no translate: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%B3"mató
But it’s difficult to make a choice!
Sorry for the link. I hope it works now: mató.
When you wrote that your favorite food is something that you could eat at any time of the the day, that really limits it for me! I can’t stand to think about eating chocolate early in the morning. The only foods I would want to eat at any time of the day are bananas, strawberries, peaches and milk.
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Hmmmm, I would have to say my favorites for those categories are: asparagus, quinoa, bison, pineapple and cheese. I could definitely eat any kind of cheese at any time of the day
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This is really hard to narrow down to just one in each category!
Veggies- Brocolli, Grains- Oatmeal, Fruits-Apples, Dairy-Yougurt.
3 things on the list I eat almost daily no matter what time of year.
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Vegetables – brocolli
Grains/Beans – oatmeal
Meats – chicken
Fruits – strawberries
Dairy –yogurt
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I love this!
Vegetables – spinach
Grains/beans – chickpeas
Meats – turkey
Fruits – strawberries
Dairy – CHEESE!!!!
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Great idea!
Vegetables – Tomatoes (can they count as a veggie? I eat them that way.)
Grains/Beans – Raw green beans
Meats – Salmon
Fruits – Strawberries, but this was a toughie since I pretty much like them all.
Dairy – Any type of cheese.
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When I read this the first thing that came to my mind that I cant go without is my muesli, yogurt and fruit in the mornings!! I go to bed looking forward to my breakfast and only 40g of muesli…could have lots more, but am in control.
Heard on Dr Oz that craving chocolate could mean depression??? did you see that, saw it on twitter this morning. I do love my block of dark chocolate most days…could have more, but know better!!
Veg – Sweet potato
Grains/beans – peas
Meat – chicken
Fruit – gold kiwi’s
Dairy – yogurt
Have a good day…..just got in from a run so off to shower now…then meet a friend for coffee.
Favorites ?? You mean I have to narrow down and pick one ??? I have many favorites
Vegetables-asparagus, chard,Brussels sprouts, broccoli,spinach,kale,romaine lettuce, watercress, dandelion greens, fresh mint
fruits-pears, blueberries, apples, oranges, strawberries, mangos, pineapples,starfruit
grains-quinoa, farro and whole wheat couscous and oats in any form
meat-all are equal
beverage-coffee or water
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Here are my top picks (I added a couple of food groups that are important to me!):
Vegetable – spinach
Grain/bean- chickpeas
Vegetarian Protein (I don’t eat meat!) – tofu
Dairy substitute (I don’t do cow’s milk dairy either!) – soymilk
Fruit – fresh apricots
Nuts/seeds – almonds and ground flaxseed
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If you had not given us categories I might have said chocolate covered strawberries and apple pie a la mode!
Veggies – roasted green beans
Grains/beans – I love, love, love bread. Darn.
Dairy – Ice cream, if I am being honest. But I just discovered that I actually find blueberry yogurt (with cereal in it) quite tasty.
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Vegetables – red peppers, tomatoes
Grains – quinoa
Beans – chick peas
Protein – tofu
Fruits – raspberries and apples
Dairy – Liberte greek yogurt
I forgot fruits! I love summer fruits that are ripe: berries and melons and nectarines/peaches and cherries. Yum.
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Most Eaten:
Broccoli, Chicken, Bananas, Yogurt.
Cauliflower, bacon, 90% chocolate, blue cheese.
Not combined.
Like this post Diane! I have to say that I LOVE LOVE bread! I eat it dry unless post workout & then I add my protein PB. But nowadays I eat healthy varieties of bread. I also love my weekend cookie treat! Love oatmeal raisin & molasses!
As for the other, broccoli, oatmeal, chicken/turkey, apples, non fat Greek yogurt. I love my protein powders too as I can add them to so many foods!
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Oops, forgot my blueberries & cherries!
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OK, I’ll give it a shot:
Veg: Home grown tomatoes
Grain: Bread bread bread
Meat: Salmon
Fruit: Watermelon and red grapes
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Oh that is a tough one, to narrow things down to one!
Vegetable, green beans
Grains, sourdough bread
Meat, chicken
Fruit,strawberries
Dairy, European Yogurt
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Ooh, tough decisions-
Vegetable -asparagus (must be local though)
Grain/beans -chickpeas
Meat – Roast chicken
Dairy- Goat’s cheese
Fruit – quince from my garden-unfortunately they aren’t palatable without plenty of sugar so my homegrown raspberries are my second choice.
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I love asparagus and black beans
I love it all!!
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Some of my favorites –
Vegetables: grilled okra (must be fresh from the field)
Grains/beans: love black beans – rice, of course!
Meat: grilled mahi mahi (with some ginger – yum!)
Fruit: mangos, mangos and more mangos!!!
dairy: I won’t lie – pistachio almond ice cream.
Now I’m hungry and it’s only 9:00 a.m.!!!
Zucchini, oats, chicken, pomegranate and cheese — not necessarily in that order.
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You always ask the best questions!!
Vegetables – grape tomatoes, baby cukes, asparagus, broccoli, fresh green beans, sugar snap peas… sorry.. so many
Grains/Beans – chick peas, baked potatos (figured this was the starch section?)
Meats – Chicken, salmon
Fruits – Watermelon, Cantelope
Dairy – OLD cheddar, Activia Yogurt
ok.. now i’m hungry…
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I agree that it is so hard to just pick one thing as my favorite food. I have learned to love so much food on this healthy journey and I’m so happy to share it.
Vegetables – Asparagus
Grains/Beans – Quinoa
Meats – Black Beans (I can’t eat meat now :0( )
Fruits – Pineapple
Dairy – Greek Yogurt (It is wonderful in so many ways)
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Vegetables – Asparagus, I love spring because it is so good.
Grains/Beans – Black beans
Meats – If forced to choose, pork tenderloin marinated
Fruits – Cantaloupe, blueberries
Dairy – greek yogurt with honey
Non-meat protein – cashews or pecans
Not easy to pick ‘a’ favourite… so I’m cheating!
Vegetables – pretty much all of ‘em (except mooli or radishes – yuck!)
Grains/Beans – jumbo porridge oats (with lentils as runner up) if I’m being sensible. Bread is a BIG favourite but also my nemesis!
Proteins – a medium-rare steak (grrrrreat! says the carnivorous part of me) or a really decent free-range egg
Fruits – no contest – Pink Lady apples (closely followed by physallis and blueberries)
Dairy – Greek (or Turkish) yoghurt (but I love cheeses too)
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Hard to pick a favorite, but here it goes!
Vegetables – Cabbage (I love it in salads and cooked so many ways), but really there is not a vegetable I don’t like.
Grains/Beans – I’d say black beans as well.
Meats – A good tenderloin steak
Fruits – Strawberries
Dairy – Goat cheese or Dubliner cheese. I love cheese!
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Great question!
Favourite? Toast. If I allowed myself to I can easily eat this any time of the day. But it does funny things to my blood sugar so I dont.
Otherwise :
Veg Baby New potatoes
Grain/Beans Muesli (does that count?)
Meats Roast Lamb
Fruits A ripe peach!
Dairy Has to be cheese – goats cheese,cheddar, you name it!
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Mangos!
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Pfff this is a though one, I don’t have any real favorites especially not on fruits and vegetables. I love to eat those when it’s the season for it. Let me give some of my favorites
Vegetables – green beans, broccoli
Grains/beans – no fav here
Meats: tenderloin or chicken
Fruits: apples, strawberries, oranges, raspberries
Dairy: yogurt
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Vegetables – Broccoli
Grains/Beans – Oats!!!
Meats/protein – Probably crab.
Fruits – Strawberries and blueberries (can’t choose)
Dairy – Milk, especially in the form of a latte.
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Variety of the spice of life for me, but that said, I like spicy food!
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Okay, I was going to say my favorites are Mexican and Italian, but decided that wasn’t keeping in line with your post!
(That was before I read Jack likes spicy food, too!)
So here goes:
Veggie – broccoli
Grains/Beans – brown rice
Meat – chicken
Dairy – yogurt (haven’t tried the Greek, yet)
Fruit – strawberries
I consider myself to be a food connoisseur. This is probably not something to be when you have a food addiction like I do. But in all honesty, I am a fabulous cook… so I think the *foodie* within serves well when it comes to healthy cooking!
Here are my faves (I definitely had to think!):
Vegetables: Broccoli, Green beans, & Corn
Grains/Beans: All types of rice (especially jasmine and brown rice), multi-grain bread, black beans
Meats: Chicken breast & pork chops
Fruits: Grapes, strawberries & bananas
Dairy: String cheese, cheddar cheese, low-cal pudding, 1/2% milk and chocolate soy milk (yum!), and eggs.
Great post!! It really made me think about what my favorite things to eat are! It’s great to find out that I really do have healthy tastes after all! (sometimes eating healthy food like veggies feels a little forced. Does that make sense?)
~Kellie
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I can never decide which food is my ultimate favorite-I love the categories. I’m with you…chicken parm is definitely a food group
Vegetables – green beans
Grains/Beans – oats
Meats – fish
Fruits – berries (blueberries, strawberries, & raspberries)
Dairy – Greek yogurt
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I love questions and categories and all things food!
1. Vegetable … spinach alternated with asparagus … I just can’t pick one
2. Grains … oats ~~ Beans … garbanzo beans (I like saying this more than chickpeas … lol)
3. Meats … Shrimp!!!
4. Fruit … Cherries
5. Dairy … Greek Yogurt
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Vegetables
Roasted asparagus
Grains/Beans
quinoa..my new favorite!!
Meats
pan seared scallops
Fruits
strawberries and blueberries
Dairy
–greek yogurt!
I will however, always carry a torch for CHOCOLATE!!!
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Fruit: apples.
All others… nope, couldn’t choose. It depends on my mood. I can be fickle
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I’m not up to sharing right now, but you are totally right that when you eat more of the wrong kinds of food, you eat less of the right kinds of food.
I like chocolate too.
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Vegetables – Yellow Squash
Grains/Beans – French Bread
Meats – Tri-tip
Fruits – Watermelon, Honeydew, & Pineapple
Dairy – Cheese and Milk
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Another great post Diane, and it’s interesting to see others’favorites – I wouldn’t have guessed that asparagus and brocolli would be so popular! Anyway my favorites are carrots (roasted, with olive oil, sea salt and freshly ground pepper), followed by swiss chard chopped and roasted in the same manner. Favorite grain is polenta (homemade with parm cheese), runner up is black rice. Meat depends on the recipe – I like it spicy! Butterflied leg of lamb, marinated in a curry mixture and then grilled is a favorite, as is grilled salmon. Fruit – fresh peaches in season – I seriously can’t get enough of them! Dairy favorite is soft goat cheese.
Great post, Diane. I actually like the following:
Vegetables – Carrots
Grains/Beans – Green
Meats – Beef
Fruits – Mango
Dairy – Milk
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This is a fun and different blog.
Here’s mine:
Vegetables – Grilled zucchini and squash
Grains/Beans – Fresh cooked pinto beans, cooked with onion, garlic and some salt.
Meats – Victoria’s Fillet from Outback.
Fruits – I think I’m going with strawberries, fresh, on this one.
Dairy – Lately…smoked cheddar cheese. Yum!
Thanks for having this fun post. Now I’m off to bed.
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Fun!
Vegetables – Broccoli
Grains/Beans – Rice (white or brown)
Meats – Salmon or shrimp
Fruits – Banana or pineapple
Dairy – Cheese!
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Anything Italian. Or Captin Crunch
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