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When I think of super foods I envisage a mum eating a head of raw broccoli and then feeling like she could fly into her housework with a cape! I tried eating from my super food list for 21 days to investigate the notion that you are what you eat.
Summary? Short of feeling like I needed a cape for my efforts, I  did feel fired-up and energetic. Yes! I was a woman on a natural high!Â
On the final day I decided to conclude my experiment with a stop at my local bakery. Actually, I had been secondhand clothes shopping for way too many hours and there wasn’t a capsicum i site. So I bought myself a big, fat piece of bakery carbohydrate. My choice? One of those pizza scrolls dripping with cheese, mayo and other nasties.
Result?
Within 10 minutes of eating my large bread roll I noticed an immediate feeling of depression. My mood was extremely low and I wanted to drive myself home, slump on the couch and have a big nanna nap.
I didn’t realise how fantastic these super foods were making me feel until my greasy bread roll experiment.
Handy super foods list
The reason I originally researched and wrote this list was because I thought it would be fantastic to have the list handy for snacking. I’m a big grazing type of eater. I will eat small handfuls of different kinds of foods throughout the day. I’ll snack in the car, at my desk and will pop to the fridge between writing articles like these for a break. Ok. I admit it. Food has always been a great comfort to me and I do use food to lift my mood.
So I got thinking. If super foods were the only snack in arms reach, it wouldn’t matter what I snacked on, as long as the snack was healthy.
Snacking only on super foods was the goal. So the mission with this list was to create a go-to resource that would include purely healthy super foods.
When shopping for the family I will pick some snacks off the list and purchase them so I will always have some healthy snacks on hand.
Super foods trivia
Believe it or not the term Super Food is actually a marketing term. But the term has evolved into a general way to categorise foods, which might make a person feel, well…super! When I think of eating super foods now, I think about a more ‘super’ me. I certainly did bounce out of bed faster, I had more energy for the kids, and housework was less of a chore when I was eating purely super foods for those three weeks.
Marketing tricks aside, super foods do make me feel happier, they improve my mood and they give me energy.
After eating from this list for three weeks I felt amazing. If you want to try it – simply purchase and eat from anything on this list for a period of 21 days. This is enough time to change previous bad habits.
Don’t forget to post your thoughts and comments. Share your knowledge about your experience eating super foods.
Keep this list handy when you are planning your next grocery shop. Simply pick items from the list that you enjoy eating and add them to your diet. Soon you will notice great improvements in your mood and energy levels.
250 super foods for a better you
Beans
- Black beans
- Butter Beans
- Dried Beans
- Garbanzo beans
- Kidney beans
- Lima beans
- Navy beans
- Pinto beans
- Soy Beans
- Sushi
Bread
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Rye
- Spelt
- Wholegrain breads
- Sprouted grain
- Wheat-free
- Whole-wheat
- Wholegrain
- Buckwheat
Cereal
- Wholegrain types
- Oats
- Natural muesli
Dairy
- Almond Cream
- Almond milk
- Almond nut butter
- Cheese, low fat
- Cottage cheese
- Egg whites
- Eggs – Omega 3
- Frozen yogurt
- Goat’s cheese
- Hummus
- Organic butter
- Organic products
- Organic yogurt
- Pecorino cheese
- Rice milk
- Sheep’s cheese
- Skim milk
- Soya milk
- Soya products
- Soya yogurt
- Yogurt with cultures
- Yogurt, low fat
- Unsalted nuts
Drinks
- Black tea
- Fresh juices
- Green tea
- Orange Juice – fresh
- Red wine
- Yerba Mate tea
- Water
- Wheat grass in juices
- Wholegrain pasta
Frozen
- Frozen berries
- Frozen Yogurt
- Turkey, skinless
Fruit – dried
- Cranberries
- Dried Apricots
- Figs
- Prunes
- Raisins
- Raw sauerkraut
Fruit – fresh
- Acai
- Apples
- Apricots
- Bananas
- Berries
- Black olives
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Cantaloupe
- Cherries
- Coconut
- Young Coconut (Kefir)
- Cranberries
- Grapefruit
- Grapes
- Honeydew melon
- Kiwifruit
- Lemons
- Limes
- Mango
- Nectarines
- Oranges
- Papaya
- Peaches
- Pears
- Pineapple
- Plums
- Pomegranates
- Raspberries
- Red Apples
- Strawberries
- Watermelon
Seafood
- Herring
- Mackerel
- Oysters and prawns
- Raw fish
- Salmon, canned
- Salmon, fresh
- Tuna, canned or fresh
Takeaway
- Baked Potatoes
- Japanese food
- Mango
- Greek salad
Rice
- Arborio rice
- Barley
- Brown rice
- Jasmine rice
- Wild Rice
Pulses
- Bulgur
- Corn
- Millet
- Oats
- Quinoa
Misc
- Artichokes
- Miso soup
- Seaweed (Nori)
- Soya products
- Umeboshi plums
Sweet fix
- Add spices to fruit
- Cinnamon
- Cinnamon on apple
- Fruit for topping
- Manuka honey
- Dark Chocolate
- Raw nuts
- Something crunchy
- Fresh fruit
- Pineapple
- Peach
- Fruit pudding
- Halve sugar intake
- Natural canned fruit
- Pure fruit sorbet
- Raspberry sauce
- Spoon of honey
- Yogurt with fruit
Vegetables
- Asparagus
- Avocados
- Beans
- Beetroot
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts
- Cabbage
- Capsicum
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Chilli peppers
- Corn
- Cucumbers
- Daikon radishes
- Eggplant
- Fresh herbs
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Green beans
- Kale
- Mushrooms
- Shitake mushrooms
- Onions
- Parsley
- Peas
- Portobello Mushrooms
- Potatoes
- Pumpkin
- Rainbow chard
- Romaine lettuce
- Salads – general
- Spinach
- Sprouts
- Summer squash
- Sweet potato (kumara)
- Swiss chard
- Tomatoes
- Turnip greens
- Winter squash
- Yams
Vitamins
- Alpha Lipioc Acid
- Bio Magnesium
- Echinacea Ace Complex
- Food Enzyme
- Mega B Complex
- Multivitamins
- Omega 3 Salmon Oil
- Probiotics
- Spirulina
- St John’s Wort
- Symbiotic Acidophilus
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B
- Vitamin D
