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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Alphabetical List Of Foods On My Weight-Loss Diet

These are the foods that I am allowing on my diet for the next 6 weeks (until April 1, 2013) and also for the next 18 months (until August 14, 2014) — provided they are available in season:

Whole Grains, Organic:
Amaranth (Gold Mine Natural Foods)
Barley, Bronze (Gold Mine Natural Foods)
Barley, Ethiopian (Gold Mine Natural Foods)
Barley, Golden Waxy (Gold Mine Natural Foods)
Barley, Purple Prairie (Timeless Foods)
Brown rice, basmati (Lundberg Family Farms)
Brown rice, jasmine (Lundberg Family Farms)
Brown rice, long (Lundberg Family Farms) 
Brown rice, medium (Golden Rose, available in bulk, Lundberg Family Farms)
Brown rice, short (Lundberg Family Farms)
Brown rice, sweet (available in bulk, Lundberg Family Farms)
• Buckwheat groats
• Corn on the Cob
• Millet
• Oat groats
• Quinoa, traditional
Quinoa, Inca red
• Rye berries
• Teff
Wild rice (Lundberg Family Farms)

(NOTE: no ground flour, rolled flakes, or polenta until after 4/1/2013)

Vegetables:
• Bok choy
• Broccoli 
• Broccolini (baby broccoli)
• Brussels sprouts
• Burdock root
• Cabbage, Chinese 
• Cabbage, green
• Cabbage, purple 
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Corn on the cob
• Cucumber 
• Daikon white radish
• Dandelion greens
Edamame  
• Fennel
• Garlic
• Ginger root
• Green beans (fresh from the garden)
• Green onions (scallions)
Kale, curly
Kale, dinosaur
Kale, green
Kale, red
• Leeks
Lettuce (including bib, butter, iceberg, leaf, romaine, etc.) 
• Onions
• Parsnip
• Peas, green split, dried
• Peas, snow
Peas, yellow split, dried
• Pumpkins (see squash, winter) 
• Red radishes
• Shallots
Squash, summer (yellow, yellow crookneck, pattypan, button, zucchini, etc.)
Squash, winter (including acorn, butternut, buttercup, delicata, blue hokkaido, kabocha, sugar pie pumpkin, red kuri, turban, etc.)  
• Sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes) (fresh from the garden) 
Sweet potato, Japanese
Sweet potato, Hannah
• Turnip
Yam, Garnet
Yam, Jewel 
• Zucchini (see also squash, summer) 

Beans and legumes:
Aduki beans (azuki, adzuki, aduki)
• Chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
Lentils, black beluga (Timeless)
Lentils, brown
Lentils, green
Lentils, orange/yellow
Peanuts (on special occasions) 

Nuts and Seeds:
• Almonds
• Cashews
• Hazelnuts (filberts)
• Pecans
• Pumpkin seeds 
• Sesame seeds
• Sunflower seeds
• Walnuts

Sea Vegetables:

• Arame
• Dulse 
Kombu (Rising Tide Sea Vegetables)
Nori (Rising Tide Sea Vegetables)
Wakame (Rising Tide Sea Vegetables)

Condiments and Seasonings:
Ohsawa Nama Shoyu, Organic Unpasteurized Soy Sauce, Gold Mine Natural Foods
Seaweed Gomasio, Eden Foods
Ume plum vinegar, Eden Foods
Umeboshi salt plums, Eden Foods
Celtic Sea Salt, light gray unrefined, Selina Naturally 

Special Occasion Spices and Extracts:
Almond extract
Anise extract
Cardamom
Cayenne pepper
Chili pepper
Cinnamon
Cloves 
Cream of tartar
Cumin
Nutmeg
Pepper, black
Pepper, white
Vanilla bean

Dried or Fresh Herbs and Teas:
bancha tea
basil
bay leaves
green tea
kukicha twig tea
lemon balm
oregano
parsley
rosemary
sage
saffron
thyme

Peels, rinds, and juice for flavoring:
lemon
orange

Related blog articles:
The First Six Weeks Of My Weight-Loss Diet
My Own Fat Camp
Lemon Balm, A Friendly Cheerful Herb
Vegetables For Centering
My Notes On The Macrobiotic Centering Diet