A Dietitian's View

These foods should make up your healthy base and should be eaten almost daily. The sometimes foods include foods like white rice, pasta, white bread, pancakes, canned fruit in light syrup, potato salad, french fries, 2% milk, light ice cream, regular cottage cheese, chicken leg, eggs, sunflower seeds, low fat salad dressing, and light cream cheese. These foods you should not have every day, but a few times a week is ok. The rarely foods include foods such as biscuits, doughnuts, sugared cereals, fruits canned in heavy syrup, hashbrowns, creamed vegetable soups, whole milk, ice cream, cheese, bologna, spareribs, fried chicken, sausage, butter, stick margarine, and cream cheese. These foods should only be eaten once in a while. If you eat a lot of these types of foods, you can try replacing them with a food in the often category. For instance, replace your daily cinnamon roll with a cinnamon raisin wheat english muffin. Or order a side of fruit instead of the hashbrowns when you eat out at a restaurant. Take a look at what you eat in a whole day by recording it in a journal. Try it for a couple days and this will give you a good place to start. You'll be able to see what you need to add in and what you should think about cutting back on. It's National Nutrition Month - do something good for yourself! Good Luck!