Healthy Packaged Foods + Brands I Love

You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were. 
                             -Linda Sanchez

Eating and cooking with real food is very important to me and my family.  Real food means high energy and a happy and mobile body.  I realize that life can be busy and so time-consuming that we may not be able to cook the freshest meals all the time.  Hey, we're human, and life happens! 

If you find that you are short on time or just have a lack of energy to cook, then grab some healthy packaged foods and go for it! 

I have created a list of my favorite packaged foods and brands that I keep stocked in my kitchen.  I mostly do my food shopping at Giant, but sometimes travel to Target, Wegman's and a local organic market to get the goodies. 

There are many healthy brands in the market today, but these are the brands that are widely available to me and taste-tested approved! 

Snack Bars 
Look for real ingredients and no added sugars. 

1. Lara Bars
2. RX Bars
3. Epic Bars Meat bars + sticks 
4. That’s it  Fruit bars
5. Pressed by Kind

Tomato Sauces

1. Victoria Organic
2. Muir Glen

Flours/Nuts/Seeds/Oats

1. Bob’s Red Mill

Nut Butters 
Look for just for one ingredient, nuts!

1. Crazy Richard’s Peanut Butter
2. Simply Balanced Almond Butter

Breads/English Muffins/Pizza Crust/Granola

1. Anything sourdough
2. Ezekiel bread and English muffins by Food for Life
3. Ancient Grain Pizza Crust by Brooklyn Bred
4. Purely Elizabeth’s granola

Condiments/Dressings 
Look for avocado oil, coconut oil and/or olive oil bases.

1. Tessemae’s dressings and sauces
2. Chosen Foods Avocado Oil Mayo
3. Primal Kitchen mayo and dressings
4. Annie’s ketchup, mustard and sauces
5. Grey Poupon Dijon mustard
6. Nature’s Promise yellow mustard
7. Bragg’s Coconut Aminos (Soy sauce)
8. Farmhouse Culture’s sauerkraut
9. Frank’s Redhot sauce
10. Any PURE maple syrup (that should be the only ingredient)

Dairy
Always choose full fat, it's the good kind of fat. :) 

1. Horizon’s butter, milk, half and half and cheeses
2. Fage yogurt
3. Siggi’s yogurt
4. Silk + Almond Breeze’s almond milk

Meats/ Eggs
Look for grass-fed, pasture-raised and less sodium in processed meats.

1.  Applegate’s bacon, cured meats, and chicken nuggets/tenders
2. Nellie’s, Pete and Jerry’s, Vital Farms, or any other pasture-raised and free-range eggs

Frozen Meals

1. Grainful

What are some of your favorite healthy brands? Share below! 

 
                             Always craving good food,
                                               Jillian