Foods to Eat, Foods to Avoid: Part 1

Last week, a reader suggested that I go through her pantry- telling her what to ditch, and what to keep. What a great idea, Maureen! So this week, I'll be working through Jordan Rubin's list of the three food categories: Extraordinary, Average, and Trouble, highlighting the ones that our family loves, and giving you the brands that we buy.

I'll start this series by listing the foods in each category, and then giving you the brands I love for each one.

Let's kick this off by looking at the Extraordinary foods! This is taken from The Great Physician's RX for Health & Wellness, on page 55. Today we will take a look at the extraordinary meats God has given us.

Extraordinary Food List
"Extraordinary food are those that God created for us to eat and are in a form healthy for the body. If you are struggling with poor health, it is best to consume foods from the extraordinary category more than 75% of the time."

Meat: (Grass Fed & Organic)

• Meat bone soup or stock
• Liver and heart (must be organic
• Lamb
• Buffalo
• Elk
• Venison
• Beef
• Goat
• Veal
• Jerky (with no chemicals, nitrates, or nitrites)
• Beef or buffalo sausage (with no pork casing)

Fish: (Wild- or ocean caught)

• Fish soup or stock
• Salmon
• Halibut
• Tuna
• Cod
• Scrod
• Grouper
• Haddock
• Mahimahi
• Pompano
• Wahoo
• Trout
• Tilapia
• Orange Roughy
• Sea Bass
• Snapper
• Sardines (canned in water or olive oil only)
• Herring
• Sole
• Whitefish

Poultry: (Pastured & Organic)

• Poultry bone soup or stock
• Chicken
• Cornish game hen
• Guinea fowl
• Turkey
• Duck
• Chicken or Turkey Bacon (with no pork casing)
• Chicken or Turkey Sausage (with no pork casing)
• Chicken or Turkey Hot Dogs (with no pork casing)