Okay, so it took me a bit, but I just found that this thread was the one I was talking about; the one where I was planning to share what my diet is usually like. Now, I haven't done an exact recording of what I've eaten any time recently, so I'll just try to recall what I can the best I can for now. To get a more accurate picture, I think I will start recording exactly what I'm eating for the next week or so starting tomorrow and maybe share that here later once the week's over.
I guess I'm most curious about which nutrients I'm probably missing, since my diet gets quite skewed onto certain foods which together likely aren't full of nutritional variety, and this focus has seemed to change between certain dietary staples from time to time by varying degrees.
Recently these are some foods I've often been consuming on a daily basis.
-Unsweetened Cashew Milk - (almost always at least one cup, usually two, sometimes three)
-Orange Juice - (usually one cup a day, sometimes two, rarer are three times or not at all. I know it's not good for really anything I can't get elsewhere and just provides quite a bit of sugar fueled calories, though as I said I've been a bit lazy around my diet recently and will be making a number of changes soon.)
-Whole Grain Pitas - (I may have about two to four of them per day.)
-Flax Seed Hummus - (prepackaged, with three one serving size containers of approx. 48 grams, the flax seeds are separated from the hummus in the containers, but I dip my pitas into the hummus and use that to pick up the flax seed onto the piece of pita for eating. The packages usually stay in the fridge for one to three days before being finished, and I'd say I eat two servings per day on average. I'm curious since I've heard some things about flax seeds, that, what may be the likelihood of them spoiling in these containers in my fridge? I'm also wondering that even though I'm recycling them, whether eating from these small plastic containers so often may be worse for the environment, and whether it may be worth buying larger tubs of hummus, and flax seeds separately. Plus, where can I get flax seeds separately? I may just be ignorant and they might be available at my local grocery stores, but I've never seen them for sale by themselves, I'll look into it though. Also, are there any methods to keep them from spoiling, or should I buy them in small quantities more often, so that they don't go to waste?)
-Chick Peas/Romano Beans/Black Beans etc. with Rice - (This is a staple of mine like the pitas/hummus, except I haven't been having it quite as often recently. Most often when I have it, I have it with quickly microwaved, prepackaged brown rice which isn't ideal I've come to understand. More recently I've had it with boiled wild rice about three or four times and it's been great in terms of taste, I just need to get acquainted with the process so that it doesn't feel so time consuming. Something I've thought of is making larger amounts of the wild rice than I would want in one serving, and storing the extra servings in glass containers and put those inside the fridge, so that I don't have to spend an hour+ waiting for the rice to be done every time.)
-Walnuts - (for a while there I was making sure I ate at least 50 grams a day, though it's varied more recently and I've been eating probably somewhere from 15 to 80 grams some days.)
-Baby Carrots - (my consumption of them has dwindled a little more recently, but for a while there I ate about 90 grams per day, whereas more recently it might be 50 grams some days, 20 grams others, or some days not at all. Recently they've been eaten raw.)
-Yam/Sweet Potato Fries - (When I have them, I probably eat quite too much, probably upwards of 200 grams. These are store bought and not home made, so they likely have quite a bit of canola/vegetable oil on them unfortunately. I tend to have them one to two times per week. I also tend to have too much ketchup when I have them, and the biggest concern from the ketchup is probably high salt intake.)
-Fries - (Pretty much just apply all the stuff said about sweet potato fries, except for that I have them about once a week.)
-Baked Potatos - (usually either one or two potatos by themselves, about once or twice a week.)
-Vegan mock meats - (for a while there I didn't have them all that often, but more recently I've had one about every two or three days. I figure that when I do have them I'm probably eating larger portions than necessary, and similarly to some other foods I'm eating, I worry about how much salt, saturated fat, and Omega 6 fat I'm getting from it.)
-Pasta - (I usually make portions larger than I can consume, but I've been getting better at making amounts I can actually eat and not be overeating. The pasta is either topped with a tomato/vegetable sauce, which I think is pretty decent nutritional wise, except for that it has way too much salt for the amount I'm eating, so I'm going to be looking for some reduced salt ones. If it's not a pasta that I'm topping with tomato sauce, then I'll usually be making Vegan Mac 'n' Cheese, though I haven't made that recently, it's basically the pasta with some soy/cashew milk and Daiya Cheddar/Mozzarella shreds, and one or two tablespoons worth of Vegan butter all mixed together. Though, I've been trying to eliminate palm oil from my diet, so I may not try to make it again until I'm sure it can be done without Vegan butter. I've had that kind of pasta with tomato sauce about maybe one to three time a week, recently.)
-Daiya Pizzas - (I've had probably three or four within the past three weeks, I'm going to stop buying them, because I'm pretty sure they are using palm oil somewhere in the mix of the ones I've been buying. I've had success making my own homemade Vegan pizzas, and I know no palm oil goes into that, since the Daiya shreds I use don't have it, while I've heard stuff like Daiya blocks/slices do have it, but luckily I don't use that. I understand that either way this isn't all too healthy, so I'm going to probably cut back to having one once each month or two.)
-Pop Chips - (these aren't too bad for chips, but they're far from ideal. I usually get the ones with olive oil. I haven't had them recently, but I used to get them a lot about a month or two ago.)
-Some fruit here and there - (I haven't been eating a lot of fruit recently, which I'm thinking of changing a bit, though I figure the most worthwhile thing to change in my diet is to eat more whole vegetables. Recently I've had an apple each day for the past week. Further back I often ate one to three bananas each day. Also, further back I ate about 40 to 60 grams of black berries or golden berries each day about two to four times each week.)
Okay, so that's pretty much my more recent diet rotation.
Further in the past I was eating stuff like steamed broccoli, asparagus, spinach, carrots, raw cucumber, bell peppers, arugula, red cabbage, quinoa/barley/lentil/rice/bean dishes, and some other stuff fairly often, most of which I'm thinking of reincorporating into my diet, plus some other healthier things too probably, and increase/decrease the amount of some things I'm currently eating, but I've yet to do it, though hopefully with some extra advice I can plan an even better diet I couldn't have come up with on my own.
