{"id":2363,"date":"2016-08-29T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2018-04-04T17:54:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:54:38","slug":"10-food-staples-to-throw-out-now-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/blog-post\/10-food-staples-to-throw-out-now-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Food Staples To Throw Out NOW!! – Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to our pantry overhaul series! If you have missed the first 6 pantry items to trash check out Part 1 <\/a>& Part 2<\/a> of this series.<\/p>\n

Quick and easy meals and snacks are great and almost essential for our sanity and schedules. Sometimes, however, seemingly healthy options can be our worst enemies. \u00a0Our next two items can be very tricky…<\/p>\n

7. CANNED SOUP<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soup can be a great healthy quick option for meals, however, a lot of canned soup should be re-labelled as canned liquid sodium! Some varieties can contain upwards of 800mg of sodium per cup. That is over 1\/3 of your daily recommended intake in one cup of soup!!<\/p>\n

Many canned soups are also packaged with plastic linings that often contain BPA\u2019s, are flavoured using MSG, and all those veggies in there are left pretty much nutrition-less after the high heat and pressurization from the packaging process.<\/p>\n

What to Keep On-hand Instead? – Sodium-free Chicken or Vegetable Stock<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Alton<\/a><\/p>\n

Soup is one of the easiest and quickest meals you can make! Keep a few boxes of low-sodium broth in the pantry and throw whatever you have lying around in the fridge into a pot \u2013 corn, potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, onion, garlic, celery, green beans. Blend it to make a creamy soup or don\u2019t to have a clear broth soup. Add chicken, meat balls, or shrimp. Add your own salt, hot sauce, or fresh herbs. The possibilities are endless, delicious, and nutritious!<\/p>\n

8. GRANOLA BARS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bars can be a great on-the-go or emergency snack but be cautious<\/strong>! While the word granola may make you think of whole grains, whole nuts, fruit all wrapped up in a convenient bar most granola bars have suffered the same fate as trail mix.\u00a0 Many are made more like candy bars containing sugar, molasses, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, marshmallows, chocolate, artificial flavours, any many chemicals that cannot be pronounced. Some Bar can contain upwards of 30+ grams of sugar in a single bar; spiking your blood sugar and actually making you hungrier in the long run (check out this\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0to see how).<\/p>\n

What to Keep On-hand Instead? – Bars made with whole foods, short ingredient lists and high in fiber<\/strong>\"granola<\/a><\/p>\n

While any type of bar may not be the healthiest option (always try to eat your food as close to its natural state as possible) their convenience cannot be matched and there are some options that are healthier. Make sure to look at the nutrition label, your bar should contain at least 5 grams of fiber. This will help moderate your blood sugar levels and keep you full. Look at the ingredient list, it should be short, all ingredients recognizable \u2013 Oats, whole nuts, fruit – and sugar, or any derivative of it, should be as far down the list as possible.<\/p>\n

Thanks for tuning in this week! Check back next week when we look at pantry items 9 & 10<\/strong>. One of which is probably the MOST toxic food item<\/strong> almost every household has and needs to throw out now!!<\/p>\n

If you have any questions or comments about this post make sure to ask in our comments section or email SST Mississauga’s Lead Strength Coach, Courtney \u00a0( cplewes@sstcanada.com ).<\/p>\n

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Welcome back to our pantry overhaul series! If you have missed the first 6 pantry items to trash check out Part 1 & Part 2 of this series. Quick and easy meals and snacks are great and almost essential for our sanity and schedules. Sometimes, however, seemingly healthy options can be our worst enemies. \u00a0Our … Continue reading “10 Food Staples To Throw Out NOW!! – Part 3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":1,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[109,7,140,155],"tags":[193,87,173,93,195,191],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-blog-post","category-nutrition","category-recipes","tag-athlete-nutrition","tag-fat-loss","tag-nutrition","tag-nutrition-fat-loss","tag-nutrition-for-performance","tag-sports-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}