90 Part I: Eating Right with Every Bite
Meats:
✓ Albacore tuna, canned in
water or pouch
✓ Chicken, canned or pouch
✓ Crab meat, canned or pouch
✓ Salmon, canned
✓ Shrimp, canned or pouch
Canned ingredients
Canned items are great to have on hand because they work in all kinds of
dishes and are a good option when fresh or frozen ingredients aren’t
readily available. Plus, because their shelf life is long, you can stock up on
these items when they’re on sale:
Beans:
✓ Black beans, no salt added
✓ Garbanzo beans, no salt added
✓ Kidney beans, no salt added
✓ Navy beans
✓ Pinto beans
✓ White beans
Vegetables:
✓ Carrots
✓ Green beans
✓ Mexican-style corn
✓ Mixed vegetables
✓ Mushrooms
✓ Peas
✓ Potatoes
✓ Pumpkin purée
✓ Sweet potatoes
✓ Tomatoes, diced/whole/
stewed, no salt added
✓ Tomato paste, no salt added
✓ Tomato sauce, no salt added
Fruits:
✓ Applesauce, unsweetened
✓ Apricots in juice
✓ Mandarin oranges in juice
✓ Peaches in juice
✓ Pears in juice
✓ Pineapple in juice
