what are some healthy foods i can recieve by mail. i only have access to a microwave and fridge?

Question

Im currentl in Iraq and very sick of the chow hall food! I eat healthy and there are not many choices. What healthy foods could be sent to me without going bad. I do have access to a microwave and fridge.

Answer 1

If you like Miso Soup, get some Japanese Miso soup packets. The Wakame Seaweed is full of micronutrients, especially minerals. The soy is good for you, too. Downside is that it is a bit salty.

If you are bold, you get make your own, or make other soups using online recipes. You can order big bags of dried wakame along with sesame seeds, soy sauce, and chicken stock, and make soup. Whatever your feelings about Tofu, it comes in boxes that require no refrigeration, is almost pure protein, and has anticancer properties (isoflavones).

If you like Indian Curry, there are some great foil packets out there.

If you are looking for good supplementation that doesn't cost $30 per bottle, try Alfalfa pills. It is cheap, natural, and full of vitamins and minerals. Growing evidence shows that manmade/ lab synth vitamins or vitamins removed from their natural sources are useless or even harmful.

I tried to keep my own stock of spices (red pepper or dried parsley for vitamin C, oregano and turmeric for antioxidant value, etc.) and would add loads of this stuff to the available slop we were usually served.

I used to fortify my diet by mailorder while stationed in a remote area eating military food, this is basically what I did- taking several overlapping approaches to ingest some nutrition lest I fall into the habit of eating instant ramen noodles, candy, and french fries (all deadly).

Good luck.

Answer 2

Anything that's dried, or very sweet, or salty, or smoke or vinegar cured or fermented, shouldn't go bad during shipping (since sugar, salt, smoking, vinegar fermentation are natural preservatives).


So perhaps some things like:

...dried fruits (lotsa kinds, large & small)
...dried veggies... including chiles (which pack a whallop nutritionally too), mushrooms, and many other things which can be found esp. in ethnic grocery stores
......also dried and/or candied ginger, etc.
...whole grains like brown rices, oats**, popcorn, etc.
...nuts (all kinds)
...... also "pulses" or peas, beans like soy "nuts", etc....they come in all kinds of flavors too
...whole grain crackers of various kinds (Rye Krisps--I like the Seasoned ones, rice cakes, etc.)
...cured ham
...smoked salmon, or other fishes (at grocery or specialty stores, or "gift" mail order places)
......also canned fish (sardines, tuna, crab, herring, etc..some come in sauces)
...jerky of various kinds... turkey's the healthiest
...vinegar or salt fermented veggies or fruits of all kinds (olives, giardiniera--mixed veggies, roasted red peppers, sauerkraut or kimchi, pickles, artichokes, preserved lemons --great as a sauce, etc.)

**McCann's oats are cool, the "Cadillac"---they're "steel-cut" instead of like Quakers, and can be made alone or with other things
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=McCanns+oatmeal

(the dried or vinegar-preserved things could also be made for you at home then shipped, instead of buying already-made)

(there's a lot of sodium/salt in some of the things above, so you might want to avoid those especially in the hot months or during the last half of your cycle if they bother you)



BEST of luck!!!!

Diane B.