Healthy Packaged Foods & Nutrition On-the-Go: Stefanie’s Approved List!

Looking for clean, healthy packaged foods you can trust? Here’s how a product earns a spot on my Approved List—only the best, with real ingredients and zero junk!

✅ Real, whole ingredients—minimally processed and nothing artificial

🚫 No added sugars (including sugar alcohols, maltodextrin, or anything sneaky!)

🪨 No fortified or added minerals

🧂 Only the good salts—no iodized salt here!

🥑 Clean, healthy fats—only coconut, avocado, olive oil, or ghee

🎨 No artificial colors or flavors—unless the company discloses a 100% natural source

❌ No industrial oils, preservatives, or added chemicals

🚫 No BPA-lined packaging or canned foods

Grains/Fiber:

• 365 organic frozen rices (Whole Foods)

• Cappello’s Grain Free Naked Pizza Crust

• Gillian’s Gluten Free Bread Crumbs

• Jovial’s gluten free brown rice pastas

• Jovial's – Diced Tomatoes (Jarred)

• Jovial’s Jarred Beans

• Lundberg long grain white rice and seasoning mix Spanish rice

• Miracle noodle organic angel hairstyle pasta

• Organic arrowhead Mills 1:1 all purpose, flour gluten-free

• Organic Lundberg thin stackers brown rice puffed grain cakes

• Siete cassava flour tortillas

• Simple truth organic pad Thai rice noodles

• Tinkyada Pasta joy ready - brown rice pastas

Healthy Snacks/Treats:

• 34 Degrees Gluten Free Crisps Original

• AWG Bakery

• Amazi snacks

• Back to Nature – Whole Cashews

• Cleveland Kitchen – Classic Dill Pickles & Other Pickled Items

• Cocojune yogurts—zero added sugars only (pure coconut, vanilla unsweetened, and strawberry unsweetened)

• Coconut labneh—cocojune

• Culture traditions organic sauerkraut Russian style red

• Eden pumpkin seeds

• GoodSam small farms—crispy, crunchy plantain, and banana chips 

• Gorilla Pickles

• Gutzy – Organic Pouches

• Hu – Chocolate

• In-house guacamole and pico (Whole Foods)

• Ithaca Medium Salsa

• Mary’s gone crackers

• Miami twist hummus— all kinds!

• Once Upon a Farm refrigerated oat bars

• Organic cava traditional hummus

• Seapoint Farms dry roasted edamame wasabi & regular

• Small town cultures pickled veggies

• Solely Fruit Snacks

• Sweet nothings spoonable smoothies

• That’s it mini fruit bars

• The Coconut Cult (zero added sugars only)

• The lesser evil Himalayan pure salt & Himalayan Gold popcorn

• Wholly Guacamole

Seasonings/Condiments:

• Bionaturae – Organic Tomato Paste

• Cava lemon, herb, tahini dressing, sauce, and marinade

• Cocoyo yogurt plain

• Diamond Crystal salts

• Forager Project organic dairy free sour cream alternative

• Karen’s Spice Kitchen (Spice Blends to Create Authentic International Meals)

• Noble made dairy-free buffalo sauces

• Organic chopped ginger in a jar—Emperor‘s Kitchen

• Organic marinara sauce (Whole Foods)

• Organic plant-based Bolognese pasta sauce (Whole Foods)

• Organic tomato basil pasta sauce (Whole Foods)

• RIEGA – Street tacos chicken, beef and steak seasoning, & blackened chicken bowl

• Simply Organic Spice Packets: Mediterranean, lemon, cilantro lime, and garlic and herb

•Yo mama’s original marinara

Soups/Broths:

• Bonafide Provisions sipping bone broth (Whole Foods or online)

• Epic bone broth (Whole Foods or online)

• Karine & Jeff Soups

• Kettle & Fire Cooking Broth

• Kettle and fire bone broth

• Minute miso organic original - Hikari

Proteins:

• Livwell plant protein 

• Whole Foods roasted chicken organic

Plant Based Milks:

• Embe Organic Unsweetened Coconut Milk (Walmart)

• Forager Project organic dairy free oat and cashew milk

Green Drinks:

• Evolution juice— green ones

• Suja – Uber greens

Urban Remedy (Small Display in Whole Foods Market):

• Deep cleaning

• Ginger lemonade with probiotics

• Glow

• Pomegranate ginger with probiotics

• Slender greens only

• Salads, turmeric boost, etc.

• Strawberry cherry lemonade with probiotics

Organic Pharmer:

• Botanical beverages

• Gluten-free bakery

• Juices

• Nourishing soups

Coffee/Tea:

• Life Boost – Coffee (All Varieties)

• Frontier Co-op – Organic Loose Leaf Teas

 

Note: Manufacturers occasionally change ingredients and sourcing. While every product on this list met our standards when reviewed, we encourage you to check ingredient labels periodically, especially if you have food sensitivities or specific dietary needs.

None of the statements or products contained herein this article are intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.