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—nothing processed or artificial

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

🧂 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 boxed beans (Whole Foods)

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Banana Organic Plantain Chips Himalayan pink salt

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

• Coconut labneh—cocojune

• Cocoyo yogurts

• Eden pumpkin seeds

• In-house guacamole and pico (Whole Foods)

• Ithaca Medium Salsa

• Mary’s gone crackers

• Once Upon a Farm refrigerated oat bars

• Organic cava traditional hummus

• Seapoint Farms dry roasted edamame wasabi & regular

• Siete hint of serrano and sea salt vinegar potato chips

• Siete maiz Totopos corn tortilla chips

• 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

• 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

Soups/Broths

• 365 organic three bean chili vegan

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

• Dr. McDougall organic tortilla style soup vegan

• Dr. McDougals organic French lentil soup low sodium vegan

• Epic bone broth (Whole Foods or online)

• Jade Pearl Rice Ramen

• Karine & Jeff Soups

• Kettle & Fire Cooking Broth

• Kettle and fire bone broth

• Minute miso organic original - Hikari

• Whole Foods chicken and rice soup prepared

Proteins

• Archer meat sticks

• Blinski’s organic classic sage breakfast chicken sausage

• Chomp Meat Sticks

• Livwell plant protein (Natural)

• Whole Foods roasted chicken, regular and organic

Plant Based Milks

• Embe Organic Unsweetened Coconut Milk (Walmart)

Green Drinks

• Evolution juice

• 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

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