When I worked at a group home for female residents age 18-21, at one point one of them was diagnosed with Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). This was alarming, and although most of the residents there struggled with food this seemed so urgent to me. I looked in her file and read everything top to bottom. I noticed the doctor gave her a link, this one, to read up on foods that would better suit her going forward. I researched NAFLD for about an hour, reading about how it is reversible because there are different levels to liver disease. I became super hopeful that she could reverse it and since I love fitness and eating health-conscious, I knew I could put some things together that would help her. I am attaching below the NAFLD food plan I made for her in case anyone needs it, which includes a grocery list and recipes.
To make it tailored to her situation exactly, I went to ALDI nearby because that is the grocery store that the group home used to shop for these residents. I decided I was going to hang out at the store for a few hours and write down every single thing she could buy that was good for her (on the group home budget), and then make her a grocery list as well as a recipe list. Through doing this I discovered a real love for this type of thing.
Recently (in the last month) I went back to Aldi on a whim because it was calling me. I was in the store for about 2 hours going through every single aisle and checking labels, making a list for the purpose of sharing it here. So I have attached the list below.
Something else I want to include below are 4 dinners from Aldi I found that were free of any type of corn syrup and had decent protein to fat ratios. For a quick dinner they are good options, better than fast food and affordable.
1 Fusia dinners, but a lot of sodium if you eat the whole bag at once unless you had low sodium rest of the day 5.99
2 Whole and simple southwestern chicken quinoa bowl or the Mediterranean style bowl 3.65
3 Priano herb chicken tortellini 5.29
4 Kevin’s Korean style bbq chicken 9.35
Lastly just some general observations I made while doing all this research: The dressings have a lot of sugar, you’re better off buying GH Hughes affordable sugar free dressings that are delicious from somewhere else. The pasta sauce they sell has a ton of sodium in it, and the Protein Puffs snacks have corn syrup. The chopped salad kits they sell have really disproportionate protein to fat ratios. Anything from Park Street deli has corn syrup from what I could tell and the tuna has vegetable broth in it.
Jennifer Diane is a writer, artist and intuitive based out of New Jersey. Healing with the Occult is a publication that shares hidden, transformative knowledge.