Grazing on snacks all day can be good.

From what I have read, hominy corn, beans, and squash or pumpkin, especially the seeds, should provide a fairly full round of proteins and minerals etc. I pick and eat the beans fresh out of the garden; the pumpkin seeds are dried or I like to eat the miniature pumpkins steamed and whole; corn, if you can eat it, can be made into a number of snacks, including chips or pop corn. I also eat whole sunflower seeds, lots of chewing required. Crunchy seems to be the underlying characteristic of all of them. Just a thought from the Southwest U.S.

I do eat meat for the one meal I eat each day, so no idea if it really is fully balanced.