Whats your #1 go to item when FOOD SHOPPING?

Apples, carrots, Philadelphia and oats

Fruit: apple, orange, peach, nectarine, plum, berries, watermelon, and tomato. (depending on what is in season)
Veggies: lettuce, onions, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, beets, squash (again depending on what is in season)
Others: eggs, cheese, almond milk and Greek (or low fat) yogurt.

Non-Fat Greek Yogurt
Eggs (I also mainly use just the whites)
Almond Milk
Strawberries
Variety of Veggies
Canned Tuna
Beans
Salmon
Talapia
Chicken Breasts

Produce managers LOVE me--it's the first place I go! My grocery budget is spent mostly in fresh fruits and veggies. I've found that once I get really in to fruit, I crave manufactured sweets a lot less. Then I find my go-to snack: dry-roasted, unsalted, shelled sunflower seeds. On to the freezer section: frozen fruit, mostly berries, to toss in my morning oatmeal or my homemade yogurt and mixed frozen veggies, usually broccoli/cauliflower/carrots, which can be microwaved for a quick meal or steamed, drained and cooled to add to salads. Then a package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts--a family-size generic pack, 'cause though I'm single, I buy 2 weeks at a time (except fresh produce). Actually, the chicken is my "real" go-to. Coupled with veggies, it's a reasonably healthy meal (I don't fry in oil--just a non-stick skillet with a couple of tablespoons of water), or can be sliced and mixed with your choice of ingredients for a salad.

Almonds, Kashi cereal, unsweetened vanilla almond milk, eggs.

Veggies. AAAALLLLL THE VEGGIES!!

Seriously, get whatever veg are cheap and in season, or that you fancy, get some lean frozen meats and fish - chicken fillets and thighs, mince, etc - and some basic carbs - rice and pasta - and you'l have some brilliant meals: you could make:

- stew
- stuffed peppers
- salads
- pasta dishes (what I like to do is, use about half to 2/3 of the reccommende3d serving size of the pasta - usually I go for 70g if the serving on the packet is 90g) then add some basic tomato sauce for a jar, some chicken, and chopped veggies that you sautee while the pasta cooked. A few days ago I had pasta, ready-cooked chicken breast chunks, courgette (zuchinni I think, for you yanks?) and mange tout. It was DELISH and filed a big bowl, but cos the veg and chicken filled it out it felt like I was eating a huge delicious pasta dish but without the cals!
- fish dishes - I like to get frozen fillets of white fish, then have them seasoned in various ways (heaps of pepper, or lemon, or some herbs....whatever you fancy!! Some low-fat garlic and herb cream cheese smeared on them then baking them is excellent) then you can ahve that with some grilled veggies and a bit of rice. Nice balanced meal!

Basically, anything you make, use veg to fill it out. You'll feel like you're eating loads and getting nice and full and satisfied, while actually you'll be cutting out carbs in a lot of places, and getting lots of vitamins and minerals

Meats, fish, nuts, nut butters, anything protein. It's the hardest for me to get enough of.;)

I'm going food shopping in a bit, and I'm in a bit of a rut. I get the same foods every time, and though they are tasty, good for me, and low in calorie, I'm getting a bored.

Give me your top three healthy picks at the food store!!!

Spinach

I am absolutely, unapologetically ADDICTED to Emerald's dry roasted cocoa almonds. Oh, god..they are so delicious.. I get them every week

Pumpkin seeds are another staple.. my grocery store sells them in bulk. Big fat pumpkin seeds. Not those sad little prepackaged ones.

I also go through tons of almond milk, the 40 cal unsweetened kind.