Things to buy while I'm in USA

Try to find a Whole Foods; it was the highlight of my trip to NYC this year. (Unhelpful in terms of brands, but have an awesome time!)

pretzel M&M are sooo good

I can recommend bringing back flavoured Coffeemate - it's awesome! Brought back a load from my last trip and only have 1 container left

A Luther Burger, or doughnut burger (among several naming variations), is a hamburger or cheeseburger with one or more glazed doughnuts in place of the bun. These sandwiches have a disputed origin, and tend to run between approximately 800 and 1,500 calories (3,300 and 6,300 kJ).

Water - lots of water. I somtimes add a flavor enhancer (Mio) to mine. Just a small squirt is great. When we are out of town - I tend to have a ton of produce for breakfast/lunch - and save cals for dinner. Some hotels offer breakfast on site - where I go for Special K cereal w/ skim milk and a banana. Not sure what you trip entails - but you'll probably do a great deal of walking - so don't forget to log it. And the sunblock comment above is accurate. We went to Disney in November - and I was a lobster - and I've lived in FL before so there was on reason for that. I knew better.

i have no idea but please take me with you!

Luther burger.

I gained 30 pounds and developed a sugar intolerance just looking at those pictures.

Will you have a stove? Could you make eggs? If you don't have a stove, but have a microwave you can make eggs in a cup or bowl in the microwave if you have to, they cook very quickly though so don't blow up the microwave. Get some frozen diced veggies and add those to the scrambled eggs and you have a fast easy omelette. Pick up some yogurt ( Dannon light and fit vanilla and put your honey nut cheerios in it) Drink lots of water. I don't like to put anything in mine to sweeten it. I do like to cut up a cucumber and put it in the water. ( cucumber water) or Lemon, or watermelon. Naturally sweeten it. Pick up fruits and veggies and zip lock bags and come individual peanut butter cups and you can carry a healthy snack with you anywhere you go. Oh and some string cheese. YUM.

If you can find an aldi I am always surprised at some of their selection. Nice produce and fage greek yogurt (my favorite - add fruit and some stevia and it's the best in terms of sugars etc). Its super cheap too (not sure you have them in the UK).

Trader Joe's and Whole Foods are excellent as well. Most any grocer will have a health food section - a good place to start.

If you don't mind artifical sweeteners, both Propel and Crystal Light make individual packs premeasured to add to a 20 ounce bottle of water. I use them sparingly because of the bad press artifical sweeteners get, but they definitely pack a good flavor! I like the Crystal Light lemonade and the berry Propel.

Who on earth comes up with these things!

i live in south florida right outside of fort lauderdale. Whole foods is the healthy stores and some of the whole foods(boca raton) will cook foods for you and they have prepared foods. also, there is a place called josephs in palm beach and boca that has ready made dinners healthy and good. Otherwise stock up on sweet potatoes and get some healthy nuts.
Also florida has an abundance of farmers markets that you can buy stuff and lots of places you can go to barbeque since its always warm. Dont barbeque between 5-6 because that usually rain shower time
Where in florida are you going?
Jeff

I live in South Carolina, but we have Publix. In fact, it's where I do the bulk of my grocery shopping, since it's practically a stone's throw from my house! (I promise I don't work for the company or anything, but I love the store - customer service is wonderful there!)

Anyhow, Publix is your typical American supermarket, but it is one of the nicer ones, in my opinion. They have a good natural/organic foods section (usually opposite all the yogurt and such), and my Publix carries a great selection of Greek yogurt. I recommend Fage (my favorite), Chobani (a close second), Stonyfield Oikos (which is the organic version - Dannon Oikos is the non-organic version), and Liberte (accent aigu on the last e - MFP does not recognize accents for me). Publix also carries all the Kashi cereals and oatmeals (dry cereals are usually opposite the oatmeals, so the Kashi dry cereal and Kashi oatmeal will be in different places). If you are into eating oats, Quaker is the go-to brand for most people, but I find that the Publix oats (generic) are just as good and usually end up cheaper, unless Quaker happens to be on sale.

They've got plenty of drinks, but since you are tired of fizzy drinks and want diluted juice-like stuff, I recommend the Mio, which Publix sells in lots of flavors. It's a little squeeze bottle-type thing that fits easily in a purse, and you add as much or as little to your water as you want. It is made with artificial sweeteners, though, so if you're trying to avoid those, then I suggest just buying fresh produce (berries and peaches are definitely in season here) and adding them to your plain water.

Whole Foods is also a good store if you can find one, but they specialize in organics/natural foods (they don't sell anything that's not). As such, it is generally more expensive, so if you're ok with eating "regular" stuff, then Publix is your place.

Oh, and Publix's "buy one get one free" promotions basically mean half-price. You don't have to buy two to get the deal Not all stores do that, so it's good to keep in mind if you're only in town for so long.

Have fun in Florida, and welcome to the States!