Grocery list

add some fruits and veggies!

I always get lots of fruit (blackberries, bananas, apples, cantaloupe, etc), baby carrots (make a good snack), Naked Juice (one bottle gives you about 3-5 servings of fruit depending on the type), chicken (it's very versatile), healthy snacks (pretzels, granola bars, breakfast bars, apple sauce, etc), cereal, different sauces or marinades, salad fixings, veggies to go with meals (corn, bell peppers, green beans, avocado, etc.)

I have a 3 year old so we get snacks and things for him too...but that is a lot of the healthy stuff I get. I do a lot of different things with chicken and pork and steaks. I always hit the eat clearance meat section and grab some thin steaks and things to stock the freezer. If you need any recipes...I have a ton of healthy ones....just send me a message Hope this helps

Try paying attention when people post new recipes on here. I have really expanded my eating style from reading and using some of the recipes seen in the message boards.

I've added avocado, red cabbage, spinach, zucchini, cottage cheese and fish to my diet recently and love the variety. Cottage cheese is good with just some pepper or mixed with a flavoured yogourt or fresh fruit.

Bananas, apples, cherries, kiwi, peaches, oranges, watermelon, blueberries, strawberries
Romaine, spring mix, broccoli, carrots, peas, string beans, cauliflower, celery, tomatoes, onions, green/red/yellow peppers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash
Low-fat salad dressings (Ken's walnut-vinaigrette, yum)
unsalted rice cakes
Laughing Cow cheese wedges (different flavors)
yogurt (I get Blue Bunny)
whole-grain, Pumpernickel, wheat, rye breads, low fat bagels, low fat Thomas' English muffins
Ry-Krisp and Triscuit crackers
****inson's sugar-free preserves
I Can't Believe it's Not Butter spray
Nu-Salt
Splenda
sugar substitute packets
Puffed Wheat, Puffed Rice
tomato juice, V-8, Ocean Spray diet blueberry-pomegranate juice (yum)
organic golden flax seed, 1/2 tsp. ground, on cereal (no taste)

Hope this helps.

Porn chops sound *very* interesting....
hehe

Peanut butter!!!!
I like to get frozen chicken breasts, or buy bulk ground beef to portion and stash in my freezer. Dried fruit is good... Pasta and rice... Beans... Nuts... Oh, pumpkin is in season, maybe some cans of pumpkin? I keep a bunch of bags of frozen veggies in my fridge at any given time. Frozen turkey meatballs are also nice to have for those quick pasta dinners (or meatball subs!!).

It's actually really hard to think of things that last a long time because most of the food I get comes from produce or the dairy isle so I really need to go to the store every week. I constantly have bananas, apples, carrots, spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers, and yellow peppers on hand. If the season permits I also have berries, watermelon, oranges/clementines, star fruit, plums, cherries... you name it!

Porn chops...funny. My wife has me on more of chicken and fish. Last night an hour before my cardio run i had opah moonfish and it was great. I also get alot of carrots and apples and such. I always alot alittle more calories for dinner since im unsure how many calories are in the bakery bread we get.

Our grocery list changes depending on the time of the month in relation to pay day ^_^ at the minute we're on a lean spell monetarily speaking so our last food shopping list (from friday) was;

Baby new potatoes
Brocoli florettes
Carrots (these are our staple veg; we have them with every meal)
Apples
Bannanas or Oranges (unfortunately beggars cannot be choosers lol)
2 Small steaks (this is our saturday night treat)
Diced Turkey Thigh (300g of this baby is much cheaper than 200g chicken breast!)
Packet dried caserole mix
Box of 2 mini pizzas
Breaded chicken breast
Box of 4x chicken and vegetable pie
Milk
Bran Flakes
2x tin soup
Bread rolls
Instant noodles

Plus sundries. I know it doesn't look particularly healthy and there are a few processed things but this is just to get us through the hard times financially and let's face it, all those processed foods have their calories printed on the sides of the boxes so we can keep quite happily within our calorie counts. On a more affluent week, the pizzas and breaded chicken breast would be replaced with fresh chicken breast and there would be more veggies ie peppers, onions, sweet potatoes, leeks etc. And of course there are weeks when we need to buy a little extra, so for example this week we didnt need to buy olive oil or herbs for cooking, partly because there's no need this week partly because we already have them in the cupboard ^_^ having different herbs and spices to hand is so useful for livening up a meal...try making a lemon chicken by marinading fresh chicken breast for 2 - 12 hours in a home made marinade of lemon juice from 1 lemon plus the zest, a couple of tbsp's olive oil, and herbs and spices to taste. I like paprika and garlic for mine.

My groocery list ALWAYS includes:
celery hearts, broccoli crowns, athenos hummus, light whole wheat english muffins, laughing cow cheese wedges, fiber one frosted mini wheats(i just found these this last week and they're delicious), fat free half and half, fat free cottage cheese, whatever fruit looks good (cantalope, strawberries, apples) wasa crackers