What are your grocery store must haves?
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Great post! I'm always curious about what people have on their grocery list. My must haves are:
-soy milk (soy good)
-eggs
-cantaloupe (new favorite fruit!)
-multi grain cereal
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I work about 2 minutes from a Costco, where I go at least twice a week to load up!
Here is the stuff I always have my fridge and cupboards stocked with...
Greek Yogurt (this is awesome with pomegranate seeds when they are in season!)
Steel Cut Oats (so much more filling than regular oatmeal)
Mini-Cucumbers (an easy snack to grab and go)
Grape Tomatoes
Eggs, eggs, and more eggs (I put them in my veggie steamer and they come out absolutely perfectly hard-boiled - I eat at least 4 or 5 whites a day, plus one whole egg!)
Sprouted grain bread (I love Silver Hills Mack's Flax)
Chia Seeds
Unsweetened Almond Breeze
Spinach (I use this in everything from salads to smoothies)
Peppers (all colours - I LOVE peppers!)
Celery (even my 3 year old loves this!)
Low fat cheese
Lemons
Flax seed
Bananas
Green Tea
I'm sure I could go on, but it's late and I can't remember anything else off the top of my head.0 -
Must Have:
Eggs - I like to hardboil a bunch for breakfast/snacks at work throughout the week.
Plain Greek Yogurt - I add my own berries to save sugar.
Cottage Cheese - Great alone as a snack, with berries, or cooked into scrambled into eggs for a high protein breakfast.
String Cheese
Berries (fresh or frozen)
Bananas
Baby Spinach - for salads.
Broccoli
Green Beans
Celery
Yellow Onions
Green Peppers
Garlic
Low Sodium Canned Tuna
Chicken Breasts or Tenderloins
Frozen Shrimp - thaws so quickly, which is great for dinners and I don't have to worry about it rotting in the fridge during the week if I forget to use it.
Natural Peanut Butter - I usually have a cooking snack of a TBSP of peanut butter when I get home from work. It keeps me from grazing on other junk as I am preparing dinner. (I also need it on hand for my puppy's kong but that's unrelated).
Pistachios or Almonds
Chicken Stock - for making soups.
Crushed Tomatoes - for soups/sauces.
Ground Beef or Bison - for burgers or Chili
Quinoa - for soups.
Chia Seed - I always add it to my Greek yogurt for extra fiber and omega 3s.
Pineapple fruit cups - Also good added to yogurt.
Unsweetened coconut - Great with the pineapple in yogurt.
Mrs. Dash - any variety, but I use it to season all sorts of stuff. Everything from chicken and shrimp to green beans and scrambled eggs.
Olive oil
Good Seasons Salad Dressing Packets
Herbal Teas - Peppermint is probably my favorite
Stevia
True Lemon/True Lime/True Orange Packets - Crystallized juice, great for adding flavor to waters. No artificial flavors, sweeteners, or colors.
Spaghetti Squash - in lieu of pasta.0 -
Alpen Sugar Free Muesli
Fat Free Greek Style Yogurt
New York Multiseeded Bagels
Sesame Ryveta
Philadelphia Light with Chives
Fresh Fish ... lots!
Cans of tuna
Chicken
sometimes Lamb or Beef
Eggs
Carrots
Parsnip
Sweet Potatos
Broccoli
Cabbage
Onions
Garlic0 -
Special K Fruit Crisps are my snack too!0
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Bananas
Baby Carrots
Edamame
SF/FF Jello Pudding Cups
Whole Wheat Tortillas
Hummus (I love Sabra)
Salsa
Special K Crackers
Laughing Cow Cheese
Luna Bars (Lemon Zest is my favorite flavor)
94% fat free Popcorn
Almonds0 -
Gotta agree on what a great post this is because it gives me ideas
I always have :
Skinless chicken breast
Groud turkey
Milk
Eggs
Romaine lettuce
Cherry tomatoes
Apples
Fresh Cilantro
Fresh Parsley
Black beans (I use ALOT when cooking)
Pita bread
Chick peas (make homemade hummus)
Onion
Peppers ( variety)
Avacados ( so much you can do with them)
Carrots
Spagetti squash ( Work great as a sub to pasta noodles)0 -
This is a great topic!
In the house I always must have...
Tuna
100% Juice
Brown Bread
Peanut Butter
Grapes or Apples
Rice Milk
Cereal
Egg Free Mayo
Frozen Veggies
Frozen Fruit
Soya Protein Isolate
Vitalite - dairy free margarine
Celery and Hummous0 -
2% Milk ( I make a lot of shakes)
Kashi Honey Almond Flax
Bananas
Pears
Greek Yogurt
Tuna
Mission Carb Wraps
Turkey ( Boars Head)
Ground Turkey
Carrot juice
Any seafood item that is on sale0 -
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Houmous
Dark Chocolate
Grapes (I love freezing them and keeping them next to the ice cream, so I have the healthier choice instead!)
Bananas
Eggs
Carrots0 -
fat free milk (no hormone added is best)
almonds
oatmeal
bananas
eggs
lettuce
tomatoe
raisins
low sugar cereal0
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