Grocery Shopping, tonight..Ideas?

I'm 22 also! And hate to cook, so I make sure to stock up on quick, easy to grab foods. Fresh veggies are great (baby carrots, sugar snap peas, etc.) and so are apples, bananas, etc. I also like to get single serving pouches of nuts, yogurt, cottage cheese, 100 calorie packs, oatmeal packets, Skinny Cow ice cream desserts, single serving frozen vegetables, hummus, Fiber One bars... and whatever other random things I might find! The other day I found fruit snacks that are only 70 calories for the pouch... they're called Annie's Organics or something. I love grocery shopping!!! Haha

Seriously, the best thing you can do for yourself is learn how to cook. It's really easy, and the food you make yourself, from REAL food (not the processed junk that comes in boxes), not only is much more nutritious, but it tastes better too. If you do that, you'll find yourself losing weight almost effortlessly. Unless you learn how to make cheesecake, of course.

I've recently discovered Amy's Organic Pizzas...really good. My favorite is the mushroom and olive one.

I made a tuna salad and stuffed it in pita bread for lunches. YUM!

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Fruited-Tuna-Salad-Pitas

My daughter and I have a plan to try something new every week or so (usually a fruit or vegetable). I am a mom of 2 that doesn't really know how to cook a lot of things and that used to limit our meal choices and it made me pass down a lot of bad habits to my kids.

The frozen Lean Cuisine and Weight Watcher Meals are good as a back up but that plan didn't work for long for me and my family because it became too expensive, we got bored with the same stuff week after week, they are really high in sodium, and let's face it...they are boring and unexciting and they don't look anything like when you go out for dinner. So for us those shortcuts were not effective in instilling a life-style change for long term success. I'm not preaching. I've only lost 13 pounds so far but it's 13 more than I lost after investing hundreds of dollars in WW and frozen meals last year. If you like the convenience of the frozen meals buy yourself some Gladware containers and a few bags of frozen veggies and make your own. That way you control the menu to suit your taste a little more and probably a ton less sodium.

If you are looking for meal ideas for under 300 calories check out the Hungry Girl web-site. I get daily emails with all kinds of swap out ideas and easy to follow recipes. Today's recipe was breakfast tacos! Tonight I bought bamboo mats and looked up on the internet how to make California Rolls at home. I can make them without raw fish and customize them to suit my kids' tastes. I have never tried this before but what's the worst that can happen, I learn something new? I swap out angel hair Tofu noodles and bouillon for Ramen Noodles. I LOVE the Sour Cream & Onion Special K Cracker Chips. They taste great and you get 27 chips for 110 calories and it looks like a mound of chips on your plate. Hope this helps.