Food haul for the week

ReenieHJ wrote: »

Thanks angel! Embarrassed to say I've never had sriracha, might just be time to give it a go.

If you like chicken Skinnytaste's honey siracha chicken is really good. I tasted the sauce after making it and thought it might be too strong but it's great once on the chicken, I may even make it hotter next time.

@angelexperiment I just add jicama to my lunch salad. I first had it in a Dos coyotes salad with spring greens, red pepper, onion, tortilla chips, black beans, grilled chicken, mango salsa, and a creamy dressing. I make a lower calorie version of that salad. It's good just dipped in hummus but can also be used in stir fry and slaw. I've even come across recipes where you slice with a mandoline and use as a tortilla. Most grocery stores aside of Walmart have jicama, most of the time it isn't refrigerated but at Safeway it is.

JaneAero wrote: »

Hi everyone,
I pick up a small amount of shopping every night on my way home from my cleaning job.
I walk to my 2hr cleaning job, then walk to the supermarket, then walk home and at that time of night everything is reduced.
I always head to the reduced fruit and veg and fresh food section first and plan my food for the next day around that to a degree.
So today,

Breakfast I had a thin wholemeal bagel & low fat cream cheese.
Lunch was a mixed Leaf salad, 2 baby tomatoes, 100g four bean salad and 2 falafel.
Dinner is going to be chicken breast, asparagus, mushroom and pesto sauce.

Tomorrow will be thin bagel for breakfast with poached egg.
Lunch will be mixed Leaf salad with thin sliced beef.
Dinner will be red bell pepper, stuffed with leftover chicken, rice, sweet corn, pesto & parmesan.

Drinks are black coffee & water.
For snacks I have rice cakes, apples, satsumas, bananas, actimel yogurts.

Everything was reduced, which is important to me, as I am senior on a pension.

I want to keep my food as simple, unprocessed and preferably raw as possible, with minimal baking, to keep electricity costs down.

I try to buy modern food stuffs to get away from the post-war mentality of meat and two veg.

Wow, super healthy Add in the walking, cleaning, healthy food and you've got a winning combination.

I bought some groceries yesterday. I shop once a week and keep the pantry ready. I pick up what ever I'm out of.

Bananas
Garlic sourdough 100% wheat bread
Apples
Red pears
Romaine
Greek yogurt, non-fat vanilla
Mushrooms
2 dozen eggs
93% lean burger
93% lean ground turkey
Green bell peppers
Italian roast beef from the deli
Sun dried tomato Turkey from the deli
Cherry tomatoes
Canned corn, grn beans, sweet peas (no salt)
Canned diced tomatoes, tomato sauce (no salt)

cwolfman13 wrote: »

We go through our saved stuff on Pinterest every weekend and decide what we're making for dinner and do our shopping for items we need for those along with any staples we are low on and usually do our shopping on Sunday. Our haul is always different depending on what we're planning for the week. For this week:

Monday: Grilled beef tenderloin filet w/sauteed brussels sprouts and bacon
Tuesday: Oven baked teriyaki sockeye salmon w/roasted broccoli
Wednesday: Stuffed bell peppers (ground beef, wild rice, caramelized onion, spinach, mushroom)
Thursday: Buffalo style grilled boneless/skinless chicken thighs w/garden salad
Friday: Pizza and movie night
Saturday: Pan fried cod w/roasted asparagus
Sunday: Chicken and orzo lemon soup/stewp

Our fisherman friend from Alaska was just here over the weekend and we bought 25 Lbs of sockeye as we do every year, so we'll be having salmon probably once per week for awhile.

We are pretty similar in planning style... this is awesome!

cwolfman13 wrote: »

We go through our saved stuff on Pinterest every weekend and decide what we're making for dinner and do our shopping for items we need for those along with any staples we are low on and usually do our shopping on Sunday. Our haul is always different depending on what we're planning for the week. For this week:

Monday: Grilled beef tenderloin filet w/sauteed brussels sprouts and bacon
Tuesday: Oven baked teriyaki sockeye salmon w/roasted broccoli
Wednesday: Stuffed bell peppers (ground beef, wild rice, caramelized onion, spinach, mushroom)
Thursday: Buffalo style grilled boneless/skinless chicken thighs w/garden salad
Friday: Pizza and movie night
Saturday: Pan fried cod w/roasted asparagus
Sunday: Chicken and orzo lemon soup/stewp

Our fisherman friend from Alaska was just here over the weekend and we bought 25 Lbs of sockeye as we do every year, so we'll be having salmon probably once per week for awhile.

Lucky you having a fisherman buddy bringing you a salmon haul!!!

And why doesn't my pinterest menu look anything like yours? Mine would mostly revolve around peanut butter bars, donuts, *maybe* pizza, and cookies.

Every week looks about the same:

6-7 individual protein bars I'm interested in (when I've tried all I'm interested in, I'm going to order boxes of my favorites)
A bag of frozen chicken breasts/tilapia/what's on sale
a big clamshell of spring mix
7 apples or pears, whichever's cheaper
3-4 bananas
14 bags/boxes of microwavable vegetables
a loaf of 647 bread (40 calories a piece!)
a dozen eggs
vanilla soy milk

And then every so often:
a jar of chunky peanut butter (the kind with just salt added)
a jug of syntha-6 vanilla milkshake protein powder

And that's just for me. (I'm on a weird shift where I don't get to eat any meal with my family except on the weekends.

For the family each week:
A half gallon of milk
protein that's on sale (favorites: chicken thighs and ground turkey)
7 bags frozen vegetables (whatever's on sale)
potatoes/pasta/rice depending on how much of what we have in the pantry currently
bag o' grapes/apples/pears/bananas (if on sale)
tomatoes/avocados/cabbage/carrots (if on sale)
coffee
pistachios/cashews/peanuts (if they're on sale)
cheese of some kind
dr. zipp or dr. thunder or dr. whatever is generic dr. pepper
mango orange juice
a box of cereal
cheez its/applesauce/popcorn (kid's choice)
various sauces depending on the menu I have planned
box o' frozen breakfast sandwiches

And I keep a pretty well-stocked pantry, so usually that's good for minimal. I add on things that are on sale that I'll want later.


I cannot wait to get off this shift and start cooking and eating with them again. Cooking for myself and for them before I leave for work and stowing it in the fridge is for the birds. But it is great for diet compliance.

angelexperiment wrote: »

I’m playing around with the idea of making my Doritos salad with quest taco flavor chips or nacho, that’s a favorite meal of mine and I just learned about quest chips yet to try but think it would be perfect

The Loaded Taco ones are super tasty!

Chef_Barbell wrote: »

angelexperiment wrote: »

I’m playing around with the idea of making my Doritos salad with quest taco flavor chips or nacho, that’s a favorite meal of mine and I just learned about quest chips yet to try but think it would be perfect

The Loaded Taco ones are super tasty!

They are my favorites, but I think they'd get soggy super fast in a taco salad.