1st Grocery List -- HELP... What's on yours??

Anything on the outside perimeter of the store...all the sh** food is in the center. Good luck and way to take control of your life.

Do you eat meat?

Anything on the outside perimeter of the store...all the sh** food is in the center. Good luck and way to take control of your life.

At your store. Not mine LOL

For me...must haves include:

Breakfast: Eggs, yogurt, granola, fiber one bars, fresh fruit (sometimes)
Lunch: Arnold select sandwich things, laughing cow cheese, hummus, soup, tuna,
Dinner: 1 thing of chicken and one thing of ground turkey, rice, frozen veggies, chicken sausage
Snacks: 100 cal snack packs, nuts, ritz wheat cracker, pop corn


My diary is open if you'd like to take a peek

Staples on mine are usually:

chicken breasts
ground turkey
eggs
egg whites
oatmeal
spinach
peppers-usually red,yellow and orange-the occasional green though
zucchini
yellow squash
fruits-blueberries, raspberries, strawberries when they're in seasons, apples
brown rice
fresh cilantro
tuna
asparagus
Sometimes I'll get salmon and sole fillets if you like fish
....

that's all I can think off the top of my head.

there was just a post on this yesterday that had a TON of great ideas, you may want to try searching that to get some good ideas. i spend the majority of my time, and money in the produce/deli area. my trip on MOnday included:
Apples, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, squash, green leaf lettuce, broccoli, sweet potatoes, fresh green beans, cherry tomatoes, orange/red/yellow peppers, laughing cow cheese, roasted chicken (lunchmeat), healthy life 35 calorie italian bread, skinny pop popcorn, boneless skinles chicken breasts, black beans, chickpeas, etc.
the key to all of those veggies and fruits is to prepare them when i get home so they are easy to grab and eat, it doesnt matter if i have a fridge full of healthy choices, when im in a hurry a handful of chips is easier to grab than washing, cutting, peeling produce and thats what i will grab, i have to make my produce ready to go. Good luck.

I have one question I always ask myself when I'm buying food, now....'Did it grow that way?' Veggies, meat, fruit, whole grains - they all grew that way. Processed foods in a box did not, they had to go through a factory somewhere to get to the stage they're at. Those are the least healthy options.

* I do understand that whole grains have to be processed in some way to creat the loaf of bread, but it isn't processed white flour, with all nutrients stripped from it. The grains are simply ground and added to the process. So, yes, it grew that way.

My grocery list always includes the following staples of my balanced diet approach: Low fat cottage cheese (1% or 2%), Greek Yogurt, Fat Free Yogurt, Chicken Breasts, Turkey burgers, Low Fat Sliced Cheeses, Cereal, eggs, fish, 2% Milk, 85/15 Ground Beef, Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Whey Protein, Nuts (cashews, peanuts, almonds).

Anything on the outside perimeter of the store...all the sh** food is in the center. Good luck and way to take control of your life.

This is what I do.

A major help really is to plan your meal ahead of time. This I find is less stressful when shopping, this also helps me to put food out of my mind throughout the day. I just know what I am having for lunch / snacks / and dinner. No food "day dreaming" .