Need Grocery List advice...

not sure if you grill, but always having frozen lean meats and differnet marinades is good. YOu should also have frozen sides to go with it ... Trader Joes has bunch of these, frozen mash potatoes, grilled corn, fire roasted veggies, even frozen rice.

THIS! I started really getting into all sorts of sauces and simmer things..........there are a million different things to cook meat in especially in the Asian section of the market.

I'm a grocery list fiend - it's the one area I plan to a T every week. From both a diet and wallet perspective, it's a must for me.

You might try what I had last night:

***Stuffed chicken Breast with Butternut Squash Salad***

600 Calories (depending on the brands you use)- Gives a really big portion
Serves 2

90g Chicken Breast x 2
1 Tablespoon of Chilli Pesto
1/2 slice of brown bread, crumbed.

1 Small Butternut Squash
Handful of Baby Spinach
30g Low fat Feta

Garlic Clove, diced finely
1 Tablespoon of Balsamic Vinegar
A tablespoon of Olive Oil
1 Teaspoon of Honey


Roast your Butternut Squash on a silicone mat at Gas Mark 7 for 45 minutes.

Slice a little pocket in the chicken and stuff each with the breadcrumbs mixed with pesto.
Put the chicken in the oven 20 minutes after the squash.

For the dressing, chop your garlic and mix the vinegar, oil and honey with it.

When the squash and chicken are done. toss the Spinach in the dressing. Arrange the squash & chicken on the plate and crumble the feta over the squash.


Yummy yum yum.

With pre-diabetes the types of fats you eat are super important. Try to stick with Olive, Canola and fats from natural butter. Dairy butter, peanut or almond. If you can grind your own at your local store do that, if not, look for no sugar added...you'd be surprised at how much sugar they add to that stuff. No sugar added bread or one better, Ezekiel breads in the frozen section. Loads of veggies, fresh or steam in bag frozen. Try to stay away from canned goods as much as possible. Whole wheat pasta and Brown rice, unbleached white wheat flour (whole wheat can take a while to get used to). Try to stick with natural sugars like honey or turbinado, Stevia, not Truvia, if you'd like. Nut mixes are wonderful and Planters makes a Nutrition line that is perfect. Blue corn chips or baked veggies chips, Greek yogurt, no fruit juices, eat the whole fruit instead. Skinny cow makes treats that will fit into your carb budget if you'd like a sweet. Sugar free products don't act well with my body at all but if they work for you I know plenty of companies make really tasty things to nibble on. Whole grain waffles or great or if your time is limited frozen Canadian bacon and egg and English muffin microwave breakfast things are a great choice. Overall, no matter what you buy, read the labels when you eat it. Count your carbs and try to staybetween 20-30 per meal. If you'd like a treat skip rice with dinner and have that as your carb. Most of all, make changes you can LIVE with, not suffer through. These will need to be for your life, not for right now. Every little choice counts towards healing your body.

ramen noodles (for a high cal and carb snack for those days your blood sugar is low)

whoa, aren't these like, REAL bad for you?

Google "low carb diet" and you can get some ideas there. I'd be very careful about bottled marinades as many tend to be high in sugar, which you'd want to avoid.

Try to stick to lean proteins and vegetables for awhile, until you get things under control. Frozen veg are okay, but limit canned and processed stuff (full of sodium), or else you're trading one problem for another.

Limit your consumption of grains.