I know we do threads like this all the time, but today I feel very content with the contents of my kitchen.
I have meats and chicken suitable for grilling, cottage cheese, tuna, salmon, lettuce, greens, tomatoes, celery, radishes, cucumber, zucchini, baby carrots, whole wheat bread and potatoes for my men!
What about you? What are the bones of your content pantry?
I'm happy with what I have - chicken, tuna, brown rice, string cheese, grapes, eggs (I just eat the whites of course ), oatmeal, and beans. I also have a few boxes of cereal - without ingredients like high fructose corn syrup.
I have to re-stock my fruit since I ate most of it over the weekend.
I always have a bag of chicken portioned out into 4 oz and 8 oz pieces in the freezer. We eat a lot of chicken, so I buy 3 lbs at a time. I also usually have some chicken sausage and Trader Joe's salmon patties in the freeze for an emergency meal. Most other meat I buy on a weekly basis as a I need it, although there are sometimes leftovers that go in the freezer.
My other staples include:
Dairy
Fat free Greek yogurt
fat free cream cheese
Laughing cow cheese bites for mini-snacks
Eggbeaters
Eggs
Skim milk (mostly for baking)
Fat free half and half
Trader Joe's lite chevre (only 35 calories an ounce and you'd never know it)
Produce
Lots of fruit for snacking, whatever is in season. Right now it is plums, apricots, nectarines, and a few cherries.
Raspberries (God's most perfect food) or, if I can't get fresh raspberries, strawberries
Lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, and radishes for salads
Onions for just about everything I cook
Normally I would also have a bag of baby spinach or pea shoots for salads, but I've cut back one salad a day to reduce my calories to 1300.
Breakfast (Other than Dairy)
Oatmeal or multi-grain hot cereal
Trader Joe's High Fiber cereal
low calorie English muffins, crumpets, or Penny's low fat muffins
bacon (not very healthy but my SO likes it for breakfast on the weekends, so I have it once a week)
Snacks
Fiber One muffins (I make a batch every week and have one per day)
Er... not much, since I've just moved out. I still have brown rice/quinoa/whole wheat pasta and the likes in the pantry, but regarding fresh foods, I'm in desperate need of going to buy groceries tomorrow. Oh yes, I have canned tuna and canned green beans (a good brand, at least, not too crap-laden). Yeah, right, I definitely need FRESH foods. And not the Chinese leftovers from my sister. Dangit, why do restaurants always serve such huge portions? Even doggie-bags are becoming dangerous nowadays!
Ooooo we went to a farmers market today. We got melons and strawberries and three colours of peppers and ground turkey and chicken thighs and beef patties and brown eggs ... it was lovely.
I just love having a bunch of fabulous food in the house!
I was picking up a birthday cake for a dog (yes you read that right) and I passed a small fruit market on Queen St. Had to stop and pick up some local cherries, tomatoes, and peaches (these were from U.S. but too luscious to pass up).
I will be noshing on all of this for dinner, with some artisanal rolls (sunflower seeds on top - yum) and goat cheese. Summer - ain't it GRAND!!
The Healthy Kitchen
), oatmeal, and beans. I also have a few boxes of cereal - without ingredients like high fructose corn syrup.
I still have brown rice/quinoa/whole wheat pasta and the likes in the pantry, but regarding fresh foods, I'm in desperate need of going to buy groceries tomorrow. Oh yes, I have canned tuna and canned green beans (a good brand, at least, not too crap-laden). Yeah, right, I definitely need FRESH foods. And not the Chinese leftovers from my sister. Dangit, why do restaurants always serve such huge portions? Even doggie-bags are becoming dangerous nowadays!
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Indie fruit markets
