What is on your MUST HAVE grocery/pantry list?
I think this would be helpful to all the newbies here. I'll start:
Shiritaki Noodles Boiled Eggs Lo-Carb Tortillas Albacore Tuna Almond Breeze So Delicious Coconut Milk Sweet Potatoes (new found obsession) Spaghetti Squash FF SF Jello and Cool Whip Free I am interested to see everyones list...I hope to get some new ideas too. Thanks for playing!! |
I am not totally sure yet since I've only been doing this for a week but this is what it looks like so far!
- Black beans - Chick peas - whole wheat tortillas - Smart Start whole wheat english muffins (only 1 WW pt each) - Salsa - tons of veggies - cilantro - chicken - FF yogurt - Cheerios - Tuna - Egg Beaters - Spinach - Spray 1 cal dressing - fat free cream cheese/ff sour cream I use to eat lean cuisines every day for lunch before I started cal counting and I still have a few in the freezer but I want to ween myself off them and go to whole foods. Especially when I think about all the sodium in there! eek! So far thats what I've subsisted on! HadEnough - what recipes do you make with Sweet Potatoes? I have two in the pantry that I want to cook tonight, looking for ideas!! |
I am still trying to figure this out. As a newbie calorie counter, I will be VERY excited to see some of those things.
Here is what I think so far. These are my lower calorie items. this is different from what my family keeps in the pantry/fridge. Eggs OM Deli Fresh Roast Beef (6 slices=1 60calorie serving... YAAAY!) Frozen green beans, spinach, peas Raw Carrots for cutting Apples Nuts. Almonds are my favorites, but we have a ton of walnuts leftover from Thanksgiving. Silk soy milk Regular 1% milk Herbal teas I can't wait to see more and add to mine. |
My staples, whether they're on sale or not, tend to be the following-
- Apples - Almond Breeze (unsweetened choc) - old fashioned oatmeal - Better 'n' Peanut Butter (for the oatmeal :)) - for the last couple of months, I've been eating a mixture of Special K protein, Kashi Go Lean, splenda, cinnamon, and chocolate almond milk as breakfast - Celestial Seasonings True Blueberry herbal tea (decaf for the evenings) - coffee - Coffeemate sugar free caramel vanilla creamer otherwise, I tend to buy veggies and protein depending on what's on sale, and I try not to keep more than a week or two of food stocked at a time - In the ads (or at the farmers' market), I typically look for - chicken on the bone - turkey (ground or whole) - turkey sausage varieties - canned tuna - leaner ground beef - summer or winter squash varieties - bananas - frozen veggies (broc/caul mix, whole green beans, peas, corn) - cabbage - baby spinach - mushrooms - eggplant - avocados - tomatoes - cucumbers - onions - yams - olives/pickles - blue diamond flavored almonds |
Yogurt
Low sodium Chicken stock sea salt (today I had some regular table salt and about died when I tasted it) frozen veggies fresh veggies whole wheat pasta brown rice Tilapia Chicken |
Interesting idea! I'm afraid my must haves are pretty boring but my standard fare includes:
Grapes Apples Low fat cottage cheese Bottled water sugar free pudding cups egg beaters skim milk shredded wheat chicken breast lean pork loin chops (hubs fave) veggies (carrots, celery, etc.) |
I like this thread! :D
Eggs Spinach Broccoli Edamame Onions Yogurt Grapefruit Apples Grapes Pesto Pasta Rice Dark chocolate |
Without a doubt, onions, garlic & olive oil. Everything I cook seems to start with that.
Fat-free plain yogurt Salad greens, bagged or whole Red peppers Broccoli or cabbage Old-fashioned rolled oats Chicken leg quarters Raw frozen shrimp Ground turkey Turkey sausage Water-packed canned tuna Chicken broth Vegetable broth Canned whole tomatoes, low salt when possible Dried lentils Chickpeas Black beans Cannellini beans Hummus Peanut butter Almond butter Apples Walnuts Lots & lots & lots of produce, which varies seasonally. (Today it's broccoli rabe, green beans, broccoli crowns, butternut squash, zucchini and an eggplant.) |
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Gluten-free, Dairy-Free, Vegan, Low-Calorie, Low-Cholesterol, No GMOS, All-Natural It's the perfect frozen meal for busy nights. Or the perfect meal in general. And it's delicious. Besides that, I keep apples with me all the time. They are the only food I can eat while driving, and help me not stop and get fast food. |
tomatoes
onions bananas plain oatmeal low-sodium Better N' Peanut Butter Almond Breeze black beans Morningstar veggie sausage (links and patties) eggs romaine spinach low-sodium canned soup (mostly tomato, but sometimes I branch out) Barilla whole wheat pasta Hunt's canned pasta sauce brown rice Greek yoghurt Flatout Flatbread whole wheat bread (either regular or "thinwhich", depending on what I feel like) Laughing Cow light swiss cheese wedges part-skim mozzarella pecorino romano Trader Joe's meatless balls Trader Joe's chickenless nuggets some sort of meal/cereal/snack bar, like SoyJoy, Luna Bar, Lärabar, or Odwalla bars |
onions
garlic powder onion powder apples frozen veggies (cauliflower and stir fry veggies, and broccoli) extra or double fiber bread (a decent double fiber is hard to find) peanut butter eggs cheese chicken canned tomatoes pasta |
Chicken
Tilapia Ground Turkey Apples Grapes Spinach Brown Rice Eggs Tortillas Frozen Corn Frozen Green Beans Frozen Peas Carrots Shredded Cheese Yogurt Sugar Free Jello Tuna Honey Wheat Bread Cottage Cheese |
Fun
Almond breeze (unsweetened original) Old Fashioned oats Smuckers natural PB Splenda packets Sugar free vanilla caramel coffee mate + dunkin donut original coffee boneless skinless chicken breasts boneless pork loin chops sweet potatoes birdseye steamfresh veggies and brown rice Arnold Sandwich thins (either multi-grain or whole wheat) Laughing cow cheese Turkey pepperoni Turkey bacon turkey sausage 93/7 ground beef beans (kidney, pinto, chickpeas) hummus fresh tomatoes, baby carrots, baby spinach or romaine lettuce hummus apples eggs/egg beaters Light string cheese fiber one cereal (prefer the honey cluster kind) whey protein powder salsa light or fat free sour cream |
This is so helpful!
Almost any fish is good Chicken breasts tuna yogurt edemame fat free cheese (its not so bad) skim milk green leafy vegetables give the most fiber just a few things i can think of.. |
2% milk
coffee raw spinach dried grains of all kinds-quinoa, brown rice, barley,cous cous dried beans-lentils, pinto, black, chickpeas canned beans-same as dried plus kidney spices of all kinds eggbeaters boneless skinless chicken breasts pork loin (I grind it for homemade super lean sausage) london broil (for super lean and cheap ground beef) ground turkey only the white meat kind and if it isn't on sale and I run out I sub home ground chicken breast meat hot cereal-oatmeal, millet, and a 7-grain kind almond milk frozen raspberries and blueberries canned veg for Robert tilapia portions for Robert salmon portions for Robert canned chicken boxed jiffy cornbread canned tomato products turkey burger patties frozen sweet potato fries low fat or f/f yogurt Yikes! I sure keep a lot of food around for just two people! BUT, Robert just pointed out, our grocery budget is $50 a week, which I think is pretty cheap. Sometimes something is on sale too low to resist, like a few weeks ago there was boneless skinless chicken breast for $1.69 a lb. so I went ahead and got 20 lbs and then reduced my weekly allowance to $45 for 6 weeks to even it out. Most weeks we spend less than allowed and I put tye extra aside for a "rainy day". I buy some stuff that isn't on my staples list if I am making something in particular, but usually the staples pretty well keep us covered for all the menus that I plan. Barb |
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