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
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.)
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.
Last edited by KoriHallelujah; 12-09-2010 at 12:19 AM.
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
Last edited by KenzideRhae; 12-12-2010 at 11:50 PM.
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
Last edited by CanadianCutie; 12-21-2010 at 12:13 PM.
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
Last edited by angelskeep; 01-01-2011 at 04:25 PM.