I thought we might start a helpful hints type thread on collectively, what we've found we cannot live without. Kinda to help the Newbies out and maybe even the grizzled vets too! So, let's hear it.

Mine are, in no particular order:

Cooler & re-useable ice packs (I have 2, 1 for short trips and 1 larger one)
George Forman Grill
Pam Butter cooking spray
Ziplock portable containers (the new ones they have out - like Tupperware - only muy cheap)
BFL Book
Journal
Good spices
2nd fridg (OK, so this is only my WISH )
3FC website and ALL OF YOU GUYS!

Now, it's your turn!

Susie

Pretty well everything you mentioned, Niffer, plus...

Blender (to get rid of f/f cottage cheese lumps)
A couple hours on Sunday to prepare meal packs...cook once, eat twenty times...
The recipe thread here and at L&S

BethO

All of the above, plus …

*Basement freezer (I am so lucky to have it!)
*Microwave (to thaw all the goodies from said freezer)
*Blender — for protein shakes
*Rice cooker
*Polder food scale (I weigh and label individual portions before freezing and still weigh and measure what I eat) (I don’t do BFL)
*Fitday.com (for tracking food and adding up calories and grams of protein, carbs, and fat)
*Non-stick skillets

Non-food related supplies:
*MP3 player (just can’t do cardio without music!)
*My very own pad for the squat bar and lifting straps!
*(Dare I say my scale and tape measure???)

Next?

Meg

Oh Niffer you da thinker girl!! Great Idea!!
- ALL of the above.....and....

# 1 - my handy dandy hand blender.... I need a new one the blade on this one is shot...

# 1 - THIS handy dandy site....

# 2 - fitday.com also... Meg I saw your journal, I should make mine public too...good idea...

# 3 - eggwhites in the carton, what did I ever do without them....oh and CC

# 4 - frozen veggies, strawberries, and blueberries...it's quick and easy...

# 5- Glad and Ziplock containers

# 6 - Scale, stainless steal measuring cups and spoons...old habit from WW I just weigh and measure everything

# 7 - splenda

Personally I cannot live without alot of items....but lets see if I can narrow it down to a few things:

Microwave to heat up all of my food that I cook on Sunday and eat throughout the week

My weight bench and weights at home and my gym membership

My headphones otherwise cardio would be boring!

Reynolds wrap so i can cook all of my fish in the oven with it!

Protein powder (Yummy Grow!) so I can have some chocolate flavoring without the chocolate.

My weight lifting gloves to protect my cracked winter hands right now.

This forum. All the ladies here are wonderful!

Jamie

all of the above

cottage cheese

frozen veggies (for those days w/little time)

apples

eggs!!! yes I believe in eating all of the egg.

tomatoes, I can't believe how many of these I eat a week!

A pair of handsome, young, hot-looking native boys to wait on me hand and foot on my private island...

(opps, went into fantasy there.

now thats what i'm talking about!

A good (caphalon) non stick skillet and a soft rubbermaid spatula for making nice soft scrambled eggs.

8 mini loaf pans to make big batches of banana bread

good vanilla

Meg...

I hope your basement freezer isn't like Lucy Ricardo's! (Remember that episode of I Love Lucy where she gets locked in the freezer with two sides of beef...one of my favorites!)

Okay WITHOUT LOOKING AT EVERYONE ELSE's CONTRIBUTIONS here's my list of must haves: (not including food items)

24 hour fitness gym membership
Lots of workout clothes so I don't have to do laundry every darn day!
Braun Hand Blender (gotta get another one for work one of these days...)
Microwave
nonstick skillet - I just buy the cheap ones 'cos I like to toss them in the dishwasher. Once they wear out, time for another cheapie!
Bottled water (delivered every two weeks)
Gladware
George Foreman Grill - although I haven't used it that often lately!
and of course this site and Krista's site
my local library system!

Cooler bag, Olive oil cooking spray, Ziplock bags, PP
My Tupperware collection, spices, splenda
our bar fridge, Microwave, Blender
3FC website, the internet
Laptop, IPAQ
Soccer shorts, anklet socks, sports bras.
my best friend, my mum, my husband, my dogs

AACK! Forgot ONE IMPORTANT THING...

My MP3 player!!! Gotta have TUNES for the gym (either that or be forced to listen to what they pipe in...)