Okay, so...on the wagon. Yep, that's me. For almost 3 weeks now I've been on that wagon, driving towards a new me.
I'm sticking to a mostly whole foods plan. I still buy the occasional frozen dinner and I hate that. Like last night. I had a Lean Cuisine garlic chicken flatbread pizza. Tasty, but I could've easily made that at home, made it tastier, and without the crappy low fat cheese, and still stayed within my diet requirements. I do well for a while and then I fall off the wagon entirely like this.
I mean, I'm a cook. I really am. Give me ingredients and I can whip things up without a recipe relatively easily. It's sad that I've gotten to the state where I don't even want to do it anymore. It's why I gained the weight. Before I had my baby I cooked all the time. I made my own pasta sauce. I even made my own pasta on occasion when I was really wanting to get away from ready made foods. I want to get back to that and, because of all the fast food buying I've done lately, it's really hard.
So...I'm cleaning out the fridge today of the processed crap and dragging my butt 40 miles to Wheatsfield Grocery sometime in the next few days for a little awakening of my inner chef. That place has some of the best local produce, grass fed beef and pork, free range chicken, locally produced milk, eggs, and cheese, and a very large bulk items section. I should be able to get everything I need to really start this journey.
So...I need some support to help me get into this again. I'm wanting to establish a good grocery list of items that will work well for quick meals, but still be really good and on plan. The boyfriend can have whatever he wants, but I have to stick to this. I have a few plans already: chickpeas, lentils, black and red beans, brown rice, low sodium chicken stock, low sodium vegetable stock, black-eyed peas, couscous, corn meal, olive oil, good balsamic vinegar, organic canned whole tomatoes, spinach, parsnips, carrots, turnip greens, beets, broccoli, baby lettuces, onions, sweet potatoes, cabbage, green beans, sugar snap peas, and varied bell peppers. I can think of about 10 meals that I can make off the top of my head that include some of those things. I have a ton of pasta here at home that I need to use up before I cut it out of my diet for good, a decent amount of shrimp and chicken portioned out into bags for easy use, plenty of eggs and flour for pasta and breads...sound good?