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I want to start eating healthy, and i usually buy enough food for a week. What is on everyones shopping list?

How often do you buy food? What can you make all the produce there is so much green food in the produce section of the store i just never know what to make and i want to eat healthy.

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We go to the store about once a week. Unfortunately we spend about 300 a month at walmart. Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts, Fresh Fish, and frozen Veggies.

Tend to shop every day or every other day, have a smaller fridge (fridges in the UK suck compared to US versions).

Fresh veggies; greens of all varieties, carrots, peppers, squashes, potatoes of all varieties, onions of all varieties, mushrooms, etc.


Fresh meat; beef, pork, poultry, lamb or fresh fish.


I tend to cook myself rather than eating out or eating fast/quick food. It's always healthier and tastes better, you just need to plan a menu or go from what you like to eat and work around that with different seasonings, home-made sauces and the like.

Beef stew tonight!

Just got back from the market.Forgot to pick up the broccolli!
I eat broccolli florets for my main source of greens.Good for digestion and vitamin C.
I shop for food and sundries about once a week.Almost every trip includes bananas,apples,orange juice,whole wheat cereal,ready-made soup,pasta,and other pasta related items.
I'm in the BAD habit of picking up the 2-for-1 deal of Oreos!I didn't give in this time though.
I've started picking up protein bars at the market too.The selection isn't mind-boggling,but the prices are great.
Promax bars are 3 for $4,Big 100 is going 2 for $4 at the store I shop at.

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“	Originally Posted By: ibl5588 I want to start eating healthy, and i usually buy enough food for a week. What is on everyones shopping list? How often do you buy food? What can you make all the produce there is so much green food in the produce section of the store i just never know what to make and i want to eat healthy.	”

ibl5588, I know you work and train long hours. If time is an issue-like it is for me, I suggest Trader Joe's. They have good healthy prepped food for a reasonable price. We have several in San Diego.

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buy lotsa veggies and lean meat

that way you can always create a good, clean healthy meal
no matter if you throw in some potatoes, rice or pasta/ whatever to create a "meal" outta it

and if you can cook, it'll be nice as well

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Get a shop delivered once a week. Usually centers around fresh fruit (I seem to live on blueberries), some quality bread, lean organic meat, fresh veg and rice, tatties or pasta for starch. There's usually some salad, olives, feta, tomatoes, etc. and there's always a bottle of quality olive oil around so if it's too late after training for anything else a tasty reasonably healthy salad and sandwhiches is alwas an option.

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“	Originally Posted By: aaradia ibl5588, I know you work and train long hours. If time is an issue-like it is for me, I suggest Trader Joe's. They have good healthy prepped food for a reasonable price. We have several in San Diego.	”

Oh, TJ's is da bomb!!! I used to drive 30 minutes to get to one, now we live in an area where one is a 10 minute walk away. Yes, their prepped foods are great.

My time is pretty limited too, and I can't afford Peapod (shop delivery) rates. So I put together a menu every week and try to stick to it. Doesn't always work but, it helps. I think of what meals I'd like to eat, which ones can be made from the same ingredients, which meals are best for lunch (depending on where you work makes a difference in what you can eat).

List some easy but healthy stuff for breakfast (Quaker instant oatmeal is NOT healthy but there are alternatives in the health food section). Rice & veggies/beans for lunch, heated in the microwave. I'll also make up stuff to last 3+ days for dinner -- lasagna, pot roast, meatloaf, chicken stew (you can make low fat or veggie versions of these).

When you list your meals then you can list the ingredients for them out to the side and then you'll know what to get and how much of it.

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I shop twice a week. Once a week for staple items, two times are for the fresh stuff: procuce and meats that I am gonna cook within 2-3 days, tops. If its fresh, its better. Im a bit of a food snob, though. Although, I admit, I do enjoy a good plate of fish sticks from time to time...

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Yeah, every once in awhile, I've gotta have a corn dog.

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“	Originally Posted By: Sammygirl Yeah, every once in awhile, I've gotta have a corn dog.	”

I was dragged to the Renaissance Festival this past year. I was not looking forward to it, but had dodged it for so long, my friend was getting pretty upset and put out with me. So, like a good buddy, I went along. Other than all the LARPers, the 15 or so Gandalfs, the 10 or 11 Jack Sparrows, 15-16 Knights Templar, 20+ Orcs, 50+ damsels in distress, 100+ damsels whose ill-fitting attire put ME in distress, 40+ people smoking pot out of a pipe built into their "staffs" (3 of these were the Gandalfs), and the drunken local hillbillies who came to have a beer and to see somethin' naked...the food was pretty good. Them carnies know how to eat. I had a sausage corn dog: it was at least 12" long, and to eat it, you had to either have a good sense of humor, or be very confident in your manhood. I drank like a fish, had several other meats-on-sticks, and left feeling A-OK.

That whole ramble session was to agree with you that corn dogs are badass.

-Wu

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Absolutely.

So, you actually found a Renfest that was like ye old Renfests of olde? (i.e., the 1980s) Because the last couple I went to were so commercialized I might as well have been in Ye Olde Starbucks. No turkey legs, no roasted corn... no beer allowed outside the beer tent and sorry, swashbucklers, no more serving beer in your own beloved but crusty stein that you bought from the vaguely creepy medieval crockery vendor just down the way.

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“	Originally Posted By: Sammygirl Absolutely. So, you actually found a Renfest that was like ye old Renfests of olde? (i.e., the 1980s) Because the last couple I went to were so commercialized I might as well have been in Ye Olde Starbucks. No turkey legs, no roasted corn... no beer allowed outside the beer tent and sorry, swashbucklers, no more serving beer in your own beloved but crusty stein that you bought from the vaguely creepy medieval crockery vendor just down the way.	”

Yeah, I guess so. It is in Plantersville, Tx., out towards Houston. Yeah, you could carry your beer with you anywhere. People smoking in the "Magical Gardens", making out behind the "Dunk the Wench" booth, crap like that. We Texans know how to party. People would be hard pressed to tell a "good ol boy" he has to stay in a tent to drink his Shiner...

Guess you and yours will have to come down to Texas. Sammy...are you a LARPER?!

-Wu

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