Healthy eaters: Share your shopping lists
 

And also how often you go shopping. I've gotten into the habit of buying a lot of fruits and some veggies, but I really need to branch out, and I could use some ideas. If you want to include some general recipes, that's cool too.

Yesterday I went shopping and bought:

Zuchinni
Squash
Onions
Mushrooms
Bell Peppers
(for a sort of cajun slurry with chili powder and worchester)

Oranges
Bananas

5 pound pork shoulder
1 chicken
4 Spicy italian pork sausages
(all for the smoker)

Onion bagels
Cream cheese

2 Digiorno's

Bonus points for including approximate expenses per week.

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Once a week, sometimes 2x week, either TJs or whole foods

banannas - eat these daily
apples - eat these daily
eggs - eat these daily
cottage cheese - probably every other day
almond butter
broccoli
broccolini
spinach
tomato
avocado
carrots
corn
peas
stringbeans
mushrooms
peppers

Most of this is in a frozen medley, I buy fresh each time I go to the store but only for one serving/meal/cooking, otherwise it goes bad or I don't eat it in time etc...

chicken 2x day
beef 1x day
fish 2/week

larabars
jerky
almonds/walnuts

That's about all that is in my kitchen. I eat out 1-2x week, mostly sushi.

Approx. expenses are around $100/week.

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I go to a farmer's market on Thur or Sat for produce and occasionally fish. I'm not a health food guy, but the only place I can find steel cut oats (except for the overpriced McCann's) is at a health food store,-- so I go there to check out the pale and grumpy people once a month. There are two regional chains I may go to every other week or so for milk and eggs, tea, occasional a canned good or three, if I'm jonesing for a banana or a mango or an avocado or something else you can't get at a farmer's market, and one of the stores has a huge fish market, so I take a peek there.

For meats and poultry, I do get a bit health nutty, I tend to buy in bulk. The "Eat Wild" site is a good resource to find local producers of grass fed beef and that ilk:

http://www.eatwild.com/products/multistate.html

And maybe I accidentally get a little eco-friendly by checking out my fish selections here:

http://oceansalive.org/eat.cfm?subnav=bestandworst

I'd be disappointed to learn that site isn't authoritative because in my ignorance I treat it as such.

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Here is the basic list. I switch it around often for sales though. Anyone have a Costco/warehouse club membership? How much can you save on this type of food? The funny looks I got buying ~100 oz. of Turkey (2 for 1) made me think I should be shopping there.

Oatmeal
All Bran Cereal
Fish - Kroger, Frozen
Turkey - Sliced, Sausage, and sometimes hot dogs
Chicken - Breasts and Thighs
Beef - Occasional lean steak
Beef Jerky
Eggs
Fat Free American Cheese

Fruit - Apples, bananas, blueberries, strawberries
Veggies - Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cucumber, carrots, jalapeños, green pepper
Spinach/Bagged Salad
Low fat/ Low carb dressing - Newman's Sesame Ginger or Hidden Valley Ranch FF

Smart Balance Peanut Butter, Chunky
Smart Balance Butter, Light
Healthnut Bread
Campbell's or Progresso Soup
Skim Milk
Low Carb Yogurt - Kroger Brand
6 pk. Pure Protein Bars
Whey - ON
Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Fish Oil Capsules
Centrum Multi

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I am always shopping for cottage cheese, it's really ridiculous, probably a container per day.

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Things in my cart nearly everytime I checkout

Medium Turkey Breast with Ribs.
Chicken Breast.
Ground Turkey or Ground Sirloin.
Whatever good looking Fish Publix has at the Seafood Counter, usually Salmon, Talapia and/or Tuna.
Top Sirloin.
Quaker Oats(not every checkout because I get the Big Tub, but definatly a staple in my diet).
Yellow Rice, White and Wild Rice, Brown Rice.
Canned Black Beans.
Sweet Potatoes.
Romaine and/or random other dark lettuces.
Bananas
Squash, Zuchhini and/or Mushrooms.
Bell Peppers.
Eggs
Cottage Cheese
Tomatoes
Onion.
Avocado.
Organic Milk.

And usually I'll get one of the following two:

Old El Paso Stand and Stuff Taco Kit.
McCormick Chili Packet w/ Kidney Beans and Petite Diced
Canned Tomato.

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how do you cook those sweet potatoes?

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how do you cook those sweet potatoes?

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I hate the microwave, I wont even reheat food in one. Sweet Potatoes cook perfect in them though. Its quick and comes out soft all the way through.

I usually get the smaller spuds and cook them 5 minutes on power level 5 and then 3-5 minutes on high. I would repeat the process for larger potatoes.

I think they have great flavor so I just eat them plain out of the microwave.

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Sweet potatoes are versatile. Epicurious.com surely has many recipes for them. They're out of season right now, so I don't eat them, but I like to bake them and then add pepper+paprika+salt. If I wasn't dieting, I'd add a tsp or so of olive oil or butter.

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Sweet potatoes are versatile. Epicurious.com surely has many recipes for them. They're out of season right now, so I don't eat them, but I like to bake them and then add pepper+paprika+salt. If I wasn't dieting, I'd add a tsp or so of olive oil or butter.

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You probably already know this, but you need fat in your diet and olive oil is a good source for it.

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Yeah, if you need fat(even while dieting), def. add the olive oil to the baked sweet potatoes. It improves the texture and flavor substantially.

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i think you are missing the point. even if you are "dieting" (whatever that means to you) you still need fat in your daily food consumption.

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I'm not missing the point(I am aware of need for fat while dieting). I was simply unclear in my original post: I get a lot of fat from other sources(including olive oil in other dishes), so I usually skip the olive oil in the sweet potatoes in the interest of keeping overall calories low.