I need to know your grocery list...

kittycarr · February 2010

Seriously - since it doesn't seem, still, that I'm doing as well as I thought. I suppose some things should be common sense but doesn't seem to be the case with me.

I want a grocery list (or in the garden if not in the list) and what you prepare for meals. Give me what was on the last trip and what you and the kids had Monday, Tuesday and last evening.

I'm intrigued by MrsManners reply in AL's post below.

wellfleet04 · February 2010

Here is what we ate for the past 3 days (kids and I ate the same thing):

Breakfasts: oatmeal, Ezeikiel's sprouted grain English muffins, whole grain pancakes, kefir, fruit (bananas, melon, frozen blueberries, pears, clementines)

Lunch: natural PB (the kind with the oil on top, ingredients = peanuts + salt) and banana sandwiches on sprouted grain bread with sugar snap peas, black bean and cheese quesadillas on whole wheat tortillas with avocado slices, grilled sweet potato puree & cheese sandwiches

Dinner: whole wheat pasta primavera, hamburgers (no buns, organic meat) with sweet potato oven fries and spinach, baked tilapia, rice and broccoli

Snacks: string cheese, apples and PB, pretzels & hummus, nuts, popcorn

I know this sounds really uppity with the "sprouted grain bread" etc but I thought you wanted details, so I gave them to be helpful, not to illustrate what an awesome mom I am.

heyitsme · February 2010

I'm amazed at people who grocery shop for the week... that would make our lives so much easier. Instead, DH and I just run out and grab what we need when we need it. We do a bigger shopping at Costco every 3 weeks and we hit TJ's every other weekend to grab staples, but really we just choose meals on the fly... Oh to be so organized!!

kittycarr · February 2010

You uppity awesome mom you! Sprouted grain bread, huh? Never heard of such a thing. Can get it anywhere anywhere?

wellfleet04 · February 2010

I think they sell it most places. It's Ezeikeil's (sp?!) brand, and it is in the freezer section. Near the gluten free stuff in my store. It has tons of protein and nothing processed. We also eat Vermont Bread--no transfat and no HFCS.

DandelionMom · February 2010

I think the key is to avoid the packaged food as much as possible. And if you're buying processed food, try to pick the organic option. My examples probably won't be helpful since it is vegetarian and gluten-free.

Yesterday we were running late so we had apple slices with peanut butter for breakfast, then canned Amy's soup (organic and low sodium) for lunch with cornbread muffins, and tofu pad thai with cucumber salad for dinner. For snacks they can choose cheese sticks, gluten-free pretzels, or fruit.

kittycarr · February 2010

you all would really sh*t (as am i) upon viewing my grocery list

AnnapolisLari · February 2010

kittycarr:
you all would really sh*t (as am i) upon viewing my grocery list

List it, so people can suggest alternatives.

praline · February 2010

Ok, I don't do as well as Wellfleet...but Monday night we had BLT's with turkey bacon, spinach, tomato, and lowfat mayo (DD barely eats this) and butternut squash soup (from Safeway).

Breakfast is always oatmeal (quaker stove top) with skim milk and a little maple syrup, and a smoothie with frozen mango, strawberry, banana, carrot, plain organic yogurt, and almond milk.

Lunch is almost always peanut butter on whole grain bread and apples, applesauce, sliced grapes, clementine, grapefruit, etc....

Tuesday we had whole wheat penne with pink sauce (I mix a little jarred tomato sauce with a little lowfat cream cheese), baked acorn squash, and a spinach salad.

Wednesday we had wild Pacific salmon (I always get wild cause I think the farm raised stuff is gross), asparagus, and whipped sweet potatos. I just roast the sweet potatos early in the day. They were not organic and neither was the asparagus. I shop the flyer from Safeway and asparagus were on sale this week.

Last night we had tuna caserole (and I do put cream of mushroom soup in it, so it's not the most healthy I guess) but I use lowfat cheese and whole grain pasta. I also roasted some beets to mix with our salad greens. I alwyas buy that ready to eat spinach from O Organics.

Snacks are raisins, grapes, grapefruit (DD calls it "fairy fruit), oranges, apples, fruit leather, goldfish, hummus and carrot sticks, Cheerios or some other fairly low sugar cereal, string cheese or shredded cheese, peanut butter in a spoon or in celery etc.... If we have desert I usually make it and it's something simple.

I pretty much do all my shopping at Safeway once a week and meal plan for the week. Tonight we are having a chili mac caserole with turkey chili and green beans (fresh...I don't like canned veggies). Tomorrow homemade pizza and a frozen mixed veggie.

I could probably improve...but I'm trying!

Kapalua · February 2010

you don't want to see mine this week b/c it includes super bowl snacks!

wellfleet04 · February 2010

Praline, that sounds about like what we do. The only things I always do organic are meat and dairy, and that's bc the antibiotics and growth hormones freak me out. I just got more detailed about it because it seemed like she wanted to know exactly what we were eating.

praline · February 2010

wellfleet04:
Praline, that sounds about like what we do. The only things I always do organic are meat and dairy, and that's bc the antibiotics and growth hormones freak me out. I just got more detailed about it because it seemed like she wanted to know exactly what we were eating.

oh your menu sounded great! we always do organic dairy but not always meat (mostly a budget issue). well actually the shredded cheese i get isn't always organic...but the milk always is. anyway i'm working on it always. i could eat crap all the time and did at one point, but with the little ones i'm trying!

kittycarr · February 2010

I'm willing to try anything and do anything. Patrick doesn't make it easy though so I do the best I can but still end up with junk food. I feel like my whole grocery list is junk food. He's a picky f*ck and wants it and I don't know how to change it. Sometimes I twist my head into thinking we eat better than we do but I really wonder if I think that simply because I cook more than I used to. I think I was healthier as just a "round the clock snacker".

Here's our grocery list...

milk - 3 fat free for me and kids, 1 whole
bread - store brand for him, pepperidge farm for me & kids or if with hot dogs and hamburgers, martins potato rolls
eggs
egg beaters - use in certain recipes
apple juice
orange juice
celery
onion
garlic
green peppers
carrots
apples
bananas
potatoes - mashed with milk and butter or cut and fried in evoo w/ onions
lunch meat & cheese (whatever is on sale, a pound of each)
soda - four cases each week and it's all patrick
chips - for patricks lunch
wheat thin fiber selects garden veggie
pasta sauce - whatever is on sale
pasta - ziti, rotini, spaghetti
tuna - for tuna salad with sweet pickles and the mayo and onion
sweet pickles
kraft reduced fat olive oil mayo
quaker oats packaged fiber oatmeal
steel cut oats - add some sugar and milk
fiber one cereal - the shredded wheat kind
frosted flakes, cheerios, and regular shredded wheat for the kids
coleman's natural hot dogs or hebrew national 97% fat free hot dogs
Red Baron's frozen cheese pizzas
Kraft mac & cheese (the powder in the blue box)
WW Smart Ones
frozen meatballs - jelly and hunts chili sauce or just pasta sauce
ground beef (the 5%)
purdue chicken breast selects - fry in evoo with cornstarch salt and pepper
pot roast (buy one get one most of the time, i cut off the fat before throwing in the crock pot)
some packaged crock pot beef pot roast seasoning packet that's probably very bad
pilsbury crescent rolls
cream cheese - regular and fat free
ricotta
shredded cheese - moz and cheddar - fat free
WW or Danon fruit on the bottom yogurt
WW snacks
country crock shed spread calcium
bush's baked beans - any flavor
ice cream - breyers vanilla bean and my WW

I think that's about it.

wellfleet04 · February 2010

Organic shredded cheese is so expensive! I don't do organic for that, either.

Kate and I both eat pizza every single Friday night at playgroup. I don't worry about it because the rest of the time we do pretty well. Same with when we travel, I don't worry about eating at McDs or whatever, or getting ice cream a ton in the summer, etc. I feel like if you make healthy stuff MOST of the time, the REST of the time you can just not worry about it and it's nice. I don't stress out when she eats fruit snacks at someone else's house, but since I don't buy them, she can't ask for them at home.

npeacock · February 2010

We always have fruit and veggies on our grocery list, and then usually stuff to replenish the stuff we ate the previous week. We always buy organic milk, eggs, try to buy organic cheese (but sometimes it's just hormone free), and as many organic veggies as we can.

I WOH, and the kids are at daycare, so this week's dinners include:

Black bean and chicken quesadillas on whole wheat flour tortillas served with salsa and guac.

Turkey burgers and sweet potato fries baked in the oven (I cut these myself and bake them up)

BLTs served with avocado

Tonight, I think we will have omlettes served with cheese and whole grain english muffins.

424 · February 2010

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