A grocery trip

My grocery trip :)

I have been getting questions about what I shop for. What is NOT processed food? What are some essentials? Most common items on my list? So here it goes! Everything is organic unless I state otherwise

•  Tomato Juice (Going to make a HUGE pot of chili and can it :)
• Vegetable Broth (for quinoa and lentils cause water is boring)
• flax seed whole wheat pita bread
• honey nut toasted cereal
• french dressing
• nut chips
• tomato sauce
• kidney/black beans
• diced tomatoes (I usually use fresh but they were on sale for cheap!)
• carrots
• celery
• peppercorns
• mini chocolate chips cookies
• animal crackers (last two are healthy snacks for the kids)
• spinach
• mixed greens
• green tea with blueberry (have 2-3 cups a day!)
• maple syrup
• gummy vitamins for the kids
• kefir
• almond milk
• chocolate almond milk (treat for the kids at supper)
• papaya spears and mango slices (all natural!)
• greek yogurt (buy PLAIN. About 1/3 the calories of flavored. Sweeten your own with honey or fruit. Thanks Rachel Bjork!)
• Beef sticks (100% grass fed local beef, no chemicals, no nothing.)
• feta cheese
• quick oats
• green pepper (not organic)
• bananas (not organic)
• apples(2 bags, plus 3 pink lady apples)
• tomatoes
• avocados
• cucumber
• zucchini
• brussel sprouts
• cilantro
• kale

I have never bought any type of dressing before but it was organic and I understood all the contents of it, and the olive oil is getting boring. lol. But just a wide array of stuff and this is a typical shopping trip. i didn't get much meat because I have quinoa and lentils to use up and I only got the beef sticks as a nice snack for my daughter...She is a brute haha. Other than that I juice all the veggies except the avocado, tomato, and green pepper. Was looking for jalapenos because I was going to make a spicy drink this weekend but was unable to find any at the grocery store so going to check out the other one later on.

But with the tomato juice I just bought a huge pot and I am going to fill it with my chili recipe and then can it so I have a bunch of chili on hand whenever I need it. Something I am going to be doing with my Dad :)

My other shopping trips

Most of all my meals are mainly veggies and then I had quinoa, lentils, brown rice pasta or meat to them. But veggies are the base and fill 3/4 of our plates.


ENJOY! My next post will be on how I store my veggies, cleaning, making sure they stay fresh!


April....Keeping it Simple ;)