SHOPPING LIST

 

Eggs (if on sale may be cheaper than eggbeaters, even if you only use whites)

Eggbeaters

Unsweetened vanilla almond breeze

Cool Whip Lite (sorry…)

low fat cottage cheese

low fat string cheese 

low fat greek yogurt

fat free cream cheese

fat free sour cream

hummus

salsas, various types

Dannon Lite n Fit Carb and Sugar Control Vanilla Yogurt

Kozy Shak Sugar Free Tapioca

Frozen blueberries

 

unsweetened applesauce

canned fruit in own juice

canned tomatoes, various sorts

canned pumpkin

low fat evaporated milk

canned olives

Various salad dressings.  (Paul Newman’s Low-fat Sesame Ginger is my favorite.)

 

various types of whole wheat pasta (Ronzoni favorite)

brown rice

splenda

whole wheat pastry flour

Mrs. Dash

Canned oil spray 

 

Cliff bars

Luna bars

Jolly Time Healthy Pop Kettlecorn

Trader Joe’s Healthy Butter Popcorn

Strawberry fields cereal

Fiber one cereal 

Oatmeal:  steel cut, regular, and 1-minute.

Walnuts

Nature’s Path Pumpkin Flax Plus Granola

Chocolate Sugar free COOK AND SERVE pudding

Trader Joe’s dark chocolate bars

 

Meats:  I usually keep chicken and salmon on hand (in the freezer)  Occasionally buy ground sirloin (its lean, but tastier than most lean ground beef), pork tenderloin, various types of white fish (whiting, sole, red snapper, orange roughy) SHRIMP–I always keep some pre-cooked shrimp in my freezer–very low cal, great in soups, pasta, or just a ’shrimp cocktail’ by itself

Produce:  I usually allow myself to have anything within reason.  This is where I splurge (instead of fast food and sweets, like I used to.)

Fresh pineapple–(really easy to cut up (follow directions on label) and it stores really well for quite a long time in a plastic container in frig)

Red grapes, Fiji apples, cherries, D’Anjou pears, are some of my favorites.  In summer, of course, canteloupe, honeydew, various berries, 

Zucchini (I only like the little ones for eating, but buy a larger one to grate for zucchini bread), butternut squash, asparagus, artichokes, brocolli, cauliflower, 

Onion

Brown mushrooms (just recently found out these are so much better than white.  I try to keep enough for one recipe just in case the mood strikes.  Lots of time they go bad, but they aren’t too expensive for just a few.)

Packaged lettuce (I like Spring Mix the best)

 

THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST, OBVIOUSLY, BUT I WILL TRY TO UPDATE IT AS I THINK OF OTHER STUFF I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT!