- All right, guys, here with Muscle and Strength again.
We're on our grocery haul.
We're at my local Kroger grocery store.
It's a local market.
We're gonna go inside and show you guys
what I might have to eat in a week
and maybe you give you guys some tips and tricks
to take your physique to the next level.
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We are a vegetable family,
so typically, like vegetables for the week,
we'll get green beans, we'll get brussel sprouts,
we'll get spinach and usually asparagus.
I'm a huge asparagus eater.
I could eat that year round, and it's great for you,
and it's awesome for you.
Spinach, yep.
Bag of spinach, and then we're gonna grab
as far as, oh, I forgot brussel sprouts.
I'm gonna grab a few brussel sprouts,
and then for the last part of the vegetables,
we're gonna grab some asparagus.
Ah, and asparagus $1.77 a pound,
that's like, yeah, it's a good deal.
Typically when I buy it, it's normally 3 to $4 a pound.
So actually we're gonna get a good deal on asparagus today.
- [Interviewer] Do you take a look at pricing
when you're shopping?
- Why spend more at the grocery store than you need to?
So like, I'm not ashamed to go couponing.
Like, when they send out like coupons and stuff,
I'll for sure coupon and like not buy the...
If there's a generic version to whatever I'm buying,
I'll definitely buy the generic version,
you know what I mean?
Like, I think it's just silly, especially with inflation,
to pay more than you need to for what's the same thing
in essence, you know what I mean?
We'll do that.
I'm a big English muffin fan in certain times,
but, again, you have to look at the nutrition facts.
So like, some of the specialty ones,
like the maple French toast versus the others,
you always wanna look at the ingredient list
and then obviously the carbs and the fats
to make sure it fits into what you're trying to do.
If it's close, I always say
you're not in a contest prep,
go for the one that tastes better,
but if there's a large discrepancy,
then obviously you're gonna have to decide for yourself.
And here's another thing too,
like, it's just so crazy how much like, advanced we are
'cause back, you know, when I was a kid,
and I had diabetes, and, you know,
I had to count all my carbs,
like there was no carb master bread.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, for one slice, it's 50 calories,
nine grams of carbs with fiber coming from fiber.
Like, they didn't have all this stuff.
So really, I don't understand like,
whether you're a keto,
whether you're high carb, low fat,
or whether you're just more balanced approach,
there's so many foods now that you can buy
that are available to you
to where you can make food taste good,
and you can actually make it like fit into your goals
and what you're trying to do.
Diet drinks.
Here's a big one,
kind of like with the whole artificial sweetener thing
that people are gonna maybe have a field day with me.
I think diet drinks, if that helps you stay on your diet
and help you stay on target, that's great.
If you're not adding calories to your nutritional, you know
value sometimes though on some of the diet drinks
you do have to look at the ingredient list
because if it has a carb source in there
it's gonna have some calories in it.
But for the most part, a lot of these diet drinks
like a diet 7Up or a diet Pepsi or whatnot
are going to be seriously, zero calories.
So if it, it gives you taste, but fills your stomach up
so you're not hungry and the helps you stay on a diet,
I think it's much better to do that
than to deprive yourself of that.
And then come off your diet eating a bunch of junk.
I like to enhance my water.
So I like to go with Mio.
So we're probably gonna go, my favorite flavors of Mio
are the lemonade. We'll get a few of those
and a few of the watermelon lemonades.
And we'll go ahead and throw that in there.
Now I don't put this in all the water that I drink
but typically I'll have a gallon jug
and I might pour 12 or 14 ounces in a cup.
And then add a little bit of this.
Again, it's just enhancing the water.
I don't think it's too much of a big deal.
All right guys, here's another thing.
We're not gonna buy it today.
This is not my diet, but for those
of you who say you do not have time to cook, easy
or if you're traveling, right?
Apple wood smoked turkey breast.
Okay. Right here.
It is eight ounces.
Okay. So you get a half a pound,
it's on sale for $4 and 50 cents.
If you look on the back super lean, you have one gram of fat
per four ounces, two grams of carbs and 11 grams of protein.
So if you're in a bind and you can't cook
and there's nowhere to cook things like this
are not that bad.
So look guys, we're at my normal Kroger that I go to.
There is a shortage on chicken breast, okay?
So what we typically do is when it's in excess
or it's on sale, we buy it and we put it in the deep freeze.
Okay? Something about chicken as well,
is that typically you're gonna see price differences
in chicken if some has rib meat in it versus no rib meat.
If I'm in a contest prep, I never buy the rib meat.
And I don't like the taste of the chicken breast
with rib meat 'cause I don't like fatty things in my meat.
So typically if the rib meat is all that's there
and I'm not dieting for a show, I'll get it.
And I'll cut the actual like fat off
which takes a little bit of time.
And then I'll cook.
Let's see if we can find cheaper 'cause this is actually
7 99 a pound, which is crazy, right?
So again, when I'm eating 10, 12, 14 ounce portions
every meal, like you gotta look at prices where
it can add up really, really quick.
So chicken tenderloins, look right here.
4 49 per pound. Right? Look on the back.
Zero grams of fat.
If you look in here, it's chicken broth.
So basically it's just chicken breast.
That's the preservatives, right?
If it is made with rib meat
it has to say made with rib meat.
This is not made with rib meat.
So we're good.
And at 4 49, a pound versus almost $8 a pound
like I literally cut my chicken price in half.
If he wasn't right there I'd probably grab them all
and just throw them in the cart
because chicken's not getting cheaper.
All right.
Now we're in the fat aisle, okay?
Almond butter. Again what I was talking about,
I like to add this to my meals.
I like to add this to my competitor's meals
but you gotta be careful, okay?
So for two tablespoons you have 190 calories, okay?
There are 11 servings per container.
A lot of people if they're not careful
can eat a half a jar of a peanut butter or almond butter
in one sitting, which is why if I feel like a client
is cheating on it, I'll pull it out
because some people can't do that.
But if you really measure it out
it can be a healthy, good fat there.
So we'll put that in there.
Greek yogurt's another big thing, okay?
Obviously you gotta know what you're looking for.
Chobani just came out this zero sugar
which has zero sugars, vanilla based, okay?
There's five servings in here.
So for every serving there's 70 calories.
So seven times five, there's 350 calories in
this whole thing, which is great.
Six times five, there's 30.
- [Interviewer] This whole thing?
- Whole thing.
Five times sevens 350.
So you can eat this whole thing for 350 calories.
Think of eating ice cream.
If you ate this whole thing in ice cream
you you're looking at two, 3000 calories probably, right?
Six times five is 30.
You've got 30 grams of carbs, zero sugars, which is big.
And then for protein, this stuff is jam packed
full of protein.
13 times five is five times three is 15
that's 65 grams of protein for this whole thing.
So literally you can spoon out however much you want it to.
But if you have a sweet tooth
and you just want something crazy, taste good
almost like an ice cream, you can literally eat this.
I've had some I've had before you put like PB2 in this.
If I had a sweet tooth or some fruit
and literally like you're not breaking the bank.
I mean, this is the mainly protein.
Okay.
The number one thing I hate is I hate how
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter says it's zero calories.
This is the biggest lie that somebody will ever tell you.
And if you wonder why you don't lose weight
and you use a lot of this, this is because of that reason.
You guys will have to Google. I'm not a genius.
But if you even Googled how many calories are in
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter for this right here.
I wanna say it's like five or 600 calories, but oh
on the back it says it's zero calories.
Why? Because of this.
One spray and it has the servings
in this whole container is 1,130 servings in this
which is why they can say it's zero calories, okay?
It's, I don't know how they get by with this.
And again, if you look at the ingredients.
The ingredients, the second one is soybean oil,
any oil of any sort is going to be a fat.
And I have a funny story on a female competitor
a very hardcore, I knew she wasn't cheating on her diet.
So I said, send me a picture of every single meal
that you're having 'cause I wanna see whatever
you put on it.
And I told her pretty much using a contest, prep mustard.
I don't want you having all these sauces
because they could add up with calories.
So she had this in every picture and I said
how much are you using of this?
Oh, I use about a half a bottle a day.
A half bottle a day is gonna make you fat.
Like it's, you're going to be, it's gonna be so hard to be
in a deficit to where you are going to gain weight.
And again, you have to, knowledge is key.
If something has 1,130 servings
and it says that it is calorie free.
That is the biggest red flag of all.
So stay away from this stuff.
Or if you're gonna use butter
like just use the real stuff.
Mustard. I literally make myself sick off of this
because in a contest prep I don't want any added calories
from anything and mustard, you can use all day long.
I could just pour this whole thing.
It's sodium, it's zero calories.
I will literally put this on all six to seven meals
I have in a day but right now I'm burned out on that
which is why I'm using other things in my food.
And I'm not in a contest prep.
So I like to enjoy some other taste.
When it comes to ice creams, a lot of people
have different conceptions.
So Halo Top, I don't think is that bad, especially
if you're counting calories because you know,
you're two 300 calories per pint, not bad.
If you go to something like Ben and Jerry's
you're gonna be like 1200 calories per pint.
So obviously it's not a not a rocket scientist
make the better selection.
One thing I don't like though
is that this new Halo Top stuff you read
they base it as keto, right?
Which there's nothing wrong with keto.
But if you eat this whole thing
there's 470 calories and this is a light one.
Some other ones have five, 600 calories.
So when you look at it, if you're not a keto person
like in, you're just eating a balanced diet
you can literally get the same taste
and the non keto version, and you're having your calories
and you get the whole thing of this
and it's not gonna be a big deal.
And I know this ice cream has it, right?
So the Briar's carb smart.
I think if you want to cheat
I think it doesn't taste half bad at all, right?
But the cool thing about this ice cream
if you want a diet hack is that you could eat this
whole thing right here.
It has 990 calories, less than a thousand calories.
If you wanted to sit and binge.
- [Interviewer] The whole thing?
- The whole thing. The whole thing is 990 calories.
But if you do that, you have to be careful
with this because this has malitol in it.
Malitol will give you the craps.
Like malitol, you'll be glued to the bathroom
and it'll give you super, super bad gas.
So if you're married or have a girlfriend on a date
probably don't go with this one.
But if you're home alone, it's good.
All right guys.
So this was our modified grocery hall.
Hopefully you guys learned some good things from this.
I tried to talk about things that annoy me with foods
just because there's a lot of lies
in some of the foods that we eat.
So hopefully you guys learn something.
If not, hopefully is a good refresher course
and we're gonna get back to living the lifestyle
and doing some more eating.
We might get on the boat today.
We might get in the pool and we're definitely
gonna work out, have a good back workout tonight.
So stay tuned.