hey everyone and welcome back to my channel today I'm going to be sharing
with you guys a healthy grocery haul as well as some easy healthy meal ideas and
things you can do throughout the week to give you some inspiration for your next
grocery trip I don't know about you but grocery shopping is like my favorite
thing to do my favorite part of the week when I get all the yummy goodies and see
what kind of delicious healthy meals I can create so let's go ahead and jump in
so I'm just gonna kind of pick things at random as I you know pick them up first
off I have an organic cucumber I have been obsessed with putting cucumber in
my smoothies if you guys follow me on instagram which you should if you like
healthy recipes it's just keep up with Liv but I've been adding frozen cucumber
to my smoothies to keep them low sugar but to keep them really hydrating and
creamy it is so good so I've been doing that so I'm going to cut this up and
freeze it but I think I might freeze half of it and keep the other half for
like a salad of seeds but yeah next up I have some asparagus asparagus is in
season now and it's a really great vegetable that helps with bloating it's
a natural diuretic so if you feel like you're holding on to a lot of water it's
really good for that it also just tastes good I like roasting it in the oven as
like a quick vegetable it's definitely one of my favorites and I always
recommend to eat things about are in season they are so much more full of
flavor but they're also you know on sale and like usually budget-friendly because
there's an abundance of them in that season so highly recommend asparagus
right now then I just have a plain head of organic romaine just for some quick
salads I also picked up some antibiotic-free pork I want to make some
meatballs with this some like asian-inspired meatballs so stay tuned
for that recipe but this is no antibiotics Organic etc it is really
important to buy quality meat especially because you end up eating
the animal eats right so for not buying that quality then you end up getting
everything that the animal ate which we don't want so I always recommend quality
meat over quantity so if that means you eat it less frequently but you eat
better quality meat that it's always the best case then I have a box of this
organic black bean spaghetti it has 39 grams of protein per serving
which is why I love it it's a great plant based protein option and what I
like about it and like well actually one of two things I like about it it's a
this brand doesn't have any gums and a lot of the bean pastas have gums in them
as an ingredient which can cause bloating and digestive distress like
cramping and things like that so this brand it doesn't have any of that which
I love if you guys saw my noodle salad video you guys know I love like a cold
noodle salad as part of my summer lunch and I'll link that video down below but
this is what I use but what I also like is that it's not crazy high carb so this
one only has 11 net per serving which is really good a lot of other bean ones
have you know forty to fifty or even if you're not getting a bean one I mean
it's like a grain based pasta you know it can be upwards even of 70 grams which
is just way too much to have in one serving your body just is not going to
be able to use all of it so I like having some of this and having it with
vegetables or a salad as a great like plant-based option when I don't be
eating meat every single day then I'm trying out a new flavor of kombucha this
is the organic synergy in watermelon I've been like there was a thing about
watermelon that was really appealing to me I don't get kombucha is like all the
time for me they're definitely a treat and I typically like I don't usually
drink a whole bottle in one sitting I will have it two or three times like I
have a little bit at a time this is also something I like to bring to like social
gatherings or parties you know because I got to be drinking so I'll bring it a
fun drink like a kombucha and that's a great strategy to use so that you know
you're not drinking water you're still having something fun but you're having
something a little bit better for your health then
I have this milk this is the organic almond unsweetened vanilla guys this is
the best almond milk that there is this the best almond milk money can buy it is
so creamy so delicious I won't use this in smoothies because
this is like my special milk it's definitely more expensive than your
normal one there's no carrageenan no gums it's just
water organic almonds vanilla bean and Himalayan salt so it's so good so creamy
and delicious I'll use this in lattes or in coffee or honestly with cereal I'll
show you the cereal a second but it's more of a grain free granola and you can
really taste the difference that a quality milk makes um so this is like my
my special milk speaking of the granola this is the one that I like to get it's
by nature's path and it's grain free I always go for a grain free granola so
that you know we're not having any of that other stuff that's in it that we
don't want so this one is really tasty it's a bunch of seeds a little coconut
sugar I'm sea salt chia seeds it's all really
good so this one is like readily available at most stores so that's the
one I usually go with and this one is caramel pecan it is so yummy with you
know the creamy almond milk so good next up I just have some organic raspberries
I always like to have berries on hand because they are great low sugar fruit
they're really good smoothie bowls they're good with like a little bit of
coconut yogurt or grain-free granola and raspberries we're on sale this week I
typically buy the organic berries that are on sale so that's how I switch it up
I just buy what's on sale next up another pasta is this organic new pasta
this is made from conduct group this is really delicious
it's only 25 calories per pack but what I like about it is that there's no like
weird things in it the ingredients are water organic con Jack arute like that
is so clean it's gluten free I typically like this with a protein on the side so
like I bowling a sauce like tomato in the ground meat versus
other protein McGary pastas a protein pasta that I consider more of like has
protein that's a meal in itself I would have this with like I would add a
protein to this but when you're really craving like pasta it's a really good
option it's organic and it doesn't give you that like tummy troubles that some
of the other like shirataki noodles have given in the past because there's no
weird ingredients so highly recommend checking out new pasta I also got a box
of this earthbound farm organic spring mix again just a basic you know spring
mix of organic lettuces I'm just really easy when you buy them already washed
like this it makes like making salads for lunch a lot easier and so yeah just
makes it easier to be honest I mean we're all pretty well known about salads
I'm trying out these months because these were on sale these are the Belmont
means purely crafted grass-fed beef burgers so you always want your red meat
to be grass-fed and I just like they were on sale and they had really good
ingredients it's just beef water beef broth and spice no weird ingredients 24
grams of protein and no sugar none of that kind of stuff so there's four in
this pack so I thought it would just be other really easy protein that I can
keep in the freezer yeah that's that's my beef burgers I'll let you guys know
how they are stay tuned on Instagram they'll give you an update another
protein that I stocked up on is this wild skipjack tuna I love having canned
wild tuna on hand to either make tuna burgers or a really quick salad and I
love this brand because it's wild and there are no salt added so I always like
to keep a couple hands a couple cans on hand for this for like a quick lunch I
also picked up a couple of sweet potatoes so you potatoes are like my
favorite thing a guy who loves to do potatoes I typically have about half a
cup a day usually at dinner I don't know I just love them so I roast them with
smoked paprika if you have not tried sweet potatoes roasted with smoked
paprika you need to because the smoked paprika just makes them delicious so I
got a couple of those lately I've also been super into Kiwis so I picked up a
cup pee-wee's I like to get with a couple
different kinds of fruit but not too much of it because I'm only one person
there's only so much fruit that I can get through so I picked up a couple key
knees and fun fact about Kiwis is that you can actually eat the skin um you
want to wash them first these are organic but you still want to wash them
and then they're actually really good for digestion so don't take the skin off
because you're missing a lot of the really good nutrients and it's
definitely okay to eat and I picked up a couple lemons for lemon water and lemon
tahini dressing I also picked up some organic strawberries this one in the
raspberries were on sale this week I always get excited when organic berries
are on sale because in the wintertime in Canada it's like seven dollars for this
versus I'm pretty sure this was like $2.99 so it's a really good price
strawberries are also the dirtiest fruit or vegetable so if there's one produce
that you buy organic you want that to be strawberries because they are the
dirtiest in terms of the amount of pesticides that have been found on the
conventional kind so you always want to buy those organic and so I picked up
some of those I also got this box of mint I've been wanting to find like a
mint plant for my house but I haven't been able to find one so I got this
bunch it's just organic traditional herbs and
vegetables like it's a local place I think and it's just a bunch of mint I
add this to salads and guys adding mint to salads is so delicious in the summer
time adding any fresh herbs is really delicious but mint especially I'll also
make a mint tea I'll just chew on mint I'll add mint to fresh fruit I'm kind of
liking a fruit salad type of thing so good and then I just picked up a couple
of akkad oohs I don't tend to buy out picados organic because they're not part
of the Dirty Dozen and because they have a shell on the outside typically things
that don't have a shell or things that have a shell you don't need to buy
organics like this cantaloupe bananas those are things like you don't need to
buy organic so I got a couple of these avocado toast
you know avocado and salad avocado is a snack I always make sure to have
avocados on hand lately I have been into broccolini so I got this brunch of
broccolini it's kind of broccoli but not quite and a little bit
different I can't really explain it I should probably learn to explain it
better but it's just a different twist on broccoli I'll roast that and eat it
similar to broccoli and then I have a bunch of organic parsley I think I want
to do a juice this week so I want to juice some parsley into my green juice
but I also like adding this into salads just really elevates the dish sprinkle
some of them you know on whatever you're having for dinner and like just fresh
herbs really elevate things and parsley is super good for you and then lastly
this is like a big one I've got this big bunch of organic kale guys this huge
bunch of organic kale is only 249 which is like crazy that's such a good price
for organic greens and kale is really nutrient dense because if it's dark
leafy green color so it's more nutrient dense then like an iceberg lettuce so
that's why I like to go for it I do massage my kale go so what I'll do is
I'll chop this up probably after this video I'll squeeze some lemon juice on
it and some salt and I'll like literally massage my kale and then you can leave
it in the fridge and it doesn't really wilt down but it just makes it easier to
digest so I'll have a kale slaw on hand that I can you know how for lunches and
things like that so that's really easy to do but that is a super great tip is
to massage it first and also kale is like more of you bitter green and the
more bitter greens you consume or rather than more bitter foods in general that
you eat the less you're going to have sugar cravings so that's a really good
tip if you crave a lot of sugar is to eat more bitter foods like kale and I
think only one thing left I got a six count of organic eggs I don't know I've
been like hit and miss with eggs lately like sometimes I really want eggs
sometimes I don't so I only got a six one but again I like to get a good
quality egg good quality protein you can usually tell from the color of the yolk
you know that nutrient density a lot of the conventional ones are like a little
bit lighter color and then the more nutrient dense are like that dark golden
yellow rich almost orange II so I picked up some of these you know to have as a
quick protein for lunch because it's so easy to like have a quick protein like
eggs or like tuna one of those two they're really quick to make
right guys I hope you enjoyed this video and got some really good inspiration for
your next grocery trip let me know in the comments something that you're
loving let me know a food that I should get on my next grocery trip that you've
been obsessed with because I always like you know getting new things like my
broccolini or my Kiwi that I'm kind of like rediscovering so I hope you guys
are all having a great day I will leave my latest video here on the screen so
you can get lots of more healthy recipe inspiration and I will see you in my
next video bye guys