Hey guys!
So today I am going to show you my grocery haul.
I have gone to the grocery store - stores - I never really get everything at one place
but I went and got myself for the week and really all this will probably last me more
than a week - plus I'm buying food for me and Christian.
So when you're seeing all this keep in mind it might not all be consumed within one week
- plus I do a lot of cooking for Mind Over Munch so a lot of that is in addition to regular
eating and stuff.
So, anyways I just wanted to show you kind of what things I buy at the store and I'm
going to try and make this as fast as possible - I know sometimes I can ramble - so I'm going
to just go through it as quickly as I can and show you my haul.
Okay, first up is the milk section, none of which are dairy.
I've got cashew, soy and almond milk.
I use cashew milk in smoothies, I use soy milk really just for drinking.
I only really buy it if it's on sale because it can be kind of pricey.
All of these kind of are.
And almond milk which I use for everything else so cooking, baking, cereal, whatever.
Almond milk is my best friend.
So I got some regular eggs here and then some egg whites and - what I call them are egg
yellows - these are not egg beaters, these are actually egg whites that are colored yellow
using beta carotene.
So I've got some Daily Greens juice which I've never tried but I love the Bolthouse
Farm's carrot juice and I've been trying to get more veggies and again, hopefully that
is a good one.
Then I got bread.
I use Ezekiel bread for myself which is sprouted grain bread and if you want to know more about
choosing bread you’ve got to check out my How to Choose Bread episode.
Then I’ve got some wraps.
I have these Xtreme Wellness high fiber low carb wraps and I usually try to get whole
wheat but the whole wheat in this bread also contain enriched wheat flour so I just decided
if it's not true whole wheat anyway I might as well get the lower carb.
Then I've got a little more dairy.
I've got my nonfat Greek yogurt.
My low fat cottage cheese, good protein snacks.
And then I've got some garlic humus.
Christian loves Humus and I like it too.
Sometimes I make my own but this week I'm going with his.
And we've got our turkey pepperonis which are great snacks.
We love to dip them in humus, eat them plain, whatever - high protein, low calorie snack.
Then I got some jam which is no sugar added jam.
This is just sweetened with strawberries only.
There's no artificial sweetener, no natural sweetener nothing - it's just strawberries.
Then I have my turkey sausage crumbles.
These are my new best friend.
I usually just cook up my own meat but when I'm making eggs, sometimes I want to throw
some sausages into the frittata and these turkey crumbles have really good stats.
Lots of protein in one serving.
And they're already crumbled up and precooked for you.
So it's really easy.
Cheese - I don't eat a lot of cheese even though I love it but I do eat these thin Swiss
slices because It's still full fat cheese so It's really delicious but it's just sliced
a little bit more thin.
So you can still enjoy it on a sandwich without having to use the full sized slice.
More protein we've got this week.
Extra lean ground beef.
So this is 96/4 which is about the leanest you can get.
And I'm going to make a very special recipe with this.
I'm not even going to tell you yet because I'm going to share it on Instagram.
And extra lean - oo it got ripped off - but this is extra lean ground turkey breast which
I use all the time as a substitute for beef.
I don’t usually cook that much beef and red meat at home because I like to get it
when I go out.
But this week for Mind Over Munch I'm doing something special.
We've got some lettuce and spinach - baby spinach.
Hydroponic lettuce - it's just buttered lettuce but I just like the way it tastes.
And a rotisserie chicken, so if you've got my new meal prep E-book I gave this as a tip.
This is a great way to have easy access to protein all week long.
These are already cooked.
You get them in the - you get them in like the produce/deli section in the grocery store.
And it's a fully cooked chicken and you just peel off the skin and the meat right off the
bone and it's ready to be eaten.
So I do that almost every week - Christian and I do that.
Broccoli slaw - this is one of my ultimate favorite ways to get the veggies in.
This is broccoli, carrots, red cabbage - all shredded up, all ready - so you can use this
for anything; salads, frittatas and it's already cut up for you.
You can cook it but you don’t need to.
One of my favorite snacks - sugar snap peas - I just eat these raw or dip them in humus
or whatever, a little Greek yogurt dip.
They're really good and they're a little bit sweet so it's a nice...
And if you're craving a crunch like if you really like chips like me, these I found are
one way that I satisfy the crunchy craving.
I got carrots and celery.
I don't really like carrots and celery, I don't really eat them plain but this week
I'm going to experiment with some juicing, which you may see in a future episode in the
series.
So keep an eye out but we'll be doing some experimenting.
Butternut squash - while they're still around.
These are always great and they last forever.
So even if I get it this week and I don't use it for like a month it's fine.
We've got some broccoli, some avocados, some sweet potato - a good note on sweet potatoes:
I always try to buy the small ones unlike these big ones because the small ones - even
though this is small - this is actually a normal, regular sized sweet potato - this
is probably one serving.
This is probably like four servings.
So a lot of people think oh this is just a medium sized sweet potato but this is actually
huge.
So I try to just get these from the start so if I want to eat a sweet potato I got one
serving right there.
We've got our peppers.
We eat a lot of peppers in this house.
Red, orange, Yellow, green and some tomatoes.
A fun tip on peppers - did you know that green, yellow, orange and red peppers are actually
all the same.
But they start out green, then they turn yellow, then they turn orange, then they turn red
and they acquire more nutrients as they turn.
So the red ones have the most micro nutrients in them.
It's pretty cool.
Moving on, we've got some fresh strawberries, bananas, apples and pomegranates while they're
still in season.
Frozen vegetables - these are great because they're just as nutritious but they're frozen
so they're super cheap.
Great for soups.
Christian wanted raisins this week.
I'm not super nuts about raisins but it's fine.
Brown rice - I always get the Minute brown rice because it is easy, it is still, instant
brown rice is still just as nutritious but it's way easier to cook.
When I'm doing meal prep I do not have like hours and hours to cook rice.
I know it doesn't take hours but you know what I mean.
Anyways, oat bran.
This is my...this is what I use every morning for oats or overnight oats.
I just prefer it.
We've got some grapes.
I always buy the small ones coz I think they taste better.
And finally some canned goods.
Also super nutritious, super cheap.
So I can't believe we made it.
How long was that?
You didn't have to stop the cameras, right?
Alright so we made it.
That is my haul for the week.
I am going to definitely do some meal prep with this right now.
If you didn't see last week's vlog video it was a meal prep video so you may want to check
that out.
And again if you haven't checked out my meal prep E-book yet, it gives you a lot of great
tips and tricks to help you on your meal prepping journey.
Alright guys, so before we close out this week I want to do a quick check-in on the
January Kickstart challenge.
Remember to tag photos and posts if you tweet me anything - #2015Kickstart and #MindOverMunch
so that I can see what you're up to.
Your new PDF.
It is your week three check in.
You get one of these every single Sunday which means next week you only have one more in
the month and then we have our final check in and assessment evaluation at the very end.
So print this off, fill it out, compare it to the previous two weeks and then comment
below and let me know how it's going for you.
What has been the toughest thing, what has been the easiest thing and are you on track
to succeed because we have pretty much exactly two weeks.
That’s just barely less than two weeks to finish out on our January goals leading up
to our ultimate resolution.
I am so excited to see how you guys are doing so definitely let me know.
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