Grocery List

Friday, January 1, 2010

Since we start our healthy eating plans Monday, we need to purge our homes of all things fattening. Those of you with kids might be saying, "Yeah, right. What will the husband and kids eat?" Personally, I believe that it is essential that we train up our children to make healthy choices as well. If our kids have healthy eating HABITS, they will be healthier adults. That said, my husband and kids will be eating the same foods that I eat; they just won't have to measure their portions like I do. Besides, I do not have the will power to resist fattening food if it is in the house. Thankfully, I have a husband that agrees with this philosophy. He is concerned about his cholesterol and heart health as well, even though he doesn't have a weight problem. He can always run out and grab some fattening fast food for himself if it gets unbearable for him.

Here are some items that are on my grocery list:

• Promise fat-free spread (I use this instead of butter. You can't cook with it.)
• Pretzels (fat-free)
• Dannon Lite & Fit Yogurt (Strawberry-Banana is my favorite)
• Bananas
• Apples
• Grapes
• Pineapple
• Oranges or Clementines
• Cucumbers
• Zucchini & Yellow Squash
• Red onion
• Celery
• Carrots
• fresh broccoli
• fat-free Ranch dressing
• real bacon bits (I crisp them up in the microwave and use about 1/2 tsp. to flavor my Ranch dressing for dipping veggies)
• Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches, ice cream bars or fudge bars
• Nature's Own White Wheat bread (has fewer points than any other bread I've found)
• Lite Popcorn
• Frozen edamame (Thaw 'em in a zip-lock bag, lightly salt 'em, eat 'em like boiled peanuts, discarding the hulls. LOW CAL and filling snack - full of protein!)
• fresh asparagus
• leaf lettuce
• tomatoes
• boneless skinless chicken breasts
• Eye of Round roast (for making pot roast and pepper steak)
• Lean pork chops
• 97% lean ground beef or ground sirloin
• low carb flour tortillas
• 2% milk American cheese slices
• Lean sandwich meat (turkey and ham are what I get)
• Butterball turkey bacon
• Weight Watchers Smart Ones frozen meals (Chicken Fettucini is my favorite, but we buy all kinds) - *Note: these prepared foods are all too high in sodium, so shame on me
• Whole wheat pasta
• Ragu spaghetti sauce
• Nature's Own White Wheat hamburger buns
• Little Debbie's 100 calorie pack cupcakes (I'm not sure what you call these, but they have only 1 WW point and fix my chocolate cravings)
• Multi-vitamin/mineral supplement
• Benefiber (the best fiber supplement on the market. I mix it in my bottled water and you would never know it is there. Colorless, odorless, textureless, tasteless.)
• Bottled water (makes it easier for me to keep up with how much I'm drinking)
• Lays or Pringles fat free potato chips (okay, not healthy, either, but I'm a chipaholic and these taste awesome)
• Baked Tostitoes Scoops
• fat-free refried beans
• collard greens or turnip greens
• 100 calorie English muffins
• Egg Beaters egg substitute
• Multi-Grain Cheerios (2 pts)
• Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds (3 pts)
• fat-free milk

I don't remember the WW point values on most of this stuff, but I will look it up in my WW booklet or figure it out with my point calculator. If you ever want to know how many WW points a packaged product has, and you don't own a point calculator, you can use their patented formula for figuring it out with a regular calculator: calories/50 + fat/12 - fiber/5 It's a pain to figure out, so I recommend buying a point calculator from Weight Watchers.

If you want to know weight watchers points for food at restaurants, check out www.dwlz.com You can get some good recipes from www.3fatchicks.com

Be sure to share healthy foods and recipes that you have found for your family, too!!!