Okay, so I'm heading to the grocery store sometime in the next 3 days. What are some good things I can pick up? Healthy snacks, foods, easy recipe ideas, anything and everything you want to throw in would be great. I know that this is talked about everyday, what to eat ect. but does anyone have some good specific items like a name brand of a food ect (Such as Lean Pockets Ultra was mentioned in a sticky I read). Oh, and I'm in college so keep it simple :) Quick fixes are good too.

1. Chicken, chicken, chicken
2. Tuna, I love it.
3. Wheat Bread
4. Oatmeal
5. Nuts
6. Lean Pockets Ultra
7... continue :)

Okay, so I'm heading to the grocery store sometime in the next 3 days. What are some good things I can pick up? Healthy snacks, foods, easy recipe ideas, anything and everything you want to throw in would be great. I know that this is talked about everyday, what to eat ect. but does anyone have some good specific items like a name brand of a food ect (Such as Lean Pockets Ultra was mentioned in a sticky I read). Oh, and I'm in college so keep it simple :) Quick fixes are good too.

1. Chicken, chicken, chicken
2. Tuna, I love it.
3. Wheat Bread
4. Oatmeal
5. Nuts
6. Lean Pockets Ultra
7... continue :)



1. NO LEAN POCKETS!!!!!

2. beef jerky
3. pre-bagged salad
4. good salsa (instead of salad dressing)
5. celery/carrots/zucchini, etc.
6. natural peanut butter
7. mozzarella cheese
8. brown rice

out of curiousity, why no lean pockets?

out of curiousity, why no lean pockets?

Um, because they are crap? If I had to have a "pepperoni pizza pocket thingy?" I'd make my own, that way I know what is in them. That is the whole idea of eating better, not easier -- at least for me.

This is what's in a "Lean" pocket:

Hot Pockets and Lean Pockets Subs
Company: Nestle Hand-Held Foods Group, Englewood, Colo.
Introduced: May
Distribution: National
Suggested Retail: $2.99
Ingredients: (Lean Pockets Subs Meatballs & Mozzarella):

Unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, riboflavin, folic acid), water, cooked meatballs (pork, beef, water, textured vegetable protein [soy protein concentrate and/or soy flour, caramel color], seasoning [spices, dehydrated garlic, soybean oil], salt, sodium tripolyphosphate, caramel color, may contain: Soy protein concentrate, beef base [roasted beef and concentrated beef stock, salt, hydrolyzed corn gluten, soy, corn and wheat protein, corn oil, sugar, natural flavoring, dried whey, caramel color, autolyzed yeast extract], beef flavor [contains salt], low-fat mozzarella cheese ([pasteurized part skim milk, cultures, salt, enzymes], non-fat milk, modified food starch*, *ingredient not in regular mozzarella cheese), tomato paste, contains less than 2% of: Partially hydrogenated soybean oil, sugar, seasoning (salt, sugar, spices, dehydrated Romano cheese [Romano cheese (made from cow’s part skim milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes), sodium phosphates], dehydrated garlic, parsley flakes), modified food starch, wheat gluten, dried whey, salt, yeast, dough conditioner (calcium sulfate, salt, soy flour, dextrose, sodium stearoyl lactylate, wheat flour, contains 2% or less of garlic powder, tricalcium phosphate, enzymes, ascorbic acid, L-cysteine monohydrochloride), methylcellulose, Romano cheese (made from part-skim cow’s milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes) dried egg yolks, yeast food (monocalcium phosphate, corn starch, salt, ammonium sulfate, ascorbic acid, wheat starch, azodicarbonamide and tricalcium phosphate).

Now, that may be fine for you, but for me and the lessons I've learned here about eating? -- that is about 63 TOO MANY ingredients!!!!

Point taken on the lean products. Thats way too much stuff. Thanks for the other foods you listed, I'm adding them as I speak. I like them all, which is always nice.

Where do Raisins rank on the food scale? Decent carbs (good or bad??), potas, and fiber. Any comments?

Here are some staples that are probably on a lot of people's list. Some of it duplicates what's already been listed.

chicken
tuna
tilapia
salmon
eggs
almonds
natural peanut butter
cheese
flaxseed oil
olive oil
oatmeal
white rice
yams
sweet potato
brocolli
cauliflower
spinach
romain
brussel sprouts
apples

SWEETENER!

Also, consider All Bran Extra Fiber cereal. If you aren't getting enough fiber in your diet, this cereal is loaded. 13 grams in 1/2 cup!