What items most occupy your grocery list?
 

I think grilled cheese sandwiches on whole wheat bread.. and flavored oatmeal, honey-roasted peanuts, cheese crackers, raisins, bananas, granola bars (sam's club -- 60 for 7.50).. all inexpensive, relatively healthy, and a good variety. Usually costs 20-30 bucks per week.

I love my carbs, so breads, pastas, rice and anything somewhat potato related. I love all types of food and will eat most anything happily, but carbs/breads are my comfort food. Thankfully it hasn't made me fat, the beer does that :P

love the carbs.. Atkins dieters make me rofl..

I like to preplan and cycle meals, 4 breakfasts, 3 lunches, and 5 dinners, bimonthly. I started doing this in college in order to avoid wasting food and it just stuck. I generally have each breakfast about 4 times, each lunch about 5 times, and each dinner about 3 times.

This cycle:
Oatmeal with dried cherries and protein powder
Hash browns and a boiled egg
Dry cereal
Protein shake

Asian pasta salad
Chicken pesto sandwich
Tuna sandwich with red onion

Shrimp scampi with linguini
Collard greens and smoked turkey
Pot stickers
Lemon veal with green beans
Green olive casserole

So, the item that occupies my grocery list most is pasta in one form or another. It's in the asian pasta salad, the shrimp scampi, and the green olive casserole.

Crunchy peanut butter.
Canned chunk light tuna in water.
Cheerios / Frosted Miniwheats.
Skim milk.

...

How am I still alive?

Potato Hot Dog buns.

Hot pepper spread.

Michelina's Microwave flat bread things.

Bagged cereal.

cat food
cat litter
bottled water
hummus
yogurt
lean cuisines
something to eat with the hummus
cheese

that's about it each time.

MILK, Milk goddamnitt!! I said WHOLE milk! There is no such thing as fat free milk. If I wanted colored water I would drink from the toilet. Now buy me whole milk!!

Another thing, I eat normal bread like normal people. I do NOT want it brown. If I wanted cardboard I would have just eaten the box the cereal came in. So, when I go to the grocery store and buy normal bread and normal milk, eat your own goddamned bad food and leave the good food for me OK motherfuckers?!?!?!?!

No. Can I slap you, xerx?

Yesterday 2/3 of the items in our grocery cart were fresh fruits and vegetables. That's not all we eat, but they are on our list everytime we shop.

Will, I have to know. What are pot stickers??? And what is a green olive casserole???

Lean Cuisine pizzas and paninis
Coke - I gave it up for about 3 weeks and had to go back to it today
Coffee
Creamer
Splenda
Lactaid skim milk
Double Fiber bread

cigarettes :/

mmmm pot stickers. similar to dumplings, grancey. typically some type of won-ton like wrapper filled with something yummy and boiled... dipped in a sauce or sometimes cooked in a sauce of some kind depending on where you get them.

hmmm, these appear to be browned or fried. the ones i've gotten are boiled.
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Noodle gets the honors for sharing pot stickers, but I get to share my favorite. My great grandmother came up the the recipe, gave it to my grandmother, who gave it to my mother, who gave it to me, and then I made significant changes because nothing's sacred.

Basically, I take cooked cubed chicken breasts, mix them with cooked spaghetti, green chili peppers, onion, mushrooms, stuffed green olives, grated sharp cheddar, cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, parmesan, and s/p. Bake it at 350 for about 45 minutes to an hour, and violas. It's almost dangerously delicious. It's not particularly healthy, but I only have it maybe twice a year.

Edit:Generally speaking, at least as far as I know, you boil them regardless. After you boil them, you can deep or pan dry them in some oil to get that browning. If you've not tried it, I highly recommend it. It adds an entire new dimension of flavor.

-milk
-eggs
-bread
-cereal
-CHEESE!
-pasta
-fruits
-hamburger
-chicken
-POTATOES! YUM
-hotdogs
-cottage cheese
-yogurt
-Baby cereal and foods/ formula

Why are you being pretentious? Do you not live or have you ever lived with people? Can you think of a perfectly normal person capable of voicing what it is they want when a list of sorts is being compiled but they do not? Aaaaand to top it off they blatantly ignore the little post it note that says "Xerx's food" and go ahead and merrily consume it.

I have no problem with buying people the food that they desire but no breakfast in the house makes me cranky and this is coming from a person that induces genocidal thoughts in the morning due to his morning "perkiness".

So I repeat myself ... I will buy you what you want to eat, just don't eat MY good food and forgo the bad food YOU bought!!

/threadjack

Xerx, my dear, with the proliferation of question marks and exclamation points, I could only infer you were becoming a bit hysterical.
It seemed the logical next step.

I shop at three different stores, but here's the gist of it...the staples:

boneless chicken breasts
lean ground beef
some variety of seafood
some variety of steak and/or lean pork

tomatoes
vidalia onions
garlic
fresh veggies (changes every week)

garbanzo beans (to make hummus)
solid white tuna in water
brown rice
these, even though there prob. not good for us...but they're pretty damn good:
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a pasta & a good jar of sauce
extra virgin olive oil
double fiber whole wheat bread
whole wheat pitas (for pita chips)
triscuits or other whole wheat crackers
Laughing Cow light cheese wedges
Chips for boo's lunchbox
microwave popcorn
rock sea salt w/ grinder (a new favorite)
black peppercorns w/ grinder
Tony Cachere Creole seasoning
oh, and of course, beer

that's about it, I suppose...I'm trying to keep our diet healthy, and with these items I've been managing to do pretty good for the last couple of months.

I tend to only do grocery shopping when I stay with boyfriend. Usually it's just breakfast stuff and snacks:

Apples
Granola or a sugary cereal
Vanilla yogurt
Cheese
Fresh bread
Hummus
Pitas or naan

From the hippie food co-op:
Whole wheat bread
Hummus
Milk
Eggs
Half and Half
Greek yogurt
Whole wheat tortillas
pita
Bulk beans
Bulk rice
Canned tomatoes

From the farmer's market:
Cukes, tomatoes, salad mix, whatever is in season that I feel like cooking with

From Fred Meyers (Kroger):
Diet Pepsi
Adams chunky peanut butter
Whole wheat pasta

I shop two different places

Kroger:
Bread (white thank you, I dont want any other color or kind and its only 22 Carbs for one sandwich if I buy Sunbeam)
Hot dog buns
Hot dogs
Eggs
yogurt
Milk (2%, I honestly cant tell the difference between this and whole and I had to make this concession for my Dr)
cheese
spam (I make many things with spam, I adore spam)
pasta
either canned tuna or chicken depending on my mood
pasta
mayo/mustard
Dave's Mt. Dew's


Farmers Market
All my meat (its a 1/4 of the cost at the grocery store)
All my fresh veggies/fruits
all my fresh herbs
all my fresh shrimp

Money's been tight lately, so I admit to mooching a bit. Usually, though:

- whole wheat pasta
- veggies. usually broccoli, spinach, red peppers, green beans, and corn
- mushrooms of some kind. I use 'em in stir-fries and spinach salad
- some kind of juice. cranberry, pineapple, tomato...whatever sounds good at the time
- soymilk (usually Silk Light, but every now and then, I'll go for chocolate)
- wheat bread...I jump from brand to brand. Aunt Millie's (I think) is really good
- hummus! Sabra's Supremely Spicy is amazingly delicious
- natural peanut butter
- brown rice
- hot sauce!


...those are the staples. More stuff if I plan on making something specific.

Dairy, coffee, sweets, and Ceasar makings.

Raisins
Avocado
mixed vegetables
mixed fruit
5 grain whole wheat bread
light whole wheat english muffins
whole wheat pita bread
hummus
oatmeal
oatmeal raisin granola bars
brown sugar ham slices
OJ

Thanks, I needed that.

Ooooh, the farmer's market. Forgot that one.

Tomatoes (5/$4 for the huge ones that last two weeks roughly 2.5 ~ 3 pounds), vidalias ($.60 each), peppers and cucumbers (6/$4), spicy jalapeno dill pickles ($4), raw cheese (my luxury item), seasonal fruit as desired and usually a half loaf of some kind of specialty bread for $2. Sometimes a wild blueberry muffin and tupelo honey when I run out.

Cinn---Sabra makes individual sizes now with pretzel flats on top :) Great for portion control, but a little more pricey over all, $1.99 each here. Perfect for me, though.

And Xerx, you're welcome. Had nothing to do with your choice of whole milk and bread that I don't like.

:p Noodle I get 5 cucumbers and peppers for a dollar
I also get 5 ears of corn for a dollar
and white shrimp approx 45 peeled and deveind for 3.99 (large, not popcorn shrimp)

The torrential rains for awhile took out a lot of our local crops. The Georgia stuff, when it comes in, is all we have access to. Still cheaper than publix... 2 for a dollar. :(

I don't know how someone can say that brown bread tastes like cardboard. White bread tastes like wallpaper paste (i.e. tasteless). And I grew up on a diet of white bread and peanut butter. White bread is just boring... but knock yourself out.

To be clear, I do not worry about eating healthy per se. I cook with butter, lots of it. I never count calories. Never.

The bulk of my groceries is fruits and vegetables. After that it's probably dairy (yoghurt, yakult, milk, cheese). We don't do a lot of meat (it's quite expensive here) but do fish and chicken.

The one thing that we buy a lot less of here is processed foods and ready-made meals. It's not that difficult to make things like pasta sauce, desserts, etc. from scratch.

I don't know how people can eat pre-sliced bread full of preservatives. I can understand that it's more convenient—it lasts longer and it's cheaper—but honestly going from that pseudo-bread to buying from the local bakery really changes your life. The same thing goes for pastas; get them fresh from a good deli or bakery and and you'll really understand why the grains are at the foundation of the pyramid.

Will, while I can appreciate your love of fresh baked, the main reason people (like myself) buy pre-sliced breads is because they are cheaper and more convenient. It costs me $1.50 to $2.00 for a loaf of Whole Wheat pre-sliced and upwards of $5 - $6 for fresh baked, un-sliced. The pre-sliced also has a longer shelf life.

As for pasta, I love fresh pasta. I love it even more when I make it myself. But there is very little difference, when it comes down to it, between fresh and dry. The main difference is more a mouth feel than anything. The ingredients list on dry pasta is very short and without preservatives and additives. Convenience, in this instance, is not a bad thing.