I took my F.Y.T. list to the store with me as I went up and down the aisles of Giant Eagle this weekend.
I started with the fresh fruit and vegetables. I got:
2 bags of baby spinach
lettuce
celery
cucumbers (both seedless and the regular kind)
bananas
strawberries
I then went to the organic/natural area and bought:
whole wheat pasta and spaghetti
steel cut oats ( i plan to make one of the breakfast recipes)
salmon patties
I found one Greek yogurt (I'm a little hesitant but i thought I'd try it).
In other parts of the store I got:
olive oil
Brown rice
walnuts and almonds
crab
lots of tuna
ground turkey
skim milk
egg whites
string cheese
fruit cups
Interesting note about the tuna. I bought both the canned tuna in water (labeled as 5 oz) as well as the vacuum sealed (2.6oz tuna). I then got out the can opener drained the tuna and proceeded to put it on my scale to figure out three oz. Guess what?! The 5oz is with the water in!!! I half-heartedly drained it and it took most of the can to get to 3 oz.
Tuna salad:
3 oz tuna
1tsp olive oil
spices
lots of celery. It might be celery salad with tuna in it!
I plan to eat it on top of some baby spinch for one of my meals tomorrow.
Breakfast (6am):
Smoothie
1 c. ff milk
1/2 c. frozen strawberries
6 almonds
1/2 ff Greek yogurt with honey (its the only one I could find at the store)
Meal 2 (10amish):
Peter's perfect oatmeal puddin' breakfast
1/2 c. oats
3 egg whites
1/2 c. strawberries
flax seed
and a sweetener like honey or stevia.
I hope this is good cold because that's how I get to eat it
Lunch (noon):
Tuna salad (see above recipe) with 2 c. baby spinach
fruit cup
Meal 4 (3:30?)
2 low-fat string cheese
nuts
pineapple
Dinner (7:00?)
Stuffed pepper soup (I'll post the recipe for this later)
and a salad of lettuce, cucumbers and balsamic vinegar and olive oil
100 cal of whatever ( I haven't figured this out yet).
and of course the 96oz of water throughout the day!
Good Luck everyone. Please feel free to post what you ate (even you WW/SBD people); especially if you have an interesting meal that we can steal from you ;)
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Wowzers! Great shopping list there. All really good foods for dieting, and eating healthy. Good luck with the Greek Yogurt, I personally am not a fan of it. I will get an organic, or soy, yogurt, usually vanilla or plain, and mix some stuff into that. Sugar-Free maple syrup is great for adding flavor, and a great for adding a fake out of sweetness to something.
ReplyDeleteI do the SBD, and have for over a year and a half now. I recently went back on Phase 1, and am just heading into Phase 2 now. That means I get to reintroduce some whole grains, and healthy carbs back into my diet. I still stick with plenty of Phase 1 recipes though, since you can always use a lower phase for food and ideas.
My meals for the day will be the following...
Breakfast was 12oz of decaffinated coffee, black with 1 splenda packet...and a breakfast sandwich (1 piece of wheat toast (lightly buttered), 1 scrambled egg, 1 piece of american cheese, and 2oz of turkey). My morning snack will be a 1oz portion of low-salt dry roasted peanuts. Lunch will be a nice sized serving of a turkey chili I made last night (a recipe from a SBD cookbook) with some 2% milk cheese, a sugar free jello, and some sliced cucumbers for veggies. Afternoon snack is a 2% milk cheese stick. Not sure what I am doing for dinner yet. Dessert will either be 2 sliced strawberries and a sugar free jello pudding, or a SBD Phase 1 recipe, a sweetened ricotta cheese dessert. Take 1/2 cup of part skim milk ricotta cheese, mix it with 1 packet of splenda, and some natural vanilla or almond extract. You can also mix in a bit of unsweetened cocoa powder if you'd like to. Let it chill for a bit. Sprinkle with some slivered almonds, or even a few dark/bitter-sweet chocolate chips (counts as your xx calories of extras). Tastes a lot better than one would imagine. It is one of my favorite desserts now. Alternate recipces put in lemon zest, and other flavorings.
I can't just down plain water all day, so I'ma huge fan of the sugar free drink mixes. Not sure if the FYT list allows them, but SBD does, since they are 5 cals and have nothing else in them. Crystal Light can be expensive at times, and I've found I like the flavors of the Great Value ones at Walmart better anyways. Good luck staying off the soda to those of you that are just starting down that path. That can hurt for a few days!
Well, one day down. Food was easy, exersice was easy. Drinking the 3 liters of water was rough. That is 102oz, and much more than I normally drink on the South Beach, which requires the Dr. recommended 8 cups (64oz). Hope everyone had a good first day, and is working well into the second. Gotta figure out how to stop that Christine from tricking me into loosing points though.....hum?
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