Healthy food shopping list?

[Bethany-Louise]

Hello!

Okay so I'm about to go food shopping, I'm just changing my eating habits..

I don't have an oven haha so has to be stuff I can just grab.. Or do in a pan.

I've got some stuff down but would appreciate your guys' help completing my shopping list!
Thank you !

[brookeh09]

My basic grocery list includes:

Lots of fresh veggies: mostly sweet potatoes, spaghetti squash, tomatoes, carrots, other various veggies to put into salads and healthy stir-frys

TONS of fresh fruits: Red delicious apples, cutie oranges, grapes, mangos, pineapple, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, and whatever else I could find that sounded good, lol I loved cutting these up and placing them in small ziplock bags/bowls for easy grab snacks

3-4 packs of boneless skinless chicken breasts. It's really the only meat I ever eat, so i'll bake it, make soup with it, stir-frys, etc

If I don't have any already, then i'll get some coconut oil to cook with.

Other snacks is peanuts, Yoplait light yogurt (very cherry is the bestest :P..), popcorn without all the butter/salts etc.

I try to stay away from all the processed stuff, if I do get any of it, i'll pick up a box of those fiber one 90 calorie lemon bars for whenever I want something sweet or an easy breakfast lol.

There's more that i'll normally write on there but that's just what I can think of this late at night >_<.

[Bethany-Louise]

Thanks so much :)!

[brookeh09]

You're welcome :D

[Climber]

buy vegetables and wok them. If you have no wok pan, you can do in a regular too. You can add nuts for calories and extra vitamins ans you can use extra herbs and spices to improve the taste

[Dandeus]

You can do just about anything in a pot or pan.

Chicken, fish, or pork (steaks as well, but not as healthy) can be done in a pan. Eggs are good protein as well if you like them.

You can saute onions, mushrooms, squash, or asparagus in a pan. You can steam spinach, broccoli, carrots, green beans, or artichokes in a pot. Corn on the cob is great in season, you can boil that. You can boil potatoes.

Rice is great. Beans are great. Rice and beans together are amazing.

Soups are always an option. Salads you don't even need to cook of course.

Not having an oven isn't a huge issue. Most of the healthy stuff you could do in an oven you can do in an inexpensive crock pot (roasting, slow cooking). The kind of stuff you can only do in an oven aren't often very healthy.

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[Bethany-Louise]

Right now I'm really bad at cooking ha, like I literally can only just boil an egg lol so I daren't try to cook meat in a pan just yet haha.
All really good suggestions though, thank you!

[Dandeus]

Cooking meat in a pan is super easy. As long as you're cooking it right, all you need is salt and pepper and it will taste great.

The key is not over cooking. Don't listen to anyone telling you cheats about telling the doneness by touch. Get an inexpensive instant read thermometer and you'll get it right every time:

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1: salt and pepper both sides of the meat. (with pan searing you're doing things like chicken breasts or pork chops, not roasts of course).

2: add a bit of oil to the pan and set to medium-high (never high). when the oil just starts to smoke, add your meat.

3: don't touch it for 3 to 5 minutes, then flip it once. it should be seared. Do the other side for 3 to 5 minutes.

4: stick the thermometer in the thickest part of the meat. pork and beef is done at 145, chicken at 165. Ground meat at 165 as well. Take it off the heat a few degrees before it's done and let it sit because it keeps cooking from residual heat in the pan.

[Dandeus]

Also, never cook frozen meat, it will burn on the outside and be raw in the middle. If you freeze meat, take it out for a while the night before and then let it continue to defrost in the fridge overnight. you can also defrost in the microwave, but that starts to cook the meat a bit, so it's not ideal.

Take meat out of the fridge about 30 minutes before cooking to let it warm up a bit before cooking it as well. That's for both fresh meat you haven't frozen and for meat you've defrosted.

[Illusive_Man]

You only need ONE FOOD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8NCigh54jg

Soylent.

[Illusive_Man]

IT'S ZE FUTURE!

[Illusive_Man]

And ZE FUTURE IS TODAY!

[TheGuyFromMiddleEast]

My mother, she's very good at healthy stuff, always try to find a balance in food between proteins, fat, carbs and vitamin/minerals. So to speak, you have to have all of them in a healthy diet. For example, a meal consisting of some steak, a green salad and a slice of rubber would be a healthy meal. Pour some olive oil on the salad and you're done.

[TheGuyFromMiddleEast]

A slice of rubber? It was supposed to be bread. This started happenning very often.

[Klaatu51]

peanuts maybe?

[Bethany-Louise]

Thanks :)