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After posting a Skinny Girl's Shopping Cart on Instagram a few weeks ago, I received many questions about what I buy each week. Many people think eating healthy means feeling deprived and going hungry. Not true. When eating the right combination of foods, I never feel hungry and I rarely crave sugar. I credit this to focusing my diet around a lot of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds and limiting sugar, processed foods, meats and dairy. Below you will see what's in my grocery cart most weeks to give you an idea of the healthy foods I buy and yes, I am I'm single. This food is all for me. No shame!
Organic Berries
You will always find either blueberries, strawberries, raspberries or blackberries (or all of the above!) in my cart depending on what's on sale for adding to pancakes, yogurt, muffins or oatmeal. I also keep a healthy stash of frozen berries in the freezer for when I get the urge for smoothies.
Oranges & Apples
My fridge is regularly stocked with oranges and apples for juicing and snacking on my beloved Nuttzo (get 20% off when you order with code olso-20). Oranges and apples are my favorite after dinner snack!
Lemons
Lots and lots of lemons! I should plant a lemon tree for as many as I use. Lemons are always in my water bottle. They not only help me drink more water, but they keep pH levels balanced which is important for weight loss and gut health.
Leafy Greens
Spinach, Kale, Shredded Brussels Sprouts & Chard are the usual suspects. I use them in eggs, juices, smoothies and salads, but the truth is I use them mainly in eggs. My eggs are like big salads! P.S. I just burnt my chard for my eggs because I was multi-tasking and writing this post. 🙁
Related: Eggs Benedict Salad, Chopped Veggie Breakfast Salad
Vegetables
Celery and carrots are a staple for hummus snacking, making soups and salads. I buy a couple bell peppers each week for adding to eggs along with the leafy greens. A zucchini or two is often snuck in there for a quick dinner side or zucchini breads. I always buy frozen broccoli and cauliflower to steam and add to salads along with edamame. Needless to say, I buy a lot of vegetables!
Related: Zucchini Walnut Espresso Bread, Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins
Starchy Vegetables
Butternut Squash and sweet potatoes to roast on the weekends and to add to salads during the week or for soups and muffins. One or two plantains to fry in coconut oil for weekend brunching!
Related : Truffled Eggs Whites & Plantains, Butternut Sweet Potato Soup, Winter Kale Butternut Squash Salad, Butternut Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Beans
Chickpeas and black beans are always a must. I mostly use them for making homemade hummus, but they occasionally make it into a soup or muffin.
Related: Spicy Black Bean Hummus without Tahini, Chocolate Chickpea Brownies
Dairy
Eggs and yogurt are weekly staple in my shopping cart. I use them daily!
Tea
I drink a lot of tea. Dandelion, Peppermint and Green tea are my teas of choice. Green tea I drink daily. I actually prefer it to coffee. Dandelion tea I drink a couple times a week for liver detoxing. Peppermint I have after dinner. It soothes the digestive track and helps me sleep better.
Whole Grains
Quinoa, rice, coconut flour, gluten free rolled oats, gluten free crackers and gluten free tortillas I don't buy every week, but chances are I'm out of one of them and need to stock up on something. I add quinoa to egg muffins and oatmeal is must for cookies and granola bars!
Related: Cranberry Apple Crockpot Oatmeal, Quinoa Salsa Egg Muffins, Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies
Seeds & Nuts
Raw Pumpkin, Sunflower, Chia & Hemp Seeds I keep stocked in my pantry along with raw almond, walnuts and cashews and a healthy collection of nut butters! They go in everything from salads to smoothies to pancakes to granola bars.
Related: Chocolate Almond Chia Hemp Flax Bars
Canned Vegetables
Other than beans, I don't buy a ton of canned foods, pumpkin, organic vegetable broth and canned tomatoes for soups, casseroles, quick dinner skillets and of course pumpkin for all the sweets!
Related: Shrimp & Red Peppers With Butternut Squash Rice, Pumpkin
Almond Milk
Almond milk is a necessity for everything. Muffins, oatmeal, coffee creamer, cookies, pancakes, casseroles, soups. You name it, I probably put almond milk in it!
Lean Meat
As I explained last week, I don't eat red meat and lean meat is not a weekly occurrence for me either. When I do buy lean protein it's either fish, turkey, chicken and canned tuna.
Other Random Staples
Maca powder (for smoothies & protein shakes), Vega protein powder, maple syrup, honey, coconut sugar, dairy free mini chocolate chips (for baking) and unsweetened applesauce are other staples I buy as needed.
And that's everything! As you can see, I buy very little packaged food and try to focus a lot of meals and snacks around vegetables, beans, whole grains, nuts and seeds. I'm certainly not perfect, but hopefully this gives you an idea of how I shop healthy and what a Skinny Girl's Shopping Cart looks like! Keep in mind everyone is bio-individual. One person's diet is not meant to be a fit for everyone. Eating healthy is an ever evolving, unique process!
What's in your shopping cart? What is something you struggle with eating healthy?
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What kind of almond milk do you use? I stopped buying/drinking almond milk from the market. I heard that almond milk contained hardly no almonds and that it was made up of powdered shells in order to get the almond milk to look milky. Also to add the calcium. but the calcium in the shell is not the kind or bodies digest. I guess I can make home made almond milk but that would be to expensive considering a bag of almonds cold be $10 for a few ounces. See now it makes sense to me, why would a quart of blue diamond almond milk cost so $3 but real almonds cost $10.
I have not heard that about almond milk, but it wouldn't surprise me given how deceptive food processing can be. My first preference is Pacific organic, but if I find Silk or Blue Diamond on sale I will buy them. I can't do dairy or soy so my options are limited. I often buy cashew milk too.
I honestly thought the other day about planting a lemon tree in the very small outdoor space we have downstairs. I use lemon in everything!
I'm planning to do it this spring now that I have the time. 🙂
Lots of the same stuff for me, more eggs and meat though! And yogurt for days for my kids. And too many plantains lol 🙂
I would like to see what's in your cart just for the volume of food you have!
Yes.....we look pretty similar in shopping carts 😉
I love love love shopping! Is that weird?! hahah!
It makes such a difference when you only buy pure, good for you, lean foods and you have them on hand all week!
xxoo
Kris
No it's not weird at all! My happy place is the grocery store.
Lots of fruit, veggies, yogurt, eggs, and lean meat for me! I ALWAYS have nuts and nut butters, as well! I'm surprised at how much food I go through in a week
I have more nut butters than I'd like to admit. LOL!
I always wind up making a million trips to different grocery stores during the week because a) I love them and could spend all my time there and b) I always inevitably forget something even though I have a list on my phone haha
You sound like me. Every time I go to Sprouts or Trader Joe's I feel like dancing. It's definitely my happy place. 🙂
Our shopping cart is pretty much vegetables, dairy, carbs, and nothing white refine flour wise. And cereal. But good cereals.
What brand cereals?
love it! that looks like mine! except now we use more coconut yogurt and of course i have wine! LOL!
I have to try that, the coconut yogurt I mean!
I pretty much get the same things you do, except tea, I'm a coffee person! Where do you shop?
I shop all over - Trader Joe's, Sprouts, Fry's, Target and Walmart. It just depends who has what I need since I can never find everything in one place.