Hi all! I just got home from the grocery store and bought major yummies. I have been traveling every week for over a month now, and believe it or not, one does tire of eating out all the time. I was exhausted last night, with a bare fridge, so I ordered pizza. It just doesn't do it for me like it used to. I decided to make my grocery list, and to buy some delicious food! I'll post my list below. Note, I'm a very picky eater.

What's on your list?

Ground beef, chili beans, kidney beans, tomato juice - for chili. I don't care if it's 200 degrees, I always love chili
Brisket - I didn't get this because I'm afraid I'll screw it up
Ground beef, enchilada sauce - for enchiladas. I already had corn tortillas
Block of mexican melting cheese
Milk
Sausage crumbles - to try Ms Cal's sausage, egg, cheese thingy
sirloin steak (and marinade)
green beans
eggs
tortilla chips
potatos
butter - like there was any question!
bacon - see comment above
lemons - for homeade lemonade
baby back ribs - from Honey Baked Ham because I've never had good success with them and these are so easy!
LOTS of cheeses!
rotisserie chicken - for today/tonight, while I'm thinking of all the things I'm going to cook this week
lettuce
pre-cooked grilled chicken - for salads

Alright, let's hear it!

I eat my weight in Greek yogurt mixed w cheesecake jello pudding and half and half. At least twice a day.

half and half for shakes
deli meat and cheese for sandwiches
lots of bacon and sausage and eggs

I'm not a fan of yogurt of any kind, unfortunately.

I do a LOT of deli meat and cheese during the week, when I'm home. It's quick, easy and yummy.

I also do a lot of bacon, but I take it in spurts. Sometimes I'll have it several times a week, then it will be a week or two before I have it again. I always have it in the fridge, as it's another very easy go-to snack, when there's not much else.

Fresca and Diet Barq's
Coffee creamers (Plain and French vanilla, because the vanilla is too sweet), for my fresh ground Starbuck's whole bean French roast coffee
Safeway Steakhouse Chili (in the fresh soup display)
Chicken thighs (bone and skin included), and Lawrey's Teriyaki pineapple marinade (I grill 8 at a time and eat cold for breakfast and snacks - I eat at least two big thighs a day)
Filet mignon - grilled, and leftovers eaten for days afterwards
Fresh corn, grilled and eaten doused in butter and salt
Muenster cheese slices, tomatoes, baconnaise and (mostly my husband's) potato bread for cheese sandwiches (I have to be willing to tolerate the gas afterwards, of course)
Frozen Michaellina's (?) eggplant parmasean
Four bean salad from Costco
String cheese
Safeway's "Trap-Cheese Artist" cheesy poofs
Oatmeal cookies
Costco canned chicken breast, mayo and pickle relish - 72 g of protein for a "snack"
Bagged Caeser salad
Fresh peaches (to be eaten cut up with sour cream and a little sugar)
Vanilla ice cream and grenadine syrup

I've been off my bacon for a while - at some point, I will start craving it again.

I'm already planning Thanksgiving ... TURKEY!  HoneyBaked Ham!  Yams!

I always forget how good Diet Barq's is! One of my guy friends introduced me to it a few months ago. I'm jotting that down for the next list.

Yum - TURKEY!!!!!!!! Believe it or not, it was on my list for this week, and I thought I should wait until maybe next week, with getting the rotisserie chicken and all. LOL @ Honey Baked Ham...I also almost bought one of those little hams today, but again, thought I should wait until next week!

Great ideas here. I do so love corn also!!!!

LOL...Fresca...oh boy...never thought you as a Fresca drinker...my world just went upside down...lmao

Fresca = not very sweet.  And they changed it since the 70s to a good mix of artificial sweeteners that aren't bitter.  And it's non-cola, so no phosphoric acid, which is bad for the bones.

I can't figure out the Barq's though - I tried some a couple of months ago, and now I'm drinking 2 Barq's to each Fresca.  Before then, it was all Fresca, all the time.  Barq's too sweet, but - I'm liking it anyway, for now.  I'm afraid to check whether it has phosphoric acid. 

Wait - why would my drinking Fresca turn your world upside down?  What did you think I drank?  WATER??  Never.

Drinking Fresca is a long, on-going joke between my husband and I. It's very elitish, yuppy soda. (I guess now they'd be called hipsters.) I love it, don't get me wrong...

Once we were at the marina and an ivy league wanna-be couple decked out in their best nautucal sailing attire were at local piggly wiggly asking if they carried Fresca...and you should have heard to tone and accent ...

Oh well then.  I first tasted Fresca in the soda machine in my dining hall in college ... at - yes - Yale.  But it was nasty back then, and I didn't like it.  I rediscovered it a few years ago when Pepsi stopped making my beloved diet orange Slice, which had been my soda for 25+ years, and I needed to find something else to drink.

So I start with meats. Then cheese. Then I figure out the rest.

So if I desire tuna, it's pretty simple, I'll have tuna..add in assorted veg or not and mayo and whole wheat crackers.
If I am in the mood for soup...I make a meaty soup and a few veg, and eat it all week.
If I am in the mood for seafood, I might make seafood salad with whole wheat crackers all week.

I eat shakes and bacon/eggs/sausage all week. So that's not hard to work out.

Dinner doesn't matter. I eat a few bites of whatever I cook. It's what everyone else wants and it's not an issue because by the time dinner comes it's late and I have already eaten all my protein requirements and I can't eat much that late or else I pay for it.

i went grocery shopping tonight for a few easy protein things...

stew meat - one small pkg thaws quick to flour and fry and eat by itself.
new york steak - i got bleu cheese to stuff inside, and also like it in strips, with grilled onions, a little lawry's and some pepperjack cheese on top!
ricotta - decided to try some fluff again for sweet cravings!
canned salmon - with chopped onion, a little cornmeal and egg, i make it into fried patties
turkey drumsticks - marinating now, for rotisserie dinner tomorrow
duck - all that fatty goodness (again in the rotisserie with a spicy rub)
bacon/chicken - i cook the bacon, filet open an chicken breast so it's thin (use lawry's to season), cook it in the bacon grease, top with bacon, a slice of pepperjack and some avocado
sunflower seeds - great movie snack!
also going to make some white chili (made with chicken and great northern beans)
lots of butter
zucchini to steam
corn on the cob to roast with taco seasoning
spinach for sauteing
pork roast and bbq sauce for crockpot pulled pork (i also like ham in the crockpot)
oh, and smoked oysters just because!

and sausage and eggs and heavy cream!

Yum!

New York Steak and Filet are my favorite cuts of beef, but they didn't have a good selection of either yesterday. I'm assuming they were all bought up for Labor Day cookouts. I'm jotting them on for next week's list though.

I always have tons of nuts and seeds on hand for snacking.

Now, I've got to go get some corn on the cob!

Heavy Cream
Butter
Popcorn
Bacon
Turkey-Love deep fried turkey!
Ground beef-We make all kinds of yummys with ground beef
Chicken-of all sorts
Cottage cheese
Cheese sticks
Eggs
Whole Wheat Bread
Whole Wheat Crackers
Blocks of assorted cheeses
Ribeye
Pork Loin
Whole Milk
Power Bars-Yummy chocolate with 10 protein
Cool Ranch Doritos- to go with the cottage cheese!
Carbmaster yogurt


I love to make up yummy stuff! I get bored easy. My fav recipe folder is popping at the seams. We have them all on the computer but nothing like having what I want at my finger tips. Most of my goodies are just stuff I throw together. Love to cook, just don't like cleaning up afterwards! I don't buy lots of carby stuff. If it's not in the house I can't eat it. The family doesn't need it either.

The Turkey is going to be around 16lbs. My DH wants to throw me a DS party. I want Deep Fried turkey, deviled eggs, baked beans, potatoes, lil smokies wrapped in bacon and brown sugar, and what ever else my little heart desires!  I'm going to cook most of this, so I'll make what I want,lol. I have decided, There will be no desert. Maybe pig candy. Is that mean?

Love this thread!


Ruby

I still haven't tried deep fried turkey! Is it really all it's cracked up to be?

Hell YEAH Janice!!

We bought a Butterball "Inside" Turkey fryer because we LOVE deep fried turkey.  A 14lb bird only takes 45 minutes to fry up.  We use it for chickens too.....just rub some cajun seasoning or some Lawrey's seasoning salt on it and you are good to go....so moist and juicy and don't get me started on that crispy skin....

Dang, sounds like I need to go grab a turkey tomorrow at the store- I'm starving for one now!

OMG, yes!! Melt in your mouth good!! Crispy outside very moist inside. Deslish!!

Ruby

lil smokies, bacon, brown sugar..uh??? do tell ruby... what comes next in preparing this delish sounding yummy?

Whatever your heart desires to make it "sticky". You can use bbq sauce, or mix bbq sauce with mustard (I do not prefer this, as I'm not a mustard lover). Basically you anything wet you like to make the brown sugar more sticky and saucy-ish. They are delicious!

Hopefully Ruby will chime in with what she uses/likes, but it's simple and easy. Cut a package of bacon in half. Grab a pack of little smokies, and wrap each half slice around the smokie, securing with a toothpick. When you're all finished, mix your brown sugar with your wet ingredient, then pop in the smokies, covering completely. Any sauce left over, I just dump over the sausages. Pop in the oven....I think I do 350, until the bacon looks crisp to my liking. Nom, nom.

Checking in, reading all the grocery list responses, and now I want turkey LOL.

Get boneless skinless chicken thighs and cut into pieces. Mix equal parts brown sugar and cajun seasoning. I rinse the chicken, dip in the sugar/seasoning blend, wrap with bacon and cook on the grill. Absolutely delicious.

I usually also brown Jimmy Dean sausage and mix with cream cheese and shredded cheddar. Slice jalapenos in half remove seeds and stuff with the mixture, cook on grill.

Both work well re-heated in the microwave, for me at least.

The chicken thighs sound delish!!!

I'm not so much a fan of cream cheese, but I wish I was. I see so many recipes that just LOOK like they'd be awesome. I've tried and tried and just can't get past it.