Thread: Quick question!

What are some important foods I can go out and buy. I looked at that list in the sticky and never even heard of some of it. I am about to go out and buy some stuff. Enough stuff (at a low expense) to make myself around 6 small meals a day. Please give me some ideas. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Morox

What are some important foods I can go out and buy. I looked at that list in the sticky and never even heard of some of it. I am about to go out and buy some stuff. Enough stuff (at a low expense) to make myself around 6 small meals a day. Please give me some ideas. Thanks!

Cheapo stuff that is easy to get your hands on:
Carbs:
Whole grains/rice - Oats (rolled or whole), pearl barley, brown rice
Legumes - Lentils, chick-peas, kidney beans
Starchy vegetables - sweet potato or taro
Fruit - apples, strawberries, banana's
Skim dairy - skim milk, ff/sf yoghurt

Protein:
Canned fish - tuna, salmon
Chicken breast (no skin)
Eggs
Turkey breast (no skin)
1% cottage cheese

Fats:
Peanut butter
Olive oil
Walnuts

Essentials:
Vegetables - x LOTS!


General rules:
1. Stay away from most pre-packaged stuff, especially anything that has lots of different ingredients with numbers of more than 12 letters in the name.
2. Stay away from anything with high fructose corn syrup or fractionated/hydrolysed fat in the ingredients
3. Stay away from fatty meals and full fat dairy (eg: burger meat, bacon, cream etc)
4. All fresh fruit is good fruit (regardless of what people say)
5. All vegetables are good vegetables and can/should be eaten in super-sized portions (exceptions are corn, peas and starchy vegetables such as potato)


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