What Do You Get At The Grocery Store?

Not like a shopping list, but what do you usually make at home? Some Go to Recipes. And what would you need to make it?

 

Food....



And Coffee, of course.

 

I very often go shopping with no clear plan in mind and just come up with dishes/meals as I shop based on $$$.

I will admit that I have developed a bit of a habit with watching shows like MasterChef (actually an amazing look into different cultural views on things if you watch the shows from different countries), Top Chef and similar cooking competition shows and that has led to a lot of ideas to work with when shopping.
I will say after watching and being exposed to that world, I truly think of food and cooking differently and really enjoy cooking now.


some of my "go to" meals are
Pork chops with apples and onion chutney and sauce
Pulled pork....yummy
Sweet and Sour dishes of all varieties
Pot Roast
and more......

plus I came up with a killer grilled cheese sandwich and roasted peppers and tomato soup thing that is awesome.

but I usually just start with a basic idea and then massage it while cooking until I come up with a winner and don't really rely on a recipe per se.

 

I keep a well stocked kitchen in terms of cooking oils, spices, herbs, condiments etc. Every week I buy eggs, an assortment of veggies, and a meat or two. I dont really plan my meals until the day of but I usually have the ingredients on hand to make whatever I feel like

 

Main thing I get at the grocery store is a series of shocks over how much the prices have gone up.

 

Yeah... That "New lower price" is twice what it was two months ago.

 

I usually get beef and eggs and vegetables. Eggs and vegetables for omlettes and grass fed beef patties for dinner. i usually get cheese to. It goes well with almonds or macadamia nuts. And wine

 

Cat, do you have any dietary restrictions (gluten-free, vegetarian, organic). What are some of your favorite flavor profiles (Italian, Mexican, Thai)?

 

Cat is a 100% grass fed, organic, cage free, grain free, soy free, dairy free, nitrate free, gluten free, non antibiotic raised human being. When he was living out here in California I once saw him at Whole foods using a grass fed SHOPPING CART.

 

I pretty much eat the same thing all the time.

I do intermittent fasting 3-4 days per week, where I basically only eat one meal and my eating window is only about 2-4 hours. This saves a lot of money on food.

Many nights I will simply have a whey protein shake post workout, which itself is around 1,200 calories, followed by a salad. Then often before work I will have an avocado, some raw milk cheese, and maybe 4-5 raw eggs.

Other nights I will fry up some bacon and scrambled eggs with cheddar.

I usually eat steak once per week with a vegetable of some sort. Other nights I will eat fish like salmon, cod or haddock.

Another thing I do is fry up some ground beef in a pan, and then add in chopped peppers and onions with some spices and cheese. It's nothing fancy, but it's quick and easy.

After I get home from work on the mornings which I am not fasting, I will usually have a chicken Caesar salad, some macadamia nuts, walnut butter, cheese, sardines in extra virgin olive oil, or some dark chocolate.

 

well today i went to the dollar tree. yesterday it was save mart. i think i'm stocked up pretty good to last a while. actually i didn't absolutely need to go groceries today, except as an excuse, and no i don't know why i seem to need one, to get out of the house, move my legs, and breathe a different mix of atmospheric poisons then those inside. actually i did get a number of other things besides groceries this time.
steam spinach 10z, banquet chicken, pinata enchilada, bf eggs/hash/sausg x2, chimichunga stk/ch, dark chocolate bar, horehound candy, edwards pie wedge x2, tilapia filets, cobb christmas tre x6, ultrafine pens, bath towel, to quote my receipt. total $19.62. (1962 was an interesting year in my life come to think of it) the cobb trees i remove the base and plant them in my model world. the edwards pie wedge are the choclet ones.

the adventure of going to dollar tree and $99.99 store is finding new things to try (to replace other things no longer there), all for less then the regular big stores.

i also shop at tj's which oddly enough, despite some items there being more expensive then the regular big stores, i somehow seem to end up spending less at tj's then at savemart too.

i think i spent $39.something at "save"mart. probably because i did get meat and milk there. which i usually get milk at the 99 (for about 3.5, instead of 4.something). the main reason for ever going to "save"mart is the big container of powdered chocklet (72 cup size of nestlie's) and my favorite licorice coff drops. also check my bp while i'm there. amazingly for me this time, down to 135/78.

 

Various Meats
Vegetables
Fruits
Cereals
Nuts
Deserts
And increasingly whatever is on sale that week at either Shaws or Stop and Shop

Hotwater

 

Robbed..

 

I prefer organics foods, I used to be vegetarian, and still eat pretty similarly I guess. I guess my favorite flavor profiles would be Japanese, French, Mexican, and Middle Eastern.

I've been liking this deal at Whole Foods that comes with a bunch of pre-cut vegetables: potato, carrots, brussel sprouts, squash, rosemary, and red beets. Mix them with some olive oil, salt and pepper, and oven roast them for about 40 mins mmm

Or usually I just pick up some lentils/vegetable soup to have with toast, and some fruit on the side

Breakfest foods, I usually have a couple cups of coffee and some fruit, and if I'm particularly hungry, maybe eggs/omelette on toast.

 

To what?

 

To stick up your va jay jay

 

Fruit
Bread

Most of my veges and meat and produce I can get from my uncles farm for free nice and fresh so only generic kitchen stuff I actually get from a grocery store.

 

i got cat food this time. and PINE NUTS! yah! they finally got them in after a year's abscence. well a couple of years ago, there was a big fire, i think what happened, where the ones that were in the store came from.

anyway, the kinds of things i get for the kind of way i cook and eat now, is i like to keep kind of a buffette of frozen ingedients in the freezer. and then put together my own microwave combinations from it and zap them.

that's what i do now, because i'm living with people. there good people, but i like to keep my time in the kitchen to a minimum.

if i were completely by myself that would be different. then i'd get fresh stuff, or preferably grow it myself if i had a place where i could.

this way, for the circumstances, is kind of the next best thing.

the problem with fresh for me, is it usually is like more then i can eat up before it rots, and one thing i really don't like to be is wasteful.

 

I realize we don't buy much stuff from traditional grocery stores. We get most of our food given to us, by the food banks or a local farmer that gives away his unsold vegetables, fruits, bread and dairy before they go to waste, and those cover most of my household's needs so there's not much left to buy after that. What's left consists mostly of meats, cooking oils, spices and some veggies, fruits and dairy we didn't get anywhere else, plus ingredients for baking or to make my beauty/home cleaning products. Most of the time I get them somewhere else than a big food store tho, I got my local favorite fruit store to score cheap produce, middle eastern store for spices, oils, nuts and dried fruits, and butcher for quality meats at reasonable prices.

 

Whatever I buy it's apparently worth $167.00 or so.... What a scam.



And to clarify there's no processed foods in that total unless you want to consider things like cheese or whole grain bread processed.




Before anybody say's yes, prove to me you make your own cheese. You don't, and quit lying about it...