What is some of your favorite grocery store items since having the surgery at any stage
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Well we have a garden - summer we have tomatoes, squash, zucchini, cucumbers, okra, corn, green beans, watermelon, and cantaloupe. Fall winter garden - cabbage, kale, turnip greens, mustard greens, collard greens, brussel sprouts. I love fresh produce - homegrown garden produce to be exact.
We have relatives who have apple and pear trees.
I can tomatoes, ketchup, tomato soup base, chicken noodle soup, apple butter, pear preserves, blueberry jam, cherry jam (we have 3 cherry trees). I also freeze corn, green beans. We eat the okra, squash, and zucchini about as fast as it comes in.
We usually have a grass-fed beef on the hoof. We had one slaughtered in July - freezer is full of organic beef. We buy free range eggs and free range chickens that we have butchered.
We frequent a small country store where they sell fresh beans - pinto, navy, white, lentils. We also buy fresh black eyed peas. We also buy fresh raw peanuts, sunflower seeds, almonds and other nuts to make our own nut butters - my girls love it and its also healthy for my dogs. There is a mill where we go to purchase flour, grits, cornmeal. We buy fresh butter, butter milk, heavy cream from a nearby neighbor who has a dairy farm.
I buy less at the grocery store than I do anywhere else. If I go alone to the grocery store I'll buy my girls non sugary cereal - cheerios. If my kids go they prefer Cap'n Crunch - more sugar than anything else. I try to make sure everyone going has eaten before we leave. They're less likely to add sugary crap to the buggy if they aren't hungry.
I do buy fresh seafood - salmon, lobster, oysters, scallops at the grocery store. Also buy mayo, mustard, pickles, bagels, some loaf breads, and I'll buy protein things with - ham, cheese, crackers, and a cookie - these are perfect to throw in a bag-purse-backpack to have when you get hungry. I buy cottage cheese, yogurt, protein snacks, and chips - husband likes frito corn chips, girls like popcorn and potato chips. Also - they usually get 1 package of cookies. This week Toria - my youngest - went shopping with me and she got a package of chips ahoy cookies. We also have some orange, lemon, lime, raspberry sherbert in the freezer.
I am super jelly of you options to purchase. I am a huge meat girl and now that I was given the go a head Friday I think all I ha e ate is meat. I do ha e a farmer that I always buy beef from. I grew up on a farm and because of that I just can not stand store beef.
My neighbors are retired and bought a second lot when they bought their lot in town years ago just to have a garden so they keep us well stocked on produce in the summer...if they dont we go to the city to the farmers market.
I also eat Siggi’s, but I prefer fage, it’s creamier.Very interesting. I've never heard of it til now.
I'd like to see the actual nutritional label that is printed on all food products but so far, can't find it on line. I'm assuming by reading about it that a serving size is 5.3 ounces, but it's unclear. Can you take a photo, Judy?
Here's what I found, but again, no amount was given in the calculation:
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It sounds fabulous, though, Judy. And locally I can buy it at QFC, Fred Meyer and Target, in addition to other retail outlets. As soon as I finish my Fage yogurt, I'll be giving this a try. Fabulous numbers. Low fat and sugar, high protein. It's amazing. A lot of popular yogurt only has 4 grams of protein in 8 ounces. I wonder why. And I wonder how a yogurt like this gets 17 grams per serving. I read all about its processing but no clue.
Judy, does it taste good? Do you add any sweeteners to it? I'd love to hear more.
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It sounds fabulous, though, Judy. And locally I can buy it at QFC, Fred Meyer and Target, in addition to other retail outlets. As soon as I finish my Fage yogurt, I'll be giving this a try. Fabulous numbers. Low fat and sugar, high protein. It's amazing. A lot of popular yogurt only has 4 grams of protein in 8 ounces. I wonder why. And I wonder how a yogurt like this gets 17 grams per serving. I read all about its processing but no clue.
Judy, does it taste good? Do you add any sweeteners to it? I'd love to hear more.
How interesting that both of you have found an Icelandic yogurt that's high in protein and low in sugar! I am definitely going to get some. I love yogurt.I also eat Siggi’s, but I prefer fage, it’s creamier.
Very interesting. I've never heard of it til now.
I'd like to see the actual nutritional label that is printed on all food products but so far, can't find it on line. I'm assuming by reading about it that a serving size is 5.3 ounces, but it's unclear. Can you take a photo, Judy?
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Where can you buy Quest protein chips?I’m ten months out and I love fruit . Grapes, strawberries ,blueberries. Watermelon is my favorite I also Like Quest protein chips and sometimes sugar free ice cream