top items to get when grocery shopping..

I need to go grocery shopping! i dont have a lot to spend right now until payday but i was wondering maybe some suggestions of what i should get. What would you say are the top  foods & things that you would buy to help you through your week/cant live without while eating healthy , and are most important and/or just items you like?

ooh i love 100 calorie packs. have you guys seen the quaker 90 calorie packs. they are just those popcorn things lol. So i bought a few things today including au natural' peanut butter.  lol. i get paid tomorrow so i will be doing some shopping but not as much as i would like. I appreciate the suggestions, keep em coming. ;)

Here is mine:

 Salad

Pineapple

Yogurt

SF Jello

Hummus

Broccoli

Sweet Potato

Green tea

Apples

Crystal light Mix-ins (Cranberry apple)

 

 

dont forget Kashi Cereal........great carb and protien.

well i'm vegetarian trying to turn vegan so you might not want anything on my list haha but here it is..

- LOTS of apples
- another in-season fruit (currently blackberries or pineapple)
- bag of baby carrots
- carton of soy milk
- zensoy chocolate pudding
- la tortilla factory wraps
- firm tofu
- egg substitute
- western alternative bagels
- rice chips

Interesting.  Great question.  I live in San Francisco and have access to the best grocery store in the world.  Do you have a grocery store where you can get fresh, bulk legumes and grains?  The cheapest way to live, I am convinced, and the healthiest, is to get a rice cooker, cook brown rice or barley or millet or quinoa, and mix that with tons of vegetables.  Invest in a bottle of olive oil or flax oil, and some salt and garlic.  If you can afford it, feta cheese.  Here are some ideas:

mix cooked quinoa with chopped, raw celery.  Season with chopped olives and fresh lemon juice.  Grated garlic if you want.  Voila.  It's delicions.

 Or cook whatever you want in the rice cooker - brown rice, quinoa, millet, mung beans, whatever you want - and when it's done, TURN OFF THE HEAT, then throw in spinach, kale, chard, parsley, or any combination of those things.  Heck, try broccoli.  Also, put in feta cheese and grated garlic.  Put the lid back on and let the greens wilt and the cheese melt.  Then eat it.  It's delicious.

 

If you are really dirt-poor, though, you can find greens on sale and just eat them with rice and salt.  Olive oil is pricey - around ten bucks.  I'm telling you, a rice cooker - a crappy cheap one is good enough - is like 14 dollars. 

 

PS try unflavored gelatin.  Sugar free jello is kinda expensive.  I eat a whole batch when I make a batch - it's a juge bowl of it for 60 calories - and it makes me feel like crap and I am scared of the chemicals.  But try unflavored.  It doesn't taste that good, but at least you are eating.  Sometimes that's enough.  Just to be eating.

thanks guys. I was actually needing a few meal ideas like milfred listed which are great ideas btw. im not really dirt poor, lol. well im not poor i guess my family is just middle class. But right now my mom isnt sticking to an eating plan and its just me. She will buy me food and help me but she has to pay the house of right now so im trying to buy some of my own food with my crappy seasonal part time job! lol. And i owe her money for my car lol. I feel bad mooching of my parents, i need to learn to depend on myself a little. Ill be 18 in july. idk what that has to do with the subject but thanks again. :)
Molly