100 Healthy Grocery Items!

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Guide To A Healthy Grocery List

Written By: Jordin Agnew - www.CanadianTriathlete.ca

Are you scratching your head at the grocery store when trying to choose healthy foods? Print this grocery list for use on your next trip to the grocery store.

-= Proteins =-

Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breast
Tuna (water packed)
Fish (salmon, seabass, halibut)
Shrimp
Extra Lean Ground Beef or Ground Round (92-96%)
Protein Powder
Egg Whites or Eggs
Ribeye Steaks or Roast
Top Round Steaks or Roast (aka Stew Meat, London Broil, Stir Fry)
Top Sirloin (aka Sirloin Top Butt)
Beef Tenderloin (aka Filet, Filet Mignon)
Top Loin (NY Strip Steak)
Flank Steak (Sir Fry, Fajita)
Eye of Round (Cube Meat, Stew Meat, Bottom Round , 96% LeandGround Round)
Ground turkey, Turkey Breast Slices or cutlets (fresh meat, not deli cuts)

-= Complex Carbs =-

Oatmeal (Old Fashioned or Quick Oats)
Sweet Potatoes (Yams)
Beans (pinto, black, kidney)
Oat Bran Cereal
Brown Rice
Farina (Cream of Wheat)
Multigrain Hot Cereal
Pasta
Rice (white, jasmine, basmati, Arborio, wild)
Potatoes (red, baking, new)

-= Fibrous Carbs =-

Green Leafy Lettuce (Green Leaf, Red, Leaf, Romaine)
Broccoli
Asparagus
String Beans
Spinach
Bell Peppers
Brussels Sprouts
Cauliflower
Celery

-= Other Produce & Fruits =-

Cucumber
Green or Red Pepper
Onions
Garlic
Tomatoes
Zucchini
Fruit (if acceptable on diet): bananas, apples, grapefruit, peaches, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries
Lemons or Limes

-= Healthy Fats =-

Natural Style Peanut Butter
Olive Oil or Safflower Oil
Nuts ****(peanuts, almonds
Flaxseed Oil -

-= Dairy & Eggs =-

Low-fat cottage cheese
Eggs
Low or Non-Fat Milk

-= Beverages =-

Bottled Water
Diet Soda
Crystal Light

-= Condiments & Misc. =-

Fat Free Mayonnaise
Reduced Sodium Soy Sauce
Reduced Sodium Teriyaki Sauce
Balsamic Vinegar
Salsa
Chili powder
Mrs. Dash
Steak Sauce
Sugar Free Maple Syrup
Chili Paste
Mustard
Extracts (vanilla, almond, etc
Low Sodium beef or chicken broth
Plain or reduced sodium tomatoes sauce, puree, paste)

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Why is Crystal light on the list? That’s just all chemicals and aspartame!

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Are you saying chemicals are dangerous??

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Ah…
Good list, but missing some important/good stuff!

Natural Yogurt is an EXCELLENT pre workout food.
This list is one of the best that I have found thus far

http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php

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Well, ma cousin drank mercury and that was dangerous!

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What? donuts and oreo’s aren’t on that list??
shocked !
SHOCKED, I tells ya

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Yogurt isn’t on there!!! I love my yogurt.

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You ain’t got no frikin figs !

whole wheat bread

fish = mercuy

Thom :wink:

popcorn would be nice (it is whole grain).

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ooo I missed the lack of bread. I need my bread and bagels and English muffins!

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Are you doing some kind of course on sports and posting your homework?

I give you an F for the heart rate monitor assignment, and a C for this one.

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You Call your self Canadian and list Sugar free Maple Syrup.

For Shame

Get the real thing or nothing at all.

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Ribeye Steaks or Roast ???

These are about as fatty as it gets beef-wise. I think your other beef choices are pretty much spot on, though. Ribeyes are definately not my first choice (when I’m trying for “healthy”)

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Try the donut mile…

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Since when is Diet Soda healthy? I drink the stuff just as much as the next guy…but c’mon Jordin…