Grocery Shopping

Well after eating leftovers yesterday and coming home to a well- emptied fridge from before I left, I knew I needed to do some grocery shopping and as this is my first official grocery shop, I thought I'd share with you my shopping list/what I got.

Orange juice
Roasted, non-salted cashews
Raw almonds
Triscuits - whole grain :)
Bread (lol white, not whole wheat because it's what me and the boyfriend are used to)
Dried black beans
Dried Split Peas
Dried lentils
Egg Noodle pasta
Fresh Garlic
Yellow Onions
Organic pre-packaged mixed greens
Avocados
Organic Celery
Tomatoes
Broccoli Slaw mixture (I have a mu shu veggies recipe)
Local grapefruit
Local oranges
Organic bell peppers
Mushrooms
Whole carrots
2% Milk (again, what my boyfriend and I agree upon)

Now I want to point out something- the organic stuff. Since all my nutrition is now all coming from plants and I'm not paying for expensive meat stuff (my boyfriend is paying for his meat and I'm continuing to cook it for him lol), I can afford to splurge a little on organic veggies. But I'm shopping at Walmart because again, I am still on a budget. So here is how I've decided to try and get as little pesticides as possible while staying on budget: shopping organic for the "dirty dozen". For the list of some of the most (and least) dirty (with pesticides) vegetables, see this page. Unfortunately there was one vegetable on this list that I could not find an organic version of at the store, which was carrots, so I am carefully washing and peeling them with usage.

Also, I wanted to share a recipe for a delicious, vegetarian snack that my mom has made for me all my childhood and now I make for me:

Trail Mix

Ingredients:
oatmeal
walnuts
craisins (dries cranberries)
chocolate chips (best with Ghirardelli, but whatever you have on hand works)

mix equal parts together and keep in a travel safe container because you will want to take it with you
also works well as a substitute for oatmeal in oatmeal cookies ^^

Enjoy!