Clean Eating Grocery Shopping

On Sunday I managed to menu plan and make a grocery list, I had planned on going to the store yesterday but a nap for my 8 month old took precedence so I didn't get to go until today.  It made for a long drawn out day, but that's ok because I got every errand done that I needed to and everyone was in a relatively good mood too.  Anyway, I didn't take a picture of my goodies, but I did do a vlog about it, so I'll post that here.  I did however promise to post what I got and how much I paid for it.  So here we go.

At the Bakery Outlet I got 5 bags of bagels for 1.99 each and 6 loaves of bread for 1.99 each which came to 21.89 in addition to that I got a military discount, which is 10% and I got 2 loaves of bread free because I spent over 16 dollars.  My total came to 19.70.  I also nearly filled up my discount card, so my next trip there I will get to pick 1 other free item in addition to any other ones I may get.  I love going to this store, it makes me feel so thrifty.

My next stop was the grocery store.  I managed to only purchase one additional item from what was on my list, AND I found everything I was looking for on my list.  Both of these things are unheard of.  I spent a total of 63.18 after coupons and my shoppers card rewards, and my additional item was bananas, not some random processed "must have," another unheard of concept.  I'm so proud of myself.

Also, while I was at the grocery store I looked up the ingredients on Goldfish, and was pleasantly surprised to see that they are a lot more healthy than I thought... I knew they weren't horrible but I didn't know how good they were, so I will not have to make them, but I'm still going to experiment with cheese-its.

Rachel

First task in clean eating... what I have but shouldn't

As I mentioned in my previous post the hubby and I decided we are going to start eating clean I decided in order to track the process I would do a response video to CandidMommy's What's in your pantry video.  My video is also this is what is in it now... and in a few months when we are all the way clean eating (at least to the extent we plan to do it) I'll do another pantry video.  I'll link the current video here.

Anyway... we shall see how this goes.  Also last night and today I learned how to use iMovie.

Next task for clean eating: a full pantry and freezer inventory and purge of foods that we don't use anymore... like fake mashed potatoes.  Would you like to see the inventories?

Rachel

Clean Eating... This Should be Interesting.

Sorry I've been MIA the past few days... I started school this week and math and I don't get along so it's taken all my brain power to do the work for that class.

Lots has happened though, some of which is important to the readers of this blog, as I will be blogging about it.  The hubby and I have been working towards being healthier, and after some research and reassurance from my friends who already do a lot of these things, we have decided to start a clean diet.

For those of you who aren't sure what it means exactly to eat clean it means to avoid preservatives and artificial ingredients in our diet.  It's going to be difficult, as I am addicted to cheese-its, and oreos, Little Man loves gold fish, and we eat fast food way to often, but in the long run I think it's going to be a good move for the nutrition of our little family.  There are other things that clean eating technically involves that we won't be doing, for example we aren't cutting out milk or milk products because they are a big part of our diet.  We also won't be going organic just yet, it may happen eventually, but at this point it won't happen at least purchase wise.  Another main rule is if there are more than 5 ingredients on the label then it's not technically "clean."

I will be starting a garden this year, and I plan on eating out of that.  We also have chickens (Have I mentioned that before?) so when they start producing eggs we'll eat from them as well.

I plan on at least attempting to make homemade goldfish and cheese-its and other snacking items.  All of these food adventures will be documented here.

I hope you enjoy our trials and tribulations on this exciting experiment.

Do you have any suggestions or good recipes for clean eating?

Rachel