I don't know what to eat or buy at the grocery anymore

Before I started limiting my sugar intake, I really liked a Lean Cuisine meal that is described like this:
  • Grilled white meat chicken in an apple reduction with sweet cranberries, vegetables and whole wheat orzo pasta

 

From the grocer's frozen meals section ...
I eat a lot of Birdseye Skillet Meals.
They have several versions with the basic chicken and veggies.
A couple with beef and a couple others.

The Birdseye Skillet Meals taste pretty bland just out of the bag.
I doctor the meals up with splashes of Olive Oil, Worcestershire Sauce, Tabasco Pepper Sauce, and sprinkle on Crushed Red Pepper, Chili Powder, Paprika, Cayenne Pepper, Ground Cumin, Oregano Leaves, Garlic Powder, Dried Minced Onion, Ground Thyme, Dried Rosemary Leaves. THEN there's some flavor to it :cool:

I don't use ALL from the list above. Just depends on the meal and mood. But most often, I do use ALL the splashes and sprinkles to doctor the meals up. I also microwave the meals in a covered 3qt earthenware dish for about 13min each meal, rather than use an actual stove top skillet.

Here's a link to the Birdseye Skillet Meals you might find at your grocer but my grocer only carries 4 or 5 of the most popular varieties
Birdeye Skillet Meals

I feel with the protein and veggies, I'm getting good nutritious meals but also take a multi-vitamin.

EDIT: I eat one whole bag of Birdseye Skillet Meals at a sitting. My main meal of the day. And a Birdseye Skillet Meal cost $4.97 at my grocer. So basically I eat on $5 a day ... but pop, ice cream and anything else is extra of course.
 

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Naturally said:
From the grocer's frozen meals section ...
I eat a lot of Birdseye Skillet Meals.
They have several versions with the basic chicken and veggies.
A couple with beef and a couple others.

The Birdseye Skillet Meals taste pretty bland just out of the bag.
I doctor the meals up with splashes of Olive Oil, Worcestershire Sauce, Tabasco Pepper Sauce, and sprinkle on Crushed Red Pepper, Chili Powder, Paprika, Cayenne Pepper, Ground Cumin, Oregano Leaves, Garlic Powder, Dried Minced Onion, Ground Thyme, Dried Rosemary Leaves. THEN there's some flavor to it :cool:

I don't use ALL from the list above. Just depends on the meal and mood. But most often, I do use ALL the splashes and sprinkles to doctor the meals up. I also microwave the meals in a covered 3qt earthenware dish for about 13min each meal, rather than use an actual stove top skillet.

Here's a link to the Birdseye Skillet Meals you might find at your grocer but my grocer only carries 4 or 5 of the most popular varieties
Birdeye Skillet Meals

I feel with the protein and veggies, I'm getting good nutritious meals but also take a multi-vitamin.

EDIT: I eat one whole bag of Birdseye Skillet Meals at a sitting. My main meal of the day. And a Birdseye Skillet Meal cost $4.97 at my grocer. So basically I eat on $5 a day ... but pop, ice cream and anything else is extra of course.
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Any egg laying chickens yet ?
 
Dave03 said:
I guess I should consider myself lucky. I don't have a refined palate at all, never have.

Food, to me, is just a way to keep from starving. I just eat whatever is in front of me.

I do, however, make sure I eat some fruit every day.
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I am actually a garbage can as eat what I want fried SPAM with eggs and anything I want BUT daily I drink an apple or 2 , 1 banana and raw ginger .

I cut them up put in blender with cold water and drink it I do think has made a difference , raw ginger was added not long ago but also feel a difference .
 
debodun said:
Seems like I've had just about everything I consider eating recently. It's boring to keep eating the same things over an over. Everything at the store looks boring.
The woes of a fussy eater. I rotate apples, grapes and bananas for breakfast with cold cereal, oatmeal, toast or cornbread, then spice that up with yogurt twice a week. Tea for every beverage supplemented with occasion fruit juice and flavored seltzers. Most lunches - some casserole concocted with pasta combined with some kind of meat and veggie. Dinner ends up being whatever I grab out if the fridge or see on the kitchen counter.
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Have you considered embarking on a dietary adventure? For example, try some Lebanese or Thai food. Don't try to prepare it yourself. Buy some takeaway from a local restaurant. Be brave and take the risk that you might not like it the first time it hits your tastebuds.

Better still, invite a friend to go with you to a local restaurant that sells good food, and have a pleasant dining experience. That should take the tedium out of your current daily diet.

I suspect that you are feeling a bit bored right now which is why I have suggested shaking things up a bit. Food should be enjoyable, which is why someone invented chocolate, but even chocolate can get boring after a while.
 
RedAlert76 said:
Interesting
Betty White ate chocolate cake for breakfast and drank vodka over ice.
Yet Willie Nelson eats Oatmeal for breakfast but likes bacon an eggs for dinner
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lol yes not many know this . She said so in an interview but many thought she was kidding but it was true .

" Betty White, Who Lived to 99, Drank 'Vodka on Ice' and Ate Chocolate Cake for Breakfast, Meghann Fahy Recalls''
Betty White, Who Lived to 99, Drank 'Vodka on Ice' and Ate Chocolate Cake for Breakfast, Meghann Fahy Recalls
 
hollydolly said:
wow ! at least we got Ā£9 per week rise ..but we're still the lowest paid pensioners in the western world as far as I know
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It's means tested. I get a fortnightly part pension based on my financial assets. Any increase will also be partial.

For a single person on a full pension the increase is to be $4.60 per fortnight.
I will get a fraction of that sum.

Couples on full pensions can expect a (combined) total increase of $7.00 a fortnight, i.e. $3.50 each per fortnight.
 
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oscash said:
Well, over here in Aussieland us pensioners have just got a raise. I couldn't wait to see what it was, .......$3.00 per fortnight.??????? Any suggestions on what I can buy that is tasty and not too expensive.?
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Now see what you did oscash!!! You tricked Holly and me into blathering on about pensions in OZ and UK.

Apologies to @debodun for littering your thread with irrelevancies. :cry:
 
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Warrigal said:
It's means tested. I get a fortnightly part pension based on my financial assets. Any increase will also be partial.

For a single person on a full pension the increase is to be $4.60 per fortnight.
I will get a fraction of that sum.

Couples on full pensions can expect a (combined) total increase of $7.00 a fortnight, i.e. $3.50 each per fortnight.
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Please do not spend it all at one time:(
 
Twostep said:
OP delivers meals on wheels. Sign up for one per week?
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Sometimes I do. Today it was meatballs which I don't care for, so I didn't get it. I stopped at the library, but it looks like they haven't had anything new delivered in weeks. The potatoes are starting to sprout and the carrots are rubbery. No eggs, just when I need some.

I did get some rice cakes at the store. They are okay for breakfast with some peanut butter on them. Also bananas, seltzer, cereal and wheat crackers. I make a cereal mix that I almost inhale when I have it - 1.5 cups plain Cheerios (or generic oat rounds), 1 cup "extra raisin" raisin bran, 1/4 cup lightly salted peanuts and 2 tbsps mini-chocolate morsels. Mix well, than splash enough diet cream soda to just moisten.
 
Have you ever thought of working with a nutritionist? I think it's possible some new doors would open for you. Seems like a new dietery path might be in order.
 

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