Wifey and I are going shopping tommorow for lowcarb food. We're going to start Atkins Monday. Can anyone help us out with a sample grocery list. I try to put one together but uyou always leave something out. What is the most important foods to buy for induction week. We plan on eating breakfast and dinner together. Lunch will be solo due to work.

http://www.lowcarbeating.com/downloads/shoppinglist.pdf

Here's an example of my list while I was on Atkins induction:

eggs
s/f bacon
chicken breasts
ground beef
romaine lettuce (in bag)
Marie's bleu cheese dressing
cucumbers
celery
seasoned cream cheese
butter
pork rinds
frozen veggies (asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, and brusel sprouts)
cheddar cheese

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You Have To Do What You've Never Done

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Congratulations on your decision to change your lives - you're gonna love it!

The shopping list Andrea posted looks pretty good....you can basically shop the perimeter of the store, stocking up on fresh meats, eggs, veggies, and quality cheeses. Once you have the groceries, one of the most important things you can do to ensure success is to get stuff ready to eat. If you have to scrounge around or, worse yet, actually PREPARE something to eat when you just want to grab something quick, it's a recipe for failure. I don't mean to discourage planning and preparing great meals at all - that's fun and the ideal - it's just that those "gotta have something now" times can kill the best of intentions early on.

So when you get home from the store, plan on spending some time prepping food for the week. Grill up some chicken breasts, pork chops, and burgers to freeze and nuke later. Hard-boil some eggs to eat as-is, and make some into deviled eggs. Mix up some tuna salad so it's ready to eat. Make up a nice relish tray for yourselves like you might for company - olives, hard cheeses, smoked salmon. Have a veggie tray always ready to go (with extras in baggies) - bite-sized broccoli, cauliflower, celery, zuchini, cucumber, etc. Ranch dressing make sa great veggie dip. Buy bagged salads you can grab a big handful of, or prepare your own ready-to-go salad. The idea is to make it convenient, so that throwing together a salad is no more trouble than grabbing that bag of pretzels.

Which reminds me, what you REMOVE from your household can be almost as important as what you bring in. Get rid of the chips, the crackers, the ice cream, and the cookies. Better wasted in the garbage can than wasted on you. Get rid of it. The food bank can use those boxes of rice-a-roni and instant mashed potatoes. You aren't going to eat them now, you won't want them later, your kids don't need them, and you are not going to serve them to company. Free up the shelf space. Cut bait. It's a new day. Create an environment that is going to support your new way of life, not tempt you back to your old ways.

One more piece of advice, if you're still with me. EAT. Eat a lot. Eat until you're completely satisfied, and don't even think about quantities for the next two weeks. It's actually quite challenging, as we are all so conditioned to think that in order to lose weight, we must limit our portions to 3 oz of fish, or some ridiculous restriction like that. That's not what this is about. Have abundant, satisfying meals and snacks, eat when you are hungry, drink as much water as you can possibly hold, read everything you can get your hands on, and hang on - it's gonna be a great ride!

Sky
Atkins since 8/02
186/144/under 150

can you help out with recipes for the induction phase? please include any suggestions for snacks , also i am a huge cokeaholic how will i ever survive. any help you can give will be great

green, yellow & red peppers.....yum

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Andrea, tried to use the link for the grocery list,but keep getting the following:
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Apache Server at lowcarbeating.com


I realized after I wrote this that that url was posted a couple of years ago....
never mind


carolyn

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I shop about every two weeks for everything then supplement inbetween with fresh veggies, fruit, eggs, but this is what I usually keep on hand:

variety of protien - chicken, beef, ground turkey, pork chops, pork sausage, bacon, lamb, deli ham, cheeses (variety - cheddar, swiss, romano, cream cheese).... ground round hamburger patties,

Veggies - lettuce - romain and iceberg, cukes, peppers, cauliflower, broccoli, tomatoes, onions, squash - yellow and zuccinni, cabbage, celery, sometimes I get avocado, spinach

Fruit - berries, straw, blue, black, sometimes I will get grapes and a couple of small bananas (I will eat 1/2 small bananna for the potassium every 3-4 days)

cream, cottage cheese,

LC tortillas, and some lc bread

Keep marinated artichokes in large bottle in fridge

Mayo, eggs,

I like crystal light peach tea and keep it handy if I want something other than water

hope that helps...I try not to have non-lc friendly foods in the house

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onward thru the fog