My Grocery List Is Bananas! (And Potatoes. And Carrots, Too!)

photo credit: thedailygreen.com

Adopting a new eat-style changes everything. Take the new grocery list, for example. It's not that we skipped over the fresh produce aisle before last week. Far from it. I started this weight loss journey over a year ago and with that, my weaning off of High Fructose Corn Suicide. I had long since embraced whole foods. But, now that I'm doing the whole veg thing, I think me and the ol' leafy greens are at second base and zero-ing in on third. Seriously, there's more fresh produce on there than ANYTHING else. (I'm counting the frozen strawberries, canned garbanzos and dried split peas in that company, since, while they're not fresh, they're not exactly your run-of-the-mill processed poison either!)

Cucumbers, bananas, baby carrots, broccoli, new potatoes, oranges, onions, asparagus, lemons. Amazing.

Who am I?

As for the other foodstuffs - we've got coffee, Wacky Mac rotini, Veggie Burgers, Ragu original pasta sauce (surprisingly good, cheap and un-futzed-around with), Soy Milk, Tofuti Cuties (my favorite Faux ice cream sammie - even better than Skinny Cow), eggs (yes, I've graduated to ovo-veg now) and popsicles.

Really proud of this turnaround. Even prouder that I don't feel deprived. Honestly, the only thing I'm really missing at the moment is the hearty-ness of a good bread with a nice, warm soup. I may cave and make naan this week to go along with the split pea soup I'm making.

So, it's really the textures I'm missing more than the actual foods.

Onward and downward!