The sweet potatos, spinach, yogurt, and diced tomatos are gone. My adds or exchanges for the 20 in the article might look like this:
The shopping lists includes things like bacon; canned corn beef hash or pink salmon; avocados; lemon and/or orange, onions and garlic, fresh cabbage or canned sauerkraut and romaine lettuce, 5 lb bag of carrots, celery; diced fireroasted tomatos; biscuit mix, homemade or not; yeast; brown sugar; vinegars of your choice; maple syrup; mayo, (gotta be Hellman's, sorry); baking powder, soda, peanut butter, raisins and cocoa, coffee, green tea 100 bag ct, bottle of lemon juice (I make my own single serving dinner beverage weekly in recycled glass bottles from saved purchased bottled ice tea. Yay! No plastic bottles and way less than soda company's stuff.
With seasonal fresh fruits, usually on sale at peak quality, berries, are my pic, or frozen ones, if you can; Cutie oranges, apples, or melons go in the basket too sometimes, and a few inexpensive types of meat like sausages, bulk or not, a pork butt or chuck roast, ground meat, a rotisserie chicken, a single thick steak on sale, a bag of frozen chicken breasts and or thighs: you can stretch this staple pantry for a month of 2-4 person meals - soups, meatless days, casseroles w/pasta and some form of green or yellow veggies. I also go to the farm deli for cold cuts - their special, a meat and a cheese sliced as needed, are $3.99 lb not the usual $6 - $9 per lb. In a pinch, I've stashed some sardines in sauce and shelf-stable tuna, but I admit, I've got to be desperate. Oh yeah, I also go through 1 lb of each salted and unsalted butter. I splurge on plant-based milk (cashew); half and half; chocolate chips.
Pledge to use all leftovers as lunches or transformed the very next day. Feeling slammed: Aldi's and Sam's each has a great take home supreme pizza so you get some veggies, LOL!
Note: you won't need to purchase everything every time you shop weekly or even monthly. Just plan ahead if you'll be short for something you want to cook.
I've got the usual small cooking appliances from a previous life. Mixer, blender, food processor, bread machine, waffle maker, griddle, slow cooker, and ice cream maker. Electric range, fridge, and a 7 cu ft chest freezer in the garage.
From my very small north 40 inch garden - Roma tomatoes sauced and freezer cuke pickles; frozen green beans in the freezer. Also, I got one butternut and two acorn squashes from this year's experiment; in previous years, I've grown garden salad greens, brussel sprouts, broccoli, and cauliflower, zukes, and peas but got an inadequate yield to keep planting these. The community garden is blocks away without any shade or benches for resting and costs $35 for use in summer of a large plot that would still need soil amendments and probably insecticides, so I just use my little one out next to the patio.
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