A Full Month of Healthy Living - Shopping List

So I am doing this competition for work that focuses on healthy living. It's a six week competition that offers challenges like stretching 10 minutes every day, working out 30 minutes every day, getting 8 hours of sleep every day, etc.

It's not really for people that are already at my level of fitness, but it's something that I love to take part it because it allows people that aren't at my level to have a good start on their road to becomming healthy.

One of the challenges is to journal all of your food intake for weeks 1 and 4, and to make sure that you stay within a Calorie limitation that is based on your sex, age, and current height/weight. I started to think about it and I decided that I wanted to post a good example of a healthy shopping list that fits for a lot of healthy people. I've learned through my own experiences that the best thing to do when you decided to get healthy is to go through your refrigerator, freezers, and cabbinets and to THROW AWAY everything that you would consider unhealthy. Then go to the store with a solid shopping list that fits your tastes and eating habbits, and buy only HEALTHY food that you can enjoy eating.

When only have healthy food at home, you'll only be able to eat healthy food at home.
And so,

A Full Month of Healthy Living - Shopping List:
1. 2 packages of Strawberries
2. GV Fat-free whipped cream
3. 1 Packages of Thomas Whole Wheat English Muffins
4. 1 Loaf of Nature’s Pride Whole Grain Bread
5. 1 Package of Oroweat Whole Wheat Sandwich Thins
6. 2 jars of Simply JIF Peanut Butter
7. 2 jars of GV Classic Italian Spaghetti Sauce
8. 2 Boxes of GV 100% Whole Wheat Spaghetti Noodles
9. 3 boxes of cereal: Life, Kashi Cinnamon Squares, GV Wheat Chex’s
10. 1 tub of Quaker Oatmeal
11. GV sugar-free water flavoring
12. 2 bottles of GV Ketchup
13. Large pack of Whole Grain Crackers with Cheese
14. 4 packages of Juicy Juice Natural Fruit Juice Boxes
15. 5 dozen Large Eggs
16. 1 gallon GV Fat-Free Milk
17. 3 Fat-Free GV Cottage Cheese
18. 2 packages of Borden Fat-Free American Cheese
19. 3 Large packages of GV vegetables: Mixed Veggies, Corn, and Broccoli
20. 2 packages Ego Whole Grain Low Fat Waffles
21. 1 package Weight Watchers Low Fat String Cheese
22. 1 package of Jimmy Dean Turkey Sausage
23. 1 package Butterball Turkey Bacon
24. 2 packages Whole Grain Wraps
25. 1 package Oscar Meyer Turkey Dogs
26. 5 packages GV Frozen Chicken Breasts
27. 2 lbs. Butterball Oven Roasted Turkey Breast
28. 1 lbs. Ground Turkey Breast
29. 5 cans of GV Tuna
30. 2 GV 400 packets Sweeteners (or 1 large bag)
31. 2 packages Dole Romaine Lettuce
32. 1 can GV 100% Arabica Coffee
33. Kraft Fat-Free Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
34. GV Fat-Free Grated Parmesan Cheese
35. Spices and Seasonings

Now this is just an example of MY shopping list every month, this is not necessarily the shopping list for YOU. Look through it and see the general theme of low fat, high fiber, whole grains, and lean meats. If you don't see everything you like to eat, here's a list of some additional healthy alternatives or additions to the list that might work well for you.

Other alternatives:
1. 1 package GV Beef Jerky
2. 1 jar of GV Green Olives
3. 1-8 packages of GV Sugar Free Jell-O
4. 1 package GV Fat-Free Cream Cheese
5. 1-2 packages Pork Chops
6. 5 lbs. of 93/7 Ground Beef
7. 1 Coffee mate Sugar-Free Hazelnut/French Vanilla Creamer
8. 1 bottle Kraft Fat-Free Dressing
9. 1-3 Packages of Thomas Whole Wheat English Muffins


Also a nice thing to note, I live in Nevada so our Walmarts are AMAZING. They are clean and nice, with good quality on most of the food. I'm not a huge fan of the produce, but the rest of the selection is great. Most things marked as GV are the Walmart brand for Great Value. My monthly shopping list usually costs me under $200 dollars. So considering the amount of food that you are getting, it's a very reasonable amount of money to spend on a month of food.