Grocery Shopping is expensive!

January 8, 2008

So yesterday, the girl friend and I went grocery shopping so I could start up on my Abs Diet meal plans and work out schedule. I went running in the early morning with my dog, who is just as out of shape as I am. We went for about 4 or 5 blocks then I decided to come home because she looked tired. When we got home she still wanted to run more! I guess I was the one who was tired!

Anyways, back to grocery shopping. Loading up on vegetables, fruits, some frozen fruit, yogurt and stuff for the blender to make smoothies, cold cuts, and other stuff for dinner recipes. My total bill came out to about $150 in groceries! I sure hope we eat it all! We need to look at different ads and start shopping smarter.

I also went out and bought a tub of GNC 100% chocolate whey powder for my smoothies. Last night I made my first smoothie, and man was it filling! Well, thats the idea right? The smoothie was very mild and I felt maybe it had too much oatmeal in it and maybe not enough flavor for me to really enjoy. Here’s the recipe I followed:

Abs Diet Smoothie Recipe
1 cup skim milk
2 tsp Peanut butter
2 tsp chocolate whey
2 tblsp non fat vanilla yogurt
3/4 cup oatmeal
6 ice cubes

I think I shouldn’t have cooked the oatmeal and instead just put it into the mixture and blended it. The smoothie was good and filling and perfect to take up one of your meals in your 6 to 8 meals a day plan. Next time I’ll try more whey and less oatmeal.

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