Good morning! It’s Thursday, which means one day closer to Friday! I’m so excited for the weekend because I have some awesome plans. More on that later.
If you’ve been following my blog, you may have realized I eat pretty much the same foods every day. I don’t do it because I’m afraid to try new foods; I do it because I love my staples! If I get bored of them, I’ll move on. I hope they aren’t boring you because I don’t see a change coming anytime soon!
With that said, here are the foods that I always keep on hand:
Oatmeal
I start off with oatmeal every single day. I really look forward to it and I can’t imagine eating anything else! This crazy oatmeal obsession is actually pretty recent, and I can trace it to the Fall ’11 and Spring ’12 semesters. I really started to have an oatmeal problem when I read Kath’s tribue to oatmeal. I could stare at those pictures for days.
Non-cows milk
I can’t really think of any other way to phrase that. Maybe non-dairy? I mix my oatmeal with some sort of non-cows milk like soy milk, almond milk, or coconut milk. I hate eating oatmeal cooked with just water, and for some reason cows milk (unless it’s yogurt, cheese, or ice cream) weirds me out.
Nut-butter
What oatmeal would be complete without nut-butter? Not mine 
Bluberries
I love to eat fresh blueberries by themselves, but frozen ones are perfect in oatmeal! They melt in the oatmeal (and my mouth )
Mix the above ingredients for a delicious breakfast of champions!
Greek yogurt
I love how filling Greek yogurt is! It’s rich, creamy, and keeps me satisfied for a few hours. The first time I tried it, I hated it! This was back when no one had heard of Chobani and it was hidden in the “weird” section of Hannaford. The consistency reminded me of sour cream and I got funny looks at lunch. Scarred me for a few years
Lettuce
When I’m home for lunch and dinner, I usually have a salad at each meal. I’ve had a salad a day for a very long time now. Not to toot my own horn, but I have yet to find a salad I enjoy more than mine
Chick peas
My salad absolutely needs chick peas, end of story. I could easily eat an entire can in one sitting!
Avocado
I get very sad when there’s no avocados in the house.
Real bread
I say real bread because there are way too many breads out there so many unnecessary, unnatural processed stuff. Bread only needs a few ingredients!
Hummus
A sandwich without hummus is just not a sandwich
Have a great Thursday!
What are some of your diet staples?
I totally agree with all of these! My staples are oatmeal, bananas, soy nut butter, Greek yogurt, blueberries, apples, sweet potatoes, avocado, brown rice, tofu, sushi, salmon, kale, and lots of whole grain bread!
Ooh great staples, those sound delicious!
so yummy, I wish I could live off of blueberries but they are so dang expensive right now! I always have salsa on hand and white wine vinegar.
Terrific call on the salsa. I could eat that stuff with a spoon.
You should try frozen blueberries; they’re cheaper!
Almonds, apples, and carrots!
Yummy!
My absolute staple-staples would have to be…Dorset cereals muesli, greek yogurt, almond butter, banana bread, apples (my ‘core’ -pun?! – fruit, but I mix it up when I have the pennies to spare), sweet potatoes, salad ingredients (where you have chickpeas, I have kidney beans!), chocolate rice milk…goodness I could go on. And porridge of course, which I think may be the same thing as oatmeal but I’m not 100% up on the lingo!
That all sounds delicious!!
I love avocado and oatmeal too! I also eat a lot of walnuts and nut butter.
Sounds good
do you make your own hummus? i refuse to pay for it at the supermarket any more, since learning how easy it is to make at home!
I’ve made it a few times, I guess I’m just too lazy to make it all the time
Good for you for making it!