Week 2: More Groceries, More Cooking

It's been a week and I feel like I'm shopping for groceries all the freakin' time. It also feels like I'm cooking all the freakin' time. My husband asked me this weekend if this diet was going to cost us a lot more money. I told him I was tracking it, so we would know in a few months.

Went to Costco this weekend with my sister. Spent around $400 on groceries and household items like toilet paper. I got a bunch of canned fruit for backup when we run out of fresh fruit. It's not paleo because it's in light syrup, but it's a not a main staple for us either.

I also did an order from Amazon Fresh because I couldn't get everything I needed at Costco. My family is in love with the Greek Gods Honey Yogurt... my kids and I polished off a 24oz. container this morning for breakfast. Yum!

Our refrigerator is bulging at the seams!

I also made two batches of cookies last night from The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook. I made the chocolate chip cookies and the snickerdoodles. I used macadamia nut oil instead of grapeseed oil. I did use the agave nectar in both recipes to see what they would taste like; even though I know that agave nectar is mostly fructose, which I need to eliminate from our diet. I'm definitely still in experimental mode... I figure I'll generally make the recipes as written, then try substitutions when I find one I like. The kids each had a cookie this morning and liked them.

One of the complaints I have about the cookie recipes is that the cookies really stick to the parchment paper. I tried spraying the parchment paper with coconut oil and I'm not sure it did much good. I had to let them be completely cooled off before using a spatula to get them off the pan. Which meant using four pans to cook all the cookies.

For me, I've only tried the dough of the cookies so far. The chocolate chip cookie dough without chocolate is not that great. But once you add some dark chocolate into it, it is yummy! So, that is not an ingredient that can be skipped. I also made sure to specifically put chocolate in each cookie instead of just mixing it in and let it play out. The snickerdoodle cookie dough was good as is.

The nice thing about having my husband on board is that he took leftovers from dinner last night and made us our lunches for today. He's always said he wants to support me in my weight loss but never really knew how (he's skinny, so he's never had this problem). Now that he is eating the same as me and helping out with some meal prep, it finally really is helping. And, I feel compelled to make sure the meals are correct since more than me is counting on them.

Here's my amazon grocery list for today:


Pantry & Household
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ordered/delivered Price($)
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1/1 32.71 Let's Do Organic Coconut Flour, 16-OuncePouches (Pack of 6) @32.71 ea
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1/1 32.71


Refrigerated
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ordered/delivered Price($)
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12/12 45.84 Greek Gods Traditional Yogurt, Honey 24 oz @3.82 ea
1/1 2.29 Baby Carrots, Organic, 1 lb Package (United States) @2.29 ea
3/3 14.37 Wilcox Specialty Vita Egg Omega-3, 18 ct @4.79 ea
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Pantry & Household
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ordered/delivered Price($)
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24/24 60.96 Vallyfresh Premium White Chicken Meat, 5 oz @2.54 ea
2/2 2.58 Chiquita Bananas, 3 Count Bunch, Ripe (Ecuador) @1.29 ea
1/1 2.09 Chiquita Bananas, 5 Count Bunch, Green (Ecuador) @2.09 ea
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43/43 128.13

Here's the cookbook for the cookies: