Tomorrow I’m going grocery shopping for the fresh food I’ll eat when I start Nutrisystem again. Â One of the things I love about Nutrisystem is that you supplement the entrees with fresh fruits and vegetables. Â It gives me the opportunity to choose foods I love to eat and that will fill me up.
For breakfast every day on the program, you eat a Nutrisystem Breakfast Entree; a fruit; and a dairy or protein. Â Lunch is a Nutrisystem Lunch Entree; a dairy/protein and 2 vegetables. Â Snack is a dairy/protein and a fruit. Â Dinner is a Nutrisystem Dinner Entree; a fruit or vegetable; a fat; 2 vegetables; and a Nutrisystem Dessert Entree.
In the Meal Planner, there is a list of what foods count as a “fruit”. Â You are given the quantity of each type of fruit that makes up one serving. Â For example, 15 grapes = one fruit. Â I’m adding to my grocery list strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and oranges. Â I’ll eat a serving of fruit at breakfast, snack and dinner times 7 days = 21 servings of fruit for the week.
A vegetable serving is 1/2 cup of carrots, 1/2 cup of cooked green beans. Â Lettuce, celery, cucumbers are unlimited. Â I’m adding to my grocery list romaine lettuce, baby spinach, tomatoes, celery, baby carrots, green beans and broccoli. Â I love veggies! Â 1/2 cup of tomato sauce is also a vegetable serving and I often add tomato sauce or diced tomatoes to Nutrisystem Italian Entrees. Â When I get to the store, I’ll also check out asparagus and snap peas – two of my favorites but sometimes too costly. Â Lots of veggies! Â As an example though, 1/2 cup of carrots times 7 = 3.5 cups of carrots or one large bag of baby carrots.
Now, dairy/protein. Â Dairy is skim milk, light yogurt, low fat cheese, string cheese. Â As an example, 1 oz of string cheese or 8 oz. of skim milk = one serving of dairy. Â I love yogurt and cheese! Â A protein is 1 oz of chicken, 1 egg, 2 oz of veggie burger or several other options. Â With 3 dairy/protein a day, I have a lot of options to add tasty, filling foods with 21 servings in a week! Â I like to have a hard-boiled egg or yogurt for snacks and breakfast, so I’m going to add at least 7 eggs, 7 yogurts, and 7 string cheese (they all come in packs of more than 7). Â We have chicken and veggie burgers in our freezer, I’ll have those as backup.
Here’s my grocery list for one week:
- Strawberries
- Oranges
- Bananas
- Blueberries
- Romaine Lettuce
- Baby Spinach
- Cucumbers
- Baby Carrots
- Green Beans
- Broccoli
- Cherry Tomatoes
- 3 cans of diced tomatoes
- 1 jar of tomato sauce
- Dozen Eggs
- Yogurt
- String Cheese
- Small Package of Almonds
- NS Breakfast Entree
- Hard-boiled Egg
- Small Banana
- NS Lunch Entree
- String Cheese
- Broccoli
- Mixed Salad with Cucumbers and 2 oz. fat-free dressing
- Yogurt
- Grapes
- NS Dinner entree
- Green Beans
- Carrots
- Orange and 6 Almonds
Dessert
- NS Dessert entree