Coupons for Fresh Foods

There aren't many coupons out there for fresh foods, so when I find them I get pretty excited! :)

Dulcinea Melons $0.55/1

Discoll Berries $0.50/1 

Earthbound Farm Organic Products $1/2

O Organics Celery Hearts $0.75/1
Safeway Farms Grilling Vegetables $0.50/1

Fresh Express Cole Slaws $0.75/1

Target Mobile Coupon, text FRESH to 827438 (after you've signed up here)

$1 off $1 or more purchase of Fresh Meat

$1 off $1 or more purchase of Fresh Vegetable

$1 off $1 or more purchase of Fresh Fruit

$1 off any brand sandwich bread

Cheap Pineapples and more Bananas

Ok, we stopped at Fred Meyer today to pick up some of their pineapple for $1 each!  Couldn't pass that up.  And my husband loves his green bananas, so we grabbed some of those for back to work tomorrow.  Spent $7.37.

Green Mango Pineapple Smoothie

Our Meal 3 (or lunch) today was Green Mango Pineapple Smoothies!  (Yes, my husband wanted one too!)

Ingredients:

• 1-2 cups greens (Spinach/kale)
• 1/2 - 1 Mango
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup Pineapple
• Juice from 1 Orange
• Chia Gel (1 TB Chia Seeds soaked in 1/4 cup water for 10 minutes)

Just 157 Calories, 39g of Good Carbs and 4g of Protein.

I used lots of green, you can go lighter on the greens per your taste.  Just get 'em in there!

Green Mango Pineapple Smoothie

Green Berrylicious Smoothie

My Green Smoothie today, for Meal 3.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Spinach
• 1/2 cup Strawberries
• 1/4 cup Blackberries
• 1/4 cup Blueberries
• 1/2 Banana
• 1 TB Goji Berries

A full glass, just 131 calories.

Day 1, Meal 1 & 2

I have never liked breakfast.  I used to actually not eat breakfast.  I don't really like breakfast foods, sure pancakes and waffles are great but it's just bread so it fills you up with sugar and carbs.  Eggs, honestly I could do without.  Though they are very good for you.  Bacon, I do love me some bacon.  But it is oh, so bad for you.  Cereals never worked because I don't like any kind of milk and hot cereals are boring.  I could go on, I just don't like breakfast.  So this is going to be the hardest meal for me.  It is indeed, the most important meal of the day, especially when trying to lose weight.  It is important to eat within 2 hours of getting up to get your metabolism going.  If you go too long without eating, your body will start hoarding what it gets as it goes into semi-starvation mode.  And that is not what you want when you are trying to lose weight.  So lately I have either been eating fruit, drink juice, eating Belvita crackers or Zone bars.  But now that I'm on my whole foods diet, I am going to try my best to have an actual breakfast everyday.  So, bear with me while I get the hang of this "breakfast" thing.

I will be eating 3-5 small meals a day, so I am not going to call them Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner but simply what number meal it is for me that day.  Eating 5 smaller meals a day is better for you and better for losing weight.

Day 1, Meal 1

Ok, it's not very pretty but it tasted good :)

• Onions
• Mushrooms
• Spinach
• Garlic
• 2 Eggs
• Balsamic Vinegar

That was 178 Calories.

Then as my second meal I had

• Banana
• Apple
• 1/4 cup Organic Raisins

That was 289 calories.  I always forget how many calories fruit has :)

Total Calories so far: 467