Two stomachs diverged in Aisle Nine

List your top 5 grocery store items.

Our grocery cart makes us look like we are super healthy people. For the most part, we are. Not that we don’t love junk food. We do – but we have our reasons.

Hubs is a type 2 diabetic,  but manages it without medication through diet and exercise. He sticks to a low-carb diet. He doesn’t do well with dairy but refuses to call himself lactose-intolerant. This is probably due to his crippling love for ice cream. He also has to limit his fats (even the good fats), fiber and seed intake, or he’ll poop like a goose.

Hubs and I are similar in many ways, but there’s a massive divergence when it comes to our dietary needs. I too follow a low carb diet, but I am heavy on fiber and fats. Without my morning Bulletproof coffee – I’ll bind up for a week and shit a brick. I also struggle with kidney stones due to high oxalate levels, so some foods like almonds and spinach are off limits.

These are the five things that are in our grocery cart every week, without fail:

• Deli turkey (2.5 lbs. sliced thin)
• Asparagus
• Milk (Almond for hubs, coconut for me)
• Grapes
• Romain or leaf lettuce

There are a few other things we get every week, but I’ll keep it to five. Those are the rules, right?

What we don’t get at the grocery store, we get delivered. We use Wild Alaskan Company for our fish, alternating between a mixed whitefish box and a salmon assortment every month. We also just started Good Chop for meat. Our first box contained steelhead trout, ground bison, sirloin steaks, boneless chicken thighs (great for shwarma!) and something called egg bites. Those are the only thing I found a bit underwhelming. The few dairy product we do eat come from Oberweis Dairy. This consists mainly of yogurt, butter, eggs, and cheese, but they also carry some really great organic boneless chicken breast. These are always on hand here at the homestead.

Do we eat some junk food? Absolutely.

We’re from Michigan, where some things are now legal. 😉 We keep a good supply of stoner foods: Pop-Tarts, Ho-Hos, pretzels, chips, and the like.

I mean, it’s not all bad. Apparently, Easy Cheese is an excellent source of calcium.

Who knew?