Ever since I started my version of the Mediterranean Diet, which just means the normal Mediterranean Diet but lean toward lower carbohydrates and lower saturated fat intakes, my grocery list has become a thing of certain staple foods. The healthy fats found in nuts and guacamole are daily snacks, and I’d be lost without them. Both are super easy to justify for every bit of nutritional value. Hummus is my other absolute daily snack item. Without these three things floating around my house, I’d snap and eat much worse thing. So I load up, make it so they’re easy to access in the kitchen, and that drives a lot of my behavior. For two out of three of those they just require something to scoop them into my mouth with, which is where the thought of Mediterranean Diet Chips comes in.
Also on my Mediterranean Diet Grocery List are bagged salads. Why? Because a lot of eating involves taking the lazy path of not wanting to cook on the spot or having to do a bunch of prep in advance, and failing to do that results in reaching for less healthy items that take little to no effort. So the wealth of bagged salads that exist on the market now are wonderful. The Southwest Chopped Salad shown here is a great example and a staple for me.
Rotisserie Chicken is something I figure you can’t go wrong with since there’s nothing about it that violates the Mediterranean Diet. By the time you buy one of these the hard work has been done and they keep for a few days, so it satisfies the fight against being lazy and they’re usually delicious.
In my case Cheerios are always on the list, since I demand an oat based breakfast that is hassle free.
While these things are the staples that make up my Mediterranean Diet Grocery List, there are plenty more random things out there which I enjoy less frequently. I just figure we all have to have some core things we can depend on, so that there’s a backbone to a dietary routine, and this became mine, and seems to work. I’d done my first 3 months of dietary changes, got a new A1C result, and did wonders for lowering my LDL, triglycerides, and all the other odds and ends that an A1C yields results for. Went in to see my doctor to discuss the results wondering if I’d get a recommendation for how I should proceed after starting to eat this way, and instead got asked how I’d managed what I did. And that led me back to just continuing to eat this way, and these are the trusty items that got me to that point. Makes sense to carry on.
