Health coach JJ Virgin walks through her Trader Joe's haul, picking out low-carb staples like grass-fed sirloin, hearts-of-palm pasta, cauliflower gnocchi, and frozen carnitas. She explains how stocking your freezer and pantry with these approved items removes decision fatigue and makes healthy eating automatic.
Just got back from Trader Joe's, and I admit I haven't gone shopping in a while 'cause I've been Instacarting, but you can't Instacart Trader Joe's. So we got up early this morning, went over to Trader Joe's, and I made quite a haul to stock up my freezer and pantry. So I wanted to share some of the highlights with you. All right, first off, so this is organic chicken breast with organic seasonings. Easy thing to put on your salad for a great lunch. All right, next up, check this out, a grass-fed beef sirloin. Sirloin Roast. All it is is grass-fed beef, salt and pepper, and it's ready to go. So I got some gluten-free egg fettuccine. Now, spicy Mexican cauliflower rice. What I do with these is I take this and then I add some plain cauliflower rice in with it as well. Here's something exciting— hearts of palm pasta. Do you know what's in this? Hearts of palm. That is it. This is actually what I went back to Trader Joe's for, these fire roasted peppers and onions. This goes in the freezer, but these are a great one to stock up on. Okay, these are a little bit of a splurge. Cauliflower gnocchi, 22 grams of carbs in a serving, 6 grams of fiber, which is fabulous. And here we go with all sorts of different organic cauliflowers. And that's it. I was excited to find carnitas. We love carnitas. This is another easy one to keep in the freezer and grab it if you are trying to make a fast, simple dinner. Now I will tell you, I went through Trader Joe's, basically looked at everything today to find these things. And you got to remember that wherever you're going, whatever— it's Whole Foods, Trader Joe's— not everything is on the approved list. Find those things that you love, stock up your freezer, your pantry, your fridge, because it just makes eating healthy so easy. You don't even have to think about it.
