Day 002: Swole on a Budget

So if anyone is actually reading this blog you'll notice that my diet stays pretty consistent. Actually if I followed this diet strictly for the past year I'd probably be sitting here in single digit body fat %. I actually spend very little on groceries, maybe $50/week and I still manage to get 200+g of protein a day with relative ease, along with you know, vegetables and stuff. Here's my shopping list (some of these last more than a week, the produce I usually buy every week):

• Apples
• Broccoli crowns
• Baby spinach
• Blueberries (frozen when out of season)
• Raw almonds
• Raw oats
• Newman's salsa
• Lowfat string cheese
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Canned tuna
• 1% no salt added Hood cottage cheese (ONLY THIS KIND! ALL ELSE SUCKS)
• Unsweetened almond milk
• Eggs (I get these for free when my mom's chickens are laying, they don't lay in the winter though :(  )
• Whatever lean protein is on sale, chicken sausage, ground beef, ground turkey, misc parts of chickens, whole chickens, etc.

For supplements I get Optimum Nutrition whey (double rich chocolate) 5lbs from amazon with subscribe and save it comes out to $34. I get 800 100mg fish oil capsules from Costco (Kirkland brand), and I take around 10 of those a day, I think the bottles are $9?

So there you go, swole on a budget. And think how much you spend going out to lunch every day, that's $50 right there for 5 meals.

Diet

Breakfast:

1/2 cup raw oats

1 cup unsweetened almond milk

1/2 cup blueberries
6oz nonfat greek yogurt

Lunch:

1 chicken breast
2 tbsp salsa
1 cup broccoli
1 handful almonds
1 cup 1% cottage cheese
1/2 scoop ON whey

Dinner:
1 chicken breast
2 tbsp salsa
1 cup broccoli

Workout

40 minutes elliptical