This list will make breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks for at least one week for one person who enjoys convenient, modern foods that are quick to fix. I am a senior citizen. I enjoy preparing meals to eat at home. Sometimes I enjoy cooking from scratch. Most times I enjoy convenient, modern foods I can prepare quickly.
18 large eggs (scramble 2 eggs for breakfast with toast, applesauce, coffee, and orange juice) (boil four eggs to go with cheese pizzas for two meals or make an egg salad sandwich filling or use an egg to make cornbread)
59 oz. Half and Half milk
1# Blue Bonnet margarine sticks
1 pkg. sliced cooked chicken or turkey
2 loaves Sara Lee 100% whole wheat bread
1 loaf Sara Lee cinnamon raisin bread
1 box variety instant fruit & cream oatmeal packs
1 box Product 19 cereal
1 box Grape Nuts cereal
4/4 oz. cups Mott's Peach applesauce
4/4 oz. cups Mott's Strawberry/Banana applesauce
Home Style NFC Orange Juice 4/59 oz.
7 Taster's Choice Hazelnut Instant Coffee Sticks
2/2 liters Canada Dry diet Ginger Ale
1 bottle Welch's Grape Juice
1 carton Welch's Passionfruit Juice
1 box of 2 individual Red Baron five-inch Cheese Pizzas
(make 2 boiled eggs and eat one with each pizza with a salad)
2 avocadoes (peel, slice and eat one with each pizza and salad)
1 box of 4 Chung Vegetable Egg Rolls with sauce
1 box Rice-A-Roni Fried Rice (divide between two meals)
1 box Fortune Cookies
1 box Green Tea
1 can Campbell's Spaghetti & Sauce
4 Patio frozen Bean/Cheese Burritos
1 box Spanish Rice (divide between two meals)
2 Michelina Fettuccine Alfredo frozen entrees
3 bags ready-to-eat salad mix (7 salads)
1 quart basket grape or cherry tomatoes
3 cucumbers
2 sweet onions
McCormick sea salt & black peppercorn grinders
garlic powder, onion powder, sage
1 jar oval dill pickles
jar Kraft low-fat Mayonnaise (use for dressing and sandwiches)
1 bottle yellow mustard
1 bottle ketchup
1 jar pickle relish
1 box Bisquick Mix
2# self-rising buttermilk white cornmeal
1 can Luck's Pinto Beans
1 bottle Wesson Vegetable Oil
1 can Kroger butter spray
1 bag Lay's Potato Chips
1 can Campbell's Tomato Soup
1 pkg. Kraft white American cheese slices (toasted cheese sandwiches)
1 can Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup
1 box Keebler Club Crackers or Kroger Saltine Crackers
1 jar Smucker's Goober Grape Spread (PB&J sandwiches)
1 El Charrito Queso Enchiladas frozen dinner
8 oz. can green peas & diced carrots
1 can Cream of Chicken soup (use to make dumplings)
2 cans buttermilk biscuit dough (use to make dumplings with the soup and for the strawberry shortcake and peach melba bases)
1 turkey breast cutlet
1 box Stove-Top Sage Cornbread Stuffing Mix
2 cans Kroger whole green beans
1 sweet potato
1 can pineapple chunks
1 bottle cinnamon-sugar
1 can cranberry sauce
8/4 oz. diced tropical fruit cups
4/4 oz. cups yogurt (coconut, lemon, key lime, orange)
Marie Callender coconut cream pie and key lime pie
Edwards individual pies (lemon meringue and banana cream)
Dole frozen sliced strawberries individual 2 cups
1 can Kroger whipped cream
1 can sliced peaches in raspberry juice
1 can Planter's Deluxe Mixed Nuts
1 box of 3 packs microwavable popcorn
1 bottle Torani sugar-free Watermelon Syrup (add to chilled water for beverages)
1 pkg. Tostitos
1 jar Pace Picante or Salsa
1 box of 10 Sunbelt Bakery's Fudge-Dipped Coconut Granola Bars
NON-FOOD SUPPLIES: (to be purchased as needed)
Scott's 1000 sheets toilet paper
Bounty white napkins
Viva white paper towels
Kleenex facial tissues
Glad 13-gallon garbage bags with flaps
soap
bubble bath
shampoo
conditioner
shaving cream
disposable razors
deodorant stick
toothpaste
toothbrush
cologne
detergent
bleach
colorsafe bleach
sink cleanser
fabric softener
floor cleaner
carpet cleaner
window cleaner
furniture polish
toilet cleaner
bathtub cleaner
oven cleaner
dishwashing liquid and/or dishwasher tablets
air freshener
Glad plastic wrap
aluminum foil
Hefty quart freezer bags
Home Defense Max gallon spray
To make the Cream of Chicken Dumplings, add the soup to a pan with one can Half & Half and 1/2 stick margarine stirred into it. Heat just to a boil, as milk should never be boiled or it will curdle. Turn heat down to simmer on low. Open the can of biscuit dough, and pinch off each of the 10 biscuits into 10 equal pieces, adding them to the hot soup mixture. When all 10 biscuits are pinched off into small pieces, cover the pan, and let it simmer for 10 minutes. Don't stir until the 10 minutes have passed. Stir, and let them simmer another 5 minutes to firm up. They can be eaten after simmering for 10 minutes, but they won't be as firm. Heat the green peas and diced carrots with a teaspoonful of margarine added as a side dish.
Use 2 Tbsp. of the Half and Half to scramble your eggs for breakfast in a skillet with some margarine melted in it, and also to fill one can of the tomato soup to make Cream of Tomato Soup to go with your toasted cheese sandwiches. It's also wonderful to use in coffee and hot tea as creamer or to thin out mayo to use as a dressing for salad. Use it in your cereal for breakfast for days you don't want eggs for breakfast, or to drink it with your meals, or use it to make biscuits, pancakes, waffles, or cornbread. Do not buy it if you have a problem using whole milk, as Half & Half has a lot of fat in it.
Watermelon drink is a wonderfully refreshing cold beverage to go with Mexican foods. If you can't find the Torani Watermelon Syrup locally, (it can be purchased online,) look for plain Watermelon Kool-Aid. Use ice cold water. You can also make it by liquefying cubes of real watermelon in a blender, then mixing in an equal amount of chilled water.
One small bag of salad mix will make two servings with a bit more left, so I know that 7 salads can be made from 3 bags, especially if you add some grape tomatoes and cucumbers to them. Mayonnaise mixed into each salad makes an excellent dressing for lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers. If the mayo is too thick for a dressing for you, thin it down with a bit of Half and Half. Add some salt and pepper to suit your taste. You can also make a tomato sandwich by slicing 8 grape tomatoes in half and placing them on whole wheat bread spread with mayonnaise, then sprinkled with sea salt and black pepper.
Microwave 2 egg rolls per meal, each wrapped up in a white paper towel for two minutes each, and cook the box of fried rice according to package directions, then divide it equally for two meals, refrigerating half of it covered in a bowl for another meal, with green tea, and fortune cookies for dessert.
Eat two microwaved bean/cheese burritos for one meal, wrapping each one in a white paper towel and microwaving it for two minutes. Add some Spanish Rice, cooking it according to package directions, then dividing it in half equally for two meals, a salad, and a watermelon drink. Refrigerate the remaining rice covered in a bowl for another meal.
Make Garlic Toast to go with the Fettuccine Alfredo and Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce. If you want to make meatballs for the Spaghetti, see my Recipes Index for Faux Meat Recipes then look for Faux Meatballs Recipe. Add a salad, and serve a fruit cup as dessert. Serve Grape Juice for a beverage. To make Garlic Toast, spread butter on your toasted sliced bread and sprinkle the top of it with garlic powder to suit your taste.
Diced tropical fruit cups, pineapple chunks, and yogurt make excellent desserts that also helps the foods digest properly. Marie Callender makes individual pies, so does Edwards, so you will have good choices as to your desserts, if you want them.
Use the popcorn, nuts, tortilla chips with salsa, fudge coconut granola bars, and soft drinks or other drinks as snacks when you get hungry in between meals or if you like snacks at night. It's okay to substitute other things you like if you don't like anything on this list. Your grocery list should be made up of only things that you know you will eat or drink and enjoy. This is meant just as something you can go by to make your own grocery list. I have other websites that are free to use to help you plan your meals according to your personal budget. You can find them on my Recipes Index. Be sure to save them so you can find them next time in your Favorites (the star on the right side of your computer top area.) Once you plan your meals, you create your grocery list from them according to what you need to make those meals. Then you go through your food pantry and freezers to see what you already have on hand, and mark off things you don't need. What is left is your grocery list you will take to the store to purchase those products.
WALMART.COM now sells a lot of bulky items that you can order online and have shipped to your home. It can save you a lot of shopping time locally, and from having to carry a lot of heavy items.
Other good websites to shop online are NUTS.COM and TORANI.COM.
Check out SCHWANS FOODS for foods you can order online that are quick to fix and can be delivered to your home twice each month. If you are a senior citizen, homebound or disabled, it can save you a lot of aches and pains rather than going shopping locally. Schwans is great to use if you don't have a lot of time to spend shopping locally, no matter what your age. They offer quality foods that can help you get more healthy nutrients into your system. Just be sure to read the ingredients so you know what you are buying in advance and what the calories are. You should be able to purchase two meals per day for about $200 a month for one person if you shop wisely when sales are offered. Some of their products are pre-cooked so all that is necessary is to re-heat them in your microwave.
