What is always in my grocery cart

What are your grocery cart staples? Please share because I love to chat organic food....which is no surprise to any of you.

While I love to try new food all of the time, I am also a 'kitchen staple' type of gal. So, there are always five things you will always find in my grocery cart which I will share below.

Before I do, a few of you asked me where I grocery shop. I am a huge budget shopper so, I go to a variety of stores & farmers markets in order to make sure I am buying the lowest cost yet highest quality products! I will do a post on this topic next.

For now, let's chat 'What is in my grocery cart':

• Organic Avocados. I eat an avocado a day because of it's healthy fats & we all know avocados are packed with too many nutrients to list. Avocados fall on the 'least contaminated list' of the dirty dozen but, I still try to buy organic when I can. Stanley's has organic avocados for ridiculously cheap. By the way. Stanley's often gets a bad rap for their fruit/veggies going bad quickly but, I love the store. Stanley's receives their fruits/produce 'ripe' so, when you go to purchase from them, you need to use what you buy that day or the next.  You save approximately 75% on groceries here. Yes, that much.
• Organic Greens: Organic Spinach & Organic Arugula. I eat organic spinach every single day. It's usually - surprisingly - at breakfast. It's so important to eat greens and I find that I now LOVE greens w/ the help of Primal Kitchen dressings that are available at low cost at Thrive Market.  P.S. The Primal Kitchen Ranch w/ Avocado Oil is the best dressing I've ever had and it's always in my fridge (Note: One bottle lasts a long time).
• Rebbl. Rebbl Dark Chocolate Protein Drink is the most delicious drink. You actually have a reaction when you drink it...I kid you not.  I always have at least one of these in my cart every single time I shop. I have drastically cut down on even healthy sugars (maple, stevia, cane sugar, etc.) and Rebbl curbs my cravings while filling my body with some pretty amazing nutrition! You can read their ingredients here and how their product philosophy here. So impressed!
• Organic Tomatoes. Potentially a boring staple to some but, I love juicy organic tomatoes!!! I eat a tomato every day. A favorite combination is avocado toast with a sliced tomato on top or I eat tomatoes plain, sliced & w/ sea salt and sometimes olive oil drizzled on top. I also love to snack on small cherry tomatoes and sea salt vs. say, chips.
• Vega. Vega products are in my cart every single time I shop. The products vary but, I always have Vega snack bars and/or Vega protein shakes which I have fallen in love with. All Vega products are 100% plant based & the highest quality ingredients via plant based protein on the entire market. I buy the snack bars from this little health food store on Webster called Life Springs Health Foods because their prices are so marked down. It's AMAZING! The prices are 50% less for their protein bars than Whole Foods. Wow.

I would love to hear what your staples are! Do tell!

Enjoy this 60 degree weather Chicago!