Re-Stocking with Whole30 Foods

Since our pantry is almost bare we needed to re-stock with all Whole30 approved items.
I started by shopping last weekend (by myself since I knew it would take some time to find items, compare prices (I still have a budget to try to keep), and read ingredient labels) for our pantry “staples” (things that you use almost everyday). I used this handy list that they provide on the Whole9life website. http://whole9life.com/book/ISWF-Pantry-Stocking.pdf
Because I don’t have oodles of time to spend going from store to store to see who has what, I just went to Earth Fare (a local whole foods/health food store in Tallahassee) and stocked up. HOWEVER, since then I have found good, Whole30 approved items on the list for less money at alternative places like Costco (including Organic Coconut Oil), Wal-Mart and Publix.
Here are the “staples” I chose to buy from the list at Earth Fare. (Note that the carton of Coconut Milk is NOT Whole30 Approved and I didn’t find out until AFTER I brought it home, I got the canned stuff just in case and I am glad now that I did). This is not ALL of the items on the list, I just started “slow” to see what we like and how much we need, and I will buy more if needed.

Coconut Flour is NOT on the list, but they didn’t have Almond Flour (it was at Publix) and I figured we could TRY the coconut flour on something if we wanted to.



I also bought a few staple items from Costco this past week while my hubby took the kids. Mainly nuts and olives (things I know we will have no problem eating "in bulk") 

 

Then this morning it took me 3 hours, 3 stores (Costco, Publix, Wal-Mart) and one return trip to Wal-Mart (with my two kids) to get most of what I need to get us through our entire first week of our Whole30 (actually 8 days: tomorrow, Friday through next Saturday). Because of limited space in our fridge (and an abundance of fresh foods that need space in there) I will need to make a mid-week trip to restock on some veggies and fruits, but otherwise we are done shopping until next weekend. 
And now, here is what our fridge looks like:

And here is our pantry… it’s still pretty empty because most of the food we will be eating is fresh and needs to be in the fridge. Except a few things that we can put in the fruit bowl!