I'm willing to grocery shop but i'm not willing to cook... Help me

Let's go over the basics from the bottom up now:

For now we need to gently guide you into a low carb diet. Lets not care about the quantity of what you eat lets worry about the quality.

For starters eliminate all of these from what you put in your mouth:

Any kind of Grains, Starches, Sugars that do not come from a solid piece of fruit or vegetable.
Any kind of dairy (for now lets cut out the cheese too but we can slowly bring that back)
All Beans and legumes.
Too bad but stay away from corn for now.

Doing that should automatically fix a lot of your macronutrient issues. Make sure you look for hidden grains, starches, and sugars (they convert corn into all these crazy things now and pump food full of it because corn is super cheap, watch the movie FOOD INC. to see what i'm talking about). So for now take out any form of un-natural foods from your diet. If you read the label and it has something you can't pronounce or don't know what it is.. do not eat it.

Also try to stay away from corn/vegetable/soy oils. Stick with either olive oil or butter (try to eat more olive oil than butter though)

two examples of places you could eat out are the following:

Chipotle: Burrito bowl, no beans, no rice, double the meat, tell them to put insane amounts of fajitas in it, guacamole and insane amounts of that tomato salsa( when i say insane i mean it, tell them to pack it up)

Subway: Convert a sub to a salad. You can even get the subway melt (ham, turkey, bacon). Tell them to double the meat. Ask for insane amounts of all the veggies you like specifically spinach and tomatoes get a lot of those. Add on all the other veggies you like, try to stay away from the pickled ones as much as you can. Tell them to drench it in olive oil and vinegar (do not get their ranch or other sauces on there). Enjoy.

If you eat chinese food get the veggies steamed or cooked in butter/olive oils and garlic. (you're going to feel like a grazing cow from all the veggies you'll be eating but veggies are where you're going to get all the carbs from). Usually chinese food involves a crapload of corn starch so stay away from it unless you know they just sautee that meat in natural (no carb) stuff.

Last example: Ruth's Chris. Get a ribeye and eat it with grilled/steamed veggies in butter.

Give me more examples of places that are easy for you to eat at and i'll modify some of their food selections for you. Boston market, el pollo loco, and charo chicken are also very good choices.

It sucks you can't go with better quality but this will have to do, all of these places are super high sodium so watch out. Try to limit your sodium intake:

El Pollo Loco, get any of their chicken. Get all legs and thighs if you want. Their veggies suck and have probably had the nutrients sucked out of them but they're better than nothing. Just throw some of the pico de gallo salsa over it.

Boston market get any of their roasted meats. Their meatloaf probably has added carbs. Their gravy probably does also. Get the steamed veggies

Yoshinoya: you can do the meats as long as they don't put their "specia sauces" on them.

If you go to those taco places just get a plate of meat with guac, salsa, any kind of veggies they have on it

KFC grilled chicken is fine try to always eat craploads of veggies with whatever meat you're eating

Typical breakfast places: you can if you have to but they usually put modified corn starch inside of their meats. The more mom and pop places have better selection. But if you have to get egges scrambled with bacon, spinach, mushrooms, whatever.

Drinks: for the most part you're going to be drinking a lot of water, some tea. Coconut milk is fine. All that other crap cut out. Juice from an actual fruit with nothing else is ok but limit how much you drink. Keep your sugar intake low and get all your carbs from fiberous carbs like veggies.

Good luck man. Try to go ALL NATURAL. Cool things to do are to go to places like GYU-KAKU and all you can eat shabu shabus and just eat up.

LOL for supacpean the six dollar burger is huge progress. Ya you gotta watch the sodium on that fast food stuff. And a lot of the meats and guac at some fast food places contain modified corn starch. Just try to ease into it and find something sustainable.

Start with the grill for now (at least you're cooking your own food). The only problem with that long term is the gas and carcinogens that build up over time in the food that you eat.

Andy makes a good recommendation of easing into the cooking also. Honestly try just making yourself a scramble in the morning. It takes me less than 10 minutes total including clean up (it would take me longer than that to go buy it somewhere). If you have a dishwasher all you have to do is throw in a plate, cuttiing board, and frying pan. Honestly that sounds like a lot less effort than jumping in your car and driving down the street to yoshinoya.

Go to trader joe's pick yourself up the following:

Eggs (they're like 2 bucks here super cheap)
Butter (if you don't already have any margarine does not count)
Niman Ranch uncured bacon (this stuff is the bomb!!)
Some Salsa.. look at my post under recipes.. get that salsa get a bunch of jars of it.
Guac: Trader Joe's, Costco, and Whole foods all sell very high quality guac. Lately since I go thru so much of it i've been getting the costco ones only.
Onions: you can just buy the bag where they dice them up already

Take 3 pieces of bacon throw them on the grill and flip them (i hope you know how to cook bacon just flip a lot)
Take the bacon out
if you're doing low carb keep the bacon fat in there and throw in like half the bag of onions. Grill them until they're soft. (use chopsticks for this its super easy)
Chop or just break the bacon with your hands and throw them back into the frying pan.
Crack 3 eggs into it and scramble (alton brown said if they're done in the pan they're overcooked when they're out so just cook them until they're just a little runny then pull them out)
Now you have a plate full of meat and onions. Dump the Guac on it and dump as much salsa as you see fit.

You will see that nobody can make you a paleo meal that tastes this damn heavenly.

Give it a shot man let me know how it goes

dd
 

LOL just read your post and figured out you tossed everything in at once. The recipe goes as follows:

Bacon and sausages first then pull them out
Use bacon grease to grill all veggies turn the fire up to evaporate the water from veggies. Cook til veggies are soft and dry
Throw back cut bacon and sausages
Then throw in 3 eggs

good luck!

Once you get that grill you can have ribeye with mushrooms sauteed in garlic butter

Total cook time: 10 minutes if you can multi task. Steak only takes me 7 minutes with a cast iron skillet and the oven.

YUMMY!

Good job with the cooking.  You're already a step ahead of a lot of people out there.  Now you just have to keep it up.

Personally, I try to minimize my bad fats and maximize olive oil.  I rarely cook with butter and I try to dump out as much bacon grease as I can but it's just so damn easy to cook with...it's already in the pan!  So I actually tend to gravitate towards 50/50 as well.  Tsuruhashi is a great restaurant to keep with your paleo, most of the stuff there is already meat and vegetables.  Minimize your soy sauce intake while you're there.  Unless I'm positive I can keep my going out meal within Paleo I normally just consider it one of my cheat meals (2 per week).

I actually stopped taking supplements which may or may not be a good thing.  The way I see it, if the primal man didn't have/need supplements, I probably don't.  You'll get used to the soreness.

Challenge yourself to learn how to cook an easy meal once a week.

turn your mom and sis into fruit slaves.. typical lol

It's hard at first but just stick to it. Challenge yourself to 30 days with only 2 cheat meals a week when you're ready.. for now just get a feel of what the paleo / primal lifestyle entails.

Salt is awesome but it causes a lot of damage to the body (raises blood pressure etc.) Pepper is allowed in mass quanitities. I find other ways to season the things I like. There is this seasoning called herbamare thats pretty awesome. There is sodium in it but you use a lot less of it than you would salt.

Sounds like you need more quick recipes. It helps to use sunday (or any othe rrest day you have ) to cook something in huge mass for the week.. Imagine having a big chunk of roast beef in your fridge wiht some guac you could just throw together with pan boiled broccoli and mushrooms in butter. If you want I can give you a recipe to make a big chunk of meat and a yummy side of veggies that you can make pretty quick (brocolli and mushrooms takes me under 5 minutes to cook).

As far as eating out... I eat out all the time. I just don't eat any of the non paleo stuff and invent my own stuff. If I go to tsuruhashi i would call ahead of time, ask about the sauces or if they have butter. If my options suck I'll bring my own butter with some garlic as a dipping sauce. Sasabune does not have to be non-paleo. Keep in mind also that you do not have to get full while eating out. You  can eat with them, have a small bite and eat again before or after. There is always a better choice.. i'm no going to lie the choices won't be easy but they are always there. Yesterday I waited around my friends work for an hour so we could go eat lunch. Last minute they decide to go eat pho (which contains loads of msg the worst damn form of sugar) so i just go to charro chicken and eat by myself. I've also been known to just accompany friends for good conversation when they go eat. Its ok to say "i'm not hungry or I'm ok"

Self control and knowing why I choose to live this lifestyle. Is how i stick to this. My #1 reason for eating this way is long term health. I know how much starches and sugars really damage the body (after being on paleo this long the second I eat them I feel the pain). I also know how eating a lot of fruits and veggies alkalyzes the blood stream and creates the perfect environment for your body. Eating fruits and veggies in the mass that we do also means that we are getting an EXTREMELY high amount of fiber, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.

I wake up every morning with an anti-hangover (I am energetic, have clarity of mind, and my focus is amazing). My energy levels branch out and enhance every aspect of my life. Also because I am vain, People who haven't seen me for a while are always amazed by how young and healthy I look now.

Welcome to the discussion Davie

I'd say I'm not nearly as strict with Paleo as Davie and Randy are.  For me cutting rice, bread, and pasta out of my diet was a huge deal.  Partly because I grew up on it, but also because it was such a staple in my diet that substituting the rice with Paleo Class food actually increased my food budget 20-25%.  I think I'm a rarity here, Randy tells me that switching to paleo probably saved him 90% on his weekly food budget, I'm sure Davie probably felt the same way.

I try to stay away from sodium by seasoning my food with better alternatives e.g. herbs and garlic.  Like Randy I add garlic to everything I cook.  As far as fats, I have 2 rules of thumb. 1: If it's solid in room temperature, don't eat it.  2: If there's any sort of controversy, don't eat it.  Of course I stray a little but those are my rules for "Good" fats.  See Olive oil in unanimously considered a "good" fat so I use it plentifully.  Canoila Oil, Bacon fat, lard, since different people have different opinions, my safest bet is to stay away.  My main reasoning is because I'm aware that my genes have a family history of heart disease.  So while my wallet may complain that I'm spending a little extra just to eat higher quality oils, I'm sure my future self will thank me for having enough foresight to watch what I eat now.

As for cheat meals and going out.  Well that's easy for me to regulate.  As a full time professional, I have two choices for lunch everyday: go out to eat, or pack something from the night before.  Going out everyday is expensive.  We already saw these numbers but to reiterate, here are some conservative values.  $5 for lunch x5 days a week x 50 weeks (I'm giving some holiday time in there) = $1250.  Now packing lunch isn't necessarily free, but I can easily say a cooked/packed lunch is roughly $2 - $3, making your yearly weekday lunch budget $500 - $750.  That's still a really good savings.  However in order to cook lunch I've got to make it the night before, so it just makes sense to cook a bigger dinner and pack the leftovers.  Basically it boils down to it's cheaper and more efficient to cook as opposed to going out all the time.  And when I do go out, I basically consider it a cheat meal.

I don't doubt the use of Omega 3's is extremely beneficial.  Since it isn't a naturally occuring amino acid, i agree, if you have it, use it.  I just don't have any of it.

So keep at it, sounds like you're doing well.  You don't have to be hardcore paleo like other people but it helps to at least work towards that goal.

ok chili recipe next week when I make a batch.

There is also paleo bbq sauce (good with ribs) and paleo pesto (good with fish)

I'll post up the caveman's scramble first.

I definitely want to try this oxtail soup.

All you can eat gyu kaku this weekend for me if anybody is down? 20 bucks + tip in huntington beach.

good job making the "better choices". As far as results go... its still a work in progress because you're cheating a lot still. The better the choices you make, like you did the other night, the faster the results come. Also body fat impedance monitors have zero accuracy. The amount of water weight you are holding / not holding throws those things off. Get a fat caliper or get dunked once a week.

Thanks for the recipe I'll try it. That steak and side of veggies sounded like the perfect meal. 

Stick with it man.... the best way to get over the crash is to take it head on. If you starve your body of carbs then give in and feed it some then starve it again its going to be a horrible cycle. Beat your body down and make it understand it is time to run off of ketones and hard to metabolize carbs such as fructose and veggies.

Good luck!