Get ready for Spring 2024 with Costco’s High Protein Haul featuring real foods and gluten-free options. Stock up on the essentials now!
Fuel Your Body with Costco’s High-Protein Gluten-Free Options
Looking to increase your protein intake with healthy, real food options from Costco? Check out these ideas for adding more protein to your diet without relying on fake or ultra-processed foods. Everything mentioned is gluten-free and free of processed sugars.
Some of the items highlighted include Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes cooked whole, Air Fryer Sweet Potato Cubes, and a green smoothie recipe using carrot juice as a base. These options can help you maintain a clean eating diet while still enjoying delicious and nutritious meals.
Protein Paradise: Fuel Your Gains with Costco’s Gluten-Free Finds
Today we’re doing a high protein balanced Real Food grocery haul from Costco so stay tuned hi everyone and welcome back to clean eating kitchen I’m Carrie and I have a master’s degree in public health with a specialty in nutrition but most of all I’m a woman managing several chronic illnesses with diet and lifestyle and today I’m going.
To share with you a not a huge grocery haul but some f for spring of 2024 I hope you get some good ideas everything is gluten-free now not everything is dairyfree I did get um some yogurt that I’m going to show you I’m kind of experimenting with my diet as I’m always trying to do I’m always trying to add more Foods back in because.
I don’t want to get down to a super restrictive diet I’ve done that before and it’s not good for my mental health or for my overall nutrition so I just want to encourage you if you’re on a limited diet sometimes you need to be for several weeks or several months but then it’s always good to try to incorporate Foods back into your diet.
And I am especially focused on getting more protein now over the last few months and by the way I haven’t been posting that much lately um I’ll maybe share a little bit more about that but over the past few months I’ve been working with a naturopathic physician as well as my functional medicine doctor and now a nutritionist as well and I’m.
Trying to get more protein in my diet I did some lab testing um including a hair mineral analysis and some hormone testing and it looks like I need more protein in my diet my uh naturopathic physician actually and nutritionist they work together actually recommended trying to get 100 grams of protein a day I find that very very difficult without.
Dairy Al have to be very careful about eating eggs so I don’t know if you can relate but I hope some of the ideas that I’m sharing in this video can give you some ideas too of healthy balanced meals to make with maybe more of a high protein Focus so let’s go ahead and jump into the grocery Hall so let’s just start from left to right as you know my.
Kind husband sets this up in our garage when we get home so I can easily show you everything but this is one of my more recent finds I don’t think I’ve shared this in a video now it’s not high protein but it is great to serve with a real food meal it’s this chunky guacamole and the ingredients are really.
Clean and amazing I’ll just show you real fast here and I will put this as a little side to almost anything uh living here in California boy we we eat guacamole like there There’s No Tomorrow next I got this harmless Harvest coconut water I love this brand I did try in a previous video I bought the Kirkland version and I like this harmless Harvest.
Brand better and the great feature about this product in general coconut water is that it’s very high in electrolytes and specifically uh pottassium let’s see if I can show you okay there’s no nutrition label on this box but that is its redeeming feature is it’s very high in potassium great for the summertime this would be a great natural.
Electrolyte drink for kids and no added sugar does have some carbs I believe but um it tastes really great now this is something I haven’t had in a while I’ve actually avoided soy for probably the last five years or so and mostly because of my history of thyroid disease and um but I thought I would try it uh soy is a highly allergenic food but as I.
Mentioned I’m open to trying it and edamami is totally unprocessed soy and this is organic so it’s also non GMO let’s just look um one surine has 12 gram of protein so we’re going to give it a try um my husband likes it too H it comes in little packages that you heat up and between the two of us we would probably share share a serving.
Honestly um I got some sweet potatoes because I’m not just focused on protein I’m very focused on balanced um meals in a balanced diet sweet potatoes are a great source of complex carbs they taste great uh they can be served I mean so many different ways I like to I like to bake them in the oven or in the instant pot I’ll put.
A couple of recipes in the description box this is my new favorite fruit Cara Cara oranges they are not organic but I obviously cut the peels off and they are so sweet they don’t have a lot of seeds um I’ve been going through leav probably two a day and they are also very high in pottassium and of course vitamin C um of course another high.
Pottassium food uh bananas um then I got some organic carrot juice you guys know I like to put carrot juice pomegranate juice these sweet cherries Frozen sweet cherries power greens in a smoothie with protein powder and that is my breakfast pretty much every day I’ll also add like hemp seeds and pumpkin seeds for healthy fats.
And and um I think I’ve yeah I’ve shown you how to how I make my green smoothie in the past so you can go back to some of my previous videos and see I got some of these Chomps this as you can see one serving has 10 grams of protein zero sugar these taste great they’re beef based um for a while I was having a little reaction to beef but I kind of.
Avoided it for a while and now um I’m feeling better with it so I thought I’d give these a try again remember it’s all about experimenting this is a new find for me at Costco I think they have these at um whole food now I noticed this is not organic but it says no pesticides um these are just really full.
Of nutrients and um I mean like micronutrients cancer fighting antioxidants easy to throw into a salad but also throw them in my smoothie um so that was fun okay guys have you tried this Ray no I that how you say it Ray I think it’s how you say it um I am sold on this I tried it uh a.
Few weeks ago for the first time it is so good it’s not organic I wish it was it’s from Italy and it tastes really good I’ve been using it on like a lentil pasta with cooked bison for an easy balanced uh protein Rich meal and fabulous love it now you see I don’t have any meat here on this table that does not mean.
Well except for the beef jerky I that does not mean that I’m vegetarian um I am not but oh actually there’s also some turkey here but I just wanted to say Costco really does not have any meats that are fully grassfed and grass finished that’s why I don’t buy Meats at Costco there’s some bison uh which my understanding is you can’t find just.
100% organic bison so I will buy bison at Costco the ground bison that is really the only meat I will not buy chicken there I really like to buy organic um I think it’s called air chilled chicken um I feel like that is the safest choice just for food safety reasons I think the air chill is best and so I I find that usually at.
Specialty markets higher end stores um I do like this organic uh roasted turkey I think it’s so nice to chop up in Pudding salads and it’s so easy uh this um is a great find the only have this at certain times of year in the glass bottle so uh it’s California organic um extra virgin olive oil I use this to.
Make homemade salad dressings I cannot eat peanut butter as of yet but my husband loves um this peanut butter as a little snack with some honey and so that’s mostly for him and then this is what we’re going to be trying uh both of us actually my husband and myself he does a little bit better with dairy so if I can’t eat it then he’ll hopefully.
Be able to eat this um if you don’t know about A2 protein it is a comes from a certain type of cow and it’s supposed to be um less inflammatory and sheep’s milk and goat’s milk I believe and certain types of cows have this type of A2 protein in their milk just in case you’re wondering what that is and let me see I believe one.
Serving of this has eight grams of protein and plus it’s a good source of probiotics and nice source of healthy fats this is a full fat yogurt so we’ll see I don’t know if I’ll be able to eat this um without having inflammation or tummy ache but I’m gonna give a little try so um I hope you enjoyed this now I.
Mentioned um I haven’t been posting I’ve been going through a little bit of changes with my business and trying to figure out um what is sustainable for me in terms of my time and then also I wanted to mention I was lucky enough to take a vacation uh in let’s see late March and my husband and I and some of his family we went to Italy for a week.
And it was just amazing I’ll put some footage in here some photos it was um really special I was really nervous about it I was afraid I might get a migraine or not feel well not have any energy with the time change and everything but we just took it slowly both of us and um we both did great um we had a wonderful family trip and I’m.
I’m so grateful and I’m glad to be back and sharing information and videos and inspiration with you so I hope this video was helpful if you liked it please tell me so give me a like and maybe consider subscribing to my channel and I will see you in the next video take care everyone
