Help me with a grocery list please

no pussy on that list?

Get some sour cream and onion chips with some dip, man, some beef jerky, some peanut butter. Get some Häagen-Dazs ice cream bars, a whole lot, make sure chocolate, gotta have chocolate, man. Some popcorn, red popcorn, graham crackers, graham crackers with marshmallows, the little marshmallows and little chocolate bars and we can make s'mores, man. Also, celery, grape jelly, Cap'n Crunch with the little Crunch berries, pizzas. We need two big pizzas, man, everything on 'em, with water, whole lotta water, and Funyons.

I can't judge your list because I don't eat the same things you do and I cook a lot. However, if you're not a big veggie eater, I recommend that you try roasting some. The caramelization adds such flavor to the veggies and most anything can be roasted.

For example, take a head or cauliflower and/or some broccoli. Break them up into florets or big chunks. Toss that in a ziplock bag. Throw in some olive oil...just enough to coat them. Cover a baking sheet with nonstick foil and toss the veggies on the sheet. Sprinkle salt and pepper and put in a 425 to 450 oven and roast about 20 minutes or until they start to brown. If you like, sprinkle them with grated parm cheese. Serve, toss the ziploc bag and the foil, put the sheet up and you're done. You can cook them longer if you want them more brown. That's really up to you and once you do it, you'll get the feel for how you like them.

You can do this with potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, parsnips, butternut squash, brussel sprouts, asparagus, fennel, peppers....

And, roasted tomatoes make a helluva sauce for pasta or a soup. Most of those veggies can be pureed and made into a very good soup.

Let me approach this from another direction.

You know simple things you probably like, that your mom cooked or a friend cooked or you had when dining out. If you ask, more than one person here will happily give you a recipe. In fact, you will get several, all good.

That is one way to start. From your post, I see you want to change and that is the first step toward changing.

Lots of people don't eat vegetables. What vegetables do you like? If you will tell us that, then you'll get 20 cooking methods for them, all of which will carry the guarantee that the method will be the best you've ever tried.

Two other things. There are some really good cook books out there. Try to find a simple one at a book store or on Yahoo and get one that won't drive you crazy trying to reproduce French Cuisine. You are mid 20s. There will be lots of time in 3-5 years to tackle the hard stuff. Right now, decide 10 things you like and learn to cook them.

So grasshopper, What 5 vegetables do you like? What 5 meals do you enjoy eating that you can't cook? Answer those two questions and this post will expand to 8 pages.

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I can't judge your list because I don't eat the same things you do and I cook a lot. However, if you're not a big veggie eater, I recommend that you try roasting some. The caramelization adds such flavor to the veggies and most anything can be roasted.

For example, take a head or cauliflower and/or some broccoli. Break them up into florets or big chunks. Toss that in a ziplock bag. Throw in some olive oil...just enough to coat them. Cover a baking sheet with nonstick foil and toss the veggies on the sheet. Sprinkle salt and pepper and put in a 425 to 450 oven and roast about 20 minutes or until they start to brown. If you like, sprinkle them with grated parm cheese. Serve, toss the ziploc bag and the foil, put the sheet up and you're done. You can cook them longer if you want them more brown. That's really up to you and once you do it, you'll get the feel for how you like them.

You can do this with potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, parsnips, butternut squash, brussel sprouts, asparagus, fennel, peppers....

And, roasted tomatoes make a helluva sauce for pasta or a soup. Most of those veggies can be pureed and made into a very good soup.

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All of this. A trained monkey could roast veggies and they're better than veggies in any other form IMO

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What would you guys add to the list?

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I don't know you personally or your life, but I'm in my early-mid 20s and I can't do a massive grocery trip like that. My life is far too in and out of the house, and even if I have the food at home, sometimes I simply don't eat it. If you rarely eat at home right now, I would start off only getting 2-3 days worth of food so you don't risk it going bad.

Start by thinking of some things you would like to learn how to cook or know how to cook, then make your list using those ingredients. No need to make a master list of all those fruits vegetables and meats unless your going to eat them within the next few days. Otherwise youre wasting money when they go bad.

If I were you I would keep on your list the things that aren't likely to go bad soon and that you want. Then make your list based off of things you want to make the next few days. You can always just go to the store to pick up fresh things as you need them

Not asked for, but these are pretty essential tools to have:

5-6 quart dutch oven
10 or 12 inch cast iron skillet
3 quart saucepan
8 or 10 inch non-stick skillet for eggs/omelettes
13 x 9 baking dish
at least 2 half sheet pans with racks to fit

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Sorry, I had to add that.

start smaller with the fresh stuff or it might go bad... put meat into quart ziplocs in the freezer so you can cook small meals at a time. other than that, solid list.