Best brands of SB items to buy (list your favorites)

[recipelover]

I was so happy when I found this forum for South Beach a long time ago. I not only learned about the diet more by reading the postings, but I learned about good items to buy at the stores.

I thought that maybe we should have a thread with our favorite brands of the foods we use often and that everyone likes. There are lots of different postings of questions about what type of thing to buy. Why not put a list in one place? (and in my recipe summary at the very top in the Diet Basics section)

These are the grocery items that I learned about here on this forum and use often:

Kraft jarred parmesan cheese: great on vegetables, parmesan fish and chicken
LaTortilla Factory tortillas: 12g fiber and makes great wraps, pizzas, Mexican lasagna
Walden Farms chocolate syrup: smoothies, in desserts
Sugar-free instant puddings: lemon, cheesecake, white chocolate, chocolate, butterscotch vanilla
Blue Bunny Fudge Lite bars: great alone or in fudgsicle dessert
Southaven Farms muffin & bread mixes--what a new find
Smuckers Natural Peanut Butter: peanut butter cookies and fudgsicle dessert (a real treat)
Triscuits Rosemary & Olive Oil and regular (0 transfats)
Davinci or Torano flavored sugar-free syrups
Medaglia Dora Expresso Powder: used in desserts and drinks
Paul Newman's Light Balsamic and other dressings
Diet Rite Cola: no caffeine, no sugar, low sodium

[saralynn143]

Dont forget Bob's Red Mill Whole Wheat Pastry Flour!
Splenda (yes, I use it occasionally)
Hunt's No Sugar Added Spaghetti Sauce (in a can, not a jar)
Pace Picante Sauce (no sugar added)
Bulk steel-cut oats and whole wheat pasta from a local Mennonite market

[Ziploxx]

good idea.

Whole Wheat Pita Pockets (I get mine from the local Indian bakery)
Carb Well Steak Sauce
Laughing Cow Lite Cheeses
Walden Farms Sugar Free Ketchup
Splenda
Sugar Free Jello
Barilla Whole Wheat Plus pastas. (They are made with part semolina, part whole wheat and oat grains also with chickpea and lentil flours. Pretty neat I thought)

There's more I'm sure, that's just what I can think of immediatly.

[sassypea]

This is a great thread! I had actually asked this question myself when I first joined the site. I know names and availibility will vary depending on where people live, but I think it will be very helpful over all.

Here is my 2 cents worth:

Sargento and Kraft make reduced fat shredded cheese
Cabot cheese in bars, 50% light
Popsicles/Fudgesicles sugar free - if you can find the "healthy bunch" variety pack they are made with Splenda and are less calories than the individual packs
Ragu makes a No Sugar Added spaghetti sauce
Ken's salad dressing - I love the light Caeser one
SmartBalance microwave popcorn

[bessieroo]

We always use:

Cool Whip Lite
Bob's Red Mill Flaxseed Meal and WW Pastry Flour
Kashi Cereal
Alpine Lace Reduced Fat Cheeses
Arnold Light Whole Grain Breads
Dannon Light & Fit Yogurt (with or without fiber)
Philly reduced fat or fat free cream cheese

So many things I can't even think!

[LisaB]

Great thread!

Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds
Sam's bag of Sunkist shelled pistachios
Swiss Miss NSA hot chocolate
Uncle Sam's cereal
Kashi GoLean Cereal
Hormel Turkey Pepporoni (on RF Triscuts w/ Kraft RF Sharp Cheddar)
bagged salad
Bob's Red Mill - lots! Buckwheat pancake mix, soy flour, flax seeds, flax meal, wheat bran, etc., etc. I love Bob's!
Lite Cool Whip w/ SF pudding



Lisa

[recipelover]

Just made pancakes this morning and used another of my favorites:

Vermont Sugar Free Maple flavored syrup (made by Maple Grove Farms of Vermont)
Southwestern Flavored Eggbeaters

[bessieroo]

Worked up quite a sweat working in the yard today and cooled down with 2

Tropical S/F Popcicles

We could not live without

Any flavor Crystal Light
Wellesly Farms fat free 1/2 and 1/2 (from BJs)
S/F Baskin Robbins Hard candies (fruit and mint choc chip)
Trader Joes Whole Wheat Hamburger/Hot Dog Rolls

[crzymm1995]

For the Canadians out there:

Casa Mendosa Whole Wheat Tortilla's,
Healthy Way Organic Grains Bread
Breyers No Sugar Added Fudgsicles
E.D. Smith No Sugar Added Pancake Syrup

[YumiPykles]

K..i HATE sugar substitutes but i found one that i cant rave about enough...SomerSweet....its made by suzanne somers and you can purchase it on line at hsn.com....u can even bake with it....i swear it has NO NO NO aftertaste.

[Luba]

La Tortilla Factory ww tortillas
SF syrups (Torani or DaVinci)
SF Jello - saves me from those sweet cravings
Trader Joes, Trader Joes, Trader Joes
- nuts
- LF cheeses
- organic greens
- organic eggs
- LF dairy products w/o hormones
- tomato products w/o sugar
- etc.

[MargaritaChic]

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Spray.

Laughing Cow spreadable Light Swiss cheese

Natural Peanut Butter

Triscuit Thin Crisps

Sugar Free Jolly Ranchers

WATER!

[GettinThere]

Sorry if some of these are repeats:

Heartland whole wheat pasta (Walmart Supercenter)
sf jello and pudding
Laughing Cow cheese
McCann's Irish Oatmeal (steel cut oats)
Torani or DaVinci sf syrups (I get them at www.netrition.com because of the great shipping price)
Southaven Farm muffin and bread mixes, they're the only muffins and bread I'll eat now -- www.southavenfarm.com
Laura Scudder natural peanut butter
dried tomatoes from www.justtomatoes.com (I use them instead of potato chips!!)
Dannon plain ff yogurt
Altadena ff cottage cheese
dry roasted almonds (Whole Foods)

[Wendi_L]

Maranatha Organic Natural PB (although I'm more than happy to use Adams when I can't find Maranatha)

Milton's Whole Grain Bread (not the Multi-Grain, which is sublime but contains the dreaded enriched flour)

Dannon Light & Fit yogurt

Kashi Go Lean Crunch

[RedRox]

Heinz One Carb ketchup
Ancient Harvest Quinoa (esp. Inca Red)
Kuner's No Salt Added Black Beans
Arrowhead Mills Organic Natural PB
Dagoba 74% cacao "New Moon" dark chocolate
Bob's Red Mill golden flaxmeal