Herewith, I give you some sample shopping lists, with thanks to Jolene1 for the great idea, and everyone who contributed items (cuz I can't shop *every*where ... that is beyond my superpowers.) For your downloading pleasure, there are Excel spreadsheets and Acrobat pdf's.

Remember when you go shopping: do most of your shopping in the perimeter .. or Shopping the "U" as some call it. All your fresh stuff, your meats, your veggies, your low-fat dairy, are arranged around the edge of the store (must be a plumbing/electrical thing), and all the highly-processed foods and snacks are in the middle aisles (must be a suck-you-into-the-Vortex thing).

*AND* very important: ALWAYS READ THE LABELS!!! I assume NO responsibility if the product nutritional information changes or if I was given the wrong info about points, or if you accidentally eat 18 pts worth of popcorn cuz you bought the wrong one. READ THE LABELS!!

Ahem. Okay. I can't give you copies of Excel, but you can get Acrobat Reader here.

• Health Food Store: [Excel file] [Acrobat pdf]
• Costco: [Excel file] [Acrobat pdf]
• Loblaws/NoFrills/Superstore/Zehrs: [Excel file] [Acrobat pdf]
• Dominion/A&P (thanks baldrich!!!) [Acrobat pdf]
• Overwaitea/Save On [Excel file] [Acrobat pdf]

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