We’ll start with proteins.
Costco has a great lunch meat selection, which tells you how many slices to grams of protein. So its easy to measure how much you need without a scale. My favorite is the kirkland honey ham.
String Cheese about 1 block per string of cheese.
Cottage cheese, I know some people don’t like cottage cheese, I am very picky about the brand. My favorite is Cream of Weber lowfat in the blue container. Once again easy to measure how much to eat.
Carbs:
I also buy fruit cups form Costco, but I think you can get them anywhere. Peaches and Mandarin Oranges in the little cups. These are about two blocks per cup.
Costco also has pink grapefruit in a cup (about two blocks). These take all of the work out of eating one in the shell. They rock.
Fats:
I keep Cashews, Almonds, and Pecans around. You can throw them in a zip lock and have them with a fruit cup and string cheese and you have a Zone snack.
If you need a protein that doesn’t have to be refrigerated grab some Jerky.
These are Just a couple of things I keep around, If you have some favorites that are really good or easy let us know. I’m no Zone expert I’m just sharing what works for me, as a Zone “Slacker”. Lets here some other snack ideas to help us all stay motivated and eating in the Zone.
Cody
One slice in most deli style turkey slices is one block of protein, so I always wrap a slice of turkey around a string cheese, then eat my fruit, and have 6 almonds. It takes three almonds to equal 1 block of fat.
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