South Beach Diet Phase 1 Grocery List

Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet offers the most restrictive food choices of the three-phased diet plan. However, many good tasting foods and healthy recipes keep even this phase from being boring. Phase 1 lasts for two weeks with the purpose of removing cravings for high-carbohydrate foods that make sticking to a diet difficult. Your shopping list for phase 1 of the South Beach Diet should supply food for three meals and two snacks per day.

Meat

Although the types of meat you can place on your shopping list have few limitations on phase 1 of the South Beach Diet, choose lean cuts of beef and poultry. Beef choices include bottom round, eye of round, flank steak, extra-lean ground beef, sirloin steak and filet mignon. Select beef with 10g or less of total fat and 4.5g or less of saturated fat per 100g portion.

Choose skinless poultry and use turkey-based substitutes for bacon and sausage. Include boiled ham, Canadian bacon, pork loin or pork roasts on the South Beach grocery list. Soy-based meat substitutes remain acceptable, as are game meats such as buffalo and elk. Select only lunch meats without processing or cereal additives, including boiled ham, turkey breast and lean roast beef.

Vegetables

You can eat almost all vegetables in phase 1 of the South Beach Diet. Your shopping list may include fresh, frozen or canned vegetables as long as they do not have added sugar. You may eat small portions--1/2 to 1/3 cup--of legumes such as black beans, fava beans and pinto beans. Select salad greens or summer squash sufficient to provide 2 cups at lunch and dinner. You need to avoid vegetables with a high starch or sugar content such as beets, carrots, corn, potatoes and winter squash.

Eggs and Dairy

Select low-fat dairy products such as 1 percent milk and nonfat yogurt. Choose fat-free half and half for recipes and coffee creamer. You may also put cheeses with less than 6g of fat per oz. onto your shopping list including low-fat cottage cheese, American cheese, cheddar and mozzarella. Whole eggs, egg whites, and egg substitutes can go on the list and the protein in these products works well to curb hunger in meal and snack recipes.