Dollar General for the Fitness-Minded Traveler/Commuter

Dollar General may be laying waste to small town grocery stores, but for the traveler who needs healthy food on the road it's great to have one in a convenient location.  If you work out in the morning and shower and change there, the best place to find a Dollar General is between the gym and work.  If you forgot to pack something you can pick it up.  From experience I can tell you a shoestring can serve as a belt in a pinch!

Some may say: "Why not Walgreen's or CVS?"  I find that pharmacies have higher prices than dollar stores, but we aware that sometimes the dollar store will have unique-sized packaging that may take a calculator to compare prices to other store's prices.

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List

• Spices
• Frozen Chicken Breast  (I keep a soft-side cooler in my car.  You can buy the chicken before work, add marinade, and let thaw in the cooler.)
• Tuna Snacks, Bumblebee brand (Although they've got mayonnaise in them, they're great when you suddenly don't have a meal to eat.  They're better than eating a candy bar out of the snack machine and can be kept at room temp) 
• Nuts
• Trail Mix
• Beef Jerky
• Sauces: Soy sauce, steak sauce, hot sauce
• Canned Tuna (in water)
• Medicine (It seems there's always a medicine I need whether it be Ibuprofen, muscle rub, or allergy meds)
• Coffee for work.
• All the accoutrements to take a healthy lunch to work: 
• I prefer real utensils and steak knife.  Plastic utensils can't handle chicken breasts and steak.  Although this is my favorite steak knife for travel: Round Tip Victorinox Steak Knife  
• Microwave containers.  And don't forget something to wash your utensils with.  Some sponges, being so cheap, you can take to work and not care if they walk off.
• Note on microwave containers:  My preference is glass-bottomed vessels.  I heat to about 4/5 of the way done, then let the container sit and the glass keeps adding heating.  This way they food is not overcooked and tough and stays warm.  I can almost get my chicken breasts as juicy as they were when they came off the grill.
• A can opener.  A good one.  The last thing you want to do at work is spill soup all over you or cut your hand trying to use a cheap can opener.
• Salad toppings: Bacos only have 1g of fat.  Banana peppers, etc.

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And if you're going to the gym regularly, any extra time that can be gleaned is a win.  Dollar General allows you to grab all the crap you are suddenly out of: pet food, toilet paper, trash bags, that poster board for a child's school project.

Caveat:  Of course you have to stay from the highly processed and fatty foods such as Vienna sausages, potato chips, and fried chicken patty sandwiches.

Disclaimer:  I own stock in Dollar General...of course.