My Everyday Grocery Essentials — Simple, Real, Necessary

December 10, 2025

My Simple Grocery List That Keeps Me Going

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List your top 5 grocery store items.

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Black Coffee BeansNot just for the caffeine — for the ritual.Picking the beans, hearing them get ripped apart in the grinder, that loud crunch turning into aroma… it wakes me up before the cup even hits my hand.It’s not a drink — it’s a mood.
Broccoli & VeggiesI used to eat vegetables like they were punishment.Now they taste good — especially next to chicken or fish with lemon squeezed on top (but take the seeds out, bro, that ruins the whole vibe).These keep the inflammation down and my head clear.
ChickenSimple, clean, reliable.Throw some lemon on it and suddenly it feels like I made a real meal.My fuel — nothing fancy, just what works.
WaterWater used to taste like nothing.Now it tastes good.On a hot L.A. day, when the asphalt is cooking and your shirt sticks to your back, room-temperature water hits like a blessing. Not ice cold — just right.It feels like it resets my whole system.
LemonsI put lemon on everything.Veggies? Lemon.Chicken? Lemon.Even some soups wake up with a squeeze of it.It’s the cheap flavor hack that makes healthy food feel alive.

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I’m Roberto Sanchez — illustrator, writer, and delivery driver in Los Angeles.

By day, I sell plastic bags out of a van across South Central.

By night, I draw, write, and build my life brick by brick.

I graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 2022 with a BFA in Illustration, but art has never been just school to me. It’s survival, reflection, and expression. My illustrations come slow — patience is part of the work.

I live and create out of a converted garage.

That small room became Echoes of the Garage — the place where I put words, drawings, and the pieces of a life I’m rebuilding one step at a time.

Here you’ll find journal entries, Hood Chronicles, and visual experiments that try to capture the absurd, the painful, and the human in everyday life.

This is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

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