If you want to eat healthy, you have to keep the right foods in your refrigerator and pantry. It can be challenging at the grocery store to know what to buy. Labels can be deceiving. There's low-fat, non-fat, fat-free, gluten free, wheat free, sugar free and more!
Here are a few tips to making your grocery shopping experience a little easier.
- Make your list before you go - Plan menus and identify ingredients
- Don't go hungry - have a healthy snack before leaving and it will eliminate temptations
- Shop the Rainbow - When buying fruits and vegies opt for reds, dark greens, yellows and orange.
- Shop the Outer Aisles - Fresh produce, meats, whole grains and dairy. Try to avoid boxed, canned and processed foods. Some research says if it has more than 5 ingredients listed...skip it.
- Choose Whole Grains - avoid enriched grains; Instead by whole grain pasta, rice, quinoa, oats are a few examples.
- Put Healthy Oils in your Cart - Olive, grapeseed and coconut oils
- Nuts for Snacks - unsalted almonds, walnuts and pistachios are healthy snacks and add-ons to salads and side dishes.
- Avoid Sugar - skip the sweets!
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