Healthy eating begins at the grocery store. The choices can be overwhelming, but with a little planning, you can make sure the foods you want to support healthy eating habits make their way home!
1. Shop from a list.
Plan your meals and snacks for the week and build your shopping list off of that.
Make sure you create menus from what you have on-hand to avoid waste!
2. Shop after you’ve eaten.
If you’re hungry while grocery shopping, you’ll be more likely to buy impulse purchases.
3. Be a comparison shopper.
Compare prices for best value.
Compare food labels and choose healthier options that are more nutritious – meaning higher in fiber and lower in saturated fat, salt, and sugar. Avoid foods with long lists of ingredients.
4. Shop the perimeter.
While many of the more nutritious foods you’ll need are around the edges of the store, canned foods (think fish, seafood, beans, and vegetables) can often be an affordable and shelf-stable addition to a nutritious diet. Chickpea pasta is another example of a nutritious food found down the grocery aisle. It’s generally high in protein and fiber and offers a lower glycemic index than other pastas.
Avoid roaming up and down the aisles you don’t need to go in, as items you don’t really need may end up in your cart.
Do spend time in the frozen food section to find good buys on fruit, vegetables, meat, and fish.
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