Healthy Grocery Shopping
From Gary Gresham, special to JeffsHealthyLiving.com
Healthy grocery shopping is a critical part of eating healthy to lose weight. Choosing healthy foods to eat instead of high fat foods can benefit you in so more ways than just losing weight.
Eating healthy can effect the way you look and feel every minute of every day. When you shop for healthy foods to eat, there are a few basic things that can make it a little easier.
Here are a few healthy grocery shopping tips.
1. Never go grocery shopping on an empty stomach. It’s obvious that all food looks better when you are hungry. But you can make better choices if you don’t shop when you are hungry. Another benefit to this is you will spend less.
2. Select canned fruits and tuna that are packed in water, not oil or syrup. Anything packed in water including fruit in its own juice is a much healthier choice.
3. Look at the labels for the words “hydrogenated” or “partially hydrogenated”. The earlier you see them appear on the label list, the higher the amount of unhealthy trans fatty acids the food will contain.
4. Don’t buy turkey or chicken with the skin on it. If you are eating healthy to lose weight, breast or white meat is a much healthier food to eat. The skin is really all fat and not very healthy food to eat.
5. When you select frozen dinners, select those that are not only low in fat, but low in sodium and cholesterol as well. Salt makes you retain water and can increase your blood pressure.
6. If you aren’t consuming enough dairy products or they don’t agree with you, buy calcium fortified orange juice instead. Getting enough calcium is an important part of eating healthy.
7. Buy whole grain breads, cereals, and rolls. Healthy breads are whole wheat, pumpernickel or seven-grain. Healthy cereal choices are All-Bran, Bran Buds, 100%25 Bran and Raisin Bran.
8. You may want to give cantaloupe a try. With just 95 calories,
half of the melon will provide more than a day’s supply of Vitamin C and cancer-fighting beta carotene.
9. Don’t be tricked into buying yogurt covered by nuts or raisins, on top because they are normally loaded with sugar and partially hydrogenated oils. If you are eating healthy to lose weight, this could make the difference of you losing weight for the week or not.
10. Buy low fat snacks and treats, such as pretzels, ginger snaps, and angel food cake. Make sure you can grab these low fat snacks when you get the need to munch on something.
There are many different healthy foods you can buy at the grocery store, and all it takes is making the right choices to put in your cart.
Healthy grocery shopping can quickly be learned and become a way of life with you. The reward is huge because taking weight off becomes easy.
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