How to Grocery shop for healthy foods

There are 40,000 new products introduced at the grocery store each year, how do know you which ones are healthy?

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• A little bit of time

1. Buy breads/cereals/grains based on dietary fiber content. Breads should have at least 3 grams of fiber per slice, cereals 5 grams of fiber per cup, and select products that say 100% whole wheat.
2. Try to keep 1% or lower dairy products in your grocery cart. Whole fat dairy products do not have more nutrients, just more fat and calories. This can translate into weight gain. Lower fat cheese include skim milk mozzarrella, parmesan, nonfat cottage cheese, nonfat ricotta cheese.
3. Select foods that do not contain the words hydrogenated oil as this is trans fat. It is best to try and eliminate it from your diet as much as possible. The product may say it is trans fat free, but if it contains .5 grams or less of trans fat, the company can say its trans fat free,even though its contains it.
4. Buy lean meats (chicken, turkey,fish, game meats) most often. Lean cuts of beef/pork include tenderloin,sirloin, flank, pork chops, pork tenderloin, etc.)
5. Pick up the fruits and veggies, leave the fruit juice. It is far better to eat your fruit that drink your juice (even if its the extra-pulpy kind).

Tips & Warnings

• Consider going to www.finddiethelp.com to download a grocery list with brand names already provided to make shopping easy.