How to Create Your Own Supermarket Food Diet

Grab a grocery cart and start creating your own Supermarket Diet.

The Supermarket Diet is a diet plan devised by Janis Jibrin that includes prepackaged food and label reading. Jibrin theorizes that purchasing prepackaged meals will control the size of portions thereby controlling weight. Creating your own Supermarket Diet is as simple as reading a label. Label reading is an essential part of the Supermarket Diet, according to Jibrin. The Supermarket Diet includes recipe suggestions, but creating your own recipes using the same principles is just as easy.

Instructions

1. Start reading labels at the grocery store. Label reading is a key component of creating your own diet. Your kitchen being stocked with healthy food will lead to healthy eating. If you live life on the go, consider purchasing prepackaged meals with 400 calories or less and less than 10 grams of fat.

2. 

   Fresh vegetables are essential to a healthy diet.

   Stock your kitchen with plenty of base ingredients for cooking healthy meals. Base ingredients include beans, vegetables, rice, grains and meats. Meats can be frozen for later use, beans are canned or dry andrice is stored dry. Vegetables and fruits are usually eaten fresh; however, you may also purchase frozen fruits or vegetables. Breads may also be frozen to prevent molding. Keep healthy prepackaged meals on hand for busy days.

3. Create planned portions. Take note of the portion size of each food in your prepackaged meals. Prepackaged meals usually offer a healthy portion size for the average person, so design your meals around this portion size. Any leftover food may be refrigerated for later use.

4. Cook at least one meal a day. You have control over your dietary intake when you cook your own food. Use your base ingredients to explore simple recipes; for example, if you have a fillet of salmon, a lemon, white rice and basil, consider cooking the rice and frying the salmon with lemon juice, chopped basil and a pinch of salt.

Tips & Warnings

• Adding spices to any simple meal will keep things interesting.

References

• Google Books: The Supermarket Diet by Janis Jibrin M.S., R.D.

Resources

• United States Department of Agriculture: My Pyramid