Healthy Grocery Shopping

Author: Gary Gresham

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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 affect 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% 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
and keeping it off now becomes easy.

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About The Author

Gary Gresham is the author of "Fat Burning Secrets" at:
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