I love to SHOP

Posted by AMelane in foods, nutrition, shopping, wellness

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Hello All,
Sorry for the long gap between post, but May has been a busy month, but the summer is right around the corner!!!
I love grocery shopping, I can spend hours, just browsing the isles. Here are some tips to remember when shopping.

Key points to remember before heading to the store:

Extra calories added to traditional foods, with the invention of high fructose corn syrup in 1970, this cheaper alternative is being added to food from anything to ketchup to some whole wheat breads…is cheaper, has a longer shelf life and it can be incorporated to foods that never received sugar treatments. Look at your food labels and if you see this as a top 3 ingredient, STAY AWAY. It's SUGAR

Time bombs, trans fats,… a generation ago it was hard for manufacturers to create baked goods that would last on store shelves, most baked goods require oils and oil leaks at room temperature…so since 1960s manufacturers had been baking and restaurants have been frying with trans fats…trans fat is cheap and effective. It makes potatoes chips crispier and cookies tastier…it also lets fry cooks make pound after pound of fries without smoking up their kitchens . But Trans fats increases your bad cholesterol, lowers your good cholesterol and greatly increases your risk for heart disease.

Animals we eat aren’t as healthy, as they used to be. The average piece of chicken has 266% more fat than it did in 1971, while it’s protein content has dropped by a third….mainly because chickens aren’t roaming and are being kept in cages and fed antibiotic laced soy-corn and other unnatural foods…so if this is happening to the food we eat, what is it doing to us! So if possible, look for organic meat or "naturally raised"
Rules when shopping at the grocery store:

1. Work the edges, in general the healthiest foods in the store is found along that walls…the dairy case, produce, and meats/seafood. The inner isles can be a nutritional dead zone with boxes, bags, and cans of highly processed foods.
2. Look high and low. One reason why good foods at the store can be harder to find, is because the big food companies overwhelm most smaller companies. Most big manufactures pay a slotting fee to have prime placement of their products…where they are easily reachable. So healthier foods typically on the top or bottom shelves.
3. More packaging=less nutrition. The closer you get to the earth the better. The process of shipping, cooking, refining, and packaging foods all helps strip out essential nutrients, leading to empty calories.
4. Learn the lingo. Differences between whole grain and multi grain.
5. Fewer the ingredients the healthier the food. Read labels
6. Watch the ingredients on the food label…listing in order of abundance.
Picking the produce that is in season…cheaper and better quality