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Healthy Food Shopping
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What Is Healthy Food Shopping?
Healthy eating begins with the food you buy. Stocking your kitchen with foods that are low in fat, salt, and sugar and high in fiber will help you eat well. The result: You'll feel better and have an easier time maintaining a healthy weight.

What Food Do You Buy?
Think about how you shop. How many of the statements below apply to you.

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  • You buy most of your fruit in a can and your vegetables frozen in butter or cream sauce.
  • At the bread counter, you reach for sweet rolls, doughnuts, and cinnamon bread.
  • The picture on the package, not the nutrition label, is what sells you on a food.
  • You choose meat laced with fat, and fish or chicken dressed in a fried coating.
  • For desserts you head for the bakery cakes or the frozen pies and ice cream.
  • You worry about the fat and salt you add to food, but not what's added in processing.
The more statements that apply, the more likely you could make your diet healthier by changing some of the foods you buy.

 
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