May 4, 2011

Healthy Supermarket Choices

This past Saturday, we had our first supermarket tour at Harris Teeter at North Hills. It was a great success. We shared shopping tips and compared various foods to find the healthiest options.
We will plan for another supermarket tour soon, so please look on our website and/or the blog for further details.

Below is a list of healthy food options when shopping at the market.

Breads
  • Whole wheat bread with 3 or more grams of fiber and no more than 80 calories a slice
  • Sandwich Rounds
  • Flat Out wraps
  • Tumaro’s low carb tortillas
  • Natures Own double fiber whole wheat bread
  • Thomas’s whole wheat bagel thins
Cereals
  • Cereals with at least 3 grams of fiber, no more than 10 grams of sugar, and no more than 150 calories per serving.
  • Post Shredded wheat and Kellogg’s mini wheat’s (nonfrosted), Kellogg’s All bran, Cheerio’s, Special K
Cheese
  • Pre-sliced cheese
  • Hard Cheeses including Swiss, provolone, American, mozzarella
Yogurt
  • Plain yogurt
  • Fat-free and low fat yogurt (look for yogurts with no more than 150 calories and less than 20 grams of sugar)
  • Greek yogurt (Stonyfield Farm Oikos, Fage plain yogurt)
Milk
  • Skim or 1%
Rice
  • Brown rice
Pasta
  • Whole wheat pasta
  • Try: Dreamfields pasta and Barilla Plus pasta
Mayonnaise
  • Low fat
  • Mayo made with olive oil
Meats/Poultry
  • Lean cuts of meat including round, sirloin, loin
  • Lean or extra lean ground meat or turkey
  • Chicken breast

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