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
- 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)
- Skim or 1%
- Brown rice
- Whole wheat pasta
- Try: Dreamfields pasta and Barilla Plus pasta
- Low fat
- Mayo made with olive oil
- Lean cuts of meat including round, sirloin, loin
- Lean or extra lean ground meat or turkey
- Chicken breast
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