Articles tagged with: shopping
Over in the Grocery Tips section of our blog, we published a list of 25 Must-haves for Healthy Meals on a Whim. If you’re one of those people who can’t do anything around their household without a user manual, fine, here is what you do with the 25 things we told you to buy:
Extra tip: And, as always, if you involve your kids in preparing…
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You open the fridge, you close the fridge. You poke your head in the pantry. Nothing. Nothing inspires you to pull off a decent healthy meal for your kids (who, of course, are already waiting in the wings hungry, because you had so many other things to do, you simply couldn’t think ahead about what’s for dinner. That’s just what happens to busy parents. All the time).
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Holy cow, America must have read our post Why we don’t eat more whole grains but should and now, for the first time, dollar sales of whole-wheat bread are higher than dollar sales of white bread. According to Nielsen, sales of whole-wheat bread increased 0.6% in the 52 weeks ending July 10 to $2.6 billion, while white-bread sales declined 7% in the same time period to $2.5 billion. See? Told…
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Getting kids to eat vegetables is clearly a big challenge for many parents. You can find a million suggestions on forums and blogs about getting your kid to eat those veggies. One idea that keeps popping up on most of the sites is to give your child a choice about what they want to eat. We all like choice, and a kid is no exception. The theory is, a child
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Eating unhealthy meals at home usually happens when you don’t feel like cooking or didn’t have time to shop for fresh groceries. Both? Then you’re really in trouble. Unless, of course, you have a well-stocked freezer, which makes preparing a healthy meal for your family in minutes a breeze. It’s obvious: The fresher you’re freezing the food, the better the food when you thaw it. Freeze right after you get…
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Before I had a family, I used to think making a grocery shopping list is so terribly bourgeois. Clipping grocery coupons? Not me. I had a life! After all, my lifestyle was way too spontaneous to know today what I want to eat on Tuesday. I would walk into the grocery store and just see what “inspired” me – which usually was exactly what the store lured me into buying…
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Another scary kids’ food recall! Not that the smell coming out of these cereal boxes was particularly yummy before, but now, Kellogg is voluntarily recalling about 28 million boxes of Apple Jacks, Corn Pops, Froot Loops and Honey Smacks cereals. Why? Supposedly, some people (about 20 people complained, to be exact) where able to distinguish a “waxy” smell and flavor coming from Kellogg’s package liners from the smell of the…
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As part of her Let’s Move campaign, Michelle Obama announced that a coalition of 16 food manufacturers has promised to cut 1.5 trillion calories from their products over the next 5 years. The goal is to even cut the first trillion calories by 2012. As members of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, which includes General Mills, ConAgra Foods, Kraft Foods, Kellogg, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Hershey, their…
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Next time you are shopping for food with your kids, bring a large piece of paper and have them sketch out a route through your favorite supermarket that will help you steer you clear of the bad stuff. They can mark forbidden aisles and come up with rules you have to follow…
Some ideas to get you started:
- Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the
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Washingtonpost.com published an enlightening article this week, explaining how the Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) on a food product merely gives you a few quantitative nutrition highlights. The ingredient list, on the other hand, is a more qualitative overview of what we’re putting into our body. “Using one without the other makes it difficult to come to optimal decisions,” writes Jennifer LaRue Huget.
To feed you family better, you want the…
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