đź›’ Grocery shopping day is my favorite!
If you are looking to eat healthier but don’t know where to begin, here are some tips:
- Focus on nutrient dense whole foods. You don’t have to worry about the ingredient list if what you’re buying IS the ingredient.
- Buy organic as much as is possible. Organic is always non-GMO and eliminates many pesticides and MSG.
- Just because it IS organic, does not make it good for you. The ingredients in a product matter.
- If you can’t pronounce the ingredients in a product or buy all the ingredients listed and make it yourself, you probably want to avoid it.
- Buy meats and eggs raised 100% on a natural diet, not supplemented with feed (even vegetarian). Grass fed beef, pasture raised chicken and pork, wild caught fish and seafood.
- If your budget is limited, prioritize clean meat, eggs & dairy over organic produce.
- The best dairy for you comes from grass-fed, pasture raised cows and is full fat, non-homogenized, cultured and raw whenever possible.
- Avoid corn, canola, soybean, rapeseed and “vegetable” oils. They are highly processed and cause oxidative damage to our cells.
- Avoid processed grains. Our bodies use certain vitamins to digest these and the necessary vitamins are striped from the grain during processing. Even though they add some vitamins back to enrich it, those vitamins are non bio-available to us. Consequentially, to process grain products our body will pull from our internal vitamin stores, so consuming these products cause vitamin deficiencies.
- A lot of gluten free products are crap and have a loooooong ingredient list that potentially make it worse than the gluten containing original. Best to make your own GF products at home.
- If you ARE buying corn, wheat or soy products, always buy organic. If not, it is GMO. These are the largest GMO crops produced.
Any questions or tips of your own? I’d love to hear!