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What Healthy Food Should I Buy At The Supermarket?

Im about to go to the supermarker and I want to start eating healthy food. What should I buy?

A:    The best answer to this is discipline yourself to read the labels. Watch the calorie counts. A man should stay at around 1500 calories a day. If you are trying to lose weight? Turkey is awesome. Also, go to calorieking.com and you can get all the info on any food, veggi, meat, prepackaged meat, etc. Plan your meals quickly. Sounds like allot of work? It’s not really. My wife went on a diet today and I’ve actually had fun researching. You wouldn’t believe the foods you think are bad which are not.
Stay with fresh foods. Try not to deep fry, pan fry anything. Stay with fresh vegetables and not canned. Canned veggies have way too much salt in them it can raise your cholesterol. In addition fresh veggies are great for you.
Stay away from dehydrated fruit mixes at Sam’s and other stores. They make it look healthy, but if you actually look at the label and the calories and fat in there, you’d clog an arteries standing there reading it.
They key is looking at the labels. Hope this helps.

A:   Think fresh and not pre-packaged. Aside from fruits and veggies, anything you buy should require some preparation before you eat it. I think it’s a good idea to decide exactly to buy before you go. Fresh food will just go bad in your fridge unless you decide how and when you’re going to eat it. Create a healthy menu for the week for breakfasts lunches and dinners. Make sure each meal includes something from the 4 food groups (fruits and veggies, milk and milk products, meat and alternatives, grains and cereals).

A:   Stick to the fresh food aisles – produce, fresh meat, dairy. Stay away from all the pre-packaged, processed crap.

A:    Fruits such as apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries, raspberries, grapes, etc. as fruit will make a good substitute for sugary snacks. Convenient, fast and yummy (:
Vegetables such as mini carrots (you can get individual snack pack bags of mini carrots) broccoli, cauliflower, corn/corn on the cob, peas, mushrooms, celery, etc.
Yogurt would be good for breakfast or a healthy cereal such as “Life” or “Raisin Bran”. I’m seriously addicted to Life cereal, it’s delicious- you have to buy some!
If you usually get 2 percent milk then go for 1 percent or skim milk, it makes a huge difference believe it or not. Also, if you usually get white bread then buy brown/whole grain bread… it actually tastes a lot better then white and it fills you up for a longer period of time due to the high amount of fiber.
Chicken breast is good for dinner- just make sure you cook it properly, baking it is healthier then say frying it obviously. Other then that, stay away from frozen processed meals, etc. Look for fresh/organic food and you should be good!
Hope this helps x

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nuts and dried for a homemade trail mix instead of chips
water/milk/green tea/ instead of soda and energy drinks
Pasta with chicken
1 pkg. of fresh linguine noodles
1lb. chicken
Sun-dried tomatoes- chopped
Capers (drained)
Fresh Basil/or dried
Mushrooms-chopped
Fresh Parmesan cheese
Balsamic Vinegar
Garlic & Herb seasonings
Butter
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Sea salt & black pepper to taste
1. Pre-heat oven to 350.
2. Let the chicken brown on both sides in a cast iron pan with olive oil, Tablespoon of butter, and Garlic & Herb Seasoning.
3. Add balsamic vinegar, and place in oven for about 20-30 minutes.
4. While baking, chop mushrooms, basil, and sun dried tomatoes, and shred cheese.
5. Sauté mushrooms in butter and salt and pepper.
6. Set aside.
7. When chicken is done, cut into pieces and boil noodles.
8. Drain water when the noodles are done. ( Leave the noodles in the pot)
9. Add olive oil, salt and pepper. Mix well.
10. Then add the mushrooms, basil, chicken, sun dried tomatoes, and capers to the noodles.
11. Combine well.
12. Serve warm with dipping spices and French bread.

A:   Fruit, vegetables, whole grain bread. Brown rice, 2% cheese, get some lean lunch meat like turkey and ham.