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Healthy Eating Tips: Grocery Shopping
8 Ways To Avoid Sneaky Supermarket Tricks
Enjoy a healthier and cheaper trip to the grocery store with these easy tips
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Shop Smarter
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Skip The Supersized Carts
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Bring A C-Note—And Leave Your Credit Cards Behind
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Watch Out For “Health-Washing”
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Listen To The Piped-In Music
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Shop Alone
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Beware Of Bulk
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Read Every Price Tag
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Look Up, Down, And All Around
Skip The Supersized Carts
“We don’t feel like we are done shopping until we have some sort of visual cue—like a full cart,” says Benjamin. So the trick is to look at the cart like a dinner plate. “Choose the smallest cart you can,” says Diane Henderiks, RD, a personal chef and culinary nutritionist in Oakhurst, NJ. “It’s like choosing a smaller dinner plate—only here you’ll save calories and money.” Or, ditch the cart entirely. “Our studies from Project Brandwashed show that a typical family needs only what they can carry,” says Martin Lindstrom, author of Brandwashed Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (Crown Business). “I tell families to have kids help carry items.”
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