Here’s how to read the nutrition labels to know if what you’re buying is truly healthy. And for the items you’ll buy anyway, how to build a meal around them so your health (and weight loss) doesn’t suffer. 

When you go grocery shopping, do you actually read the nutrition labels, or do you just grab whatever looks “healthy” and call it a day? Today Jenn is taking us through Whole Foods together to review various products and evaluate which items are the best options. She provides in-depth information about breakfast foods, pasta, snacks, items in the frozen isles, and snacks. Many things in the store are packaged and marketed as healthy options, but upon looking more at the nutrition facts, it’s clear that they are not quite what they market themselves to be. Jenn gives helpful information in this episode and great insight into how to read labels. Tune in today to learn if the items that frequent your shopping cart are really the best options.

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.

IN THIS EPISODE:

●   [09:30] Jenn compares orange juice options. 

●   [11:25] There are so many yogurt options, how can you tell the difference between all the different brands? 

●   [19:31] Are there cereal options that are both healthy and tasty? 

●   [24:32] Are kid snack bars actually a healthy option? 

●   [27:07] What to look for and what to avoid when choosing between peanut butters. 

●   [28:54] Comparing nutrition labels of different granola. 

●   [32:04] Is there such a thing as healthy pasta? 

●   [37:22] Comparing ingredients in frozen veggie burgers.

●   [39:10] What are the best-frozen pizza options?

●   [42:00] What snacks should you consider when grocery shopping?

●   [50:02] Are alternative chips a healthy option?

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

●   7 oz of protein = 1 oz of animal meat. 

●   Everybody has to weigh the balance between the nutrition facts and label, as well as the ingredients. Nothing is a NO; it's all about how. How can you have it and create a better, balanced plate? 

●   Balance your priorities between understanding the ingredients and then where that brings you when you eat a serving or part of a serving.

QUOTES: 

“Stop drinking juice and eat your fruit. We want to chew and swallow our food; it is better for our body.” - Jenn Trepeck 

“The things that we think are going to be the meal turn out to not be the meal. We have to combine some things here to get these choices to where we want to be.” - Jenn Trepeck 

“So an interesting thing I learned: people with diabetes, oftentimes what happens is that saturated fat is sitting in the insulin receptor sites on the cells, and therefore, even if you have the insulin, it has nowhere to go. So saturated fat for people with diabetes can be problematic, which means we wanna be very careful about saturated fat.” - Jenn Trepeck

“Not a single food is off-limits unless you decide you want it to be.” - Jenn Trepeck

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