Tips for Healthy Grocery Shopping
Nutrition plays an impactful role in your health and fitness journey.
If you truly want to transform your body and see results, your nutrition and diet habits must be a top priority. Planning meals ahead of time is a valuable way to help stick to your grocery list, maintain healthy eating habits and avoid spending too much money at the store.
Often, healthy eating or changing eating habits altogether will feel expensive. You can avoid more pain in your pockets by strategizing meal prep, choosing a day to grocery stop and sticking with it. Hold yourself accountable for more than just your workouts.
Here are a few tips to help you healthily grocery shop.
Choose carbohydrates, proteins and fats you want to eat all week ahead of time. Hit up an old Pinterest board, spot check your favorite influencer accounts or pull from a cook book that’s collected dust. However you choose your meals is up to you, but make sure you’re provided with all three food groups each week.
Decide how much you need for the week and avoid over or under-shopping. Do you need 4 boxes of pasta, 10 bell peppers and 12 bananas for the week? Probably not. Chances are, before you get to some of the food you purchase, it’ll already have gone bad. Avoid this by planning the ingredients you need and how much of each are truly required.
Choose foods you love that are packed with nutrients. Maybe it’s been a while since you’ve had a sweet potato or a smoothie. Spread your favorites across each of your meals. There are enough recipes out there to provide you with something tasty and healthy.
Avoid shopping while you’re starving. This has happened to all of us. Walking into the grocery store while hungry is one dangerous game. Chips, ice cream and deceiving sushi will likely end up in your cart and that is not what we want for you.
Make a list and stick to it. Similar to the above, don’t stray from your list. If you allow yourself to do so, who knows what will end up in your cart. If you see something appetizing that’s not on your list, save it for the following week and work it into your meal prep.