Encouraging Health

Found this healthy grocery list that helps you eat food that is better for you:

If we all spent as much time reading nutrition labels as experts tell us to, supermarkets would have to start installing more cushy chairs and coffee bars than Barnes & Noble. Which may be what inspired two gods of healthy eating — Harvard’s legendary nutrition guru, Walter Willett, MD, and Mollie Katzen, authors of the groundbreaking Moosewood Cookbook — to name names in their latest book, Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less.

The book lists brands for the foods that make grocery shoppers crazy: Either you choose from products where there are so many options (e.g., bread, cereal) that you just want to throw in the towel — especially if your shopping cart is loaded with kids as well as cartons — or you choose from products that sound healthy but often are sugar and calorie extravaganzas (e.g., many energy bars, tricked-up yogurts).

In the words of Willett and Katzen, “Bring your glasses when shopping for breads, crackers, bars, yogurt, smoothies, and even veggie burgers — the calorie counts and nutritional profiles of these items can vary wildly.” Or bring this handy list of the healthiest brands. Although they name more brands in the book, we’ve done the legwork for you and picked out the most widely available. If it’s on this list, consider it blessed.

Bread
Pepperidge Farm sliced bread
100% Whole Wheat Very Thin Sliced
Carb Style, Soft 100% Whole Wheat
100% Natural Nine Grain
Country Hearth Stone Ground 100% Whole Wheat sliced bread
Thomas’ English Muffins Hearty Grain 100% Whole Wheat
Roman Meal Multi-Grain Hamburger Buns

Cereal
Wheaties
Total Whole Grain
Kashi GoLean
Old Fashioned Quaker Oats
Wheatena

Crackers
Wheat Thins, Multi-Grain
Triscuit Thin Crisps

Yogurt
Dannon Light & Fit (regular, Carb Control, and Creamy)
Stonyfield Farm MOOve Over Sugar
Yoplait Light

Smoothies
Stonyfield Farm Light Smoothie
Yoplait Smoothie Light
Dannon Light & Fit Smoothie

Protein Bars
PowerBar Pria Complete Nutrition bar
Luna bars
Kashi GoLean Crunchy! bar and Roll! bar

Veggie Burgers
Boca
Original
All American Flame Grilled
Grilled Vegetable
Roasted Onion
Roasted Garlic
Gardenburger
The Original
Sun-Dried Tomato Basil
Veggie Medley
Black Bean Chipotle
Morningstar Farms Garden Veggie Patties

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