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Navigating the Grocery Store: Shop the Perimeter for Healthier Choices

Learn how to fill your cart with wholesome foods by sticking to the store's perimeter. Avoid processed items and harmful ingredients for a healthier lifestyle. Improve your diet with expert tips from Laura Stout, MPH, RD.

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Navigating the Grocery Store: Shop the Perimeter for Healthier Choices

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  1. Shopping the perimeter; how to fill your cart Laura Stout, MPH, RD Yampa Valley Medical Center Department of Integrated Health

  2. Do not eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food

  3. Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry

  4. Avoid food products that contain high fructose corn syrup

  5. Avoid foods that have some form of sugar or sweetener listed among the top three ingredients

  6. Avoid food products that contain more than 5 ingredients

  7. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third grader cannot pronounce

  8. Avoid food products that make health claims

  9. Avoid food products with the words “lite”, low-fat or non fat in the title

  10. Avoid foods that are pretending to be something else

  11. Avoid foods that are advertised on TV

  12. Eat only foods that will eventually rot

  13. Get out of the supermarket whenever you can

  14. If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant don’t

  15. It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car

  16. It’s not food if its called by the same name in every language (ie. BigMac, Cheetos, etc)

  17. Shop the perimeter of the store and stay out of the middle

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