I do more shopping now than I have in the last 30 years. I didn’t particularly like shopping at all but we had to eat. Now I spend at least a minute of time looking at each product. The rule of thumb I have is, if it has an abbreviation, more than two words or more than ten letters that I don’t know, I put it back. A few of the resources that I have found useful for shopping for food, that I loaded on my smart phone, is True Food, The Center for Food Safety’s food network site (http://truefoodnow.org/shoppers-guide/ ) and Label Watch
( www.labelwatch.com ) in my book marks.
When I started reading labels in the store, it became very time consuming. I decided to use True Food to select supermarkets and the Label Watch site to build the lists of foods without the extra stuff. The Label Watch site can also be used to inventory the fridge and cupboards, so stuff can be cleaned out.
By now I have worked my way through so many products that I can tell by the vendor or manufacturer which ones go in my cart and which ones don’t. Recently, I have taken a second look at items that had used alternative sweetners or coloring to find that they have changed ingredients to safer ones. This isn’t common enough, but voting with your debt card or feet works in our economy.
For those who don’t have phone with internet access, on a pc there are pocket guides that you can request or print out. For the Label Watch you will have to print it out or write it out by hand. In any event, taking these guides along will give peace of mind knowing you are not bring something home you didn’t want.
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