Grocery 101: A parent’s guide to shopping the supermarket like a nutritionist
By Kate Jonuska
Photos by Bill Sommer, special to Pikes Peak Parent
Most parents pay attention to news about nutrition and can draw a mental picture of the food pyramid. But out in the real world — hacking your way through the consumer jungle that is the modern supermarket — translating that nutritional knowledge into healthy shopping takes more than just best intentions.
Sometimes, it takes a professional like Mary Peet, a registered dietician with Memorial Health System. At a local King Soopers recently, Peet showed me how to chart a course through that labyrinth of high-fat pitfalls and nutritionally empty black holes.
“How we’re setting up kids now as kids gives them the foundation for being a healthy adult,” says Peet, who assures me even busy parents, with a few tips, can stock their carts for healthy family eating.
CLICK HERE to read more of this article, which published in the October 2008 Pikes Peak Parent magazine.
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