Are you one of the growing number of health conscious supermarket shoppers into reading food labelling ? If not you should be - do you know how much cholestrol , saturated fat or salt content is in those beef burgers ? We recommend everyone take the extra few seconds to read the information on the back of the food packaging
If you don’t have a clue what it all means then that’s no excuse ! It doesn’t matter - if you really want to protect yourself from illnesses associated with a bad diet then all you have to do is compare like for like labels and choose the product which has the least saturate fat , lowest sodium salt content , highest fibre minerals and vitamins .
You may well be surprised just how easy it is to shed pounds of weight simply by picking up the healthiest option - for instance a typical loaf of bread can have anywhere between 0.1g and 0.3g of sodium - go for the 0.1g then you can have 3 slices !
Forget diet plans - you can eat much more healthily by simply comparing labels - i only wish all these labels were around 20 years ago before i got high blood pressure!
Regarding fat levels - its amazing just how fatty some processed foods are - today i had a whole cake - but it was Soren - a fruit maly loaf - the fat content for the whole cake was less than that contained in just 1 of the cream buns .
The great thing about all this is you eat healthier without fasting!
After a while of comparing product labels , picking the best choice should become intuitive - and infact you will probably find you have less of a sweet tooth and craving for the nasty foods!
Sainsburys and all the major supermarkets - Tescos Asda Waitrose all display their food labels on 99% of their products and the government is helping make it easier with the new traffic light labelling scheme - red meaning “alert - high levels” through to green - safe , i choose all my products within the green category whenever possible
The other thing to do - if you really want to be scientific is add up your daily intake and compare with the GDA (guideline daily amount) , if you are consuming more than this amount it can lead to illnesses
Don’t forget to eat the right kinds of food too - i recommend skimmed milk (the red top) on your breakfast cereal - in coffee etc as it has only a fraction of the fat of semi (or full!) fat milk but approx the same calcium amount , also eat 5 fruit and veg a day
Soon we will all be clogging up the aisles reading the labels - but to me a few minutes spend reading labels is time well spent!
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