Healthy Eating Tips for Shopping - Taking a different route around the supermarket
"By changing your route around the supermarket, you’ll have more of a chance of discovering new items. Remember that different supermarkets offer different choices so also consider visiting a new store once in a while," suggests GetFit Nutrition's head dieititian, Tony Hirving RD
Basics
- Its easy to become locked into the habit of buying the same foods every week if you take the same journey through the aisles
- Branches of the same supermarket have similar layouts - layouts of other supermarkets may differ
- Supermarkets have the fruit and vegetable aisles near the entrance so as to stimulate people’s senses with colour and smell from the bakery. That’s why the fishmongers are at the back!
Tips and Tricks
- The food shopping can get very boring if you’re the person doing it on a weekly basis so changing your route around the supermarket should make it a little more interesting
- Start shopping at the opposite end of the supermarket and see what new products you discover
- Why not visit a different branch of your supermarket for a change
- Why not visit a different supermarket to your usual and compare products
- Make sure you write a shopping list so that you don’t forget the essentials
- As everyone starts shopping at the main entrance of the supermarket, many of them will be queuing for checkout towards the far end – taking a different route around the store should mean you end up ready for checkout at the less busy end!
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