Grocery Shopping 101 | How to Shop Healthy

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Grocery Shopping 101 | How to Shop Healthy - Thomas DeLauer

Grocery shopping 101, the simple basics before you even leave the house. Now, I've done a number of grocery haul videos. I've done a number of ingredient breakdown videos, and I do those all the time, but people often want to see how do you plan, how do you plan to go to the grocery store, and what are the things that you should just know in your mind simply before you step foot in the grocery store.

Forgive me. This is going to be a pretty basic video, but it needs to be said. It needs to be understood so that you can make the really, truly good decisions when you step foot in that grocery store.

Now, I'm not a financial guru and I'm not going to pretend to be one, but one thing that I will say is I see people making the mistake consistently on trying to set a weekly budget for their food.

Do not set a weekly budget for your food simply because there is no way in heck that what you gather from the store in week one is all going to simply be gone and starting from scratch come the beginning of week two.

There's going to be certain foods that you always have to rotate through each week, like your meats and possibly your dairy, but then there's going to be foods that you buy that are absolutely going to carry over into week two and some into week three.

The next thing, when you walk into the store, this still has to do with budget. What is the order and the sequence in which you should shop? This makes a big difference. I've talked about this in my grocery haul videos. It's so easy to want to just start going down the aisles. We go down the aisles, and we start grabbing the snack foods. We grab the almonds.

We grab the things. Don't get me wrong, we need those things a lot of times, like we do want sauces. We do want almonds. We do have plenty of tasty things that we consume that are healthy that are still in the center aisles. I'm not completely numb to the fact that there's good stuff in the aisles, but there's an order of operations you should follow.

You want to be getting in your nut milks. You want to be getting in things that you're going to be consuming from there, your eggs, possibly even your healthy deli meats if you can find some. That's going to be the next realistic area.

If you're doing a low-carb diet, this is where you're going to find the cottage cheese, where you're going to find the yogurt. These are all the staples. Now, at this point, we have talked about the perimeter shopping, which is kind of an old school notion.

You want to shop the perimeter, and that's all that you should do and not worry about anything that's in between the aisles. Perimeter is important, but I feel like you should start with the perimeter and then fill in the gaps with the rows and the aisles in between.

I would recommend in this case just going for raw whenever possible or get for ones that do not have canola oil or do not have soybean oil. If they do have oil in them because they're roasted, try to find ones that have expeller-pressed canola oil or are using avocado oil or another healthy oil.

Very, very important there. Same kind of thing with the almond butters and the peanut butters, no hydrogenated stuff, none of that stuff. We're going to break down looking at a label here in just a second too, just so you have a basic understanding, but that's the thing we want to be focusing on.

If you do have room for that, that's kind of the focus. The hierarchy of nuts that I would recommend that you get, we're going to probably go, in this case, what you'll find at a typical grocery store.

I know this is just a very basic breakdown of how to read a label, but it's important that you do know, so, again, you factor this stuff into your budget. It doesn't matter what scale you're eating at or how big of a family you're feeding, this should sort of be the baseline of it. It might be this big, it might be this big, but it's all going to fit into the same framework that I just laid out. There's the basics, grocery shopping 101. You're going to get a lot more from me if you start following when I do my grocery store hauls. As always, keep it locked in here on my channel. I'll see you soon.

[c.randall]

VERY IMPORTANT to not skip the frozen veggie section. Frozen veggies are flash frozen, keeping their nutrients. Fresh produce lose a lot of their nutrients after 48 hrs of being harvested.

[MakeRhinoSmaller]

Thank you Thomas!

With your help I'm down 40 lbs since Mid September... I have a long way to go but that's a hell of a start.

[tomkot]

I would like to see a video where you show a week's plan of all meals. This is what I find most complicated, to have a plan of what to cook in order to be able to know what to get when grocery shopping.

[DeadeyeJoe]

Grocery Shopping 101: before you go, make a list of what you need. Look at what you already have. Make a menu for the week and determine what you still need for that. Look at the store ads to see whats on sale to help you figure out your menu.

[weronikab]

Omg you’re sooo right about the weekly budget and that we buy too much produce .... thank you for the eye opening lol Starting this week I will budget monthly... Thank you 🙏🏼

[willsolarski]

I'm watching this from a hotel room stocked with canned salmon, sardines, pecans and coconut oil packets for the week :D

[Hiflyg]

I don't plan ahead too much because I try to shop the deals. On a tight cash budget means I need more bang for my buck. So the basics like milk, butter, eggs are main items and then the rest of the budget is for hunting sale items. Chicken legs for example can be on sale for 69 cents per pound, that might be the main protein if I don't find other deals. Another great vid, enjoyed the topic..

[songsofthecentury]

Carrageenan is a health hazard as pointed out by the health board in the UK & pointed out by Thomas at 13:03. It is a thickener used in processed store ice creams & soups. Another great video. Thomas is the best Dr. on YouTube who is not pretending to be a Dr.

[Gavrev]

A reminder of the basics is a practice we should repeatedly indulge.

[moonmaiden]

You just called me out on buying produce that goes bad before I eat it 😅

[BeingBetter]

Another grocery shopping video, wonderful! These are my absolute favorite.

[Tswenergy]

Thank you! Your information has been so helpful and inspirational! Thank you!

[nancylange]

Great tips Thomas! Reading labels can be so confusing (been doing it for many years) but now I understand so much more because of your videos. Thank you for caring so much to teach people important facts.

[terraspickerman]

I am a 42 yr old mother of two- raised by a stay at home mother of 5- experienced grocery shopper and I learned some great tips from you! Thank you- I figured this would just be a bunch of common sense tips I already knew but it really was a different way of thinking about food- what we prioritize and how to allocate our resources accordingly. Love your content!

[wakjob]

Could you do a episode on just oils? Really get into the aspects of top 5-10 oils...omegas, lectins, heat sensitivity ect...

[jiminsealbeach]

“Drizzling” yes!! It’s not mentioned often enough. I eat a lot of olive oil, but I don’t cook with it. I drizzle it over vegetables, raw and steamed or boiled, and of course mixed with ACB as a dressing for salad or over my water packed sardines.
I agree with everything you said in this video, but I had to laugh at your notion that a bag of pork rinds could last two weeks. Not in my house.

[CarbageMan]

Grass fed ghee, organic avocado oil, organic EVOO. 👍

[ScarlettRobin]

Thank you for these kinds of videos. I love when you break down what kinds of ingredients to look for and look out for and why... and place them in a hierarchy.

[pixie]

Oh my god! The budget thing makes SO MUCH SENSE! I've been doing weekly budget for years and always wondered why I'm going over? This helps so much. I almost didn't click on this video! What are your thoughts on Kids doing keto?

[roguerach]

Just started my keto diet. This is super helpful! Thank you!