Become a Grocery Guru: Rate Your Receipt

Want a quick and easy way to see if you're making healthy choices at the grocery store? Rate your receipt. Here's a great tip from Prevention Magazine. Save your receipt from the grocery store. Get 3 highlighter pens - a blue, yellow, and pink one. Sit down with your receipt and mark it up as follows:

• Blue: For every fresh food you purchase (or frozen without extra sauces), such as fruits, veggies, fish, unsalted nuts and seeds, and lean meats (chic, turkey), use the blue highlighter.

• Yellow: Use the yellow highlighter to mark all those not-so-healthful packaged foods, such as cookies, crackers, chips, soda, etc...

• Pink: Use pink to highlight those better-for-you in-between foods: wholesome but packaged products such as Greek-style yogurt, brown rice, or whole grain crackers, bread or cereal.

Ideally at least 75% of your foods should be blue or pink. If not, take a look and see what you can change on your next visit so you have healthier choices available.