With grocery prices front and center in the news, who doesn’t want to save a few dollars? Here’s a simple way to save both dollars and your health: Steer clear of the snack aisles.<\/p>\n
In almost all cases, snack foods are highly processed (i.e., ultra-processed) and provide little in the way of nutrition or, more commonly, are health-damaging. (See “What a Coincidence!<\/a>“)<\/p>\n Nevertheless, snack foods are one of the most profitable food categories, a sure sign we’re being charged a lot for a little.<\/p>\n And because they are so profitable, snacks are also one of the most heavily marketed food categories. No surprise, then, that 76% of shoppers include snack foods in their grocery baskets,* throwing away a lot of money on “foods” that don’t do what foods should do, i.e., nourish us!<\/p>\n Imagine not getting lured into the snack food money trap. How much money might that save? And how many health savings might we reap, too!<\/p>\n * “Grocery Store Statistics: Where, When, & How Much People Grocery Shop<\/a>,” Emily Rodgers, April 25, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With grocery prices front and center in the news, who doesn’t want to save a few dollars? Here’s a simple way to save both dollars and your health: Steer clear of the snack aisles. In almost all cases, snack foods are highly processed (i.e., ultra-processed) and provide little in the way of nutrition or, more … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,25],"tags":[213,508,721],"class_list":["post-6468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-getting-marketing-wise","category-healthy-cooking-money-savers","category-the-simple-prescription-for-good-eating","tag-food-marketing","tag-saving-money-at-the-grocery-store","tag-snacking-problems","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6470,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions\/6470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}