This week, your challenge is to grocery shop with a plan, (or a mission, rather)! Print out this flow chart, from SummerTomato.com, and you’ll be well on your way to filling your basket with real foods. That is, unprocessed, unrefined, unadulterated real foods.

It can be hard to determine what is healthy these days. It seems like there is a healthy version of every junk food known to man. Organic chips! Natural mac-n-cheese! Gluten-free chicken nuggets! Have we forgotten that there is a plethora of whole foods, in their actual, natural form, found all throughout your local store?

Use this flowchart to help you find them! Good luck out there.

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‘Renew You’ Challenge – It may sound like funny advice when we’re talking about taking a trip to the grocery store, but “stick to the perimeter” is one of the simplest and smartest things you can do to make sure you’re eating the right foods for your body.

What am I talking about? Well, think about it—if you stay out of those middle aisles in the grocery store (you know, the ones stocked high with processed foods and sugary snacks) and just go around the perimeter of the store, what do you find? It’s where all the fresh foods are!

So this week, your challenge is to do just that… and ONLY that. Shop the perimeter of the grocery store and don’t even go down those middle aisles. Make it an unprocessed week and be creative with meals and snacks. Try new things and see what you come up with!

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