Best Packaged Foods

Spend any amount of time in the frozen food section of your grocery store, and it's hard not to come out with some packaged dinner that promises to be delicious. Not all packaged dinners are alike, however. Some are healthier than others, and as a general rule, they all are going to be worse for you than if you were to make a healthy dinner while controlling additives.

As you move on through the grocery store and fill your cart with bagels, cream cheese, soups, pastas and cereals, you may not realize that everything is pre-packaged, following the same kind of trend as the frozen food area.

Most women do not have the time to buy everything all natural, harvest vegetables themselves, or create home cooked healthy meals every night. Buying packaged food is a way of life. Checking the labels on the back will help you make healthier decisions, and so will this helpful tool I found on Women's Health Magazine web site.

The magazine sent a nutritionist and weight loss specialist to grocery stores to find the top 100 best packaged foods. Separated into categories of grains, dairy, meat, frozen foods, soups, snacks, desserts, drinks and condiments. It has a great easy to read menu showing the foods picture, name and nutrition facts and has a smaller key at the bottom with links each food with colors that tell you if they build bone, muscle, help with weight loss, fight cancer, or fight heart disease. The site also allows you to add foods as you see them to your virtual grocery list, which you can print out when you're done.

I highly suggest checking out this site. Switching over to different products may help you shed pounds or treat your body better.