Tools to Help You Shop Healthier!

The first is shopwell.com.  This site works with registered dietitians to help you make better choices in the grocery store.   All you have to do is sign up with an email address and answer a few questions about yourself (height, age bracket, and sex).  From there the site will ask you a few more questions about allergies as well as food and health preferences and/or goals.  This site is great for people who have food intolerances or allergies because it will filter everything out that you can’t have and do the dirty work for you!  You can add items to your shopping list and the site will give these items a grade specific to you and your needs.  The site will also offer you chances to “trade up” and give you a few better or healthier options to choose from!  There are also coupon notices that you can print and bring to the store with you.  Yes! There is an app for that!  The shopping list isn’t available on the iphone app yet but hopefully soon!  You can sign into your account through the app and scan the bar code of the item you are looking at and it will give you the item’s grade and nutritional facts label.  This makes shopping for the healthier options a lot easier!  The website also allows you to email or share your shopping list with other people!

The other tool is similar to what the shopwell app does and it is called fooducate.  With fooducate you can also scan barcodes when you’re at the grocery store.  You get a letter grade for the product as well as notices like, “watch out! This product has 3 tbsp of sugar!).  There is also an option to compare the product against another product.  This option is also available through shopwell.  The difference between the two is that shopwell grades a product based on your demographics and needs that you e

ntered when you signed up and fooducate, while a great tool, does not grade the product based on personalized needs.  Both are wonderful tools to aid you in making healthier choices.  You can sign up for an account with either online at shopwell.com or fooducate.com and download their app through the app store.