If you're a label reader, you already know that lots of supermarket foods aren't nearly as good for you as advertised. Every other box on the shelf brags about how it's all natural or organic, fat-free or made with 70 types of grains. How's a savvy shopper to pick the truly healthy choices out of all the junk food with healthy-looking packaging?

Never fear -- the video above will help you navigate the grocery store like a nutrition pro. No more candy bars masquerading as health food for you, my friend! At least, not unless that's what you want.

Day 1: First step, hitting the cookbooks and then the grocery store. Eating in is always easier if you have a plan in mind. I sketch out a menu of seven dinners, assuming I'll eat leftovers for lunch with a fresh salad, maybe.

Not having a plan is what always un-does me, and I'm not alone. Look at any book or website on dieting advice and one of the first things you'll read is have a plan -- have a plan for what you're going to eat, have a plan for when you're going to exercise, have a plan for what you'll do when things go wrong.

Today, my plan includes grabbing some of my favorite healthy-but-somewhat-convenient foods from the grocery store (check out Bev's 5 and 20 rule for when you're in a hurry) so that when I look in the fridge, my first thought isn't, "There's nothing to eat ... let's go out!"

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Have a great week, everyone!

Have you ever heard the phrase "the whole truth and nothing but?" When it comes to many of the foods marketed to kids, the packaging is anything but the whole truth. As a parent, I know how frustrating it is when my son is bombarded with commercials for sugary or unhealthy treats on TV. Even if he never saw a commercial for anything, the packaging that's geared toward kids rarely holds healthy foods inside. Take fruit juice for example -- packaging for sugary, unnatural ingredient-laden juice boxes tends to be very kid oriented. When my son sees boxes with cool looking surfers riding a fruit juice wave, that's what he wants me to buy. But the 100% juice varieties that I do allow in his lunch box tend to be packaged in boxes with pictures of fruit -- not nearly as cool in my pre-teen son's eyes.

Even when a product is packaged to catch a kid's eye, they often have a claim -- such as low-fat or high in calcium -- that aims to make health-conscious parents feel a bit better about the choice. While the actual claim might be true, the whole truth about the product isn't that pretty. University of Calgary researchers found that 62% of kid-aimed food products that boast of nutritional benefits are actually of poor nutritional quality. Time has a list of nine items that have nutritional claims that might mislead parents into thinking the product is healthier than it actually is.

When it comes to buying food for your kids, stick to natural, unprocessed foods as much as possible. When buying packaged items, read the food label -- it's the only way to know the whole truth about the product you're buying.

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