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Do You Speak Food Label Language?

By on January 24, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking

Food labels can be pretty confusing.  For instance, you might think that you know what fat free means – but if a food product is labeled “fat free” does mean that it’s totally fat free? Not necessarily. According to the FDA, a food can be labeled fat free if it contains less than 0.5 grams [...]

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What’s The Difference Between Low Fat, Reduced Fat, Light, Lean, And Extra Lean?

By on June 7, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

How much time do you spend in the supermarket aisle confused by the labels on mayo — or cookies — or just about every other item in the packaged bread aisle?  What do reduced fat, low fat, light, fat free, or low in calories actually mean? You practically have to walk around with a cheat [...]

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Does The Label On The Front Of The Food Package Tell You The Whole Truth?

By on March 11, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Shopping, Cooking, Baking

I was recently helping a client learn how to interpret nutrition and ingredients labels of food products.  He clearly wasn’t thrilled at the prospect of spending the extra time to read labels. It does take time.  But, you don’t have to do it for everything.  It’s particularly important to get a feeling for products that [...]

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Use By, Sell By, Expires By: What Do These Actually Mean?

By on February 8, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Shopping, Cooking, Baking

You might be used to looking for expiration dates on dairy produces, eggs, and meat.  But it seems like just about everything in the supermarket is now stamped with some kind of date. I tend not to like food that wiggles but others in my family get their own selection of Technicolor wiggle food, so [...]

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