Reading labels in the grocery store and trying to decide what's healthy, what's organic, what's real... it's all exhausting. But this app I learned about at work is really helpful and actually pretty fun. It's called Fooducate (go download it!) and it let's you scan barcodes of packaged items and assigned them a health letter grade. Then it goes a step further and tells you pros and cons, as well as suggesting better alternatives.
So picture this: my boyfriend and I were in the grocery store (practically done, in the last aisle) and the bread he ALWAYS gets was sold out. (Back story: he cannot make a decision to save his own life, so this was a complete panic moment.) I started looking through the ones I thought would be good alternatives and started scanning them with the app. Then, because he had already also downloaded the app when I told him about it months ago, he started grabbing others and scanning them too. It was so fun, and we actually learned a lot about several different breads while doing this. In the end, he ended up picking one that was so much better than the "whole grain white" he was used to.
Naturally we became intrigued and started scanning all sorts of things we already had in our cart, and actually ended up going back to exchange quite a few items for the better alternatives.
Anyway, I highly suggest it--if for nothing else than just the fun of scanning in the store.
Did I mention it's a FREE app? Links to download are below! GO SCAN!
- Kristen
Fooducate for Android
Fooducate for iPhone
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