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Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 12
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 6.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1605298387
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9781605298382
ASIN: 1605298387
Publication Date: December 30, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Amazon.com Review
With tens of thousands of products crammed into the walls of the neighborhood supermarket, trying to find a reliable snack, pantry product, or frozen dinner can be a serious challenge for the time-strained consumer. The Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide changes all of that, offering discerning shoppers everywhere a simple plan for finding the healthiest foods for them and their families. Beyond homing in on the best and worst in the world of packaged foods, the Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide scours the aisles to help you pick the most nutrient-packed produce, the leanest, tastiest cuts of meat, exotic cheeses that double as healthy snacks, and the best contaminant-free fish the ocean has to offer.
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Product Description
Features of the Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: - the 20 Worst Foods in the Supermarket - the Ultimate Supermarket Label Decoder - 17 Secrets the Food Industry Doesn't Want You to Know - Shop Once, Eat for a Week - How to Stock the Perfect Pantry Investigative, comprehensive, and compelling, this guide helps consumers navigate their shopping carts through the thousands of nutritional pitfalls in every grocery store to help you lose weight, save cash, and bring home the tastiest, healthiest choices every time.
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Puts the "super" back in "supermarket" December 30, 2008
Mary (Kansas City, MO)
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
To the average American trying to lose weight, the supermarket can be a scary place. I usually dread my weekly trip there, thanks to the temptations in every aisle and the hours I seem to spend perusing overwhelming nutrition facts. But the "Eat This, Not That" guys have officially taken the guess-work (and the candy-aisle scariness!) out of grocery shopping. The easy-to-digest spreads with colorful photos and info boxes make decisions simple so you can feed your family the right stuff. I just bought this book and, for the first time, I'm excited about my next trip to the supermarket!
A must have for anyone serious about losing weight. December 30, 2008
a reader
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Losing weight is hard, granted, but not knowing what exactly to buy at the grocery store is tough as well. This is where this book comes in. It details the foods to avoid and which to buy from meals to snacks and helps making losing weight that much easier. In my opinion, it is one of THE books to have at your disposal so losing weight doesn't become too much of a chore and lends itself to second nature. I highly reommend this one to anyone who is serious about losing weight, once and for all, along with another that really helped too: Fatass No More! How I Lost Weight and Still Ate Cheeseburgers and Fries.
Best nonfiction of the year? January 3, 2009
Julie Neal (Sanibel Island, Fla.)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I know, that sounds like a wild claim. And I'm surprised I wrote it.
I own both of the previous Eat This Not That books (Thousands of Simple Food Swaps, For Kids!), so when I noticed this one was about to come out I decided to skip it. What more could it offer than what was already covered in the other two?
Then, tonight, I went shopping for food with my teenage daughter at Target. We spotted this in the little book section and, at her urging, picked it up and glanced through it.
What a great book! So helpful! So useful! Yes, if it keeps my husband healthy and my daughter enthused about nutrition, it gets my vote as best nonfiction book of 2008. I read about every day, and no book in the past year has struck me as a Must Buy as much as this one.
The reason? It's ENTIRELY focused on foods sold at supermarkets -- every item on every page is something readily accessible to you. And since every item is captioned with its relevant nutritional information, you get the benefit, in essence, of having read every tiny ingredients list on every item at your grocery store, all of it right in front of you in a little book that will fit in a decent-sized purse. By comparison, the earlier titles had less detailed grocery sections, as well as lots of stuff about fast food chains and table-service franchise restaurants, material that is useful only if you frequent those particular places.
In this book, every page has valuable content for anyone who shops at a supermarket -- so much, in fact, it's tough to determine just what to highlight in this review. Every time I flip through the book I come across useful, surprising information. For example, right now I'll randomly open it a few times and learn why....
1) Fruit Loops are better for you than Apple Cinnamon Cheerios...
2) Regular Cheerios is a better choice than Smart Start...
3) Regular Quick 1 minute Quaker Oats is healthier than Quaker's Simple Harvest Multigrain hot cereal...
4) Dole pineapple cups are more nutritious than Dole mixed fruit cups...
5) Del Monte pear halves beat Del Monte sliced pears...
I could go on forever.
By the way, not all the pages are side-by-side product comparisons. One spread, titled "The Meat Matrix," compares the nutritional value of a variety of meats, everything from pork to ostrich. Another, titled "The Perfect Refrigerator," displays a perfectly stocked healthy fridge. My daughter was especially interested in a spread titled "The Snack Matrix," which shows which combination of snack items (fruit, peanut butter, cottage cheese) mix well together for both nutrition and taste. Another section discusses how to store fresh fruits and produce and explains why fresh food is better for you.
Until now, I have never used the title "Best book of the year" in my Amazon reviews. But this one, in my opinion, just might live up to that claim.
A very cool shopping guide! January 1, 2009
Steven A. Peterson (Hershey, PA (Born in Kewanee, IL))
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The introduction places this delightful work in context (Page vii): "It can be a place of wonder and excitement. . . . But it can also be a place of great danger, where marketing ploys, and outright lies can rob you of your fitness, your health, your vitality. . . . I'm talking, of course, about the American supermarket."
To summarize: This is a book that helps readers shop smarter. It notes for different classes of food (from candy to snacks to cereals and on and on) the ones that are most and least damaging, in terms of calories, fat, and sodium. A brief one line analysis generally accompanies each set of data on each product.
Examples of this part of the book. For instance, pages 176-177 feature corn chips. The conclusion, if one chooses to get some corn chips, is to purchase and eat products like Snyder's of Hanover Multigrain (130 calories, 5 grams of fat [0 grams of saturated fat], 110 milligrams of sodium) and not those like Frito's Original Corn Chips (160 calories, 10 grams of fat [1.5 grams of saturated fat], and 160 mg of sodium). Or take frozen pizzas, if you must. Think in terms of buying Palermo's Primo Thin Margherita (260 calories, 12 grams of fat [5 grams of which is saturated], and 520 mg of sodium)--not DiGiorno's Traditional Crust Pepperoni (770 calories, 35 grams of fat [14 grams saturated], and 1430 mg of sodium). Some of the comparisons as those above are quite stunning, and suggest that doing some decision-making at the store can have nutritional consequences.
Some interesting features--Survival guide for supermarket tips (pages 2-9), including a depressing check of stated calories per serving on the package and what the book says are the real calories per serving. the 20 worst packaged foods for a person in the country (e.g., Haagen-Dazs chocolate peanut butter ice cream; the book suggests purchasing Edy's slow churned peanut butter cup ice cream instead), tips on which produce to purchase for nutritional kick, "making sense of meat," tips on snacking, and so on.
But, in the final analysis, it is the tips on which are the best and which the worst, in terms of nutrition, products in a variety of food categories. This book provides a nice service along those lines. I had thought that this would not be particularly useful when I ordered it (one look at the wild and wacky cover illustrates one reason for my pessimism), but I am happy to say that my doubts were not realized.
A Super Guide to Weight Loss January 1, 2009
Debbie Mandel (Long Island, NY,United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
A couple of years ago David was a guest on my radio show, Turn On Your Inner Light, with his book, "The Abs Diet." I was a bit suspicious as there is no such thing as spot reducing. However, during the interview David really knew his stuff, advocating a targeted approach consisting of diet, aerobics and strength training. Now in this book, "Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide" he is helping us navigate the supermarket aisles which contains products with many misleading labels; paricularly, the reader can learn that "organic" does not always mean healthy. A great many diet books talk about phyto-nutrients, lycopenes, luteins, anthocyanins, etc. I much prefer looking at a rainbow array of fruits and vegetables to get the nutrients I need - simpler and right on the mark. David does this with products like cereals, cheeses and frozen meals. I thought I knew it all, but I learned a thing or two! By the way I use supermarket time as an opportunity for exercise, squats for the items on the bottom shelves and while waiting on line, I nonchalantly grab a magazine and do calf raises! I am the author of [ASIN:0470343753 Addicted to Stress: A Woman's 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in Life]]
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