Simple ways to quit shopping snacks
In my former blogpost the truth about the evening snack fight, I told you that you had to fight the temptations at the grocery store and not at home where your odds of loosing are greater.
Here are two simple tips you can implement easily in your busy daily schedule.
Eat before you shop
Have you ever noticed that when you are hungry you get annoyed and frustrated a lot faster than normal? And when you are annoyed and frustrated you tend to go for the quick and irrational solutions? This means that when you are hungry when you go out shopping, you risk of buying quick snacks both for the drive home and for later this evening. If you instead get a healthy snack before you go shopping, you won’t be tempted to buy sweets, chips and what ever unhealthy snack you use to buy. You could go for a banana which is rich of carbohydrates – your body’s main source of energy. Bananas are easy to digest, so they boost your energy rather quickly.
Make a list
This is not news to you, but the supermarket and grocery store wants you to buy as much as posible. It’s no coincidence that snacks are placed at the checkout, and the use cerval other tricks. There is a whole industry of guiding supermarkets and grocery stores on how to layout the store to make the consumer to buy more. Don’t feel bad about it, cause we all tend to wander in this trap.
However there is a simple method to get around, and that is planning. If you make a list of what you need to buy, you will to less extent do impulse buys. Making a list will also help your budget.
The list could be a day to day list, how ever the best and most effective way of resisting the temptation (and cut of your budget), is to make a 5 day weekly meal plan. When we started making weekly meal plans we almost immediately started losing weight. Not because we followed a diet, but simply because we didn’t buy so much junk. And as another side catch we cut of about 15-20% of our grocery budget.
If you have tried these tricks or if you have any other tips, please help us and our readers by dropping a comment below.
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