Attending the FREE Eating Healthy with Diabetes™ grocery store tour is a must if you or someone you love struggles with diabetes. One Touch diabetes supplies is teaming up with multiple grocery chains, in multiple states, to offer free, 90 minute tours hosted by a Registered Dietitian and Pharmacist to explain all about diabetes management. Below, it explains everything you need to know about the free tours and how to sign-up. This post has been sponsored by One Touch.

Eating Healthy with Diabetes Nationwide Grocery Store Tours

Sign up Now for FREE Eating Healthy with Diabetes™ grocery store tours at the following stores beginning in March, 2016:

Acme
Albertsons
Carrs
Pavilions
Randalls
Safeway
Shaws
Star Market
Tom Thumb
Vons

How to Sign-Up

For a list of available tours in your area, and to register, go to diabetesdigest.com/EHWD or call 1-877-728-6655.

Who Should Come?

Eating Healthy with Diabetes Nationwide Grocery Store Tours

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Anyone diagnosed with diabetes, pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes
Family of those diagnosed
Those with diabetes in their family history
Anyone with overweight children
Anyone interested in learning how to read food labels, choose healthier foods and prevent diabetes

90-Minute Guided Walking Tour of the Grocery Store, Will Cover How to:

read food labels
calculate carbohydrate servings
meal plan using exchange lists
make healthier meal choices for you and your family

Pharmacy Services Will Cover:

Eating Healthy with Diabetes Nationwide Grocery Store Tours

individual assessments, including lab work and blood pressure testing
blood glucose monitoring
personalized medication reviews
tools for living healthy with diabetes

Get Healthy!

It is easier than you think to make significant improvements in your health. The challenge for most is that food habits are formed very early on in childhood. After all, for the most part, we ate what was put in front of us by our parents or caretakers. That’s why it’s so important to instill healthy eating habits early on in life.

If you were never taught or encouraged to eat balanced and healthy, you may be suffering now because of it. Obesity, hypertension, heart disease, hyperlipidemia and diabetes are the realities of a lifetime of an unhealthy diet. How’s this for a staggering statistic: more than 29 million people have diabetes including 8.1 million who don’t even know they have it. Not to mention, 86 million people have pre-diabetes – the scary part is that children are part of this number.

1 in 3 children born in 2000 will develop diabetes at one point in their lives. (1)

So, if you have children, there’s no better time than now to learn all you can about how to prevent them from being one of the statistics noted above.

Eating Healthy with Diabetes Nationwide Grocery Store Tours

Get the Facts Straight!

If you suffer with diabetes, you may have heard, “No carbs, fruit or sugar”. Sadly, many doctors tell patients this outright LIE. If your doctor has led you to believe this false statement, please educate yourself and begin living again! In diabetes, there are no foods you must never eat again, it’s just a game of balancing. Learn how to take control of your diabetes with some free education. After all, it is fully possible to reverse type 2 diabetes with a healthy diet and lifestyle.

Sign-Up with Me!

I will personally be hosting the following tours:

Orange, CA: 4550 E Chapman Ave, Wednesday April 6 @ 6 pm
Tustin, CA: 13270 Newport Ave, Wednesday April 13 @ noon
La Habra, CA: 2101 W. Imperial Hwy, Saturday April 9 @ 10 am

I hope to see you there!

A Visit to our Local Vons Grocery Store

As a Dietitian, everyone is always so interested to see what’s in my cart. So, here it is! I’ve taken a few photos of some of my favorite products and staples in my home.

Eating Healthy with Diabetes Nationwide Grocery Store Tours

This is my absolute favorite way to get good bacteria in my family’s gut to strengthen their immune system. It’s the perfect healthy substitute to a soda if you’re craving a bubbly beverage. Thankfully, everyone loves it!

She was so excited to drink her “soda,” as she calls it!

There are some things that I always buy organic. This is the guide I follow: Organic Fruits & Vegetables: Are They Worth the Money?

Sprouted grain bread! I rotate my bread choices, and this is one of them. Sprouted grains are slightly higher in some vitamins and may have higher quality protein when compared to unsprouted grains. (2)

I just couldn’t cook for my family without ground turkey and beans; they’re staples.

My favorite recipe to make with them both? Skillet Ground Turkey with Garbanzo Beans and Dates.

Skillet Ground Turkey Curry with Spinach, Garbanzo Beans and Dates. The perfect weeknight meal, ready in 15 minutes.

Click here for recipe.

And I would be lying if I said I didn’t say crackers were my weakness. Specifically, Triscuits. I love them because they satisfy my cravings for crunchy and salty, while having minimal ingredients; 3 in fact (original).

I hope you enjoyed my grocery trip! And please forward this to any family or friends who may need a bit of extra guidance to prevent developing this avoidable disease or better their diabetes management.

References:

(1) US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2003 report

Disclosure: This post was sponsored by One Touch and I will be compensated for my time as a professional RD to provide these tours.