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Do you need to learn how to shop?
The staff of Health, Wellness and Counseling designed an event that addresses food choices with students. The “Grocery Store Savvy Tours” event takes place Sept. 30 at the WinCo grocery store at 110 East Myrtle St. in Boise.
Campus Dietician Hillary Horton-Brown plans to take students on a detailed aisle-by-aisle tour of the grocery store, featuring areas to embrace, aisles to avoid and foods believed to maximize health and minimize the grand total at the register.
Horton-Brown has guided the grocery store tours for about three years.
“They’ve been so popular, people love them,” Horton-Brown said. “I’ve started doing them every other month now. As soon as you walk through the door, you’ll see my smiling face.”
The tour is meant to allow participants to learn the value of making and sticking with a shopping list, cooking in bulk, buying in bulk and paying attention to food labels.
Horton-Brown emphasizes shopping on the perimeter because, “the outside edges are where the food groups are.”
Food at eye level and near the register is another place to stay away from, she said. It may not be healthy or on the shopping list.
Christina Berg, director of Wellness Services, commented on why an event like this is so important.
“Your success as a student relies on your sense of wellness,” Berg said. “Wellness is an active process, a choice and a way of living that is sensitive and responsive to all of the dimensions of the body, mind and spirit.”
To sign up for the “Savvy Shoppers Tour,” log on to Health, Wellness and Counseling’s Website, boisestate.edu/healthservices and click the “Events/Classes/Groups” tab on the menu.
LINDSEY RHODES-PURDY
Arbiter Journalist
