Choose-Healthy Grocery Lists
Ochsner nutritionist Molly Kimball, RD, CSSD has handpicked a list of groceries guaranteed to boost the quality of your diet. By filling your shopping cart with these items, you’ll be reducing or eliminating your intake of saturated and trans fats and processed carbohydrates, and increasing whole grain, protein-rich and vitamin/mineral-rich foods in your diet.
To make your shopping-trip easier, items from this list will be marked with the Choose-Healthy logo throughout Rouses' stores.
Printable Choose-Healthy Grocery List
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Produce All vegetables and fruits in produce section Deli and Prepared Meats Southern Tsunami Sushi Sashimi (salmon, tuna) Spicy tuna roll (made with brown rice) California roll (made with brown rice) Rotisserie Chicken: Original Seasoning Tyson fajita chicken breast strips Tyson grilled chicken breast strips Tyson seasoned steak strips Jenny-O extra lean turkey bacon Oscar Mayer 50% less fat turkey bacon Jimmy Dean turkey bacon Oscar Mayer center cut bacon Oscar Mayer turkey smoked sausage (2/3’s less fat) Hillshire Farm Lite smoked sausage Boar’s Head Deli Meats: Roasted Lower Sodium Turkey Breast, Ovengold Roast Breast of Turkey, Mesquite Wood Smoked Breast of Turkey, Italian-Style Seasoned Beef Hillshire Farm Deli Select: roast beef, all types of turkey breast, ham Oscar Mayer Deli Fresh: roast beef, turkey breast, chicken breast, ham Sara Lee: all types of roast beef, ham, chicken, turkey Oscar Mayer: all types of chicken, turkey, ham, roast beef Butterball: all types of chicken, turkey, ham, roast beef Condiments, Sauces, Spreads Marinades and Seasoned Sauces Mrs. Dash Salt-free Marinade: Mesquite Grille, Spicy Teriyaki, and Lemon Herb Peppercorn Fischer Wieser’s Sauces: Mango Ginger, Habanero, Blueberry Chipotle, Pomegranate & Mango, and Mango Chipotle Tabasco Sauce Rouses Merlot Wine steak sauce Rouses Vidalia Onion steak sauce Rouses Vidalia Onion barbecue sauce Sal & Judy's All Natural Heart Smart: Original, Roasted Garlic, Chunky Classico Pasta Sauce (all varieties) Full Circle Pasta Sauce Newman’s Own Marinara Sauce: All flavors Prego Heart Smart Spaghetti Sauce: All flavors Classico Pasta Sauce: All flavors Gia Russa Marinara Sauce Butters and Spreads Hellmann’s Dijonnaise Hellmann’s Mayonnaise Hellmann’s Lite Mayonnaise Kraft Lite Mayo Kraft Mayo with Olive Oil Hummus (all brands) Smart Balance Light Buttery Spread Smart Balance Spray Butter Smart Balance Organic Smart Balance Organic Butter Spread Smart Balance Whipped Butter Spread Smart Balance Omega Butter Spread I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Lite Brummel & Brown — Promise cardiologist endorsed Brummel & Brown Natural Yogurt Spread Daisy Light Sour Cream Full Circle Peanut Butter Jiff Creamy Peanut Butter Jiff Crunchy Peanut Butter Jiff Extra-Crunchy Peanut Butter Peter Pan Crunchy Peanut Butter Peter Pan Creamy Peanut Butter Jif To Go Best Yet Crunchy Peanut Butter Best Yet Creamy Peanut Butter Salad Dressings Rouses Vidalia Onion Honey Mustard dressing Rouses Vidalia Onion & Creamy Cucumber dressing Rouses Vidalia Onion Ranch dressing Rouses Vidalia Onion & Summer Tomato dressing Rouses Roasted Garlic dressing Newman’s Own Salad Dressings: Lighten Up Sundried Tomato, Lighten Up Honey Mustard, Lighten Up Caesar, Lighten Up Low-fat Sesame Ginger, Lighten Up Italian, Lighten Up Red Wine Vinegar and Olive Oil Kraft Light: Light Balsamic Vinaigrette, Light House Italian Kraft Free: Caesar Italian, Zesty Italian, Catalina Wish-Bone Salad Spritzers Wishbone fat-free Blue Cheese Annie’s Naturals Lite Gingerly Vinaigrette South Beach Living: Balsamic dressing, Ranch dressing Marzetti Salad Dressing: Lite Caesar Vinaigrette, Lite Raspberry Cabernet Vinaigrette, Lite Supreme Caesar Bolthause Farms Salad Dressing: Chunky Blue Cheese Vinaigrette, Creamy Yogurt Dressing — Classic Ranch, Creamy Yogurt Dressing — Original Coleslaw, Creamy Yogurt Dressing — Honey Mustard, Olive Oil Vinaigrette — Tropical Mango, Creamy Yogurt Dressing — Thousand Island Maple Grove Farms Fat-Free Caesar Maple Grove Farms Fat-Free Poppyseed Ken’s Steakhouse: Lite Raspberry Walnut Vinaigrette, Lite sweet Vidalia onion, Lite Caesar, Lite Northern Italian Ken’s Healthy Option: Sweet Vidalia Onion Vinaigrette, Olive Oil and Vinegar All balsamic vinegars All Tabasco items — all flavors Peanut Butter and Jelly Smucker’s Natural Chunky Smucker’s Natural Creamy Smart Balance Creamy Peanut Butter Smart Balance Chunky Peanut Butter Simply Jif Creamy Smucker’s No-Sugar Preserves Smucker’s Simply Fruit Polaner All Fruit Snacks Genisoy Soy Crisps Full Circle Soy Crisps EAS AdvantEDGE Carb Contol Nutrition Bar EAS Myoplex Lite Ready-to-drink PowerBar Protein Plus bar Kashi-Go-Lean Crunchy Bar Kashi TLC bar South Beach Living High Protein Cereal bar Orville Redenbacher’s Smart Pop! Popcorn Orville Redenbacher’s Natural Popcorn Orville Redenbacher’s 100 Calorie Pop Jolly Time Healthy Time Popcorn Walnuts Oberto Beef Jerky, Original Tabasco salsa Garden of Eatin’s No Salt blue tortilla chips Sun Chips: all varieties Ryvita Rye & Oat Bran All Natural Crisp Bread Ryvita Sesame Rye All Natural Crisp Bread Wasa Whole Wheat Crisp Bread Kavli Crispy Thin and Thick Bread Crisp Bread Kellogg’s All Bran Crackers: Garlic Herb, Multi-Grain Nabisco Triscuit Crackers and Thin Crisps Scharffen Berger 70% bittersweet dark chocolate Lindt 70% cocoa dark chocolate Sun-Maid California Dried: Prunes, Peaches, Apricots, Mission Figs Best Yet Nuts: All Planters: All (except those with chocolate) Blue Diamonds: All Nosh Soy Beans Garden of Eden Black Bean Chips Garden of Eden Blue Chips Sun Chips: All flavors Tostitos Multi-Grain Chips Salsa — all: Tostitos, Mrs. Renfro’s, Emeril’s, Pace Hot and Cold Cereals Cold Kellogg’s Special K Protein Plus Post Brand Flakes Post Shredded Wheat: original Post Shredded Wheat: spoon size Quaker Crunchy Corn bran General Mills Original Fiber One bran cereal General Mills Wheat Chex Organic Weetabax Familia Swiss Muesli No Added Sugar Barbara’s Puffin’s Original Cereal Total Whole Grain Fiber One Original Uncle Sam’s Original All Bran Cereal Original Kashi GoLean Cereal Hot Kashi GoLean Hot Cereal Uncle Sam’s Toasted Whole Wheat & Flaxseed Original Cereal McCann’s: Steel Cut Oatmeal, Instant Irish Oatmeal Hodgson’s Mill: Oat Bran Hot Cereal, Cracked Wheat, Multi-Grain, Bulgar Wheat Quaker Old Fashioned Oats Quaker Instant Oatmeal Packet: Plain Beverages V8 100% Vegetable Juice — Low Sodium OceanSpray Cranberry 100% Juice — No Sugar Added Tropicana 100% Pure Orange Juice Minute Maid 100% Pure Orange Juice Hawaiian Punch Lite Juicy Juice 100% Juice Crystal Light: various flavors Kool-Aid Jammers 10 Honest Tea: Community Green Tea Honest Tea: Just Green Tea, Unsweetened Arizona Diet Green Tea Nestle Hot Chocolate Fat-Free with Calcium Nestle Hot Chocolate Mix, No Sugar Added Sprite Zero Fuze Slenderize Perrier, Flavored Perrier VitaminWater: 10 calories Gatorade G2 Powerade Zero Propel Alcohol Beck’s Premier Light: 64 calories Miller Genuine Draft: 64 calories Red wine: all varieties Canned Goods, Rice, Beans, Pasta Soup Campbell’s 98% Fat-Free Cream of Mushroom*, Cream of Celery Campbell’s Healthy Requests: Cream of Mushroom, Vegetable, Tomato Progresso Hearty Black Bean soup* Progresso Green Split Pea soup* Progresso Lite Soups* Amy’s Organic soups* — lentil, vegetable, split pea Canned Goods StarKist Chunk Lite Tuna in Water Chicken of the Sea Pink Salmon StarKist Yellowfin Tuna Fillets (Pouches) Hormel Breast of Chicken in Water BlueRunner Creole Cream-style Red Beans BlueRunner Creole Cream-style Navy Beans BlueRunner New Orleans Spicy Cream-style Red Beans Trappey’s Kidney Beans, Butter Beans, Pinto Beans, Blackeye Beans, Fieldpeas, Black Beans V. Allen’s Turnip Greens V. Allen’s Popeye Spinach DelMonte Sweet Peas — no-salt added DelMonte Fresh Cut Sliced Beets LeSueur Tender Baby Whole Carrots Zapata All Natural Refried Beans Libby’s 100% Pure Pumpkin Rice, Dried Beans, Pasta Basmati Rice: All brands Brown Rice: All brands Dried Beans (pinto, kidney, navy, lima, black-eyed, etc.) Hodgson Mill Whole Wheat Whole Grain Pasta HeartLand 100% Whole Wheat Spaghetti Barilla Plus Spaghetti & Penne Pasta Gia Russa: Whole Wheat Lasagna, Whole Wheat Angel Hair Pasta, Whole Wheat Rigatoni, Whole Wheat Penne Rigate Hodgson Mill: Whole Wheat Shell Pasta, Whole Wheat Fettuccine, Whole Wheat Spaghetti, Whole Wheat Spinach Spaghetti, Whole Wheat Angel Hair DeBoles: Whole Wheat Pasta, Whole Wheat Angel Hair Heartland’s 100% Whole Wheat Spaghetti |
Meat, Poultry, Seafood Meat Kabobs: beef, chicken, pork Rouses Stir-fry: pork and veggie, beef and veggie Rouses 93/7 Lean Ground Beef and Hamburger Patties Beef tenderloin Beef flank steak Beef bottom round roast Eye of round steak Center cut pork chop Swift marinated pork tenderloin: Asian Sesame, Barbecue, Lemon Pepper Honeysuckle white breast of turkey (99% fat free) Honeysuckle white turkey breast tenderloins (pre-marinated, seasoned) Honeysuckle white turkey breast thin-cut slices Sanderson Farms 100% natural chicken breast filets, chicken breast tenders Poultry and Eggs Honeysuckle White Boneless Skinless Turkey Breast Honeysuckle White Extra Lean Ground Breast of Turkey Honeysuckle White Turkey Breast Tenderloin Honeysuckle White 93/7 Fresh Ground Turkey Hormel Sliced Roasted Turkey Breast & Gravy* Tyson Fajita Chicken Breast Strips Hormel Turkey Pepperoni* Jennie-O Turkey Franks Oscar Mayer Center Cut Bacon Oscar Mayer Turkey Sausage 2/3’s Less Fat Tyson Mesquite Chicken Breasts (fully-cooked) Uncured Bacon — Canadian Bacon Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast Pork Tenderloin Swift Premium Seasoned Pork Tenderloin Center Cut Pork Chops Egg-Lands Best Eggs Egg Beaters — Original Seafood * All fish and shellfish (not stuffed, breaded or fried) Yellow Fin Tuna Fresh Salmon Catfish Louisiana shrimp Sea Scallops Tilapia Crab Meat Louisiana Oysters Smoked Salmon* Louisiana Crawfish Inland Market Chardonnay Salmon, Bronzed Tilapia Emeril’s Certified Wild-Caught Shrimp Treasures from the Sea: Ahi Tuna, Tilapia, Cod Filets, Pollock Fillets Full Circle: Wild Swordfish, Wild Alaskan Halibut, Wild Ahi Tuna, Wild Salmon Frozen Foods Frozen Meals and Foods Morning Star Grillers Original Burger Morning Star Garden Veggie Burger Morning Star Sausage Links Morning Star Sausage Patties Morning Star Farms Meal Starters Crumbles Morning Star Farms Italian Sausage Morning Star Farms Bacon Strips Boca All American Flame Grilled Meatless Burger Boca All American Classic Meatloaf Burger Lean Cuisine, Honey Dijon Grilled Chicken* Lean Cuisine, Steaktips Portabella Smart Ones, Chicken Marsala with Broccoli Healthy Choice Café Steamers, Grilled Whiskey Steak All Kashi Frozen Meals DeWafelbakk Buckwheat Berry Flax Seed Pancakes DeWafelbakk Sweet Potato Pancakes Food for Life Bread: All varieties Kashi TLC Crackers: All flavors Special K Crackers: All flavors Kashi Go-Lean Waffles — Blueberry Kashi Go-Lean Waffles — Plain Frozen Vegetables Edamame Ore-Ida Roasted Potatoes: Original Best Yet: green peppers, cut-leaf spinach, lima beans, cut okra, broccoli, cut carrots, collard greens, black eye peas, butter beans Pict Sweet: carrots, butter beans, purple-hulled peas, sliced yellow squash, mixed greens, chopped turnip greens, chopped collard greens, broccoli cuts, chopped onions, chopped green peppers, okra and tomatoes, lima beans, field peas Green Giant: broccoli spears, broccoli and carrots lightly seasoned, teriyaki vegetables, baby lima beans in butter sauce, baby sweet peas, broccoli spears in butter sauce honey-glazed carrots, creamed spinach Birds Eye: pepper stir-fry, sugarsnap stir-fry, broccoli stir-fry, steamed-fresh seasoned cauliflower, tender broccoli cuts, artichoke hearts, lemon pepper vegetables, chopped spinach, sweet peas, brown rice Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt, Bars Breyers Double Churn FREE ice cream Kemp’s Fat Free Frozen Yogurt Ben & Jerry’s Low Fat Frozen Yogurt Haagen-Daz Sorbet The Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches Weight Watchers ice cream sandwiches Klondike Slim-a-Bear 100 Calorie Sandwiches The Skinny Cow Bars Weight Watchers Sherbet and Ice Cream Bars No Sugar Added Fudgsicles Sugar Free Popsicles Edy’s No Sugar Added Fruit Bars Weight Watchers pre-portioned ice cream cups Blue Bunny Fat-Free, No Sugar Added Ice Cream Blue Bunny 100 Calorie Ice Cream Bars: All flavors Mr. Edy’s Slow Churned, No Sugar Added Ice Cream Bread Nature’s Own 100% Whole Wheat Bread Nature’s Own 100% Whole Wheat Bagel Pepperidge Farm Natural Whole Grain 15 Bread Pepperidge Farm Whole Grain English Muffin (100% whole wheat) Pepperidge Farm Whole Grain Oatmeal Bread Pepperidge Farm Whole Grain 100% Whole Wheat Bagel Thomas Hearty Whole Wheat Mini-Bagel Thomas Hearty Grains 100% Whole Wheat English Muffin Wonder Bread, Wheat Hot Dog Bun Bunny Light Wheat Hamburger Bun La Tortilla Tortillas Flat Out Light Wraps: all varieties/flavors Kontos Whole Wheat Pocket Pita Oroweat Sandwich Thins 100% Whole Wheat Oroweat Whole Grain 100% Whole Wheat Hamburger Buns Oroweat 100% Whole Wheat Bread Mission Multi-Grain Flour Tortillas Mission 96% Fat-Free Whole Wheat Tortillas Natural Grain:
Thomas’ 100% Whole Wheat English Muffins Oroweat 100% Whole Wheat English Muffins Sara Lee 100% Whole Wheat Rouses’ Wheat Bread Dairy and Dairy Substitutes Yogurt Fage Greek Yogurt: 0%, 2% StonyField Farm Organic Fat Free Plain Yogurt Yoplait Fat Free Plain Yogurt Best Yet Non-Fat Plain Yogurt Activa Plain Yogurt Dannon Low-Fat or Non-Fat Plain Yogurt Cream Best Yet Half & Half Land-O-Lake Low fat Half & Half Nestle Coffee-Mate: Sugar Free French Vanilla, Sugar Free Hazelnut, Sugar Free Vanilla Caramel Cheese and Cheese Spreads Breakstone’s Low Fat Cottage Cheese Breakstone’s Fat Free Cottage Cheese Breakstone’s Light-n-Lively Low Fat Cottage Cheese Breakstone’s Light-n-Lively Fat Free Cottage Cheese Breakstone’s Live Active Cottage Cheese Lactaid Cottage Cheese, 1% Milk Fat Sargento Light Ricotta Cheese Kraft Deli Deluxe, 2% Milk Cheese, Sharp Cheddar Kraft Deli Deluxe, 2% Milk Cheese, American Slices Kraft Singles, 2%: All flavors Kraft Singles, Fat Free American Sargento Reduced Fat Pepperjack Cheese Slices Cracker Barrel 2% Milk Cracker Cut Cheese Sargento Reduced Fat Shredded Sharp Cheddar Cheese Borden Reduced Fat Shredded Cheddar and Monterey Jack Cheese Borden 2% Cheese Singles: All flavors Laughing Cow Cheese Wedges: Original Creamy Swiss Laughing Cow Cheese Light Wedges: Light Swiss, Light Garlic and Herb, Light French Onion Babybell Light Cheese Kraft String-Ums, Mozzarella String Cheese Kraft Philadelphia Fat Free Cream Cheese Athena Reduced Fat Feta Cheese Milk Rouses 1% Low Fat Milk Rouses Fat Free Skim Milk Silk Soy Milk Natural Silk Vanilla Light Soy Milk 8th Continent Light Soy Milk — original 8th Continent Light Soy Milk — chocolate 8th Continent Light Soy Milk — vanilla Almond Breeze Unsweetened Chocolate, Unsweetened Plain (shelf-stable; not refrigerated) Borden Organic Fat Free Milk Borden Organic 1% Low Fat Milk Nestle Milk Nutritional Shakes Baking Quaker Oatmeal Pancake Mix Log Cabin Sugar Free Syrup Gold Medal Whole Wheat Flour Hodgson Mill Insta-Bake Whole Wheat Baking Mix Hodgson Mill Milled Flax Seed Hodgson Mill Wheatgerm Hodgson Mill Golden Milled Flax Seed Mazola Canola Oil Fruttato Colavita Extra Virgin Olive Oil First Cold Pressed Ballino First Cold Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil PET Fat Free Evaporated Skimmed Milk Nestle Carnation Evaporated Fat Free Milk Truvia Sweet Leaf Sweetener Aunt Jeminah Whole Wheat Blend Pancake and Waffle Mix Hodgson Mill Rye Bread Mix Honey Whole Wheat Bread Mix Mill Flax Seed Buckwheat Pancake Mix Truvia Sun Crystals |
* Product contains more than 600 mg of sodium per serving. |
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