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Shopping, food planning can be challenging for everyone

People sometimes think that being a dietitian makes eating healthy automatically easy for me.

It doesn’t. I struggle with the balance of budget, time, availability of products, etc. We all have challenges to eating the healthy way we want. That is life. Sometimes, though, challenges lead us to new and creative ways of accomplishing our goals.

Take the recent closure of Mega Foods. Until that happened, I had my food budget and shopping down to…