Do you read the ingredients list on your food packaging, or

I look for all around goodness which includes calories, fat, protein, and ingredients. I try and avoid HFCS and foods that have too many ingredients that I can't identify or say the name (LOL!).

I use to be one of those people. I was on the hunt for low sodium foods and spent almost 3 hours in the store reading all the labels of things I bought. I found that typically items that claim low cal/fat are typically higher in sodium! I've opted to take the hit on the calories and have lower sodium on most items because I can work off the cals and not the sodium.

Definitely try to cut anything that has more than a few ingredients. I do Sometimes have low cal salad dressing, and I am guilty of some frozen chicken, but other than that, natural is best!

I pay attention to everything in my food. I'm not gonna eat some 100 calorie pack if it's got 30 carbs in it. I pay attention to carbs, protein, fat, sugar and ingredients. I really try and stay away from anything with aspartame or high fructose corn syrup. Getting healthy is about making good choices for life, not just cutting calories. That's how people gain weight back. They don't learn anything.

Not only do I look at ingredients, but I also look at where the food was shipped from. Living in Washington State, I don't want to be buying food from across the world, or even cross country if I can help it

I pay attention to everything I put in mine and my families bodies! I generally don't buy packaged food, and if I do ingredients matter. I will not buy anything with any chemicals, hfcs, hydro oils or any ingredient I can't pronounce. Whole food all the way. All calories are not created equal. If something has some sort of health claim on it it is junk and not food really just something resembling food.

I read everything I do buy that comes packaged such as bread, cereal etc. I avoid HFCS and hydrogenated oils, MSG etc. I have found a few brands of bread that I really love, but are 100-110 per slice. They're huge, delicious and healthy though and it's no thing to cut one slice in half to make two slices for a sandwich. I cook our meals from scratch, but do have cereal/oatmeal and whatnot for breakfast often though. I love to have quaker oatmeal non-instant plain...no sodium or sugar...drop in a banana....yum. Some people however, don't have the time or luxury to make everything from scratch and eat as healthy as possible. Also you mustn't forget that organic foods and fresh produce/vegetables can be very expensive if you don't have a local farmer's market.

I DO read the ingredients list and I even like to be able to pronounce what it says!

I always read the labels. Noticed that i'm better at making foods at home than buying the pre-processed foods. Noticed that weight watchers foods are high in sodium so I avoid those too.

I pretty much always check out the nutritional content of my foods, making sure they are low on fat and seeing what other micro nutrients they contain, the more micro nutrients (vitamins, minerals etc) they have the more likely I am to buy.

I don't usually check for sodium/sugar unless I am comparing products to decide which to buy, but some foods you know are high on sodium, sugar and/or fat anyway like chips so I will usually opt for the better one, nutritionally.

Occasionally it does come down to the less calories over all, (like in rolls or chips or sweets) as a treat is often just a treat so if I can have a treat and have the one with the least calories I will be happy (ie cherry rip vs. Crunchie Bar)