Following your guiding stars yet? Grocery shopping 101

Having trouble deciphering nutrition labels? Can't decide which food is more nutritiously sound? There may be help on the way... A new food rating system called "Guiding Stars" is being piloted in some grocery stores which should take the guesswork out of making nutritious choices.

How does Guiding Stars work? The following clip gives you a brief introduction, so check it out...

            

Even better... visit one of the stores that has the Guiding Stars system in place and let us know what you think by sending us a comment.

You may even want to put the new rating system to the test by comparing actual food labels... To brush up on your food labelling skills check out Health Canada' s Interactive Nutrition Label and take their Quiz.  Happy Healthy Shopping!