Dr. Michele Arthurs, a local lifestyle medicine physician with Kaiser Permanente, knows how daunting it can be for families to grocery shop with their young children.

That’s why, when her kids were little, Arthurs turned their grocery run into a scavenger hunt adventure.

“If we were going to look for grapes, I would give them clues. ‘The next food that we're going to look for might be purple or it might be green, and it's small and it’s round like a little ball. What is it that we're looking for?’'" she recounted to News4.

Just like that, her kids were learning and having fun.

That’s just one of the tips Arthurs and Giant Food nutritionist Leslie Jefferson shared with News4 on ways parents can make grocery shopping with kids easier and – hopefully – healthier.

Arthurs admits there can

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