[Jtsummers]

My "trick" at regular grocery stores is to stick primarily to the perimeter: produce, dairy, meat. The only aisles I regularly go down are for spices, grains of some sort (typically rice), beans, and stocks (too lazy to make my own).

I've never had to bother with health food stores, though I guess it has the benefit of removing temptation. Whenever I've visited one, the prices made no sense to me for the things they were selling.

A better option to remove the temptation is some of the smaller grocery chains (Sprouts, Fresh Market). They have reliably had good produce and meat at reasonable prices (Fresh Market's meat and produce prices, when I lived near them, were reliably better than Kroger and Publix with better quality). Bulk items are a bit difficulty, Fresh Market sold rice at a terrible price so I'd still hit Kroger for that (the local one to me at the time had produce practically rotting on the shelf, spoiled by the next day if I ever bought any, but rice and dry beans are hard to screw up). Sprouts' rice and beans and lentils are priced reasonably, a bit high but not bad.

But the canned goods, chips, and other things at both of them are priced at twice what the regular groceries sell them for, and about 4x (or more) what Walmart has for the same items. Easy to walk past them and not spend that money.