A grocery store is a wonderful place: thousands of ingredients and products at your fingertips available to combine, cook, and eat. However, that choice can be overwhelming: While shoppers in the 1970s chose from a mere 9,000 products, shoppers today choose from more than 47,000. Selecting food that is clean and healthy for you and your family can be daunting, so we’ve put together 10 tips for cleaner grocery shopping that will help to navigate your options. We’re defining clean here as products devoid of pesticides, additives, or preservatives, and packaging by-products. 1. Rule of Thumb: Buy From the Perimeter Most stores line the walls with the simplest of products: produce, the butcher, the bakery, dairy, etc. Aisles in the middle contain most of the processed foods that generally have additives and preservatives that you are better to avoid. Now, there are caveats to this rule. For example, the bakery …