Is healthy eating one of your resolutions for 2010? Many people give up on the healthy eating resolution very early in the year for many different reasons. One of the reasons so many people give up on it is very simple – they did not have a Healthy Eating Plan.
Creating your Healthy Eating Plan is very simple. Have a plan that helps you put together healthy meals at home, and you will be much more likely to stick with your healthy eating resolution.
Another thing is to not become upset when you eat something that you don’t think is healthy. So what is you had some fast food yesterday or had some chocolate cake at the restaurant? The key is to not make fast food and chocolate cake the main pieces of your diet. If you eat healthy 80% of the time and then eat foods that are not too healthy the other 20% of the time, that is still a reasonably good diet. Don’t go for perfect – eating healthy some of time is still better than not eating healthy at all.
To help you eat healthier this year, here are five healthy eating tips:
– Create A Weekly Menu In Advance. Doing this requires some planning, but creating a menu in advance is the best thing you can do to help yourself keep your promise of healthy eating.
Decide on the recipes you will use for your meals, and which ingredients you will use in the recipe. That way you will never have to think about what to cook for dinner – you will have all the ideas and recipes at your fingertips! The key here is to choose easy recipes that will help you make your dinner easily!
Once you decide on what you are going to cook, write a shopping list and include the ingredients for all the dishes that you are planning on making next week.
Double check your list to make sure you include all the ingredients you need. It will be very frustrating when you start cooking dinner and then realize that you are missing an important ingredient.
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– Include Salads In Your Menu. When you are creating your menu, make sure to include salads. Salads are easy to make, and they are usually healthy.
A salad made with lots of raw vegetables and a simple oil-vinegar dressing will make your dinner tastier and healthier.
Here are some salads to take a look at: Potato Salad Without Mayonnaise, Beet Salad, Greek Salad, Panzanella Salad.
– Include Soups In Your Menu. Just like with salads, you should add soups to your menu as well. Grains, lean meats, beans and vegetables
Here are a few soups: Vegetable Soup, Beef and Barley Soup.
– Cook A Variety Of Foods. If you cook just one or two different dishes, you will get bored of them really fast and then you will go back to junk food and chocolate cake.
Find recipes that you like and add them to your dinner rotation. Do you like a particular cuisine? Do you like a particular dish you had at a restaurant? Do research and explore how to make it yourself – you will learn something new and you will feel great about cooking your dinner!
Explore different cuisines: Greek recipes, Italian food, Mediterranean recipes.
Have healthy eating tips? Share them in the comments!
Now it’s your turn – share your healthy eating tips in the comments! Let’s help each other eat healthier this year.
Excellent advice Tasty Galaxy! I’ll add the obvious: Incorporate fresh spices into your meals! Many spices (like cinnamon) are high in antioxidants and have a lot of health value. Using spices allows you to customize your own food. Plus (my favorite) you can get away with creating something really delicious with easy effort. Not to mention spices make it easy to get some variety on your menu, just like Biana describes above!
Mmmm..soups and salads! Variety is king!