At the onset, we’d like to emphasize that food should not be strictly looked at from a budgetary point of view. If you are amongst those who use coupons cut from magazines and local newspapers to subsidize your food costs please don’t – at least not unless the item for which you plan to use the coupon coincides with an item on the new diet menu. healthy eating diets will always ask you to plan your meals. Such planning needs to be done from a nutrition and health point of view, not on the basis of coupons that might be available.

Nutrition and health point of view healthy eating ideas:

Notice what happens when you take kids or teenagers with you for shopping? They tend to pick up all kinds of unhealthy stuff. It’s best if you create a shopping list based on your nutrition requirement. Leave the kids at home. You might want to pick up one or two items the kids love but limit the quantity. For example, instead of buying a dozen bags of chips buy just three for the week and slowly reduce that to one per week and buy items which is healthy eating for kids. Your shopping list should include foods like Chicken, turkey, fish, peanut butter, salad leaves, whole grain bread, lots of fruits and vegetables, low fat milk and cheese.

Whenever we are hungry, the first thing we do is rummage in the fridge. If we can’t find anything there we look for cookies or chips or whatever else we can lay our hands on. So our healthy eating tips # 2 is depending on the requirement make a couple of turkey or chicken or tuna sandwiches and stores them in the fridge. Similarly you can add some saffron or strawberry to milk, healthy salad dressing and store a jar of it in the fridge. Inform your family members about the sandwiches and milk shake.

De-skin all your meat and remove any visible fat before cooking. Rediscover the joys of barbeque. If you haven’t already done it yet switch over to quality non-stick frying pan. A major advantage of non-stick pans is that food requires less oil for sautéing or seasoning. Also keep an oil spray bottle handy. When you need to make an omelet, just lightly spray the non-stick pan with oil.

Healthy eating idea and food portion sizes: 4. Reduce red meats and increase beans and legumes

You can vary your source of protein by incorporating beans and legumes in your healthy eating plan, i.e. all your protein need not come from meat products. Most beans can be soaked in water overnight so they sprout the next morning. Sprouted beans are even more nutritious.

Americans do not eat fish as much as red meats. Gram for gram, fish is leaner and healthier than any meat. Additionally, fish also contains Omega-3 fats which are good for your heart.

Fruits such as oranges, melons, Kiwi, bananas, berries, grapes, apples etc. are high in fiber, water and nutrients. Fresh fruits pack more nutrients per calorie than any other food. Also, because of their high water content, you enjoy the feeling of being ‘full’ after eating a relatively small quantity of fruit. This in turn helps you avoid snacking on junk foods.

Notice how family members heap food on to their plates? Rather than eating just one favorite type of food, they should be encouraged to have one or two servings of each. You can achieve this by using quality portion control plates and scoopers. Quality portion control plates have food demarcations on them making it easier to not only limit the amount of food we consume, but also to eat the correct quantities from each food group i.e. Fruits and vegetables, milk, meats, etc.

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Healthy eating is not a fad; it’s a common sense requirement. Go for it.

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