My Healthy Eating Tips

1. Always have vegetables in the cupboard, the refrigerator, and the freezer. Put them in places you won't expect (that much). You cannot run from the vegetables.
   
2. Chicken stock is lovely for impromptu vegetable soups.
   
3. Whenever you prep vegetables, wash a bit more than you need. Store the extra in a plastic bag in the fridge so you don't have an excuse to not eat vegetables.
   
4. Steel cut oatmeal isn't just breakfast food or sweet! It can be savory and for lunch, too! All that extra fiber is good for you.
   
5. What about the meat? I have a bag of relatively salty meatballs in the freezer, buffalo wings flavored. I drop around three to four pieces into soup, and there you have your seasoning and protein!
   
6. Egg whites are good, too, for soups and if you feel like eating one scrambled egg in the morning isn't enough.
   
7. Sweet potatoes, baked, for a sweet treat. Lots of fiber, but careful of portion sizes! There's more calories in a sweet potato than you think.
   
8. Think color when cooking—it helps with nutrition. I like tomatoes for red and purple cabbage for purple. Lots of green veggies.
   
9. Choose fruit that you like, but don't love. Me? When I have fruit that I love, I'll eat too much of it, leading to sugar highs (from fruit, which is a bit sad) and more calories than you know. My picks: apples, grapes, pears. I love pears, but they're so good that I can savor them; plus, I always think, "If I leave them for one more day, they'll be even sweeter and softer."
   
10. Stock up on tea, bottled water, and milk. Convenient, tasty, cheap, and healthy. No excuse for not drinking enough fluids!
    

    
     

    Learn to love veggies! Veggies are your friends.