Image via Wikipedia Nutritionists and dietary experts recommend if you are trying to eat right and healthy you should avoid eating out. While you might try to avoid fast food and restaurants at all costs, there are sometimes when you can't avoid eating out. Luckily, there are things you can do to make your dining experience a healthy and fun one without having to result to only eating a salad. Here are some tips you can use when you have to dine out that will make your dining experience a healthy and fun one. Customize Your Meal Just because the menu says something comes with fried … [Read more...]
CSAs and Seasonal Eating
Image via Wikipedia Prior to the 1900s everyone ate seasonally. Without refrigeration and rapid transportation, there was simply no other choice. Today, we are overwhelmed with choices; our supermarkets are filled with produce from around the world. If we are willing to pay the price, we can eat watermelon, cherries and asparagus all year long. Eating seasonally has a number of benefits. First, seasonal fruits and vegetables are less expensive. Second, it challenges us to vary our menus. And third, we can support our local farmers. With family farms struggling to … [Read more...]
Getting Your Protein
Many people wonder about vegetarians. Meat is an important part of our diet because it contains protein. Lack of protein can lead to serious problems including a low immune system which can lead to other serious illnesses. Even though it seems silly to not eat meat because it is such an important part of many peoples’ diets, vegetarians still find that they are able to eat enough protein. How do they find the protein they need necessary for survival? It’s really not that hard to find protein in many foods. There are plenty of foods that contain several grams of protein. You may often hear … [Read more...]
Portion Size
Food is something necessary for our survival. We love our food. But as much as we love food, we have to keep in mind, that even though food seems unlimited to us, with grocery stores and restaurants in such close proximity, we need to keep our portion sizes under control. This is something that many of us don’t even realize. We’ve been eating the same amount at each meal our whole lives, but we don’t even notice that what seems like one serving can actually be two or three servings. We don’t realize how much we actually eat. Most of us just eat until we’re full or until the … [Read more...]
Fast Food Substitutions
We all know that fast food restaurants sell food that is anything but healthy, but sometimes when you’re in a hurry you are forced to eat there for lunch because there’s nowhere else to eat given your situation. When you eat at fast food restaurants while trying to eat healthier there are foods you should avoid that have a healthier alternative. If you’re thinking about ordering a hamburger, buy the Jr. Hamburger instead of the large one. Avoid overindulging in your cravings and keep your proportions small. You should have the same philosophy with French fries or other fried or … [Read more...]
Tips to Healthy Eating
Eating healthy is becoming a challenge in our society. We tend to eat much more fats and sugars than necessary and often overindulge. Being on a diet isn’t just for people who are trying to lose weight, but also for people who don’t want to gain weight and want to stay healthy. Here are a few tips to help control your diet. One of our biggest problems as a society is our portion control. We often eat too much food at a time. One of the problems is that when we eat too fast our body doesn’t have time to tell our mind we are full until we have well overindulged. Try to eat slow and keep … [Read more...]
How to Make Your Fast Food Run Healthier
Many fast food meals are packed with nutrition that we don’t need. Overindulging in nutrition such as fats and sugars isn’t good for our body, and when we eat out at a fast food restaurant, we are overloading on unhealthy nutrients. Sometimes we feel that we need to make a fast food run every once in a while especially when we’re in a hurry, and sometimes it’s much better to eat something than go hungry. Here are a few tips to make your fast food meal a little bit healthier. Pay attention to what you’re ordering. For example, if you have a choice between fried chicken and grilled … [Read more...]
Cooking Healthy
Eating healthy is a problem in families across the country. Often times, we settle for eating out or buying precooked meals that take 10 seconds to heat up. When we do this, we are not only depriving ourselves of important nutrition, but we are putting food into our body that isn’t necessarily good for us. That’s why cooking our own meals is very important. You can get a lot more out of cooking your own meal than eating what someone else has cooked. When you cook your own meal you decide what goes into it and are able to know exactly what you’re eating based on your diet. Every … [Read more...]
Healthy Cooking
Home cooking has become an activity only performed on special occasions in many households. Many people settle for eating out or precooked meals you simply pop in the microwave and wait 7 minutes until your meal is done. When we eat these meals on a regular basis, we may not be getting the correct amount of nutrition or may be getting too much of something and not eating very healthy. When we cook our own meals we are able to control what goes into our food. Not only are we aware of what we are eating, but you get the benefit of choosing what goes into your food. That’s why home … [Read more...]
Healthy Eating Out
Most people don’t normally eat out except on special occasions. Its okay to indulge every now and then, but when we eat out, we don’t realize how many calories are packed into one meal and how much grease they use to fry our food. Although eating out can be quite unhealthy, there are things you can do to make healthier choices. Your first choice comes when you decide where you’re going to eat. Decide on a place that has healthier choices on their menu. Some diners may have the same amount of grease, calories, and fat in some of their foods as a fast food place would, but it … [Read more...]