Making Healthy Choices Monday

Keep a variety of fruit in your home. This way you won’t get bored always eating apples. It also helps to have fruit pre-cut when possible to make an easy and quick snack. 

Making Healthy Choices Monday

When buying canned vegetables be sure to buy the low-sodium or no salt added versions. This way you can better control how much salt goes into your food. 

Making Healthy Choices Monday

Eat more fish! It has very little fat and is so good for you! There are great fish recipes out there that can help hide the fish taste of you don’t like fish. If you buy fish without any bones it’s much easier to eat. 

Making Healthy Choices Monday

When buying canned fruit purchase the fruit in water, or light syrup, never heavy syrup. No-sugar added is another great option.

Making Healthy Choices Monday

Steam your vegetables rather than boil, when possible. Boiling cooks out some of the vitamins from the vegetables. Cooking them in the microwave with a little bit of water is a good way to cook them too.

Making Healthy Choices Monday

Buy only 100% fruit juice. There are many options for 100% fruit juice. Have you ever looked at the ingredients of the other types of juice? On a lot the first few ingredients is high fructose corn syrup or water! That means your mostly paying for water and sugar.

Drinking 100% juice ensures you will be getting a serving of fruit in every 1/2 cup! But beware, you can’t get your full daily amount of fruit servings from juice. One-third of the fruit you eat can be from juice, the other two-thirds must be from the whole fruit. 

There are many brands that make 100% juice, so I'm not promoting one brand over the other.

Drink up!

Making Healthy Choices Monday

Every Monday we will post a tip helping everyone to make healthy choices when eating and buying food.

Tip #1

Buy as many whole grain foods as possible, and make sure the package says 100% whole wheat. By law, if the package says 100% whole wheat then it is. There are many brands that make sliced whole wheat bread. Other foods such as hamburger buns, pasta, pancakes, and tortillas don’t always come 100% whole wheat, but buying the whole grain, grain, or whole wheat blend is better than the white flour version. Take a look at the ingredient list; if the first ingredient is whole wheat flour it’s a good buy. 

Do you have any healthy eating ideas? Email then to: lookwhatscookingtoday@gmail.com and we'll post them!