Eating healthy is not just a fad. It’s not just for hippie granola types, it’s not something to practice only under a doctors direction. Carefully choosing the foods you eat has an impact on every aspect of your life, happiness, social interactions, and overall well-being.
However, eating healthy means different things to different people, and that’s okay. To some, it means salads and carrot sticks at every meal. To others, it’s simply finding a new way to enjoy more wholesome ingredients without feeling like they’re depriving themselves of flavor and enjoyment.
Most people don’t want to be on a “diet”, while the truth is that everyone is on a diet. Diet is the summation of all you eat, good or bad it’s your diet. My point is that you needn’t be on a diet to improve your overall diet if you think of the word as something permanent, not temporary. We all know temporary diets are just that, fleeting in time.
If you want to improve the quality of what you eat in this new year, whether for health or just a curiosity of the world of foods now available, I’ve got 10 Eating Healthy Tips for 2012. Here are the first five:
10) Understand that recipes have inherent limitations and you CAN change them.
9) Examine what foods or eating habits you KNOW are bad for you and slowly try to eliminate or reduce them in your diet.
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8) Identify the foods in your pantry that are not contributing to eating healthy and stop buying them.
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7) Change your eating habits by eating better quality foods more purposefully rather than quickly consuming convenience items.
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6) Stop the guessing in your cooking. Healthy eating may not be appealing to you because you lack confidence to cook the most wholesome foods.
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My Top 10 Healthy Eating Tips will continue tomorrow with much more specific detail in exactly HOW to cook the most wholesome ingredients so you actually PREFER to eat healthy.
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Great Tips Todd. keep them coming, I cooked a hamburger dish using my own ingredients and methods you taught and my wife said that was the best hamburger patty she had tasted. My hats off to you Todd for this Web cooking class. I hope someday to go back to the firestation where I used to work and cook for the guys
Paul
Thanks for the kind words, Paul.
If you can cook for Firemen, you’ve really accomplished something. They’re a tough audience.
Best of luck on your culinary journey!