Good nutrition is one of the greatest strategies to remain fit. And yet it can be a challenge. So here are some tips for incorporating a variety of foods.
“Variety is the spice of life,” as someone once remarked. In many cases, that can be true, especially when it comes to eating various healthy foods. Regrettably, it is often easy to find ourselves in a rut regarding our food choices due to life. So, here are some easy tips for the food variety challenge.
Get Inspired
The best way to do this is to rummage through some culinary magazines and recipe books. Then, when you have spare time, try out some new recipes on the weekend. When you find some, you especially like to make a point to cook plenty of extra to store or freeze for a quick meal during the week.
Flip your meals upside down
Try having dinner food for breakfast and breakfast foods for dinner. For example, for breakfast, try a cheese quesadilla with salsa, and for dinner, have eggs and turkey bacon. Kids especially love this wacky way to eat sometimes.
Eat a rainbow
Preschoolers learn a song to help them recall the rainbow’s hues. The rainbow’s hues. Consume colorful fruits and veggies regularly. If you cannot find them in the produce section, you may find them in the frozen food section, especially when they are out of season. You can always find frozen strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, yams, beans, peas, and peaches. Try sauteing an eggplant with red, orange, and green peppers. So a variety of colorful, healthy foods is also so delicious to look at on the plate.
Customize your morning meals
Instead of just eating a bowl of instant oatmeal every morning, try mixing a variety of dried fruits, seeds and grains together in a custom cereal blend like barley, bran, oats, amaranth, banana chips, cranberries, and sunflower seeds.
Get exotic
If you are seriously stuck in a rut, try eating out at foreign food restaurant on occasion for ideas. Ethnic cuisine like Thai, Japanese, Indian, and Greek is chocked full of vegetables and flavorful spices. If you are daring, you could search the ethnic aisle in your supermarket and make some exotic dishes at home.
Besides making our plates look more appealing or tantalizing our taste buds, there are also many health benefits to eating various foods. Research proves that there may be benefits of eating a variety of fresh foods that are rich in color and texture in that they can help prevent or improve many diseases. Registered dietitian Elizabeth Ward has said, “It pays to eat a wide variety of foods because you never know which food will show a benefit next.”
Conclusion:
It is easy to find ourselves in a rut regarding our food choices due to life. Here are some easy tips for the food variety challenge. Try having dinner food for breakfast and breakfast foods for dinner. Consume colorful fruits and veggies regularly. Kids especially love this wacky way to eat sometimes.
There are many health benefits to eating various foods. Eating a variety of fresh foods rich in color and texture can help prevent or improve many diseases. If you are stuck in a rut, try eating out at foreign food restaurants. Ethnic cuisine like Thai, Japanese, Indian, and Greek is chocked full of vegetables and spices.
