Healthier Food Choices For Your Family

In today's world, we all look for the quick meal. We sacrifice our health in an effort to make our food quick and easy. We purchase store-made bread, boxed potatoes, canned vegetables. There is very little in our diets that is not heavily processed and laden with preservatives. In order to work toward a healthier lifestyle, we must begin making changes in our food choices.

It used to be enough to just say "I'll add more fruits and vegetables to my diet". But not anymore. The food that we are putting in our mouths has little to no nutrition left. It has been pasteurized, homogonized, and processed. Each of these processes breaks down the vitamins and nutrients in our foods. It is impossible to break all bad habits at once.

When you change your entire routine, it becomes difficult to sustain the changes. The best way to begin changing your lifestyle is to adjust one thing at a time. Let the change become a way of life, and then move on to adjusting something else. One of the best things you can do for your body and your family is to slowly change your food over to its more natural state. Start with your vegetables.

Vow today that you will not eat vegetables from a can. Choose fresh vegetables (or frozen if you can not get fresh), and cook them in a more healthy way. Instead of boiling your carrots, take an extra 10 minutes and steam them.

Learn to use herbs (fresh if possible) to add interesting flavors to your meals. (Thyme on carrots is just fantastic). When you have made the change over to fresher vegetables, begin looking for new ways to cut the preservatives and over-processing from your foods. Invest in a bread maker, and set it to make bread at night while you are asleep.

You will wake to fresh bread that cost you .20 to make instead of $2.00 to buy. It will be healthier and you will be happier. Make pasta with a quick healthy sauce instead of relying on boxed products with powdered sauces. Boil and mash your own potatoes, adding a few other root vegetables at the same time, for a healthy alternative to box potatoes or potato flakes.

 You can easily control what you eat and what you make. With a little planning, you can have the healthy food you want with only a little more time investment. Your health is worth it.