5 Ways to Eat Healthier!!

When it comes to living well, the core is being able to eat healthy. Here are five simple ways to improve your diet and, ultimately, your being.

1. Before you make that trip into the store, grab a light snack to curb your impulse-hunger buys.

When we are hungry, we tend to make more unnecessary food purchases. This will allow the more sensible side of buying healthy foods to come out instead of reaching for that impromptu bag of chips, or cookies to "jump" into your basket.

2. When you arrive at the store, instead of grabbing a HUGE cart to stick a ton of food in, grab a good size basket.

Starting this will allow you to only grab what you need. Although this could seem like you make more trips to the store, you start to see what we really only need to eat. It is easy to fit plenty of food in a basket. For example, this week I was able to fit six chicken breasts, seven tomatoes, four cans of green beans, lunch meat, etc. Plus, it is a great mini-workout!!

3. Keep a "pre-made" list with your essentials on it to prevent skewing from the necessary food items.

This core list will have your pyramid foods on it. From whole grains and meats, to needed fats, vegetables and fruits. This will help the budgeting from month to month and also keep the nagging commercial buys from infiltrating your list. Remember to stay strong!!

4. Cook your own food. This will give you more control of what you put in your body.

This is a dying feature in the American home. Learning how to prepare your own meals will help in keeping your list simple. Also, on a centering level, cooking is very calming and can bring the family together.

5. Remember the food list!! So the shopping experience doesn't become a guessing game.

Forgetting the list will create frustration and will lead to more impulsive buys. On shopping day or whenever its time to restock the kitchen, Always keep it visible so its not forgettable.

These five tips will help you streamline your diet plans and also help simplify the food purchasing process. When we eat well, we become well--one improvement at a time.