You want to eat healthy, it can be so hard! So to make it easier on you, we have put together a list of easy tips! Furthermore, these tips can work together. As an example, you can prep your healthy meals and use that time to prep your healthy snacks too!
Designing your environment to be healthy takes the thinking out of it. It’s not a matter of willpower, but of small habits that add up to big results!
1. Fruit Bowl
Have a fruit bowl for easy access to healthy snacks. Store a few apples, bananas and oranges on your counter. My pro tip: don’t store ALL of your fruit on the counter. If you do, a few will go bad and you might stop the habit. Store 1/3 of the fruit with peels you buy on the counter and keep the rest fresh in the fridge.
2. Healthy Pantry Foods
Put healthy crunchy foods in the space where you put chips, etc. Ideally don’t buy the chips, but at a minimum, have healthy snacks you like in front of them. Ideas include:
- Nuts & seeds
- Popcorn
- Wasabi Seaweed
- Mary’s Gone Crackers – seed crackers
3. Chopped Up Ingredients To Make Quick Meals
I do this every week. Sunday, I chop up a bunch of things like onions, carrots, and veggies. I also cook rice or quinoa, as well as 4 chicken breasts. It’s like meal prep, but you can add dressings, make ingredients into soup, etc. Allowing you to quickly change things up during the week while eating healthy quickly!
4. Prepared Veggie Snacks
Prep snack veggies in a container in the fridge and put them on a shelf at eye level. This placement further reinforces healthy choices. Pick up some hummus and they make a fun snack for dipping too!
5. Finally, Fully Prepared Meals
The great thing about fully prepared healthy meals is that you can make them alongside your other snack prep. Chopping broccoli for snacks? Cook some of it up for your meal prep! Choose a protein, 1 serving of carbs and a vegetable.
