Ideas and Resources for Creating
Healthy Everyday Meals
Soup: Easy, Healthy, and Delicious!
Soup is one of our perfect healthy, delicious foods. Get in the habit of making a pot of soup at least once a week and you will always have a good, healthy, ready-to-eat meal. Try an all-vegetable soup, a bean soup or chili, a chowder or gumbo with seafood. Or spice things up with a chicken tortilla soup with corn, a pasta fagioli soup with plenty of garlic and tomato, or a hot and sour cabbage soup. The possibilities are endless!
Healthy Meal Planning Ideas
Break out from the old meat-starch-vegetable model of meal planning!
Build a meal around available fresh produce
Build around a single Item—make a list of single items for the week and add other dishes later.
Pick 3 items that go together by taste, color, and texture
Go international—Italian, Asian, Mexican, etc.
Keep track of successful meals to repeat
Creating healthy meals is easier with better ideas, tools, and resources
Gather your resources and organize them to make your meal ideas easy to find and use. We all come across good ideas all the time, but we are so bombarded with information that we tend to forget them.
You can save time and eat a healthier diet by taking control of all those good ideas and translating them into a realistic day-to-day plan.
Start by thinking of the foods you really want to have in your diet, and go from there to creating a master list of meal ideas. Then find recipes in cookbooks or online.
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10 easy ways to eat more fruits and vegetables
- Make it available! Buy fresh produce every time you shop.
- Make it convenient! Use pre-washed greens and pre-chopped veggies.
- Be adventurous! Every week try a new fruit or vegetable that you don't normally eat.
- Make soup—a delicious and nutritious meal you can pack with favorite veggies.
- Make your own homemade pizza with vegetables of your choice.
- Make fruit desserts such as a layered parfait or baked apples or pears.
- Make your own salsa, or enhance store-bought salsa with added vegetables or fruits.
- Drink them! Buy 100% juice or use your juicer or blender to make juice or smoothies.
- Make it to go! Take cut-up vegetables with dip for lunch or snacks to go. Cut enough for several days.
- Shop the salad bar for items to include in dishes other than salad too.
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