| It can be hard to eat healthy foods when there is a | | | | vitamins, nutrients, and flavor, and is also digested and |
| McDonald's or an Arby's on every street corner. It can | | | | processed much more easily than processed or |
| be even more difficult for those who work from home. | | | | packaged foods. Journeys to the center aisles of the |
| Telecommuters have flexible hours, unpredictable work | | | | store should be limited, and items should be listed to |
| schedules, and do not always have the time to make | | | | avoid being lured by the bright packaging and empty |
| the best food. So it is understandable why so many | | | | promises of the happiness characteristic of today's |
| work-at-homers are interested in fast, easy ways to | | | | food marketing. The best foods found in the center |
| make delicious, nutritious, and healthy foods. There are | | | | aisles include brown rice and flour, beans and nuts, and |
| a few different strategies that the work at homer and | | | | certain canned foods (ones not too high in sodium). (A |
| the telecommuter can employ to make sure that he | | | | word on brown Vs. white foods: Any time a food like |
| she has lots of easy, healthy foods on hand. | | | | rice or flour is offered in brown and white, it is because |
| The first step to getting healthy is purging your | | | | one has been "enriched" or "processed". "Enriched" |
| environment of all things unhealthy. This includes just | | | | and white together mean bleached. If you would never |
| about anything that is fried, dunked, dipped, or battered, | | | | drink laundry supplies, please avoid white flour and rice.) |
| everything that uses high-fructose corn syrup, and the | | | | Okay, so now that the pantry is chock full of delicious, |
| Itos food group (Fritos, Doritos, Cheetos, etc.). It is easy | | | | healthy foods, it is time to eat! But who has time to |
| to leave these foods stashed in convenient places | | | | cook a full meal, three times a day?! Not somebody |
| around the house, especially in and around the work | | | | who has a flexible or unpredictable schedule. A good |
| area. It has all got to go. Everything. It might hurt a little | | | | way to provide some structure to a new eating |
| at first, but nothing kills junk food cravings like giving up | | | | routine is to cook in bulk. One day a week, make three |
| junk food. | | | | oversized entrees. That way all the leftovers can be |
| Now that all of the unhealthy food has been trashed, it | | | | individually frozen, reheated, and eaten on the spur of |
| is time to restock the pantry. Fresh foods are the | | | | the moment. Replacing the old snack foods for |
| staple of any healthy diet. Normally, fresh foods line the | | | | something natural, with lots of complex carbs like |
| perimeter of a grocery store, with offerings such as | | | | carrots or beans is a fast track for healthy success. |
| fruits and veggies, fresh meat, cheese, milk, eggs, and | | | | These new strategies should help reduce the desire to |
| the like. This is where the majority of shopping time | | | | default back to the -Itos food group, and help maintain |
| and resources should be spent. Fresh food has more | | | | a new happy and healthy lifestyle. |