| In today's world, we all look for the quick meal. We | | | | today that you will not eat vegetables from a can. |
| sacrifice our health in an effort to make our food quick | | | | Choose fresh vegetables (or frozen if you can not get |
| and easy. We purchase store-made bread, boxed | | | | fresh), and cook them in a more healthy way. Instead |
| potatoes, canned vegetables. There is very little in our | | | | of boiling your carrots, take an extra 10 minutes and |
| diets that is not heavily processed and laden with | | | | steam them. Learn to use herbs (fresh if possible) to |
| preservatives. | | | | add interesting flavors to your meals. (Thyme on |
| In order to work toward a healthier lifestyle, we must | | | | carrots is just fantastic). |
| begin making changes in our food choices. It used to | | | | When you have made the change over to fresher |
| be enough to just say "I'll add more fruits and | | | | vegetables, begin looking for new ways to cut the |
| vegetables to my diet". But not anymore. The food | | | | preservatives and over-processing from your foods. |
| that we are putting in our mouths has little to no | | | | Invest in a bread maker, and set it to make bread at |
| nutrition left. It has been pasteurized, homogonized, and | | | | night while you are asleep. You will wake to fresh |
| processed. Each of these processes breaks down | | | | bread that cost you ¢.20 to make instead of |
| the vitamins and nutrients in our foods. | | | | $2.00 to buy. It will be healthier and you will be happier. |
| It is impossible to break all bad habits at once. When | | | | Make pasta with a quick healthy sauce instead of |
| you change your entire routine, it becomes difficult to | | | | relying on boxed products with powdered sauces. Boil |
| sustain the changes. The best way to begin changing | | | | and mash your own potatoes, adding a few other root |
| your lifestyle is to adjust one thing at a time. Let the | | | | vegetables at the same time, for a healthy alternative |
| change become a way of life, and then move on to | | | | to box potatoes or potato flakes. |
| adjusting something else. | | | | You can easily control what you eat and what you |
| One of the best things you can do for your body and | | | | make. With a little planning, you can have the healthy |
| your family is to slowly change your food over to its | | | | food you want with only a little more time investment. |
| more natural state. Start with your vegetables. Vow | | | | Your health is worth it. |