5 Simple Ways to Get Enough Fruits and Vegetables in Your Diet
5 Simple Ways to Get Enough Fruits and Vegetables in Your Diet
Fast-paced lifestyle is creating distractions in almost everything we do during the day including practicing a healthy diet. We usually eat quickly without taking care of the amount of calories and unhealthy substances that we consume because we simply don’t have enough time to think about that. You can change this with a few simple tips.
It can be really challenging to take care of the sufficient daily intake of fruits and vegetables when you have a full-time job and when you need to take care of your children and family at the same time. Nutritionists recommend at least five serving of 80 grams (2,8 ounces) of vegetables and fruits a day. It is a shocking fact that only 30% of the world population manage to achieve this goal.
We hope that our tips will help you change your daily eating habits, improve health and raise energy levels.
- Instead of eating salty snacks and biscuits (food that has no nutritional value) eat fresh vegetables. In this way, you will avoid the drop of energy during the day which usually occurs after a meal rich in sugars. An average carrot contains only 32 calories and celery has even less – 8 calories. If eating plain vegetables is tasteless and boring, make a yogurt sauce with less fat.
- Another quick and simple way to increase the intake of healthy foods is to add some fruit in your breakfast. If you like to eat cereals for breakfast add a handful of raspberries, blueberries or strawberries. Use peanut butter and banana slices on your toast in order to get the necessary energy for the daily tasks.
- Fresh vegetables and fruits can be replaced with frozen vegetables and fruits during the winter when you can’t find these foods on the market or when they are significantly more expensive. In most cases, fruits and vegetables don’t lose their nutritional value when they are frozen and in some cases, frozen is even healthier than fresh – young peas.
- Most people today have fewer vegetables than the recommended 80 grams in their plates. Increase this amount now. Serve few different types of vegetables during one meal. The positive side of this practice is that vegetables are really simple to prepare and they don’t need long thermal treatment.
- When you get back home from shopping, put the fruits and vegetables in a visible place; don’t hide them in the fridge or in the pantry. Have a bowl filled with fruit on the table all the time and in this way you will surely have an apple or two during the day. In the morning, cut some fruits and vegetables and store them in plastic containers. You will get healthy snacks for the day.
With these small changes, you will increase the intake of nutrients, improve your energy levels, lose weight and save money.