All Blog Posts Tagged 'meals' (10)

Preventing holiday weight gain does not mean you need to deprive yourself of your favorite holiday foods! Simple recipe substitutions can save you calories without sacrificing the taste you love. Five Tips for a Healthier Holiday: 1. Applesauce or Plum Puree: Use canned applesauce or plum puree in your holiday cookie, cake and pie recipes as a healthier alternative to replace butter and oils. 2. Pumpkin: Use canned pumpkin for more than pumpkin pie. Ad… Continue

The holidays bring an overabundance of food to our lives! Oh, how easy it is to overfill, gain weight, and then be left with guilt and frustration. Try out these tips to save your waistline and feel great about yourself after the holidays have passed! * Avoid skipping meals and snacks earlier in the day prior to a holiday meal. This is a sure-fire way to set you up for cravings, overeating, or binge eating. * Take an active role in planning the holiday meal. Suggest a sit-down meal vs. buffet… Continue

Who likes spending time in the kitchen? Not I! Here are a few tips to get in and out of the kitchen quickly with a well-balanced nutritious (and good tasting!) meal. Here are 3 tips to prepare meals efficiently: Keep it simple – Gourmet meals can be saved for special occasions. If you want to prepare a meal quickly opt for recipes with fewer ingredients that do not require elaborate preparations. Make it a habit – Prepare the same meals on a fairly regular basis and you’ll be ab… Continue

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The list below will help make eating 6 meals a day easy. When you are picking out what to eat plan ahead for the next day. When you are shopping take this list with you. It will help you make wise choices. Below are helpful hints on eating healthy. … Continue

Eating slowly will help you feel fuller and decrease the calories you eat each meal, all of which leads to shedding the unwanted pounds! It takes ~20 minutes for your head to tell your stomach it’s full, so aim for at least 20 minutes to eat each meal.

Those who eat quickly until they are full are three times more likely to be overweight (research published in the British Medical Jo

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Despite what the sign on this truck says (which I took while waiting for the light to change when I was walking), life isn’t enjoyed more by eating out.

Here are three major reasons to eat at home:

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I posted an article on Almost Fit today on the benefits of eating together as a family. I wanted to give Iowa Avenue folks a little additional personal info, and ask you: What is your family eating culture like? Here's a little history, and our current practice: Growing up… Continue

Have you ever noticed how grocery stores are set up? The good, healthy (and usually more expensive items per calorie) are on the outside of the store. Fancy end cap displays that draw you into the center of the store tend to pull you toward the sweet, high-calorie, SALE items sure to cause sugar-addiction and bad eating habits. Seriously though. I live in an area where we have several communities that traditionally are lower-income groups, with greater health problems. Less money = less nutr… Continue

Total calorie intake should be distributed throughout the day, with the consumption of 4 to 5 meals/snacks per day including breakfast. Consumption of greater calorie intake during the day may be preferable to evening consumption. Eating Together as a Family Creates Bet… Continue