Diet

Health starts with what we eat-our diet. It can be hard to make the right choices and even harder to get kids to do it! Here are articles for simple ways to make being healthier the easy choice. Everything from healthier holidays to small every day changes.

Struggling to stop a bad habit? You might be making this mistake.

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I can’t eat a few bites of ice cream and be done. I’ll also never be the person to take a handful of chips and be satisfied. But it’s not because I have no willpower. It’s because I’ve made the mistake of assuming I can stop a bad habit through sheer force of will and nothing more. I now realize I need to take into account a specific quality of my personality. Who eats four potato chips? When I was in college, I lived with a group of friends. The first time I saw one of them, a tiny, petite girl, take a bag of chips to the living room and then proceed to eat four chips and return the … More…

5 Small Changes You Can Make to Create Healthier Eating Habits

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If you’re trying to create healthier eating habits, I know how hard it can feel. What if I told you that it didn’t have to be so difficult? It seems sometimes like there is so much stacked against us! Lack of time makes it easy to stop for fast food. Lack of money has us buying the terrible, but really easy and cheap, packaged meals. These are all very real issues that have so many parents falling into unhealthy eating habits. But you really can start to create healthier eating habits by changing just a few small things! Best of all they are all completely doable on minimal budgets and time. Create healthier eating habits with these 5 changes. 1. … More…

Starting a Plant-Based Diet Can be Simple!

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When my family was first starting a plant-based diet, I was a little nervous. I mean, how do you feed your family on just plants? But my husband and I believed it would improve our health, and it has. So we continue. Having lived my entire life in the Midwest, I knew I’d have to relearn everything about how to prepare meals. I was a vegetarian for years when I was younger but removing all dairy and eggs is not something I ever imagined I’d do. I remember thinking in the past that being vegan (before plant-based was a thing) sounded both crazy and super difficult! We’ve been plant-based for over two years now. I can tell you it’s not … More…

How to Have Healthier Thanksgiving Desserts

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The holiday season is quickly approaching and one thing on most people’s mind is how they’ll avoid gaining weight and avoid all those tempting treats. The holidays are notoriously dangerous for any health initiative and can break many people’s resolve to eat healthier. Thanksgiving, with its emphasis on food is the worst! But there is a way to enjoy Thanksgiving meals, and this includes desserts! I previously wrote about how to create a healthier Thanksgiving overall, but you can also absolutely make the dessert part of Thanksgiving even healthier with just a few simple adjustments. You won’t feel like you’re sacrificing your health or missing out on the tasty goodness! How to Make Thanksgiving Desserts a Healthier Choice A few … More…

An easy, healthy sweet treat kids will absolutely love!

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Summertime treats are a big hit in our house. To be honest, it doesn’t even have to be summer. Ice cream, popsicles, lemonade. You name it, we love it. What I don’t love is how sugary and unhealthy all of those treats are. Even the “healthy” versions are loaded with junk, and I don’t feel good giving them to my son on a regular basis. When my son recently discovered popsicles and began to constantly ask for them, I knew I had to find a simple, healthy alternative to the ones we bought at the store. So I decided to start making smoothie popsicles. They are the healthy sweet treat I had been looking for. He loves them and I … More…

How to eat healthier with one easy change

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If you’re anything like me, you’re always looking for a simple idea for how to eat healthier. I seriously struggle so much with this. My diet kind of sucks, to be honest. I have a killer sweet tooth and chips call to me like a siren to a ship at sea. So I’m constantly trying new foods or trying to incorporate healthier foods into my diet more. And it is really hard sometimes. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of these links, I make a small commission at no additional cost to you!   Trying new things is hard…and sometimes gross. Have you ever heard of Mermaid Lemonade? There are a few versions of … More…

5 Simple Tips for a Healthier Thanksgiving

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If you ask most people what their favorite part of Thanksgiving is, they’d tell you it was the food. In fact, a lot of people probably couldn’t tell you anything else they even associate with Thanksgiving! Although I’m sure a few would say the Black Friday shopping part was their favorite, that really doesn’t have anything to do with the celebration of the holiday itself. And don’t even get me started on the shopping that takes place ON Thanksgiving now. I’m not sure why, but it seems to be the only holiday in which food is the only way we really celebrate. Christmas has church and decorating of the house and tree. Halloween has trick-or-treating, dressing up, and enjoying all things … More…