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Spark your inspiration with a month worth of healthful tips for you and your family, from our friends at Cooking Light. These simple tips are the perfect way to keep your family’s New Years resolutions on track! The best part is you can incorporate them into everyday life without breaking the bank or the clock, which will leave you and your family healthier AND happier.
We Dare You to Try……
Try to experiment with a new seasonal vegetable or fruit each week this month. Parsnips, Brussels sprouts, and winter greens such as collard greens, kale, or mustard greens are all worth a try. Get inspired with our Best Recipes for Winter Vegetables and Fruits collection.
Sweet Cereal Trick
Do you prefer your whole-grain cereal biscuits, flakes, or oh’s with a little added sugar? Just stick with varieties that have about 8 grams of sugar or less, about the amount in the 2 teaspoons of granulated you’d be sprinkling on that bowl of plain shredded wheat anyway.
Chill Out With Tea
Switch your latte to a tea to chill out. Research shows L-theanine, an amino acid in tea, reduces feelings of stress and increases relaxation.
Put Produce on Eye Level
To increase your fruit and veggie intake, don’t put them in a drawer in the refrigerator but rather on a shelf at eye level. The more you see them, the more likely you will be to grab for them.
Smoothie Creations
Make sure that fruit is the base of your smoothie creation—too much fruit juice can rapidly add calories without providing any of the heart-healthy and digestive-friendly fiber that you get from the fruit itself. Find recipes for 250-Calorie Smoothies.
Energy Food
With the perfect combo of slowly-digested protein, complex carbohydrates, and fiber, lentils could be the ideal energy food. Just 1/2 cup of cooked lentils provides more protein than an egg and more than a quarter of your daily dose of fiber for only 115 calories and practically zero fat. Find more Foods For All-Day Energy.
Quick and Good for You
A speedier cook time doesn’t mean less wholesome. Instant and quick cooking oats—both rolled and steel cut—are as nutritious, tasty, and fully whole grain as their longer cooking counterparts. Find more Common Nutrition Myths.
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