Here are some good food rules to follow that make eating healthier easier and more manageable long term.
1.
Don’t
buy anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. Like anything
orange that isn’t salmon, a carrot or an orange.
2.
Avoid
products containing ingredients that cannot be found in an ordinary pantry.
Even better, avoid anything that contains more than five ingredients. Better
still, if you can’t pronounce most of the ingredients, you don’t want to eat
them.
3
Don’t
buy anything that lists sugar in its first three ingredients. And NO HIGH
FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP! Not even a little.
4.
Shop
the peripheries of the supermarket and stay away from the middle – that’s where
most processed food is shelved.
5.
If
it came from a plant, buy it (and eat
a lot of it). If it was made in a
plant, pass it by.
6.
Avoid
food that is pretending to be something it is not. This includes soy-based mock
meats.
7
Food
making health claims on the package is not food you want to buy. Don’t take the
silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your
health.
8.
Remember,
if it is delivered through the window of the car, it is not food.
What are some rules that you follow that have helped you make eating healthier easier and more sustainable?
Feel free to share with the group!
