2 Tips on How To Eat Healthy With A Busy Schedule

There are ways to eat healthy even with a busy schedule. This means eating the healthiest you can at any given time / in any given circumstance. It may mean that you’re not eating the ‘ideal diet’, but you are eating a lot healthier than you might if you relied on high fat and high sugar fast foods.

It also means that you are planning ahead whenever possible.

Here are some quick tips to get you going. Once you get into a routine, it will become much easier to eat healthy.

Tip #1: Have foods on hand that you can pack and take with you. Eat healthy options during the day and you’ll notice an increase in your energy level, clarity of mind, and evenness of mood.

Quick, on-the-run foods include: fresh fruits and veggies, nuts, seeds, and nut butters (eat in moderation due to high fat content), whole grains and whole grain breads (avoid wheat due to inflammatory properties), and protein foods such as baked chicken, turkey, or fish, hummus, beans, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, and yogurt. Use organic, pasteur-raised meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy whenever possible for the healthiest choices).

Other options: Leftovers from dinner, and soups.

Tip #2: How to put it together.

Your best insurance plan to eat healthy is to pack up your food the night before. That way if you’re running late in the morning, you just pull the bag out of the refrigerator and go. No worries. What can you put together with the above foods? Here are some ideas:

Sandwiches: hummus, sliced chicken, turkey, cheese, nut butter. It’s best to not have sandwiches too often, due to the high carb content and possible inflammatory effects of wheat. There are many gluten-free breads available for times you really want a sandwich.

Salads: Add a protein food to your salad, or have cut up veggies with cheese, nuts, eggs, fish, or other protein foods with your leafy greens. Salad dressings are high in calories, so be mindful of how much you use. Vinaigrette dressings are better than creamy ones. You can also just put a pinch of salt or sesasoned salt plus a drizzle of olive oil on you salad.

Other Combos: Fruit and yogurt (preferably organic due to the hormones and antibiotics in conventional dairy products); fruit and nuts or seeds; whole grain salads made with a whole grain like brown rice or quinoa, some nuts or seeds, veggies and/or dried fruits, maybe some herbs and a light dressing; soup with salad or sandwich or hard-boiled egg; hummus with cut up veggies

Food for Two Meals or More: When you make dinner, have some extra food that you can reheat, put in a wide-mouth thermos and take with you. You can also do some extra cooking on the weekend, freeze it in serving portions, and take it out as you need it. This works well with soups. Plus, it’s really nice to have something warm on a cold day.