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Healthy Fast Food Choices
© Ramon Arellano
Your great, great, great (x 500) grandparents ate real food and they had to work hard to get it. That food was what we call “low-glycemic” nowadays which means low in calories, slow to digest and slow for blood sugar to rise. Their diet was high in fiber and very high in vitamin and minerals.
Today, the opposite is the norm — high calorie, high glycemic food with low nutrition and little exercise.
But our genes have changed very little since those olden times so we need to get back to eating real food, in its natural state if we want to feel good and look good every day. So this weeks tip: SALADS…
Salads make sense
Salads solve all the problems of getting good nutrition in the modern world… they are FAST, healthy and tasty. Now I know a lot of people have limiting beliefs when it comes to nutrition but this one is worth pondering…
By salad I mean “a collection of food.” So please don’t associate the salads I’m talking about with the measly portions you may have associated with salads in the past.
No, the salads I’m talking about are fresh, tasty, healthy and delicious!
Salads solve all the problems of healthy nutrition in our fast-paced world. They can be made in 5 minutes and taste great — job done.
Top tip of the week
My top tip for this week is to make sure that a meal can be made in 5 minutes. To do that, the stuff has to be sitting in your fridge and fruit bowl ready to go. Do you have ready-to-go protein, carbohydrate (potatoes, rice etc), fruit and vegetables ready to go right now?
If not… go get some! Cook up a few portions of rice and stick it in the fridge. It will last 2 days no problem. Have tins of sardines and wild salmon in the cupboard. Have cooked meat or tofu ready to go. When you’re cooking a meal, cook extra new potatoes and steamed vegetables and tupperize it! (new word I just made up :-)
Habits get the job done
Once you’re in the habit of keeping your cupboard and fridge efficiently stocked, there’s always healthy food ready to go. We also need a little mindset shift on this one too. Food is NUTRITION. Its job is too keep you happy and healthy.
That doesn’t have to mean complex, time-consuming and wasteful recipes. It can mean healthy, tasty food-to-go.
So, get that tupperware out and tupperize stuff! Keep a stock list of groceries and keep stocked up. That way, you’ll never need to hunt for the take-out menu in desperation and you’ll be doing your best to stay healthy and happy.
All the best,
Mike Kinnaird
Habit Guide: How to be Happy & Healthy
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