Have you thought about improving your eating habits? After all healthy eating is key to the prevention of diseases; healthy eating is necessary for good recovery from existing illness.
A good place to start modifying your eating habits is with cleaning and improving your storage areas.
This is an instructional article on grocery cleaning to remove the unhealthy foods products from your storage areas.
Once your storage areas are clean you are better prepared to start preparing healthier meals.
Firstly take a look at what you have on hand (it will give you guide into what your buying habits are).
Next clean it up to remove the bad buys,
The amount of cleaning required will depend on your existing buying and eating habits.
After following the instructions you will be able to make space for healthier food products. Your kitchen will be 'grocery clean.'
Allow yourself enough time to do it, you don't have too it all at once.
The products you are watching out for during the cleaning session are those with salt, sugar and oil.
You are watching for any canned, package or frozen products with high content of them.
As you clean, check the nutrition labels and note what's on them. The ones with high amounts of salt, sugar and fat are the ones you will no longer buy.
Watch for trans fat, the danger level is 0.5g, the healthy way is 0g.
Cleaning
Remove salt and sugar from dinning tables, kitchen counters, serving trays, and kitchen tables altogether. You will not be adding them to your meals. This will prevent the urge to add them after cooking or serving.
Store sugar and salt for cooking away from eye level. Use unprepared food products with too much of them sparingly. Use them less frequently until used up. You wouldn't be replacing them.
Remove sweetened beverages, canned and bottled pop from the refrigerator; they are not part of a health eating pattern.
Remove all chips, candies, salted or candied snacks from prominent places and store away from eye level. You will not be using them as part of your diet. Discard them or store at the top and back of storage areas . You may also use infrequently and less until used up.
Discard unused portions of oil and fat except canola, olive oil, soybean or coconut oil.
Discard any shortening, lard or hydrogenated fat, they contain trans fat.
Discard any meat with a lot of fat that's been in the refrigerator or freezer more than a month.
Trim off excess fat from other meat before preparing them. You will be shopping for lean cuts.
Store cookies, cakes mixes, pie fillings, and desserts with high sugar content at the top and back of cupboards- You will be using them for special occasions only.
Discard any packaged or canned products containing more than 0.5g of trans fat per serving. More than 0.5g is the danger level.
It is not possible for me to mention all the bad food products that you have on hand, so you may wish to include them in your clean.
You will be shopping for health eating from now on!
Resources
Use the healthy eating guide, it is a simple resource for working out the food products you need on a daily basis. You can use it to calculate your grocery needs for you and any member of your family
Click here to use.
This material was prepared by the program organizer of:
1-www.managingyourhealthonline.com
2-www.healthyweightdecisions.com
