Eating healthy is often times intimidating and daunting. Everyone is trying their best, but without the right resources, it’s pretty difficult to know which source of information will give you the best answers for you and your family. With a few minor tweaks and incorporating some new nutrition knowledge, you will have the power to make monumental changes to significantly improve your symptoms and energy levels.

Here are 5 simple and effective changes that will improve your nutritional wellbeing:

1. Shop the sales for produce. Eat seasonally. Look for only the fruits and vegetables that are in great abundance in each season. Subscribe to your local grocery store’s weekly emails or apps and glance at them before your shopping day. This allows you to plan your meals according to what is going to be the best bang for your buck. Not only that, but mother nature knows which nutrients are needed during which seasons!

2. Wash your produce with an inexpensive and homemade veggie wash. 1 sink of water, 1C of white vinegar, and a splash of apple cider vinegar. This will help your gut to digest without having to fight the bugs ON the veggies at the same time!

3.  Grab and throw things like spinach, shredded brussel sprouts, shredded zucchini, and grape tomatoes into a number of dishes. Omelettes, hashes, and even spaghetti and pizza can have these little nutrient nuggets added to them no extra cooking needed!

4. Enjoy a side salad while waiting for your food to cook. Invest in a nourishing salad dressing you can quickly add to a bowl of crisp greens of choice.

*Pro-tip: make sure to toss any salad in a bowl prior to eating and add a pinch of salt.* It’ll taste like it’s a restaurant salad! 

My recommended salad dressing are Primal Kitchen dressings. They can be pricey, so I stock up when there are coupons or sales. Otherwise I make my own dressings with avocado oil, apple cider vinegar, mustard, honey, and a couple spices! 

*Money-saving tip: keep a dry paper towel in your spinach container to keep the leaves fresh for much longer*

5. Cook more than you can eat. By purposely cooking more than you and your family will eat at that meal, you can keep the cooked ingredients separated in containers in the fridge and make other meals out of them later! (i.e. if having a taco night, cook up more ground meat than your family will eat, and store half of it in a container to add to a roasted veggie bowl later.)

Implement one, or more of these practices into your home & eating healthy will be easier than it ever has before!