Easy Tips For Making Your Diet Healthier

If you're looking to make a few healthy swaps in your diet, you’re in the right place! Trying to make our diets healthier is always a good thing, as we only get one body so we need to look after it right. With these tips, you won’t find that you’re making huge changes to your life, but you should notice quite a big difference in your health.

Try Meal Prep

Next up, for many people, being very busy, not liking cooking, not being able to cook, or struggling for inspiration are barriers to healthy eating. So, trying meal prep is a great alternative so that all of the shopping, planning, and cooking is taken away so you can simply enjoy delicious and nutritious meals! If you want to try something different like more plant-based foods but aren’t sure where to start, buying vegan meal prep is a great way to do this! You could also try meal preps specific to your goals, like losing weight or building muscle. Overall, even if you have meal prep just for your lunches throughout the week, it will help you to stay on track and eat lots of delicious and nutritious foods. 

Use Spray Oil

Our first tip to help make your diet healthier is to use spray oil instead of pouring oil. In just one tablespoon of olive oil, there are 119 calories, so if you are using multiple tablespoons in most meals when cooking, then you will be adding a lot of calories to your meals without really even noticing. So, if you are trying to be slightly more healthy, get a spray oil. When cooking in saucepans you can just give them a quick spray, or if you’re making a tray bake in the oven then you can just give everything a spray to prevent it from sticking.

This is such a simple way to cut down on the calories in a meal without compromising on flavor. Healthy fats like olive oil are good for you in small doses, so you can keep using them in salad dressings and things where spray oil won’t be a good replacement.

Eat More Fruit and Veg

This might sound like a very simple one, but when you add more fruits and vegetables to your meals, you still have the volume but you will naturally be eating fewer calories in most cases. You could chop up veggies small and add them to your favorite recipes, you could make lots of smoothies, and eat more vegetarian meals, salads, and soups. 

Another great way to eat more fruits and veggies is when snacking. You could get baby carrots and cucumbers on a plate with some crackers and dip them into hummus and other delicious dips. You won’t feel like you’re eating more veggies as they taste so good! 

When you go food shopping next, go to the fruit and veg aisle and try to pick out as many different colors as you can. This is because different colored fruits and veg tend to contain different nutrients, so when you eat a wide range throughout the week, you know you’re eating lots of different vitamins and minerals throughout the week. 

Home Make Your Sauces

Finally, making your sauces from scratch is a great way to reduce your sugar and salt intake. Ready-made sauces like curries and pasta sauces are usually filled with sugar and salt, which you can cut out completely when you make them yourself. 

Many people are quite intimidated when it comes to making sauces, thinking they’re quite difficult to make. However, they are much simpler than you might think and there is so much help online that you can utilize. When you start making them, you won’t believe that you ever bought them because they taste that good!