Hey, Family! Many of you may be making resolutions for the new year to eat healthier vegan foods–whether you’re an omnivore, vegetarian, or vegan.
So here are ten simple tips to help you eat well and feel great, wherever you are on your healthy eating journey:
- Enjoy what you eat (eat from a place of joy and inspiration, not guilt or fear)
- Eat and drink greens (like kale, collards, mustards, dandelions, spinach, chard, arugula, bok choy, turnip greens, beet greens)
- Blend more, juice less (eating whole fruit and veggies is best, but blending is next)
- Eat more food raw (for meal suggestions, check out thousands of raw vegan recipes available online and in books, including By Any Greens Necessary)
- Eat your grains whole (like quinoa, millet, barley, corn, oats, bulgar, wild rice, brown rice, spelt bread, whole grain pasta; kiss those white grains goodbye)
- Eat more essential fiber (health-promoting fiber is only found in plant foods; there’s no fiber in animal products, including beef, chicken, fish, cheese, eggs)
- Fix your own food (if you don’t fix food for yourself every day, start now, no excuses)
- Grow your own food (in a pot or in a plot, grow something, no excuses)
- Eat organic whenever possible (it’s not always more expensive; get the EWG shopper’s guide)
- Be still and move (the other two keys to welldom: meditating or otherwise quieting your mind, and exercising every day, starting with just 15 minutes)
Enjoy the holidays, everyone. Thanks so much for letting me share a part of your world in 2011. I’ll talk to you again in 2012!
Much love,
Tracye
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Great tips! Thanks for putting these together. I plan on writing these health goals in my food diary. Fixing my own food and eating organically when possible is a must for me in 2012.
Sounds great, Portia! Thanks for sharing.
-Tracye