Everybody loves a goodhack.
Here are some of our favorite ways to make every meal healthier.
Read on, and for more, don’t missWant a Lean Body for Good?
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Adopt These 8 Eating Habits.
Make a frozen family-sized meal healthier.
Frozen family-sized meals have a bad reputation for beinghigh in sodium.
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But you’re free to boost their nutritional value to make them much healthier.
It adds valuable nutrients and most likely an additional serving of vegetables into your day."
Add leftover cold pasta and potatoes to a green salad.
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Make a green garden salad even more nutritious by adding cold pasta or potatoes.
When cooked pasta and potatoes are allowed to cool, they turn into resistant starch.
This kind of starch acts likesoluble fiber; it resists digestion.
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In turn, it can reduce appetite and lower blood sugar levels, improving insulin sensitivity.
Read more about resistant starch by checking outThe Secret Breakfast Trick for a Flat Belly.
Get more nutrition from a carrot by eating eggs at the same time.
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The phytonutrients in those colorful vegetables are powerful anti-inflammatories.
Chop garlic, then do this.
Garlic has beenstudied for its role in preventing colon and stomach cancers.
Breaking the garlic apart activates its natural disease-fighting phytonutrients.
Unfortunately, heat instantly deactivates those phytonutrients.
Sub out oil for pumpkin puree.
Keep a bowl of almond slivers on the table.
Putalmondslivers or slices in a sealable container on your kitchen table for easy access.
Spoon some over hot or cold cereal, yogurt cottage cheese, garden salads, or into smoothies.
An ounce of almonds contains 6 grams of protein, plus some heart-healthy monounsaturated fats and fiber.
Top off breakfast with mood-boosting blueberries.
Wilt, fill, and pour on the vitamins.
Pour jarred salsa over your eggs.
Bulk up spaghetti sauce with mushrooms, onions, and carrots.
Fill out potato salad with broccoli florets, cherry tomatoes, and red onions.
Wilt fresh baby spinach in soups just before serving."
Bake with almond flour instead of wheat flour.
Build a better grilled cheese sandwich.
you could adultify a classicgrilled cheese sandwichby putting some healthier additions between the cheese and bread before grilling.
Don’t cut fruit and vegetables until the last second.
Steam up a more nutritious meal.
Even regular pasta that contains no fiber can be made healthier bysneaking fiberinto the sauce you put on top.
Add any cut-up vegetables to your jarred or homemade sauce to introduce a healthy dose of dietary fiber.
And add lentils, white beans, or kidney beans, too.
Just one-half cup will contribute 7 grams of fiber and 8 grams of protein to the dish.
Use your noodle, choose zoodles.
Trading pasta forzoodles(a.k.a.
zucchini noodles) cuts out empty carbohydrates and adds vitamins and fiber.
Skip the sour cream.
Use the yogurt on chili, baked potatoes, and in bean dishes.
It’s also a good source of calcium andprobiotics.
Add oats to ground turkey.
Gain the heart-healthy, diabetes-busting benefits ofwhole-grain oatsby making turkey-and-oats meatballs.
Add 34 cup of quick-cooking oatmeal to 11/2 pounds of ground lean turkey.
Include 12 cup of chopped onion, 1 egg, and 12 cup of tomato sauce.
Roll into meatballs and bake in a pan at 400F for 20 minutes.
Serve with tomato sauce.
Give your PB&J superpowers.
“Now you have a high fiber, healthy fat PB&J sandwich.”
