The basis for eating healthy food is to have everything at home. It may sound obvious, but it's still often where we go. When it's time to cook, the fridge is full of semi-finished products and empty calories and today it may be pasta with cheese sauce again. To avoid empty calories, sweets and old bad habits, here's how to make better food decisions. It's about always having certain ingredients at home, so that you can cook healthy and tasty quickly and easily.
Fill the fridge, freezer and cupboard with:
• Beans in a box. Use them to easily make stews.
• Dried fruit. Perfect when the craving for sweets strikes. Better with a few dates than a handful of chips.
• Brown rice, quinoa and bean paste. To quickly cook a simple pasta, stew or pudding.
• Frozen vegetables. Broccoli, wok vegetables, peas, spinach, kale and cauliflower. They don't get old in the freezer.
• Apples. Perfect snack with an egg or a handful of nuts.
• Bananas. For in smoothies or as a snack after a workout.
• Avocado. Use in salad or as a spread on crispbread.
• Unsalted nuts. Place a hand in the yogurt or eat as a snack. It immediately gives more nutrition and energy to the meal.
• Canned tuna and mackerel. Easy to put in a salad, on a sandwich or to make pasta sauce. Tuna is also excellent for making simple balls.
• Frozen fish. Saithe, cod and salmon are quickly cooked. Make a soup or stew, put the fish in the oven with vegetables and serve with potatoes, carrots or quinoa.
• Eggs. Put a bowl of precooked eggs in the fridge that you eat for breakfast or as a snack. Make a scrambled egg or omelette for lunch, dinner, or after a workout. For a higher energy content you can add some vegetables and a crispbread.
• Carrots. Put in pots, soups or cook in the oven. Carrots are nutritious, cheap and also super tasty!
• Oatmeal. Use for porridge, muesli or for a more nutritious smoothie.
• Dried lentils. Perfect as a base in a vegetarian dish. You can also make soup or stew on lentils. You can vary endlessly with different herbs.
• Cottage cheese. To increase the amount of protein in smoothies, or as a snack with fruit.
Make sure you have these things in your house regularly. Then you can put together a healthy lunch, dinner or snack at any time.
