Ways to make dinner healthy

Making homemade meal is often way healthier than store-bought, frozen, or restaurant meals.
But sometimes figuring out how to make those meals and having the motivation to make them especially on a busy week night can be hard.
Here are some Ways to make your dinners healthier.

1. Plan a week's worth of dinners - plan ahead and post the menu up on the fridge then you wont resort to frozen dinners and take out pizza

2. Invest in a slow cooker - throw a bunch of health ingredients in the night before, turn it on in the morning and come home to tasty, healthy, homemade dinner

3. Eat an Omelet - omelet's are packed with protein, and if you load them up with vegetables they can make a healthy, quick, filling dinner

4. Turn off the TV - one study has found that if the TV is on during dinner, fruit and vegetable consumption goes down

5. Keep your kitchen clean -  nothing is going to stand in your way to a healthy home cooked meal more than a cluttered messy kitchen. Keep the kitchen for cooking at eating only.


These are just some of the great tips in an article from Besthealthmag.com
Check out the rest HERE

School Lunches

School is going to be going back very soon. Where did the summer go??

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Thinking of healthy ideas for packing school lunches can be very tricky. Nutrition is so important for kids and making sure they get enough good stuff to eat can be tough. You also need to make sure that its yummy enough that they don't trade it for some dunk-a-roos! (dunk-a-roos would be a fun treat though if they still make those!)

Check out this link to besthealthmag.com for 15 healthy school lunch ideas.  They even sound gourmet: Turkey Brie and Apple Sandwich on Raisin Walnut Bread, Tomato and Bread Salad with Herbed Chicken..

Hope they help!

http://www.besthealthmag.ca/eat-well/cooking/15-healthy-back-to-school-lunch-ideas