FFH046: 4 Tips to Eating Better Even If...

You’d like to eat better. You really would but making changes is hard. It takes a lot of effort, or does it? You can use these easy steps to learn how to eat better with the time and money you have. 

Your not a health fanatic, you just know you could eat better. Less processed foods and more real foods. Not only for yourself but for your family. 

But between your already packed schedule, the kids complaining about anything new that looks different, and the fact you have a limited budget for food, it’s easier to stay the course and not make a change. 

Because you don’t want to buy a bunch of new food to find out your family won’t eat it, you don’t have time to prepare it, and you end up wasting money, you don’t really have to spare.

But it doesn’t have to be like that. You can make changes, eat better, and have your family enjoy it too. All without dramatically changing your food budget or spending all day in the kitchen. These 4 steps can help you do all of that.  

Better Eating Tips in This Podcast

In this episode of the Frugal Family Home Podcast, I’m sharing 4 easy steps to eating better. Small changes you can make to start eliminating processed foods from your diet without dramatically increasing your food budget or the time to make meals. 

If this sounds good to you have a listen to the podcast. You can also read the show notes below. It’s kinda like the cliff notes version.

4 Steps to Eating Better

Eating better can be challenging. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut and eat the same things over and over. Even if you have a desire to make better food choice. 

Things that are familiar often win out when we are short on time or don’t have a detailed plan to make a change. 

But change can happen if you…

1. Make Small Changes and Build on Them

Make a plan for making small changes over time.

Plan for what changes will be the easiest to get you started on eating a little better. Don’t make big changes right away, it almost always leads to failure. 

Instead, let’s set you up to succeed from the beginning. I want you to find one thing you can change with your eating or your whole family’s eating that is doable. Then practice it for a few weeks to a month. Get used to it when it seems just natural to you then add something else. 

Making those small changes one on top of another makes it so much easier to make big changes just one little bite at a time. 

2. Plan for Meals

When you are hungry isn’t the time to think about what you’ll make to eat. It’s probably the worst time if you are trying to make changes and eat better.

Because your hungry brain will only think about things, you already have established as habits and if you want to eat better, it’s better to have a plan. 

With a plan you have more control. You can sit down and think it through when you’re not hungry. When you can put your goals into the planning process. 

Pick your meals for that week. Be sure to include any new food you are switching out to eat less processed foods. Make your list and go shopping. It’s really that simple and easy.

 But what if you have picky eaters or kids who don’t want change?

3. Make Substitutions for An Easier Transition