The Perfect Healthy Eating Plan

In a perfect world we all would be eating organic produce, healthy fats, wild caught fish and organic beef.   However our days are filled with diversions such as eating out in restaurants, other people’s houses and other people’s wants and needs. One of the best ways to eat healthfully is to keep only healthy choices in our homes.  I would love to tell you if you followed a healthy eating plan you would be guaranteed of good health.  Everyone of us is different and responds differently to what we eat.  And the articles and information we get from the internet offers a wide variety of opinions.  Perhaps we could try to eat healthfully 80 percent of the time.  Does the mean we can use the 20 percent to eat bad foods.  The answer is NO.  It means we can relax a bit and try new foods, eat out and not worry about every thing we eat.  Here is the beginning of your new healthy eating plan.

We would consume only healthy fats such as:

*olive oil

*coconut oil

*grapeseed oil

*avocado oil

*sesame seed oil

 Sweet Almond Oil

Here is close to a perfect eating day, one in which you will get almost all the vitamins and minerals you need to maintain a healthy and well nourished body.

Breakfast:

Cut up fruit (melon, berries, oranges) —vary every day

2 scrambled eggs cooking in coconut oil

1 slice of whole grain bread 

Lunch:

Salad of canned wild caught tuna to include

spinach

cucumbers

tomatoes

cilantro

chopped celery

Dressing of olive oil and fresh lemon juice

Oregano, basil, thyme and Himalayan salt and pepper to taste

Afternoon snack: an apple

Dinner:

Organic chicken

Cooked Fresh broccoli

Romaine lettuce salad with sliced radishes

Spices to use:  Rosemary, Turmeric, Oregano

Dessert: fresh pineapple

This diet would not only give you generous portions of produce, healthy proteins and fats but would also help you lose weight if you need to.

Okay I can get realistic as this is probably not going to happen on a daily basis. There are always too many variables in life.  You go to restaurants, people’s houses and just don’t have these ingredients in your house. And the best excuse is that it cost more money.

Yes organic, wild caught and grass fed beef cost a lot more money.  However, if you eliminate all the junk food and processed food you purchase you will probably come out even. 

The Plan

Time to take small steps to create healthy eating.  Start by purchasing organic produce if it is on sale or buy  organic lettuce.  Try some wild caught fish.  Each week make a change in your household diet.  Start by eliminating some of the processed food you purchase.   Try to have as much food as possible in the house that doesn’t have a label.  This allows you not to worry about all the ingredients and additives in packaged food.

The goal is to make slow changes.  If you feel really ambitious clean out your pantry and start from scratch.

The only canned foods I keep in my pantry are black olives, canned wild caught salmon and tuna, canned organic tomato sauce and a few cans of organic beans for soup when I haven’t cooked a fresh batch.

You may be amazed how easy this is and you will feel better.