Easy Tips to Clean Up Your Kitchen, The Healthy Way!

• Weed Out All The Bad Foods You Have In Your Kitchen. If it is there, you will eat it. It is best to just get rid of all the salty chips, high fructose sodas, & high sugar pastries.
• Make a clean grocery list. This means as natural as possible. No instant, canned, or other ready made foods. You can eat the things you love to eat, you just have to learn how to make it better for you. Abs are made in the KITCHEN! Buy fresh or frozen FRUITS, VEGETABLES (especially green), & MEATS (chicken, pork, fish, turkey, some red meat)
• Buy the healthier option. Eating healthy does not mean you have to eat cardboard, paper, & cotton balls. Your body needs at least 20 - 35% HEALTHY FATS. So, change you salted butter for the unsalted one. Use vinagrettes for your salads instead of cream based ones. Change your cooking oil for olive oil, extra virgin, or canola oil. Put avocado instead of mayonaise on your sandwiches.
• Package foods or bottle liquids. When you have time, whether on the weekends or afterwork. Prep your food. If you cook your meats ahead of time, you are cutting out 15 minutes off of making a meal. With grilled chicken, you can make a salad, soup, spaghetti, alfredo, etc. Put your healthier oil of your choice in a SPRAY BOTTLE. This will ensure that you do not use too much of it to cook your food. Plus, it also limits all the chemicals that are in oil sprays.
• Learn your spices. Knowing how certain spices work with certain foods will guarantee in less use of salt. Too much salt will result in high blood pressure and swelling. Buy organic sugar (tan), organic salt (pink, grey, black, or gold), honey, or agave.
• Do not be scared to bomb in the kitchen. Learning how to eat healthy is something new for you. Do not chicken out just because a meal you made did not come out well. I always tell my clients, "Do you see those people on those dance competition shows, do you think they just came already like that? No, they had to practice for months to be fantastic". It is the same in the kitchen, PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!