Being busy and eating right really don’t mix. It takes more planning and effort to eat well and oftentimes, our healthy eating is put on a back burner because we are just to busy to deal with it.  It’s a catch 22 because you don’t make the extra effort to eat right and then you have less energy to take care of your responsibilities. In the long run, your health declines and consequently your quality of life declines.

What are some things a busy mom can do to eat right and help her family to eat better? One of the main things is to plan ahead. Plan your dinners for a week in advance and make some things up ahead to have in the refrigerator and freeze.

If you need to go somewhere and will be gone for awhile, take a small cooler with some healthy snacks in it. If you need to, put a frozen bottle in it to keep your snacks cool and fresh. I regularly take things like apples, carrots, dried apricots and almonds. Dried apricots and almonds (get the raw ones, they are healthier) go together really well, pop a few almonds and an apricot in your mouth…yummy! Take food so you don’t end up hungry and looking for whatever junk you can find!

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Anytime you are bored just looking through cabinets and the refrigerator looking for something to eat, grab a glass of water. Water will often satisfy you without making you fat. I find that at the times in my life when I had trouble with my weight, I would aimlessly wander around looking for something to eat when I wasn’t hungry. I was feeling some other emotion such as boredom, stress and so on…

If you have trouble maintaining your ideal weight, when you are aimlessly walking around looking for something anything to eat, grab a glass of water instead! Try it because it really works!