"What's the first thing I see and what is the easiest thing to eat? If it's not a healthy food, your kitchen is setting you up to fail." - Joan Carter, Baylor College of Medicine.
Start making healthy choices at home by giving your kitchen a makeover.
A Kitchen Makeover
BEFORE
AFTER
SNACK CUPBOARD
Potato chips and high fat, salty snack chips
Pretzels Low-fat crackers Peanut butter Raisins and other dried fruit Nuts & seeds for salads
REFRIG- ERATOR
Soda Whole milk Sour cream
Diet Soda Bottled water Unsweetened iced-tea Low-fat milk Low-fat yogurt Low-fat cheese Low-fat cottage cheese Fruit juices Hardboiled eggs
VEGETABLE CRISPER
Head of lettuce Tomato
Bagged or ready to eat lettuce Cherry or sweet grape tomatoes for salads or snacking Carrot and celery sticks Broccoli and cauliflower florets
FRUIT CRISPER
My crisper was empty!
Oranges and tangerines Apples Strawberries Cherries Kiwi
FREEZER
Frozen hamburger Ice cream
Fish Frozen yogurt Tortillas for leftovers Sourdough rolls, bagels and loaves of whole grain bread
KITCHEN COUNTER
Junk mail
Bowl of fruit filled with grapes snipped into snack size bunches, bananas, peaches, and plums
Keep a list on the refrigerator to remind you of all the healthy snacks inside.
Keep a daily food journal and be honest. If you're not ready to write it down, you're not ready to change.
Source: Joan Carter and Becky Gorham, Registered Dieticians at Baylor College of Medicine, Houtson, Texas
