Seven Healthy Eating Tips from Corki Brady

These seven Healthy Eating Tips are from Certified Peer Support Specialist, Corki Brady. Corki works for a community mental health center in Northern Michigan. Corki is very busy since becoming a Certified Peer Support Specialist, and has had to find ways to not want or need to drop by fast food joints while out and about.

Here are the tips from Corki Brady:

1. Always have a snack with me to help avoid stops at fast food places, “because my sugar is low…I haven’t eaten all day.” (I keep a carb, a protein and a sweet with me all the time – AND water and a tube of individual-sized Crystal Lite.)
2. Re-package all foods in quantities for ONE person only. That way I don’t cook too much, and “have to” finish it up. (The Zip-Loc people love me!)
1. I package meat one slice to a sandwich-sized bag, then put all these little bags of one kind of meat into a large bag.
2. Frozen meatballs and frozen shrimp are put into small bags – 4 to a bag.
3. Pasta is likewise divided, as are sauces and rolls.
4. This way when I come home exhausted and lazy, all I have to do is grab one bag each of veggies, meat, carb and sauce, toss things in the microwave and mix as desired.
3. Eat three meals each day.
4. Form a dinner club where about 4 people get together for dinner at set intervals (I’ve done weekly, bi-weekly and monthly). The role of host or hostess rotates thru the group. I’ve done it both ways: where the hostess provides the entire dinner OR where the hostess provides the entrée, and everyone else brings the other dishes. The only rule is that it must be healthy. Sharing recipes is encouraged.
5. Buy fresh or frozen to avoid salt and other preservatives, etc.
6. Use lots of olive oil and garlic, and learn to use spices.
7. Stay out of fast food restaurants.