changing your diet

Ingredients to Avoid in the Food You Eat

by Mandi on August 3, 2012

Ingredients to Avoid in Your Food

source: aMichiganMom

There are some great posts in the archives of Life Your Way that don’t get much attention anymore. This week, I’ll be sharing some of my favorites. Whether you’ve been around since the beginning or are a new reader, I think you’ll enjoy them!

Let me start by saying that I’m writing this post as much for myself as for you.

We probably eat healthier than the “average” American, but not by much, and I know we still have a long way to go in embracing a more natural, whole foods diet for our family.

Changing your diet is never easy, and for someone who doesn’t enjoy cooking (or cleaning up the disaster she leaves in her wake when she does cook) and isn’t really very good at it, it’s even harder.

That said, I’ve found that it’s actually pretty easy to begin eliminating questionable ingredients as long as I focus on one at a time.

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The Key to Changing Your Diet for Good

by Mandi on January 20, 2012

key to diet changes

source: Pablo Gómez

This month’s Eat Well, Spend Less topic is food resolutions!

While many of my fellow bloggers will be sharing specific tips for various goals & resolutions — everything from involving kids in the kitchen to wasting less food — I thought I’d share something a little bit different:

What if I told you there was one key that held the secret to actually changing your diet for good?

It’s not really a secret formula or hiring a personal chef or choosing the “right” diet.

No, what I learned from our experiencing transitioning our youngest daughter to a gluten-, dairy-, soy-free diet was that the key to successfully making any diet change is to have a comprehensive list of food you can eat…that you actually want to eat.

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Eating Habits After the Harvest

October 6, 2011

The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: We’re looking at what the changing seasons means to us and our family dinner routine. Mandi’s making adjustments to cut out convenience foods and Jessica is looking at balancing busy schedules and making dinner as good as possible. Here’s how I’m [...]

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Evaluating Eating Habits in a Busy Season

September 21, 2011

The following post is from Jessica of GoodCheapEats and LifeasMOM: Last week Mandi shared some ideas for evaluating our eating habits as the seasons change. For her, life is settling into a calmer rhythm and mealtimes are as well. Unlike Mandi’s household, our family schedule is only picking up speed! Summer was as laid back [...]

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Reevaluating Your Eating Habits for Fall

September 14, 2011

This week we’re talking about fall cleaning…not just our homes, but other area of our lives as well. I don’t know about you, but we tend to develop some bad eating habits during the summer. Although we work hard to avoid high fructose corn syrup and other questionable ingredients, we do end up eating more [...]

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Making Healthy Eating Choices for Your Family

September 10, 2010

One of the hardest things about deciding to eat healthier is that there is so much conflicting information available, and it can be really hard to figure out who to trust, especially when “experts” disagree. I’m not just talking about fad diets and whether it’s better to go low carb or low fat, but actually [...]

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Podcast: Improving Your Diet with Shaina from FFMF

July 28, 2010

This summer, as I prepare for an exciting expansion of Organizing Your Way, I will be doing a series of 15-minute podcasts with various experts on everything from time management to eliminating clutter. You can now find the podcasts on iTunes. Click here to listen or load them to your iTunes! Last week, I spent [...]

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Evaluating Your Family’s Diet and Making Changes for the Upcoming Year

April 14, 2010

The following is a guest post from Maryann Tomovich Jacobsen, MS, RD of Raise Healthy Eaters: Spring is the perfect time to chuck what you don’t want — and keep what you do. And while you are going through all your stuff, don’t forget the most neglected part of the house: the items in your [...]

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