What to Eat & Why: Smart Simple Swaps
1. Sweet Treats & Puddings:
70% plus dark chocolate with nut butter
nuts and dried fruits
A piece of fruit
Greek Yogurt (Total 5%) with 80% dark chocolate dipped in
Greek Yogurt with warmed berries
2. Breakfasts:
- think protein and whole grains and good fats….
Greek Yogurt with berries and seeds/nuts/sprinkling of organic jumbo oats
Avocado with rye toast & eggs
Chia porridge with berries
3. Snacks:
Nuts or roasted beans and pease instead of crisps
Homemade hummus with crunchy veg
4. Be aware of ‘health halo’ food packaging:
swap ‘gluten-free’ with naturally no gluten options -
Such as pea pasta or lentil pasta
5. Ditch the diet-drinks & low calorie options
put a squeeze of lemon and lime in fizzy water
Enjoy olive oil and all its plyphenols
Have full-fat Greek yogurt
6. Sneakily switch in pulses, beans & chickpeas
for extra protein, more fibre and less calories add
chickpeas to curries
Butter beans to chicken dishes
Black beans to Mexican recipes
Lentils to bolognaise
Experiment with your food to better understand your body and personal nutritional profile. (Sign up for the Zoe Personalised Nutrition program to get the absolute results and knowledge). Our responses to food change with age, menopause and hormone status, stress, sleep quality and illness, making us unique across the course of our lives as well as individually
I highly recommend reading or listening to
“Food For Life: The New Science of Eating Well” by Professor Tim Spector
for more information and deeper explanations.
We now have unbiased food research available to all of us.
For years it has been funded (therefore biased) by the food industry. At last we can look beyond the deliberately deceptive food labels, marketing and miracle product media claims. The research and information is now available (although you do have to read ALL the ingredients and small print) for us to all make an informed choice about what works for our unique bodies.
Download a copy of my full nutritional advice, what to eat & why below.