Meals Matter
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The Meals Matter Blog offers advice and tips on using a positive and realistic approach for meal planning, healthy eating, feeding families and fitness. Posts are written by registered dietitians, staff and guest bloggers of the Dairy Council of California.
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For most of us our busy lives and hectic evening rountines make preparing healthy meals every day a challenge. That means that quite often it’s easier to pick up dinner at a fast food restaurant on the way home from work or to eat the same thing over and over. However, these eating patterns can lead to meals that are not nutritionally balanced or that contain loads of calories -- not to mention how quickly they can add up to big expenses in your monthly food budget.
Although healthier options at fast food restaurants are becoming more common, there is still the temptation to choose items which may not be healthy at all. What’s worse is that studies have shown that children who eat fast food on a regular basis tend to continue to eat fast food as they grow older, which can lead to obesity and health concerns later in life. Changing eating habits to healthier options and portions consisting of fruits, vegetables, dairy and lean meats can take some planning but it's well worth the effort.
With little time to prepare healthy, nutritious meals for ourselves and our families, it's best to have a strategy that matches the foods you are likely to eat with the amount of time you are realistically going to spend preparing your meals. The Food Personality Quiz on Meals Matter can help!
Meals Matter’s Food Personality Quiz is an online tool that helps you solve the predicament of what to cook or ways to prepare meals that mesh with your lifestyle. Each of us has a different Food Personality which affects how we prepare foods and the types of foods that we eat. Do you prefer to only cook meals that contain less than 6 ingredients? Or, do you look forward to the days when you can spend plenty of time preparing a delicious meal for your family? The key to healthy eating is to know what your Food Personality is and to have ideas of nutritious and tasty meals that coincide with your cooking preferences.
Your Food Personality is unique to you and the quiz is certain to provide you with ideas to use right away. Take our Food Personality Quiztoday to get you and your family on the right track to healthy, nutritious eating!