15 easy ways to make your diet healthier
Our naturopathic nutritionist Rhi Hepple gives her top simple food swaps that will make a big difference to your diet. Here’s your starter for 15 to add more nutrients to your food… no elaborate preparations or recipes, just a few no-fuss changes to your shopping list!
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- Swap white pasta for wheat-free pasta, rice pasta, rice noodles, souba noodles
- Swap white rice for short grain brown rice, brown basmati rice, red or wild rice
- Swap milk for nut milks, coconut milk, rice milk
- Swap tea for herbal teas, rooibos, green tea; nettle, liquorice, ginger, turmeric are all good
- Swap bread for making your own wheat-free bread or swapping sandwiches for salads, quinoa or rice salads or soups
- Swap alcohol for kombucha or keffir – these are delicious fermented drinks that are rich in energising B vitamins and useful probiotics (you can learn more about them at happykombucha.co.uk)
- Swap standard yogurt for soya yogurt or coconut yogurt
- Swap sugar for raw local honey, maple syrup, coconut palm sugar and stevia
- Swap salt for Himalayan pink salt which contains over 80 essential minerals so is actually good for you!
- Swap chocolate for raw cacao – which is abundant in nutrients and potent in antioxidants
- Swap squash for coconut water, rich in electrolytes
- Swap Corn Flakes, Weetabix, Bran Flakes for granola with added nuts and seeds, topped with coconut yogurt or nut milk and antioxidant-rich berries
- Swap crisps for kale or beetroot crackers with hummus or a nuts and seed mix. Roast chickpeas in paprika and turmeric to make a tasty crispy snack
- Swap Caesar salad dressing for this herby dressing: 2tbsp olive oil, 1 garlic clove, juice of 1 lemon, 1tbsp maple syrup, handful of coriander, handful of fresh mint all blitzed together in a processor to make a bright green nutrient rich dressing
- Swap your Snickers or Mars bar indulgence for a medjool date (sold in many supermarkets and health food stores) with almond butter
For more information on how naturopathic nutrition could help you get your diet on track click here
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