Regardless of your age, gender or level of fitness, a healthy balanced diet should be something you try and do on a daily basis.  With so many so called experts telling us what we should eat, it’s often hard putting it all together and even harder actually sticking to it on a constistent basis.

Here are 5 simple to follow tips to help you not only develop a healthy menu plan, but hopefully one that will allow you to stay healthy well into the future.

1. Take that food pyramid, and look at it.  You know the one!  Veges at the bottom, sweets at the top?  Yeah that’s the one.  This may be shocking to believe, but that pyramid is actually spot-on accurate.
2. Try new things.  Never had a particular fruit or vegetable before, now is a great time to try it.  Tired of boring old meals?  Find new ways to prepare them to make it fun.
3. PLAN you week.  If you are at work during meal times, be sure to take this into account when planning.  If you plan in advance, you’ll know what to cook, and when to cook it.  Believe me when I say this is a HUGE factor in keeping on track.  Prepared menu planners can help with this if you prefer others do the hard work.

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