Healthy Eating When You Don't Like to Cook - Top Ten Healthy Eating Tips With Nothing to Prepare

In these healthy eating tips, there is nothing to cook, clean, or prepare. Improve your health and wellbeing when you add these no-work healthy foods into your regular diet.

We know that healthy eating means more fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. These foods protect against cancer and other illnesses through vitamins, minerals, enzymes, fiber, and phytochemicals ("plant chemicals"). What are some easy ways for busy people to eat healthy foods with no compromises?

1. Almost all fresh fruit is ready to eat. It is easy to carry to work or in the car. Just rinse beforehand (an apple) or peel as you eat (a banana).

2. Prepared raw vegetables are readily available in many supermarkets. Prewashed bags of salad, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower florets, pea pods, and medleys are common. Supermarket delis frequently have plates of prepared raw vegetables, including carrots, celery, radishes, green pepper and others, and supermarkets nearly always carry premade salads.

3. Dried fruit is a healthy substitute for candy. Raisins, prunes, dates, and figs are as sweet as candy; unlike candy, dried fruit contains vitamins, minerals, fiber, and unique phytochemicals. I suggest organic dried fruit, which does not contain allergy-causing sulfites and is grown and shipped without pesticides.

4. Nothing is more convenient than bread. Supermarket bread made from white flour, high fructose corn syrup, and trans fats can't be considered healthy, but additive-free whole grain bread is full of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Healthy bread is whole-grain "real" bread from the natural food store or a specialized bakery.

5. Healthy fats are unfortunately not the fats commonly found in bakery, chips, and other processed food. However, it is easy to buy and use healthy fats. On salads: unrefined flax seed oil or extra virgin olive oil. On veggies: butter, unrefined coconut oil, or nut butters. Don't forget the avocado, a delicious and very healthy fatty fruit.

6. Nuts in the shell are as fresh as nature intended. Their healthy protein and fat make a terrific energy-boosting snack.

7. At juice bars, you can get freshly made fruit and vegetable juices. Freshly made juice retains all its vitamins, including vitamin C, unlike canned and bottled juices, which lose nutrients during processing.

8. Wheatgrass juice is available at many juice bars and also in frozen and powdered forms. This dark green juice, pressed from the young blades of wheat and barley, is a nutrition powerhouse.

9. Special juices widely available in bottles include pomegranate, blueberry, acai, goji, and mangosteen. Look for 100% juice products without sweeteners, added flavors, or additives. (Dilute with water or other juices if desired.) These "superjuices" contain so much concentrated nutrition that even small amounts are refreshing, satisfying, and highly nutritious.

10. And, finally, drink plenty of water.

You may find immediate benefits from healthy foods. In addition, you can be assured, when you discover your own favorite tastes, that healthy eating is its own reward.

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