Surviving without Fresh Food Company

Photo by Junette Reyes/FIUSM 

Adrianne Richardson/Contributing Writer

It’s summer and we are all on break, most of us now living back at home with the family. That means no roommates, no resident assistants, but worst of all, no Fresh Food Company.

Yes, Fresh Foods is not in our kitchens to help make sure we eat healthy, proportioned meals that are also surprisingly tasty.

Instead, we have our mother who is cooking what tastes good; our pantry is filled with snacks and goodies since we moved back home and our own judgment of what we should eat at the moment for our “late night snack.”

Well, unless you want to return to FIU with a potbelly and bigger-sized jeans, you need to eat healthy during the summer break; some exercise wouldn’t hurt either.

Eating healthy on your own is actually not that hard. Thinking that you have to exclude all cookies, ice cream, fast food restaurants and the like from your diet is a misconception; eating healthy simply requires you to eat responsibly.

Some ways that you can do this would be the following:

Add a bowl of mixed fruits to your daily diet; eating this in the morning can be your healthy start. Eating oatmeal can also be a healthy supplement to pancakes and waffles as well as the unhealthy habit of skipping breakfast altogether.

Your lunch can simply be a salad accompanied with water. If you are into cooking, baked foods instead of fried are always the healthier way to go.

However, if you find yourself out and about and are not able to cook something or grab something healthy━so you claim━then go for the fast food and make up for that with or without exercise, so long as you eat a healthy dinner.

A balanced dinner can be comprised of a starch, vegetables and meat. An example of this would be one serving of rice, string beans and a cubed steak; this alone is packed with nutrients.

Also, try eating dinner by 6p.m. but no later than 8p.m. This gives your body the right amount of time to digest your food so that it doesn’t turn into fatty deposits, which can result in weight gain.

Eating healthy does not stop here and can even include the late night snack, a point where we eat unhealthy snacks like ice cream, candy, popcorn, buttery substances and anything else we find in the kitchen to keep ourselves busy until we finally go to sleep, sometimes even past midnight.

Avoid this habit by satisfying your late night cravings with a bowl of fruit, cereal or salad. When trying to choose a good midnight snack, always remember to find something “light and fulfilling,” such as yogurt.

The keyword to having a healthy diet this summer is balance. Remember that too much of anything is never good, no matter how healthy it may be.

With this in mind, eat right without the Fresh Food Company and come back in the Fall looking better than you did when you left!

Thank me later.

 

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