How to easily add variety in my diet?

Justin asked:


I have trouble having a variety of food / meals in my diet. I seem to eat the same thing all the time and I feel it is unhealthy.

What is an easy way to introduce variety into a diet? I don’t mean a weight loss diet, I just mean a normal balanced diet.

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2 Responses to “How to easily add variety in my diet?”

  1. Zelda Hussein Hunter on May 17th, 2009 at 6:17 am

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    We tend to eat a lot of vegetables at breakfast – vegetable salads, sliced tomatoes (heirlooms are still god this time of year), baked tomatoes, frittata and omelets with lots of vegetables.
    I tend to get stuck in a rut with the meat, as my husband will only eat red meat once or twice a month. How many different ways can you make chicken? Luckily I am really good at making fish.
    I have been making a lot of different soups from scratch. It’s time-consuming, but you can freeze the soup you won’t use within 2-3 days. We hardly ever eat frozen vegetables, except for the frozen spinach we use in quiches or frozen limas or edamame.
    I used to make a fruit salad every morning with 4-5 different fresh fruits in it too. lately we tend to eat fruit more in the day or at night.
    You can make up a lot of dishes ahead of time and freeze small daily portions.

  2. Derek J on May 19th, 2009 at 5:54 am

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    I try to cook with fresh local ingredients if I can find them. When I go to the market (Currently Costa Rica), I buy lots of all sorts of things with no real plan on what I will be preparing.

    Later on, I look at everything that I have, and wait for inspiration to strike.

    This is by no means an economical way to shop, it can get pretty spendy depending on where you live. But buying single ingredients and then playing in the kitchen keeps my diet diverse, and cooking interesting.

    For lunch yesterday I made roasted red peppers and onion with seared pork and pineapple. It was a departure on the Hawaiian thing. It was a nice snack.

    I have no idea what I will eat today, I’m stocked to the rafters with everything I could find at the market. The other day I made a simple marinara with fresh basil, tomatoes, and extra virgin olive oil, and then had mango crepes for desert. Those were just the ingredients that I felt like eating at the time.

    Many times I do not see any protein that looks interesting, so I go nearly vegetarian for a week.

    Anyhow, my advice is to buy the best ingredients that your pocketbook will allow you to get, and then figure out what to do with it later.

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