Healthy Food

By Dr. Dale Heil     

Everyone is interested in healthy lunch food. That's a good thing because lunch is consumed during the busiest part of your day and should be your most nutrient rich meal of the day. Luckily, lunch can utilize good cheap food that can be used in inexpensive healthy recipes. Healthy lunch food does not have to be expensive.

Healthy Food To Eat

Lunchtime is when following the basic guidelines of nutritious eating really come into play. These are the basic guidelines:

1. Eat at least 5 (preferably more) servings of raw vegetables and fresh fruit every day.

2. Consume whole grain products such as bread, pasta, and cereal (both hot and cold cereals) instead of refined grain products.

3. Limit your daily protein consumption to a piece of meat about the size of a pack of playing cards.

4. Drink lots of pure water to flush toxins from your body.

These are the basics that will make it easy for you to find healthy foods to eat.

Now you only have to begin to slowly integrate these types of foods into the meals you currently consume. It' easy to do if you begin serving a salad or raw vegetable platter as an appetizer to every lunch or dinner you eat.

It is important that you always have raw vegetables with each meal because cooking kills all of the vital enzymes and most of the other nutrients.

If you buy whole grain bread in addition to the tasteless white bread you usually buy and begin alternating them you can effortlessly transition to the healthier bread. You will soon find yourself buying and consuming only the whole grain bread.

A Easy Healthy Diet Plan

As you can see, the healthful food choices for a healthy lunch are substantial. If you make sure you have a raw vegetable salad or peeled vegetables in a plastic bag you can satisfy most of your daily nutritional needs of these foods. Using whole grain bread and more vegetables such as onion, lettuce, and tomato on your sandwich will give you a healthy balanced diet at lunchtime. Finishing up your midday meal with a piece of fruit instead of a snack cake is a great idea. As you can see, finding healthy lunch food is easy.