10 Easy Ways to Keep Natural Ingredients in Your Daily Meals

Among packaged foods, choosing natural ingredients can feel hard. Yet small habit changes are enough to fill your plate with fresh vegetables, fruit, lentils and whole grains every day.

How to start

• Fill at least half of every plate with vegetables.
• Mix brown rice or whole wheat with white rice.
• Swap sugary drinks for water, coconut water or lemon water.
• Snack on seasonal fruit.
• Write your shopping list in advance.

Cook with less oil and salt, and lean on natural spices such as turmeric, ginger, garlic and cumin. Cooking one new vegetable dish together as a family each week makes the habit enjoyable.

You do not have to be perfect — a little improvement every day makes the biggest difference in the long run.