| p>Tip #5: K.I.S.S. | | | | salad? |
| As you are transitioning to eating healthier foods, | | | | How much planning and effort does it take to buy |
| use the K.I.S.S. principle when it comes to | | | | whole fruit--bananas, apples, oranges, grapefruits, |
| preparing meals for you and your family: Keep It | | | | grapes, peaches--peel and/or wash them, stick |
| Simple, Silly (the real word is--stupid). | | | | them in your mouth and chew? |
| If you make meal planning, preparing, and | | | | Furthermore, don't even think about making two |
| shopping too complicated and time consuming, it is | | | | different meals for one dinner. |
| easy to get discouraged and give up. | | | | If you are cooking dinner for your children and |
| Unless you enjoy reading recipes and making | | | | husband who eat differently from you, cook one |
| elaborate meals, be practical and plan simple | | | | meal, and you pick and choose out of that meal |
| meals. If you are like most people, you don't want | | | | the best food for you. |
| to spend your entire life in the kitchen. | | | | For instance, if you prepare meat, potato, |
| As you become more comfortable eat better and | | | | vegetable, and salad for your family, your best |
| better, you will discover that the best, most | | | | selections would be the salad first, followed by the |
| nutritious meals tend to be the easiest to prepare. | | | | vegetables and potato. |
| How much planning and effort does it take to | | | | As a rule, the simpler the better. Don't make life |
| wash and cut up vegetables and mix them into a | | | | more complicated than it already is. |