Practical Nutrition Tips for Busy Moms

Top 5 Practical Nutrition Tips for Moms

Mom is responsible for so many things on a day-to-day basis. She keeps the house cleaned and well-managed, keeps up with the children, their school work, their friends, their health, and their activities. In all that, many times mom’s health and nutrition routines either go out the window or never even enter the house for consideration.

Here are Concita's helpful tips that can help a mom regain and retain her nutritional focus as well as maintain that of her household’s. First, moms should focus on small, frequent balanced meals composed of protein and produce. Those meals will keep their energy levels and metabolism high so that they can effectively tackle all their other life obligations.

Busy schedules, fast paced lifestyles and potentially stressful and unpredictable demands on mothers’ time can lead to meal skipping, mindless munching, and over consumption of nutritionally bankrupt foods that often lead to fatigue and weight gain.

A three-fold solution to this problem, is for moms to recognize their basic nutritional needs, set up their living environments for effective nutritional success, and discover healthy meal and snack options that are also fast and convenient.

With the following FIVE simple tips, a mom can effectively reclaim her nutritional fervor.

1. Start the day off right. Have a breakfast shake or parfait.

2. Don’t treat yourself like the kid food garbage disposal. Keep your hands off of your children’s food. While whole grain goldfish or raisins may be good snack for growing, active, children, most adults won’t need as much carbohydrates as their growing children. Even if you feed your children exactly like you eat with mostly protein and produce from whole food sources, finishing up their meal leftovers will add up in the long run and pack on the pounds so make it a habit to pack up their leftovers to reserve for them later.

3. Keep food out of sight to eliminate mindless munching and stress eating. When it takes effort to get to the food, you will be more aware of what, when, and how much you are eating.

4. Develop a weekly menu plan and choose a cooking strategy that meshes with your lifestyle and personality (i.e. bulk cooking, twice weekly cooking, or every other day cooking).

5. Make vegetable and fruit chopping and cooking a family affair. Give children age-specific tasks, turn up some music and have fun!