Healthy Alternatives To Junk Food

HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES TO JUNK FOOD

It’s very important to inculcate healthy habits into your lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle reduces the risk of acquiring diseases by strengthening the immunity power and keeps your mind and body fit, which is very essential especially during these unprecedented times of the ongoing pandemic. Fruits and vegetables are very much required to be included in our diets but in many people’s opinion, it’s quite boring to just keep eating healthy food so some people opt for cheat days where they can eat what they love like junk food. Who doesn’t like junk food? It’s like a blessing for your taste buds, everyone wishes to eat these tasty treats but due to the health concerns, people try avoiding them. Unfortunately picking up food that is fried and has heavy carbs is never healthy. However, what if junk food could be made healthy? 

So here are some healthy alternatives to junk food :

Baked veggie fries over French fries

French fries are so tempting but they are a good source of bad fat, so they can have a bad impact on your health, however, we could replace them with baked veggie fries which are equally crispy and has soft-texture as the conventional fries with an added advantage of getting a variety of nutrients from baked carrot and sweet potatoes 

Use of natural sugars like honey, maple syrup could be an alternative to the processed sugar, which can be used in the different sweets that we make, by cutting sugar, fat, and carb count.

Ice creams are every person's favorite, how could one resist without eating ice-creams, so here and another healthy alternative to ice -cream and that is yogurt fruit pops, which is a frozen dessert where you have the control over the sweetness and it’s truly delicious!

Power balls can be a great replacement for donuts. They are protein-packed and they give you the exact same feeling of eating a donut as they have a super soft texture.

Consume healthy homemade smoothies instead of milkshakes. You could make smoothies from your choice of different sweet fruits. For instance, peanut butter oats smoothie has rich and creamy sweetness with a good amount of protein and nutrients.

Chinese cuisine is one of the most loved foods across the globe but they contain large amounts of carbs and are usually fried which is a concern for a healthy diet. But cauliflower rice can be used over fried rice, Baking is always preferred over frying and food should be made gluten-free.

Making a pizza without the dough or using radish, arugula flatbread for the crust, and including a lot of veggies with reduced amounts of sauce and cheese can be a great way to enjoy pizza without carbs.

Traditional burgers could be replaced by leaner and greener burgers with veggie patties, cutting down the cheese, and including a lot of lettuce and Potato rounds instead of buns.

Healthy dips instead of full-fat dips could be a great option for accompanying chips and veggies.