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What do you do to eat healthy?
So aside from trying to use safe body products, etc., what do you do to eat healthy? I feel like no one I know except my aunt and uncle try to eat healthy. I try to eat healthy and cook healthy for my family, although my husband makes no effort (which is frustrating).
Here are my 'basic stats' although I'm sure I'm leaving out a lot -
- eat organic when I can
- I take vitamins daily (mostly just a prenatal/multi right now since I am nursing)
- take Omega-3 supplement, flax seeds, and my new thing is chia seeds
- i try to incorporate a fruit or veggie in every meal, although it is difficult 
Mostly because we are often on the go, in a rush, or don't have fresh stuff on hand
- I drink a lot of green tea, red tea
- no caffeine, alcohol, or soda (I pretty much only drink water or tea - alcohol very rarely, like at a wedding or special occasion.. I have been TTC/preg/nursing for like 4 years though 
I am very guilty of eating a ton of cheese and carbs, and junk food though. I blame it on being a busy mom, but I wish I ate better. I started buying "snacks" like raw food bars on Amazon for when I crave junk (Probar and Raw Revolution bars).
Re: What do you do to eat healthy?
I eat "clean" 99% of the time. Details in blog.
I've also started growing my own beans (see post below, and blog!) and we shop at the local markets/co-op as much as possible. I will also seek out local products at the grocery store since I believe they are better tasting and have less risk of contamination from whatever during growing or transit.
My Clean Eating Blog
Green Living Reading List
We belong to a CSA...it's my new favorite thing this summer.
We grow our own veggies too.
I know it's not perfect, but I really try to buy organic/grasfed/"humane" meats for our family. I buy them from the butcher at whole foods. It's what is realistic and fits in our budget right now.
I eat fruits daily.
I don't really worry about my carb intake..and I will admit that if by "processed foods," you mean things like the "Back to Nature," Chocolate chip cookies--then..yes
..i eat them. I think they are yummy! I'm running 40+ MPW right now, and even when I'm not..a little processed goodness is part of my balanced diet.
We rarely eat processed foods. That's not to say we don't eat some sweets. But it's mostly homemade with organic, whole ingredients.
I buy local, humanely raised meats and dairy/eggs. Might not be certified organic, but they are not treated with hormones, antibiotics or fed GMO grain.
Lots of fruits and veggies. What we don't buy as local (which is not much) is organic.
"Eating healthy" is such a relative term. My ILs think they "eat healthy" by being on the Atkins diet.
That works for them, so I try not to judge 
But my point is that "eating healthy" for some means something completely different to others.
For me, I eat a mostly raw foods, vegan diet. I buy only organic of the Dirty Dozen veggies/fruits and shop at my local Co Op to buy locally grown or free-trade produce. I would say about 95% of my grocery bill is from the produce dept, the other 5% is nuts/spices/bulk produce. I try to grow as many veggies as I can in my own garden. For me, "eating healthy' means viewing food as nutritional fuel- so everything I eat must have some type of nutritional value that my body can use as energy.
On a side note.. you do know that green tea has caffeine, right?
We follow slow food (for the most part, every month we get closer to our 100% goal) so that is how we eat healthy. Good, clean, and fair food. Yummy! One thing we don't do is eat local foods, though. I opt for organic over local every time. Our locals are huge fans of pesticides and I am not mad keen on how a few treat their workers.
The basic rules I follow:
-Eat local/organic when I can. Follow the 'dirty dozen' so I'm not spending more when really not necessary - although if I can buy organic anything I will try to.
http://static.foodnews.org/pdf/EWG-shoppers-guide.pdf
-Avoid High Fructose Syrups, Partially Hydrogenated Oils, Aspartame, and other artificial sweeteners (I'd rather eat something with cane sugar vs fake stuff even if it has a few more cals).
-Try to avoid Enriched Flours and other highly processed ingredients
-Starting to substitute butter with EVOO in recipes (per Jillian Micheals recipes - just ordered her newer cookbook).
-Eat free range/organic/brown eggs
-Try to eat free range/grass fed/no-antibiotic meats and plenty of salmon and cold water fish
-Incorporate lots of veggies and fruits into diet
-Juice as often as possible (use my juicer to make green drinks with Kale, Spinach and other goodies)
I'm sure I'm missing some of my goals, but basically it comes down to - where did this food come from? If it's natural ingredients and I can pronounce the ingredient it's pretty OK.
I also will go out of my way to support good companies that are using green practices and if I have to buy something in packaging I try to buy recyclable packaging (or glass jar so I can use the jars for extra juice when I make too much or store other food).
Oh..I wanted to add that we try not to eat anything "fake." So even if it's processed, we don't eat fake sugars, msg, nitrate/nitrites etc. The stuff we buy--I try to make sure it has a very short ingredient list, that I can pronounce all the words and know what those words are. I don't like it when things have "Natural flavorings or artificial flavorings," in them.
I get migraine headaches that can be a bear--and I have followed an elimination diet for years and years. This is one of the major components of it (I'm over simplifying it here but this is part of it)
This goes for me, too. My mom is a vegetarian and also very health-conscious. My family has always been label-readers and low-fat shoppers. Ever since I was little I've loved fruit, veggies and whole grains. I'm definitely guilty with the things I refuse to give up -- caffeine, alochol, pizza/junkfood in moderation -- but I eat to feel good and I eat what I like. Now I am consciously trying to buy organic where it makes sense, and buy only foods with a few ingredients that I can actually pronouce.
This is us too. We've been dehydrating, freezing, and canning like mad so we can eat local and healthy year-round. We eat fresh fruit and veggies every day, I'm munching on home-dried apricots right now. We drink hot tea together almost every night, and with our lunches we bring cider in the winter and iced tea or juice in the summer. We very rarely have soda. We both take multivitamins.