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Bye Bye Baby Bumps > Healthy Eating Tips for Busy Mums
By Kim Holmes
March 12, 2012
By Kim Holmes
March 12, 2012
As I mother I know how the time flies looking after your little ones. As a Nutritionist, I also know why it is so important to maintain a healthy daily diet to look after yourself, keep your weight in check and maintain energy levels to keep up with busy kids and lack of sleep!
Here are a few quick tips to follow that can hopefully make your day a little easier and healthier:
1. I can’t stress how important starting the day is with a healthy breakfast:
- Have a quick mix of oats, millet & quinoa puffs ready to go and add some yoghurt, fruit and nuts & seeds & milk of your choice/ this can be substituted with a hearty porridge, stewed fruits &toasted nuts in the cooler months
- Alternatively add a poached egg or 2 to a piece of wholegrain bread or sourdough with some avocado and tomato, drizzle with flaxseed oil & add pepper
- This will have all your bases covered: wholegrains for energy and nervous system support/ protein to keep you full and essential fats for concentration, healthy skin and a healthy heart
- If you are time poor, why not whip up a smoothie with oat or almond milk, natural yoghurt, ground linseeds, half a banana and some berries (extra points for adding a super food such as maca powder or spirulina for extra nutrition)
2. Whilst you’re making the kids lunches (healthy sandwiches and snacks), keep a few portions aside for yourself for the next day
3. Plan dinner meals ahead of time. Take the family to the growers markets on the weekend and buy fresh produce to make healthy soups/ stews/ curries that are also suitable for freezing
4. Never leave home without packing a piece of fruit, some wholegrain crackers and a nut/ seed mix in your bag. This way you can have healthy snacks in between meals and keep your blood sugar levels at a safe, energy maintaining level. Try to avoid picking up that muffin or sweet drink that will only give you a sugar spike and then energy crash, not to mention unwanted calories.
These are just a few small, but easy changes you can make to lead a healthier lifestyle.
Kim Holmes is a Nutritionist and mum to a little girl Billie with another one on the way in June. Her passion is making health easy & fun for mums and all the family!
m 0412295640/ e kim.holmes7@bigpond.com
Bach Health Science/ Adv. Dip Nutritional Med/ ATMS 25691
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