3 Healthy Family Habits (simple & easy)
Want to the start integrating healthy habits for your family but you don’t know where to start? Here are 3 simple things you can start doing and using to move the needle on your family’s health. My family does these daily and I’m noticing a difference in behavior, stamina, skin issues, overall health, and family bonding.
Smoothies:
Smoothies are a stable in our house. Why? Cause my kids love sweets and carbs (so do I honestly). We started with smoothies when each child was one year old and they ask for them almost daily. They are so easy to make and we tend to switch things up but here what we usually put in them:
1 1/2 cup frozen fruit (we switch up fruit all the time and look for sales!)
1 cup either frozen kale or spinach
one scoop of greens
1/2 scoop of vanilla protein (for kids, for adults I use two scoops)
eyeball milled flax seed (pretty cheap at Aldi)
eyeball chia seeds
sometimes I add half of banana
Family walks
I can thank the covid shutdown for one thing: we had to get creative. My gym closed, and I had no income (here’s more about what I do). We had to keep our sanity somehow and daily walks helped. We got to be outside, my house stayed clean(er), walking is GREAT for you and your kids, and it gave us a chance to connect. I think the connection was the best positive outcome of our daily walks (if you follow me on instagram, you see a glimpse of these). We talk, skip, and learn coping skills (when we whine about having to walk back to house 🏠). My girls are now 4 and 6 and they LOVE taking walks around our neighborhood and have recently asked to hit different trails in our community. I’m happy we can not only stay active, but that we have a connection tool when emotions get too big.
Filling in the gaps
Even with the first two, I’m still not perfect. My kids wake up and ask to take the dogs on a walk (awesome right?) and for a cookie, popsicle, or crackers (not so awesome). I’m also a carb lover and will never pass some gooey butter cake or a cookie. So, I know myself and my kids are not getting enough to hit daily requirements of vitamins and minerals everyday. So what do you do? You supplement. Its not scary. Its realistic. I know I’m not hitting the daily nutrition marks and neither are my kids. So I take and multivitamin and so do my kids. If you want to save some money, heres everything packed into one system.
