Healthy Holidays – Good Christmas Food Options

With the summer holiday season upon us, it is typically a time of excesses and indulgence. For most people this is not a time for controlled diets and limited consumption, especially alcohol consumption – no means no fun, right? But there are good healthy christmas food options; you just need to plan your food carefully…

Festive Season Indulgence Has a Health Cost

The festive season poses even more difficulty. if you have specific food requirements. More and more people have food allergies and sensitivities -these are an adverse reaction to a food or food ingredient, the immune system perceives a particular substance (allergen) as foreign and acts to destroy it.

During the holiday season we all want to feel our very best yet our healthy habits often take a break when it comes Christmas food.

This is all very well at the time, but this approach can incur a serious health backlash, resulting in a post season hangover of extreme diet restrictions and intense health measures in order to eradicate the demons and to get your health and wellbeing back on track.

Plan Christmas Food To Avoid Indulgence

A great way to ensure you can have fun and stay on track with your diet is to plan well.  Fresh Choice is Queenstown’s local supermarket and they are working with the local community to ensure everyone can enjoy the festive season and have healthy holidays full of vitality.

Shopping online is very convenient, helps you stick to your plan and allows you to enjoy doing the things that you want to do, visit www.freshchoiceqt.co.nz.  If you do venture out, Fresh Choice have ‘Shopper Aide Tags’ clearly identifying gluten free, organic or even food in 15 minutes or less to help you find what you are looking for.

Here are some tips to help you get the best of both worlds, enjoy the season, but reduce its negative affects.

1.    Shop online so you can plan ahead (www.freshchoiceqt.co.nz!)
2.    Always have good fresh stocks of fresh fruit and vegetables on hand and enjoy these as snacks between meals — summer brings with it an abundance of fresh produce.
3.    Restrict your indulgences to occasions, when you are with family and friends. Fresh Choice has an extensive wine and beer selection for those occasions.
4.    Keep hydrated – drink plenty of water.
5.    Consider healthier indulgent options – there is a good range of low fat, low carb, low GI, organic, gluten free items available that are healthy and taste great.
6.    Shop wisely – think before you shop.  If you don’t have it with you, you won’t eat it.
7.    Shop often – so that your fresh products remain fresh and that you do not rely on heavily processed, convenience options.
8.    Shop cost effectively – shop at a Supermarket to avoid a festive season financial hangover.

Author – Fresh Choice Queenstown offers organic produce on and offline – see www.freshchoiceqt.co.nz