Making healthy choices during Summer BBQ Season

Summertime is all about barbeques with your friends and family, but the food available at these barbeques may not always be the healthiest. There are ways though, that you can eat healthy while still enjoying yourself and eating what you like.

One way to ensure you eat healthy is to make your own dish and bring it. This way, even if all of the foods there are not as healthy as you would have liked them to be, you can have at least one healthy meal to indulge in. Portions are another huge part of being able to stay healthy. You can still eat those macaroni and potato salads as long as you don’t over-do it. Make sure to pay attention to the amount of starchy foods you are eating and try to keep portions small.

Start out by eating vegetables. If you fill up on the healthy stuff first, you’ll have less room for the non-healthy foods later on. Getting up and doing some physical activity after your meal is helpful too. Although you don’t need to go and run a marathon, having a catch in the backyard or doing some other kind of backyard game will definitely have a positive impact on your body and the way your meal is digested.

Another way to make sure to stay healthy but still be able to eat the good stuff is by eating salads. If you are having trouble figuring out what you should put into your salad, La Bottega in Farmingdale has a number of different salads for you to choose from. Salads are a great thing because you can add ingredients to them while still being able to keep the meal healthy. Two ingredients that are not only healthy but tasty are fish and grilled chicken. Fish is one of the healthiest foods in the world. It’s loaded with protein and vitamin D and grilling is a low-fat cooking method for chicken. Grilled chicken is a great source of protein and carbohydrates. La Bottega has a large selection of salads that are both healthy and delicious and contain grilled chicken as well as different types of fish. Adding these healthy ingredients not only make your salad more enjoyable, but give you a healthy amount of protein and vitamins too.