Many nights in the ’70s and ’80s I sat at the family dinner table refusing to eat my veggies.

“They’re good for you!” my frustrated mother would explain.

“But I don’t LIKE them,” I would whine.

Sound familiar?

Eating healthy doesn’t have to mean that you have to suffer through barely edible flavors.  

A large part of the reason people don’t enjoy many foods is because they are prepared badly and they aren’t visually appealing.  

Black bean salsa adds much needed color and nutrients to your meal.

Free yourself from terrible tasting meals and learn how to make dishes you enjoy that are also good for your body, mind, and soul!

One of the best tricks to eating healthy is eating based on color.  The color food is represents different nutrients and vitamins in the item. Therefore, the more colors in your meal, the more likely your meal will have a healthy spread of nutritional value.  

Another reason colorful eating is healthy for you is that it also entices your visual palate, which is important to your body’s ability to absorb the goodness in the food.

Roasted sweet potatotes add much needed color and nutrients to your dishes.

So, get inspired and start adding color to your next meal. For example, rather than a visually bland dinner of chicken (white) and gravy (tan), potatoes (white), and corn (yellow/white), a healthier choice would be chicken (white) with black bean and apple chutney (red/white/green/black), sweet potatoes (orange) and asparagus (green).

Eating should be fun.  It should be colorful.  And it should be healthy.