Have you resolved to eat better and improve your health in 2011? If so, have you met ANDI?

Of all the things we can do to help keep our health and good looks, eating well is number one on the list. Our bodies, being little furnaces of industry, have a way of automatically converting everything we consume into what we need most, assuming we feed ourselves what we need best. Therein lays the challenge, of course. What is really best? How do you wade through the myriad and often conflicting information available in regards to eating right?

Nutrient Dense Foods

In truth, most nutritional recommendations are tried and true, and lest you’ve forgotten the pillars of a good diet, Whole Foods offers a program called Health Starts Here that helps us remember, or learn for the first time, how best to feed ourselves. Better still, beyond merely outlining what we should eat, Whole Foods even tags the best choices throughout the store with unmistakable icons.

WFM also sells excuse busting labor saving pre-prepped veggies, has a blog for recipes and kitchen tips, and offers guidelines for stocking a healthier pantry, all created to shatter every ruse you’ve ever come up with for not eating as you should. They even include easy menu plans and easier to follow shopping lists so you don’t have to fret or spend any extra time better spent on getting outside and exercising – the second best thing you can do to be beautiful and healthy.

Healthy Fats

From a homemaker’s point of view, it’s exciting to know that every man, woman, young person, or student can harvest such helpful tips straight from the local grocer, all on their own. Think of Health Starts Here as the ultimate “Eating Right for Dummies,” though lickity-smart foodies find there’s no shame in filling their shopping baskets with icon labeled foods, either.

The trick is to visit ANDI often,  (that’s the acronym for Aggregate Nutrient Density Index of foods – the higher the number, the more beneficial to your health), follow the Heath Starts Here icons, and avoiding processed foods.
Start your dedication to healthful eating with this recipe for an old familiar comfort food with a healthful twist, Eggplant Bolognese Sauce.

Eggplant Bolognese