Achieve Your Goals With Organic Grocery Delivery

Most people worry about eating healthy, but far fewer people achieve it. We are surrounded by unhealthy options, yet eating healthy feels like it takes a constant, conscious effort to achieve. It is also the time for New Year’s resolutions—maybe you have made one to eat healthier.

The big challenge with resolutions is that all that energy and desire fades after a month or two. It is entirely natural for this to happen. Willpower comes and goes, but there are steps you can take to make it easier to eat healthy, even when your energy bottoms out. Accomplishing a long-term healthy lifestyle is not about being strict with yourself and obsessing over every calorie. There are ways to work smarter, not harder, and they will help you achieve your goals.

Make it Easier to Eat Healthy This Year

Healthy living is something all people should aspire to, but between everything else life throws at us, it can also be an easy goal to ignore. That paper due next week has more immediate consequences than the pizza you order to get an extra hour to work on it. Often, unhealthy food is also the most accessible. Someone else will make it for us, we can get it delivered, and all we need to do is enjoy it. Food delivery is nearly effortless.

This is a massive hurdle to get over, but not an impossible one. In fact, it might be easier than you think. Instead of putting extra effort into doing something the hard way, we can focus on finding ways to make eating healthy as easy as ordering Chinese food.

Overcoming Barriers

For every goal, there are barriers stopping us from accomplishing them. In order to eat healthy, we have to choose to get groceries instead of eating out. Then we have to follow through and cook something. This means we also have to learn how to cook healthy meals. After all that, hopefully we still feel like eating the thing we decided on two days ago!

Each of these steps requires a conscious choice. They are basically tollbooths on the road toward our goal where we spend little nuggets of energy. At the end of the work week, you might not have much energy left to pay.

The easiest way to accomplish something is to remove the barriers between you and that goal. Rather than making things difficult on yourself and soldiering through, it is far more effective to make the task itself easier. This is where FreshDirect can help.

Skip the Barrier—Order Organic Grocery Delivery

It takes effort to go buy groceries. It takes next to none to order a pizza for delivery. If you get groceries delivered, then you can skip over that barrier. Suddenly, the amount of effort to get groceries and the amount of effort to order takeout become identical.

FreshDirect DeliveryPass allows you to get all the products you would find on the shelf delivered straight to your porch without paying a delivery fee. This makes it easier than ever to have what you need to cook a healthy meal when you need it. For maximum convenience, you could get a full year subscription with anytime delivery, but FreshDirect offers several options that allow you to get your groceries on your terms. Get midweek delivery and build a routine around it. Or you can try a two-month free trial and see how much easier delivery can make your goals. If you change your mind at any point, you can cancel anytime. Choose the way that works best for you!

If you live in select areas of New York, you can even get same-day delivery. Instead of having to think two days ahead, you can decide what you want for dinner the morning of and have the ingredients on the porch before it is time to cook.

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It Gets Even Easier With Prepared Foods

That still leaves one more barrier: actually cooking the meal itself. Some days, we simply do not have the energy and we reach for GrubHub. FreshDirect can help here, too, with a full collection of prepared foods ready for delivery. These sensibly portioned meals draw from a wide range of cuisines and tastes; there is guaranteed to be something you will enjoy. If you are already ordering groceries, it is easy to slip one into the shopping cart, knowing you will already have one dinner handled.

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Stocking Pantry Staples

Many longtime chefs will tell you that they have certain staples they always keep in their pantry. Pasta, canned vegetables, some seasonings like salt or garlic that they are constantly using—everyone has their own list of favorites they build over time. The important thing is that they never have to think about these staples. When they run out of pasta, they order more. Zero decision-making involved. When it is automatic, it takes no energy.

A lot of staples are also nonperishable, so you do not have to worry about them going bad. Canned vegetables, pasta, premade soups, rice, nuts, and chickpeas are all perfect for stocking a pantry. If you find yourself desperately hungry, you can pull some off the shelf and make a quick dinner. But if an emergency never arises, they can sit there for months, even years, until you need them. Home staples that can turn into quick, easy meals are your defense against Thursday night Thai takeout.

Choosing Healthy Dishes You Love

What you choose to cook can be as important to a healthy lifestyle as deciding to cook in the first place. It is important to cook healthy dishes, and just as important to find dishes you actually enjoy eating in the first place.

There is no need to eat a salad for lunch every day to live healthy. In fact, if you do not like them, you should not eat them at all! Eating something you are not a fan of is just raising another barrier between you and a healthy lifestyle. Forcing yourself to eat something you do not like takes energy, and every time you do it, it gets harder to do it again. Eventually, the barrier will become too thick to break through and you will fall back into old habits. Instead, look for food that is easy to make and eat for you.

Hunt for New, Healthy Favorites

Nothing makes food easier to eat than an active desire to eat it. There are countless ways to eat healthy and more ingredients and cuisines out there than you could ever explore in a lifetime. The important thing is to experiment and find the ones that you want to eat.

Maybe you do not like salads, but you do love Indian food, poke bowls, or Thai. You can learn to make all of these foods. It will take less effort to learn to cook something you enjoy than to force yourself to eat something you hate. Every culture has its own way of eating healthy, and you might like those foods more. Explore until you find something that is healthy and tastes good.

Cook Authentic Dishes

From a basic bottle of Kikkoman soy sauce to more niche staples like tahini, FreshDirect can help you cook genuinely authentic dishes from cuisines around the world. Any cuisine you want to explore, FreshDirect can help you on your journey. The only limit is how many recipes you want to try at once.

Buy Healthy With Organic

If you’re trying to cook healthier meals, going organic can be a simple change to make. Organic fruits, vegetables, and grains are grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. Fewer pesticides and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) mean being able to sleep soundly knowing your food does not have any unwanted substances in it.

You may also get a small nutrition boost. Some research shows that organic produce can have higher levels of certain vitamins and antioxidants. These nutrients help protect your cells and support your immune system. The difference might not be huge, but it can add up if you eat organic foods often.

Organic meat and dairy can offer benefits, too. Organic practices lead to healthier livestock because animals on organic farms are raised without routine antibiotics or added hormones. If their quality of life is a motivating factor for you, organic meat is a good baseline to follow to make sure that you are buying healthy, well-cared-for protein.

FreshDirect is happy to provide quality, organic ingredients grown naturally on local farms. From the Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative’s quality produce to fresh, organic eggs and chicken, you can easily find food that appeals to your needs, removing yet another barrier between you and eating healthy.

Eating on Your Terms

The real beauty of cooking for yourself is that you can make whatever you want, however you want it. If you think your local burrito joint stiffs you on meat and hands you a tortilla stuffed with nothing but rice, you can make your own with the exact ratio of ingredients that satisfies you. Your version might even be lower in calories!

If you constantly crave Chinese takeout, you can buy a wok and learn to make your own versions of your favorites with less salt and more vegetables. Even if you are not cooking the healthiest food all the time, this is still a huge step toward a healthier lifestyle. Takeout tends to be loaded with salt, sugar, and monosodium glutamate (MSG) to an unhealthy excess. Their primary goal is to create something that tastes incredible and, sometimes, that comes at the cost of a healthy dish. When you cook for yourself, you can control what goes into your food.

Healthy Living Is a Journey

The greatest barrier to eating healthy is the feeling that it has to be all or nothing. That we either count every calorie and eat healthy for every single meal or we are doomed to fall short of our goals.Whether you’re trying to lose weight or are concerned about a health condition, partial progress is not failure.

Healthy eating is a sliding scale we are always moving on. There are things we can do, day by day, to make sure that we trend toward the healthy side of the scale. Building a healthy lifestyle is, ultimately, about making it easier to make healthy decisions. The easier those decisions are to make, the more naturally a healthy lifestyle will come together.

Whether you have been working at it for years or are just starting in January, eating healthy is a journey. It is one that we might never be perfect at, but can always try to improve a little at, day by day, year by year. FreshDirect wants to be your partner on this journey. With delivery options that fit your lifestyle, you can make eating healthy easier and less stressful than ever.

Working together, we can remove the barriers between you and the healthy lifestyle you dream of.