Food & Nutrition

Meals, labels and everyday choices around the kitchen.

Add beans to familiar meals in small steps

Use a familiar dish as the starting point, then change a small part of it.

A fallback dinner works best when it is chosen while you still have time to think.

Plan where raw food and ready-to-eat food will go before the counter becomes crowded.

A few familiar ingredients can become breakfast without a new recipe every morning.

Prepare ingredients with several possible uses instead of committing to the same finished lunch five times.

Choose the vegetable for the dish and follow the package rather than treating the freezer as one uniform ingredient.

Decide whether the beans will be the base, the addition or the texture in the meal.

Use the ingredient list to answer a question that package color cannot.

Read what quantity the numbers describe before comparing the numbers themselves.

Understand how total and added sugars relate before using them to compare foods.

Compare equivalent portions and notice the difference between a lower claim and a low amount.

Choose a snack for the time, place and appetite you have rather than a fixed idea of the perfect combination.