Are you looking for quick, easy and healthy junk food swaps that don’t taste like low-calorie — not even good for you — diet food?
Are you tired of being told you have to stop eating “all the things” to be healthy?
If so, this post’s for you.
Stop Giving Up the Food You Love
Whether your goal is to lose weight, eat better, or start being healthier, sadly, we live in a world constantly telling us we must give things up to be healthy. And this couldn’t be further from the truth.
In my opinion, and from experience, it’s a toxic societal lie. One that gives everyone the impression healthy food and eating is boring, restrictive and time-consuming.
The worst part? These lies make us feel deprived, frustrated, guilty, and eventually an unmotivated loser. Right?
Being Healthy Doesn’t Have to Be Hard
A healthy lifestyle is about balance — not restriction, deprivation or guilt. It’s having the choice to choose healthier alternatives when you can and want to.
Healthy eating is about thinking long-term. It’s asking yourself, what healthy junk food swaps are you happy to stick with most of the time?
And, rather than giving up the food you love, it’s about replacing it with tasty and satisfying healthier alternatives — like those below.
10 of the Best Simple & Healthy Junk Food Swaps
- Swap your large daily cameral latte for a small skinny (no syrup) latte — once you’ve got used to this, try replacing it with black coffee and milk.
- Swap your daily bowl of sugary cereal for Weetabix, porridge or overnight oats (click here for my favourite quick and simple recipe).
- Swap your morning biscuit and afternoon crisps for a banana with peanut butter (in my humble opinion, this is the best snack ever), oatcakes and cheese, or some nuts and an apple.
- Swap sugar-laden fat-free yoghurt for full-fat Greek or natural yoghurt.
- Swap your favourite takeaway for supermarket-ready meals or pizzas — and at some point, try cooking your own (there’s an unbelievable number of quick, easy and healthy fakeaway recipes online).
- Swap white bread and pasta for wholemeal and wholewheat.
- Swap your burger and fries when out for a meal, for steak (filet, sirloin or flat iron), chips and veg.
- Swap cream-based pasta sauces for tomato-based sauces with added veggies.
- Swap your high-sugar evening treat for a piece of dark chocolate or some berries with yoghurt.
- Swap that cake or muffin for a teacake, crumpet, croissant, doughnut or malt loaf.
In my opinion, these healthy junk food swaps are all quick, easy and simple. None of them feel restrictive or taste bland. And, as a bonus, all of them will give you more energy.
What Healthy Junk Food Swaps Will You Try?
You deserve to be happy and healthy. So please don’t deprive yourself. Choose quick, easy and healthy junk food swaps to replace some of your less healthy favourite foods.
Your healthier alternatives will become new favourites in no time — trust me. Plus, you’ll never feel guilty, restricted or deprived again.
The ultimate goal here is to reframe how you think about and approach losing weight, eating better and being healthier. Rather than reluctantly giving things up, or dieting, embrace the challenge of finding quick and easy healthy alternatives you’ll enjoy long-term.
Not only will you feel happier, but you’re also much more likely to succeed — because research shows when you deprive yourself you’re a lot less likely to stick with something new. What better reason to stop restricting yourself and make some healthy swaps instead?
Your Free Health Guide
I hope you enjoyed this post and found it helpful — and that you’re going to give one of the healthy junk food swaps a go.
And, if you’re looking for more quick and easy health tips, be sure to grab your FREE Health Guide below.
Happy snacking!
With love,
Becky x