4 Simple and Effective Ways to Add Superfoods to Your Diet

As someone who is interested in living a healthy lifestyle, you want to try to eat as many nutritious foods as you can. But while you know that superfoods like spinach, walnuts, and avocado are much better for you than French fries and donuts, you are really not that crazy about broccoli, sweet potatoes and other extremely healthy foods.

No worries, dear health-minded person with good intentions but a limited palate. As it turns out, it is pretty easy to find ways to add superfoods to your diet—even the ones that you don’t really like.

With that in mind, check out the following four tasty tips:

Look for Smart Substitutions and Inclusions

A good way to sneak more superfoods into your diet is to be on the lookout for easy recipe substitutions. For example, if you adore a good tuna noodle casserole or dinner of fish cakes, try substituting salmon—either fresh or canned—for the usual seafood. Or, if you normally enjoy a snack of chips and salsa, try chopping up an avocado into small chunks and mixing it in with the salsa.

Prepare Superfoods in Different Ways

If your memories of broccoli involve trying to gag down overcooked and mushy pieces of the veggie, look for other ways to prepare it other than boiling or steaming. For example, pick up a bag of broccoli slaw at the store—it truly bears no resemblance to the traditional florets—and add it into a crunchy salad. You can also add pureed broccoli to a cream soup like potato, or cut it up into very small pieces and add a small amount to your favorite omelet.

Consider Supplements

Another great way to get the nutrients of superfoods into your system is by taking a high quality vitamin and mineral supplement. This will give you the nutritional backup that you need on those days when your intentions are great, but you still end up grabbing fast food on the way home. For example, Amway’s Nutrilite brand of supplements uses plant concentrates, many of which are grown on the company’s certified organic farms. If you have never purchased anything from Amway before, you can check out the company’s profile and learn more about them on their LinkedIn page—this way, you can rest assured that you are buying top quality vitamins and supplements that can give your diet a boost.

Try Growing Them

A fun and effective way to be inspired to try new superfoods is to grow them yourself. While you might be able to pass over kale in a restaurant or supermarket, if you have a container of the leafy green thriving on your patio, you will probably be more willing to give it a try. As SkinnyChef notes, one cup of kale has only 30 calories, but 357 percent of your daily value of vitamin A, plus plenty of vitamin C, manganese and protein. For an easy and tasty kale recipe, try SkinnyChef’s eggs and kale dish, which includes three cups of kale—it will cook down to about one cup—an egg, and barbecue sauce or chipotle mayo. Saute the kale in a little cooking spray and then add the egg to the middle and cook it sunny side up until it’s firm, and then top with the spicy mayo or bbq sauce. Other superfoods that you can easily grow at home include a blueberry bush in a whiskey barrel and a variety of tomatoes.

It Is Easier Than You Think

Fortunately, adding superfoods to your diet does not involve plopping a huge pile of an unfave veggie onto your plate. By making simple substitutions, thinking outside of the box with preparation, growing them at home and taking a high-quality supplement filled with the nutrients found in superfoods, you can easily add these powerful nutrients into your diet.