At Project Angel Heart, we include hard-cooked (often referred to as hard-boiled) eggs—along with breakfast cereal, fruit, milk, peanut butter, and other items—in breakfast bags for clients who are struggling to maintain a healthy weight. That means we need around 82 DOZEN hard-boiled eggs. EVERY WEEK. How do we do it?
You likely know that eating vegetables is an essential part of a healthy diet, which is true! Vegetables contain many important vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients like fiber that promote our health. But what if you don’t like eating vegetables? Sometimes, all it takes is a change in how you cook them to make vegetables delicious. Here are some examples of ways to cook vegetables to improve their flavor.
Fruits and vegetables in season are fresher, tastier and more nutritious than out of season foods. Seasonal eating provides more variety and color in the diet. A colorful diet is full of many different nutrients that are essential for your body to function properly and help you feel your best!
There are many reasons to get plenty of fiber in your diet. Fiber helps keep you full longer and can help promote a healthy weight, keep your blood sugar steady, lower cholesterol, and improve heart health! Eating enough fiber also helps you avoid constipation and stay regular.
written by Aaron Strock, dietetic technician Buy in bulk. When possible, consider buying food items in bulk. Bulk items usually have a cheaper unit price than items in individual packaging. This will help stretch your dollar and get you more food for less money overall. Always make sure that you are able eat the food…
March is National Nutrition Month® and Project Angel Heart has been working on some exciting and nutritious changes to our meals to help celebrate. This year’s theme is “Personalize Your Plate”, which means choosing foods you enjoy eating that honor your culture, family history, and personal preferences while picking foods that are full of nutrients and help support your health goals. Since we are always looking at ways to continue to support our clients’ health through the meals we prepare and deliver, we are introducing the following changes to our menus.
What we eat can help decrease our risk of heart disease or help us manage an existing condition. One organization that supports this approach to better heart health is the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation. As part of its Healthy Hearts initiative, the foundation partnered with Project Angel Heart to fund deliveries of medically tailored meals for Coloradans living with cardiovascular disease.
Making sure every Project Angel Heart meal fits the unique nutritional needs of our clients is a difficult job. Each meal is not only tasty, but has to be able to be modified to meet a wide variety of dietary needs. Ensuring that happens is a collaborative effort between our chefs and registered dietitian, Meghan.
We all have a fork… and with it, the power to make healthier decisions every time we eat. It sounds simple, right? But where to begin? Should you go paleo or gluten free? Make like that one friend on Facebook and eat only plants? Put kelp in your smoothie? Eating right doesn’t have to be complicated,…
Today, more than nine percent of Americans are living with diabetes [1], a disease that is costly for those diagnosed and for our health care system as a whole. In the U.S., one in seven health care dollars is spent treating diabetes and its complications [2]. Thanks to our study measuring the impact of medically…