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Making food choices toward a healthy lifestyle can be easy as long as you know how to eat properly. Nutrition is a very important part of daily life and should become a habit. The simple tasks include balancing calories, increasing foods such as fruits, whole grains and vegetables, and reducing foods that are high in sodium and sugary drinks.

From the website Choosemyplate.gov, there are hundreds of articles to help you with nutrition and exercise. One that many people can relate to is “Eating Better on a Budget”. Eating healthy is usually more expensive, thus, we need to get as much as we can out of our money. In this article, the top 10 tips to help you stretch your money are as follows:

1.      Plan, plan, plan

2.      Get the best price

3.      Compare and contrast

4.      Buy in bulk

5.      Buy in season

6.      Convenience costs

7.      Easy on your wallet

8.      Cook once…eat all week!

9.      Get your creative juices flowing

10.    Eating out

For more information on each tip, visit: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/food-groups/downloads/TenTips/DGTipsheet16EatingBetterOnABudget.pdf

This information was taken from http://www.choosemyplate.gov/.

Don’t forget to come to the lunch and learn: What’s on Your Menu? Wednesday, March 21st from 11am – 12pm  in the Peggy R. Williams Center, HR Conference Room GL-52. We’ll have Hannah Antonson from IC's Nutrition Club, shares with us her knowledge about Nutrition and how we can incorporate this in our daily lives. RSVPs are appreciated to 4-8000 or e-mail benefits@ithaca.edu.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Alison Bowman in Human Resources at abowman@ithaca.edu or x4-8000. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

Work/Life: We believe in the integration of work and life outside of work.

Mind, Body, Me Participants: This Lunch and Learn is worth 10 points