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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to make produce an easy snack.

If you make grabbing grapes as easy as grabbing potato chips, you will probably eat

more fruit.

Today's tip was inspired by a New York Times article about how a nutritionist actually eats.

According to the article, nutritionist Dr. Maya Vatavaleu suggests making vegetables your lazy snack.

In other words, if eating vegetables doesn't require a lot of effort,

you're probably going to eat more vegetables. She suggested that she was

often very satisfied with a bag of baby carrots on her desk. Now there is a caveat here that people who are drawn to the field of

nutrition might be more into healthy foods than the rest of us. I do not find

baby carrots to be an exciting snack.

But the truth is that making produce as easy to eat as possible

does increase the chances that it can compete with cookies or Doritos or anything else that you might be trying to minimize.

As an example, unwashed whole bell peppers are no match for a can of chips.

But cut up bell pepper sticks that you can easily dip into hummus have a fighting chance in that battle.

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