Cook your own meals. Be creative and have fun in the kitchen.
Eat beans often, preferably every day.
Garnish your meals with slices of avocado and fresh salsa to add both nutrients and flavor.
Eat fresh fruit every day. Serve fruit with chile lime salt or make aguas frescas or smoothies.
Eat five servings of vegetables every day. Serve them in stews, in tacos, or in a chile-based sauces. Learn to grow or forage quelites and verdolagas as these are exceptionally healthy greens.
Eat native foods such as nopales, amaranth, chayote, squash, corn, chiles, beans, chia seeds, and berries. Work these foods into your meal plans as often as possible. Learn about what plants and vegetables are native to the region where you live.
Make your own corn tortillas and serve them instead of bread, store-bought, or flour tortillas.
Cook with herbs such as epazote, cilantro, mint, oregano, thyme, cumin, coriander, and cinnamon. Herbs and spices contain powerful phytonutrients and add complexity to flavors. If you can, grow herbs native to the Americas, such as Mexican oregano, hoja santa, papaloquelite, and epazote.
Try home remedies, such as herbal teas, when you have a minor illness (coughs, colds, headaches, nausea, cramps, stress, sleeplessness, etc.) Yerba buena (mint), canela (cinnamon), ginger, and manzanilla (chamomile) are easy ones to start with: they taste good and are comforting.
If you have access to land (your yard, a community garden, an empty plot you can claim, a balcony with large pots), grow some of your own food.
Practice gratitude and humility. Give thanks for your food and honor the knowledge, struggle, and recipes passed down to you by your ancestors.
Get involved in food justice issues in your community, extend solidarity and material support to indigenous groups where you live, honor boycotts (such as current boycott of Driscoll Berries), and support the labor activism of food chain workers.
To make room for these changes, minimize or eliminate processed foods, fast foods, white sugar, white flour, meat from CAFOs, and dairy from animals that are fed hormones.
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