Healthy Eating Let Seneca help you take a journey to healthier eating—incorporate more fruits and vegetables into your diet so you can feel the best you can.

What's On Your Plate?

Dietary guidelines recommend we eat more plant-based foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans and nuts - foods that provide fiber, antioxidants , and healthier fats. These nutrients are linked to lowered risks for heart disease, diabetes, certain cancers, and even obesity. How do we do this? According to the new "MyPlate" Icon, you need to fill half your plate with vegetables, a quarter with whole grains, and a quarter with lean protein. By incorporating more fruits and vegetables, plus making smart choices when it comes to animal products such as lean cuts of beef/chicken, eating more fish/seafood and low-fat dairy foods, families can create healthier eating habits.

Use Seneca products and take a journey towards healthier eating.

To get enough fruits and vegetables, plus the variety of nutrients they provide, create a rainbow of color on your plate.

• Add a burst of color to toss salads by adding beets, beans, peaches, or even Crisp Onions.
• Top waffles and french toast with fruit such as strawberries, blueberries, or raspberries.
• Toss vegetables into pasta for added nutritional value.

Load up favorite foods with veggies or beans and learn how to swap high-calorie ingredients for lower-calorie versions.

• Add one can or frozen ingredient into a recipe and create a healthier version of a family favorite.
• Bake beets into baked goods for an extra-moist and flavorful treat.
• Puree fruits like peaches and pears to make sauces..drizzle sauces everywhere – from pancakes to poultry.
• Choose reduced sodium, no-salt-added, light-syrup, or items containing fruit juice whenever possible.

Start the day off right by incorporating vegetables and fruit with breakfast selections.

• Serve Seneca Oatmeal and Libby's Single Fruit Cups for a complete meal.
• Add spinach or sweet peas to omelets or sauté chopped onions, bell peppers with scrambled eggs.
• Make cereals sweeter by adding pears or peaches.

Make healthier choices for snacking

• Seneca's 100 calorie Apple Chip Snack bags or Libby's Single Fruit Cups make easy snack choices.
• Create delicious smoothies by adding fruit with yogurt.
• Blend sweet peas, garbanzo beans, or beets to make healthier dips.

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