20 Gadgets for Anyone Committing to Healthy Eating This Year
Healthy eating has become a goal for so many people. The new year is a prime time for making healthy eating a priority, but getting those habits to stick can be tough. Because what we eat has such a huge impact on our overall health — now and in the future — it makes sense if one of our goals this year is to clean up our eating, especially when we have kids who are learning from our example.
For some, this means cutting back on junk food or turning to a keto diet that cuts out most carbs. But in general, healthy eating means we nourish our bodies with the food it needs, balancing carbs, proteins, and healthy fats. Eating fewer processed foods is also part of a healthy eating plan, but this means more work for us. That's where our list of gadgets comes in.
Some of these tools might actually make cooking at home, dare we say, fun? In finding new and more efficient ways to prepare and cook foods, the habit of eating better becomes less of a chore. It's not always easy to change how our family eats, but these products will make the process smoother and less stressful. For example, air fryers deliver a similar taste as frying foods in oil but without the fat and calories. And understanding food sensitivities through an at-home test kit can steer us toward choosing the right recipes and meal plans. These tools might even get the rest of the family to join in the quest for healthy meals. Or at a minimum, taste the foods they've made.
Professional Saladshooter Electric Food Slicer
Fresh salad is what everyone envisions when we talk about healthy eating. This gadget makes prepping veggies easier and beats bagged salad every time. It comes with several attachments.
Professional Saladshooter Electric Food Slicer and Food Shredder ($58, Home Depot)
Hamilton Beach 5.5-Quart Digital Steamer
Steamed vegetables are absolutely delicious and make for healthier dinners. Speed up the process with a digital steamer that has two steaming compartments.
Hamilton Beach 5.5-Quart Digital Steamer ($50, Walmart)
Automatic Pan Stirrer With Timer
Cooking low and slow brings out so many flavors in foods, but it's time-consuming. This automatic pan stirrer helps alleviate some of that stress of having to stand by the stove. It's like no-hands cooking.
Automatic Pan Stirrer with Timer ($25, Uncommon Goods)
Sugar Blocker Spray
For some people, the hardest part of healthy eating is curbing their addition to sugar. This spray from GNC claims to do just that and has some solid reviews to back it up.
Seynani™ Sweet Zap™ - Sugar Blocker Spray ($20, GNC)
Bendt Gold 3-Tier Wire Fruit Basket
Fresh food is a must for healthy eating! Instead of throwing fruit in a cabinet and forgetting it's there, use a beautiful wire fruit basket to display it. It can double as a centerpiece.
Bendt Gold 3-Tier Wire Fruit Basket ($100, Crate & Barrel)
Yogurt Maker With Built-In Timer
This gadget allows anyone to make yogurt and benefit from its natural probiotics. It comes with a timer to make fermentation easy as pie — and then you get to brag about making your own yogurt from scratch.
1.31 Qt. 7-Jar White Yogurt Maker with Built-In Timer ($50, Home Depot)
Perfect Portions Digital Nutrition Food Scale
This handy scale is programmed with hundreds of codes for common foods. By entering a code and weighing the food, the scale displays nutrition facts for the portion. We always support healthy relationships with food, so use this if the goal is simply to know what is going into your body.
Perfect Portions Digital Nutrition Food Scale ($40, Bed Bath & Beyond)
Food Sensitivity Test
A food sensitivity test is perfect for helping to identify foods that irritate the body and to eliminate those foods from a diet. Say bye-bye to belly aches! It can be done at home with this one from Everlywell.
Food Sensitivity Test ($159, everlywell)
Vidalia Chop Wizard
This gadget for chopping food is easy to use and clean, making prepping veggies much easier than doing it by hand. And faster! Not to mention it has respectable reviews from more than 600 customers.
Vidalia Chop Wizard™ ($25, Bed Bath & Beyond)
The Original Nutribullet Multifunction Blender
The Nutribullet blender is a must for anyone looking to up their smoothie game. Use it to make kale-packed smoothies the kids will love — and it promises to extract all the good stuff from fruits and veggies while in use.
The Original Nutribullet® Multifunction Blender ($65, Bed Bath & Beyond)
Joseph Joseph Helix Citrus Press
This style of press makes adding a squeeze of fresh citrus so easy and seed-free. Use it to flavor water and tea, which is especially helpful in giving up sugary drinks.
Joseph Joseph Helix Citrus Press ($13, Walmart)
'Clean Eating Made Simple' Book
Sometimes, the hardest part about clean eating is knowing where to start. This cookbook makes it easy and fun to begin a healthy eating journey, thanks to its whole-food recipes.
Clean Eating Made Simple: A Healthy Cookbook with Delicious Whole-Food Recipes for Eating Clean ($12, Amazon)
Ninja 4-Quart Air Fryer
Air fryers make food that tastes similar to deep-frying but with less fat and fewer calories. No one said healthy has to taste bland. Sweet potato fries, anyone?
Ninja 4-Quart Air Fryer ($110, Walmart)
Electric Peeler
For those who end up peeling a lot of fruits and vegetables, this is a time-saver. When there's a family to feed, every minute saved is important, and peeling can be a pretty tedious task.
Starfrit Rotato Express ($20, Amazon)
Progressive Prepworks Lettuce Keeper
Keeping lettuce fresh is essential for making tasty salads. This storage box will also keep many other vegetables fresh, including asparagus, cucumbers, mushrooms, radishes, peppers, and even herbs.
Progressive Prepworks Lettuce Keeper One Size ($16, Walmart)
Food Journal/Food Diary
Writing down the foods we eat and how they make us feel can really help us nail down what meals work for us (and what doesn't). It's also a good place to make grocery lists.
Food Journal/Food Diary ($8, Amazon.com)
Evriholder Avocado Holder
Every avocado lover knows they'll turn brown as soon as you cut them. This holder is perfect for helping fresh cut avocados stay fresh, especially if you're trying to do a little prep work ahead of time.
Evriholder Avocado Holder ($12, Walmart)
The Negg Boiled Egg Peeler
Hard boiled eggs are quick and easy and a great source of protein. This peeler makes the process even easier by saving a ton of time. All it takes is a few shakes of the container.
The Negg Boiled Egg Peeler ($15, Amazon)
Vegetable Spiralizer Vegetable Slicer
For anyone looking to up their veggie intake, turning them into "would-be" carbs does the trick. This spiralizer is an amazing value at just $15. Feed the kids zoodles or sneak spiral-cut veggies into other recipes.
Vegetable Spiralizer Vegetable Slicer - 3 in 1 ($13, Amazon)
Freshware Meal Prep Containers
Meal prepping saves time and makes it easier to stick to an eating plan. The three sections make it a no-brainer to put together a balanced meal. With these boxes, a healthy person on Sunday can prepare for the really tired person on Thursday.
Freshware Meal Prep Containers, Pack of 21 ($18, Amazon)
Hamilton Beach Personal Blender
Trying to squeeze in more smoothies and protein shakes? This personal blender just makes one drink — but it blends it in a travel cup that you can take with you when you're done.
Hamilton Beach Personal Blender ($20, Amazon)
Herb Scissors
Healthy food just takes better when you use fresh herbs and spices — but prepping them can be a pain. Fortunately, herb scissors exist for that reason, making that part of the prep a breeze.
Herb Scissors ($16, Amazon)
Dash Egg Bite Maker
Egg bites are a yummy, quick breakfast that can be super healthy, but if you buy them from Starbucks every morning, it gets expensive fast. Enter your own personal egg bite maker — and it helps that it's so cute, right?
Dash Egg Bite Maker ($25, Target)
OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel Steamer Basket
Steaming vegetables is a quick and easy side dish for any meal, and this basket helps get the job done. It can either be used with a pot or in a pressure cooker, and it's dishwasher safe for easy cleanup.
OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel Steamer Basket ($22, Amazon)
KitchenAid Variable Steam Hand-Blender
Having an immersion blender can make it much easier (and much less messy) to make healthy soups or even snacks like hummus without having to whip out the regular blender. This version comes with a dishwasher-safe jar that can be used for blending and storage.
KitchenAid Variable Steam Hand Blender ($50, Target)
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