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Make 2007 the year you really start to eat healthily. These five healthy eating resolutions will help you.

1. Buy less processed food, more fresh, every time you shop. Cook from scratch, using straightforward, healthy recipes that include lots of fruit and vegetables. There are lots of sources of easy, healthy recipes, both on the Internet, and in newspapers and magazines.

2. Cut down on bought cakes and cookies. Bake a simple cake every week, using wholewheat flour, organic butter, freerange eggs. Much better than the additive-laden offerings in the supermarket. Add to lunchboxes or serve a slice for dessert.

3. If your children beg for white bread let them have it sometimes, but buy wholegrain bread twice, for every one time you buy white. That way, you'll cut down on the complaints and, who knows, they might come to prefer the healthier option! And always, always put salad veg into their sandwiches. Press down well to make it harder to pick out!

4. Get the fruit and veg habit. Always serve an second vegetable alongside meat or fish, add veg purees to sauces, chop veg into pasta sauces, top cereals with fruit.

5. Eat less red meat, more poultry and fish, more vegetarian dishes. Buy organic whenever you can. Shop for humanely produced items - shun battery eggs, buy organic meats. These items are costlier than rock-bottom food, so make a little go a long way in stews and sauces, by adding vegetables, pulses like beans and chick peas, and grains like rice and cous cous.

Make these your New Year's resolutions, and enjoy eating healthily for the next 12 months.

Elizabeth Martyn is webmaster at http://www.healthy-eating-made-easy.com, where she strives to answer the perennial question "What shall we eat tonight?" with information, tips and recipes on using buy pure MSM nutritional powder fresh ingredients to feed your family healthily and without hassle.

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