Substitutions

One of the easiest ways I have found to improve our eating habits has been incorporating small substitutions over time.  Most of the time I didn't even tell the crew what I was doing, and they almost never noticed (with the exception of whole wheat tortillas; Andy's reaction was as though I had asked him to eat his taco from a wool blanket).  Here are some of our standards:

2% plain greek yogurt (I like Fage) instead of sour cream (this was hard to even try, since I liked a little potato with my sour cream, but we made it!)

Olive oil for grilled sandwiches instead of butter

Multi-grain tortillas (I like Mission and LaTortilla Factory), sandwich thins (I like Arnold "Flax and Fiber"), whole wheat pita pockets, or Ezekiel bread (find it in your freezer section) instead of my standard mystery generic "wheat bread" that when I read the label I learned was actually made from white flour, not whole wheat flour

Pita chips and blue corn tortilla chips instead of potato chips (BIG conversion for Andy)

Brown rice, cous cous, or quinoa instead of white rice

Shakeology instead of a handful of candy