Healthy Steps For A Healthier Lifestyle

Sometimes the hardest step on the road to a healthier diet and lifestyle is self control. If you don’t know where the line is drawn, how do you know when you’ve crossed it? Healthy Steps by Jokari has developed a line of products specifically for portion control, which help determine the correct portion sizes of foods, making dieting and maintaining a healthy weight easier.

Learning portion control is important even when you are eating healthy foods, because too much of a good thing is still too much (unless it’s veggies- those fat burning foods are probably something you can have extra helpings of). Healthy Steps products cover everything from a proper portion size of cheese or protein to a serving size of pasta, gravy, and vegetables. Carbs tend to be a food group many of us go overboard with so the pasta baskets from Healthy Steps is designed to show you what a serving size is, and also allow you to cook a variety of pastas, in case not everyone wants penne or spaghetti. Each basket is marked to let you know the size of a single serving, and for spaghetti and string pastas the hole in the handle of the basket helps determine a serving size (the serving must fit into the hole):

Everyone can have their favorite pasta

It’s no secret I love avocados (use them to make my special guacamole recipe, to add to a salad, or eat with a little lemon and salt on its own) so I was particularly interested in trying out the avocado pro. This gadget slices an avocado open, allows you to either scoop out and mash the avocado flesh, or cut it into little slices. I’ve been using this daily:

Cut, slice and mash avocados with one tool

The water infuser is a product I specifically wanted to try out because I love flavored water. I usually slice up some fruit (my favorite are strawberries) and layer them on the bottom of my water pitcher, then fill my pitcher with ice to keep the fruit on the bottom. The water infuser allows the flavor of the fruit to permeate throughout the water while at the same time preventing all the fruit from leaving the pitcher every time you pour a glass. My pitcher opening was too small for the water infuser, so I had to open it up and close it inside the pitcher. We’ve been enjoying delicious fruit infused water while we eat all week.

Flavor water with your favorite fruit for a refreshing drink

Healthy Steps makes a 3 piece serving set that includes a vegetable, protein, and starch server, and this is really probably the most important item they offer for anyone trying to lose weight or control their diet. The servers measure out a serving size of each category (carbs serving size, proper portion of protein, and a veggie server) to help create the perfectly proportioned dinner plate, and since you need each of these food groups for a balanced diet, a proper serving size of meat, veggies and carbs will keep you healthy and you get in shape.

Control your portions with these

The cheese grater basically helps you measure out a single serving of cheese, also an item for someone who is watching their weight. I really like that you can grate some parmesan over your salad or pasta without having to resort to breaking out a large cheese grater, so whether or not you portion control your cheese, the cheese grater seems pretty nifty to me.

Most of these items are made of heat-resistant nylon and silicone, and Healthy Steps by Jokari can be found at myhealthysteps.com/where-to-buy.

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