Enhance Your Nutrisystem Diet: Adding Fresh Foods for Optimal Nutrition

Nutrisystem is a diet plan that delivers prepackaged meals to your door. Nutrisystem is a good choice if are busy, and do not have time to cook or count calories. Although the meals come ready to heat and eat, it is recommend to add fresh vegetables and other low-calorie foods to your Nutrisystem meal for added nutrition. Adding a little bit of extra food to your meal helps you feel full and prevents snacking.

Things You'll Need

• Vegetables
• Fruit

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Instructions

• 1

  Order your Nutrisystem meals through the official website or by using the Nutrisystem phone number: 1-800-435-4074.

• 2

  Review the items you have ordered and make a list of healthy items that would complement your entrees. Nutrisystem offers some recommendations. For example, add green beans to its spinach and cheese stuffed shells, or have a glass of soy milk with breakfast. To make your own additions, go for foods that are low in calories, but high in nutritional value, such as grapes or a hard boiled egg.

• 3

  Begin eating the Nutrisystem meals once your package arrives in the mail. Enhance breakfast meals such as the Nutrisystem low fat granola cereal or the apple strudel scone by adding a little plain yogurt for extra calcium.

• 4

  Bring lettuce or fruit to work to accompany your Nutrisystem preplanned lunch. Items that go with a home-made side salad include the turkey hot dog, minestrone soup, and the steak and cheese melt.

• 5

  Get creative at dinner time. Grilled vegetables are an ideal addition to almost any Nutrisystem dinner meal. Add non-fat cottage cheese to pasta and sauce entrees to help expand your serving.

• 6

  Use vegetables as toppings. Customize Nutrisystem eggs and pizzas with bell peppers, spinach or mushrooms.