10 Strategies to Diversify your Family's Diet

1.     Challenge friends-- Make it a game with friends to see who can prepare meals with the most amount of new foods during the course of a week or month.

2.     Swap Ingredients--Replace your regular ingredients with a similar food in your favorite recipes.

3.     CSA--Support your local farms and get in-season produce each week.

4.     Farmers markets--Discover variations of old favorites and find new treasures.

5.     Cooking classes--Classes are great ways to learn how to prepare unfamiliar foods.

6.     Meal Plan--Include one new food per week when your meal plan.

7.     Dinner party--It’s easier to try new foods with friends, invite them over for dinner.

8.     Colorful plate--Make your plate colorful so that you have plenty of antioxidants to act in synergy.

9.     Intonational Markets--Learn about foods you never know existed.

10. Diversify your foodie feed--Do you like following chefs, foodies and and home cooks on social media? Try following people from different cultures and culinary backgrounds. Chefs and cooks from different cultures may use ingredients that you’ve never tried to cook with or eat.