Five tips for eating healthy while pregnant

Need a little help figuring out what exactly is safe to eat and what you should be steering clear from while you’re expecting? Check out these tips to get started eating healthy while pregnant.

Try our tips below to start your prenatal journey on the best (and healthiest) foot forward:

Tip #1: Eat the rainbow

Be sure to integrate as many fruits and vegetables as possible into your diet. This is one of the simplest ways to ensure you’re eating healthy while pregnant! Eating the rainbow – or a variety of colours from all sorts of nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables – this means generous portions of green leafy veg, carrots, broccoli, oranges, apples, blueberries, bananas, strawberries, tomatoes, as well as red, green, yellow, and orange peppers/capsicum, to name (quite) a few! Try and include fruits and veggies in all meals and snacks. Try a side of fresh fruit with breakfast and be sure that your helping of vegetables is the largest one on your plate during lunch and dinner.

Pregnant women need more protein, folic acid, and iron than those who are not expecting, and it’s also important to ensure you’re getting the daily recommended amount of great-for-you nutrients and minerals like calcium, Vitamin C, and Vitamin D. Many of these essential vitamins and minerals are found in fruit and vegetables. Eating the recommended portions of fruit and vegetables a day can give you all of those ultra-important things, so pack your plate with them and enjoy!