How to make healthy eating more exciting

Dinners at your favourite restaurant, weekend brunch with family…some meals just feel different. Let’s help bring that special-event energy to your nutritious go-tos.

Let’s dive a little deeper…

Not every meal has to be a vibe. But you also don’t have to just accept it if your healthy-eating routine starts to have the same energy as brushing your teeth. Borrowing what makes “special meals” so fun, festive, and appealing helps restore some of the luster that can get lost over time.

So try serving your Points®-friendly tacos with decorative napkins and margarita glasses. Or create a romantic candlelit date night to complement Tuesday’s zoodle primavera—complete with a fancy menu. Research suggests playing around with ambiance and using sensory or nostalgic words to describe foods can increase how much we enjoy what we eat.

Bottom line: Your routine and go-to foods keep you on track. But thinking differently about them—how you serve them, where or how you eat them, what you call them—helps keep things interesting and keeps you excited and inspired for the journey.