West Lakes Hy-Vee Dietitians: Hy-Vee Healthybites

Are you familiar with the Hy-Vee healthybites newsletter? Every month a Hy-Vee dietitian puts together this newsletter for its customers and it provides fun tidbits on a variety of topics and includes monthly features, such as:

Additional information and uses on the dietitian pick of the month
Spotlights on three new or newer products on the market
Featured monthly recipes
Plus a one page article full of valuable information on nutrition and health

Here are a few excerpts from March’s Hy-Vee healthybites newsletter:

In case you haven’t heard, the dietitian pick of the month for March is avocados. The newsletter provided some helpful hints on how to know when an avocado is ripe and ready to eat:

Once the avocado is ripe and ready to use, the newsletter gave some great suggestions for how to make the ever-so-popular avocado toast and also provided some new and exciting toppings you may not have tried yet:

And because you’ll want to keep the other half of that avocado fresh for the next day’s avocado toast the newsletter provided tips for storing the remainder of the avocado to keep it from browning:

If you love staying in the loop on new products on the market then you will love this section of the newsletter. Here are March’s product spotlights:

Want to receive this newsletter directly in your inbox each month? Follow these simple steps:

1. Go to Hy-Vee.com.

2. Click on the ‘health’ tab at the top of the page.

3. On the left-hand side of the page click on ‘healthybites’.

4. Go to the bottom right-hand corner of the page to where it says ‘subscribe to e-newsletters’ and enter your email address and then click on ‘signup’.