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People sometimes think that being a dietitian makes eating healthy automatically easy for me.

It doesn’t. I struggle with the balance of budget, time, food sensitivities, availability of products, etc. We all have challenges to eating the healthy way we want. That is life. Sometimes, though, challenges lead us to new and creative ways of accomplishing our goals.

Two years ago, a big change for me was the closure of Mega Foods. Until the closure, I had my food budget and shopping down to a comfortable science. It allowed me to be efficient and creative and enabled our little family and g...