Condiments are a great first place to start swapping out healthier options. Most of the time condiments are loaded with not-so-great ingredients, high in sugar, or full of preservatives. I found some easy healthy alternatives to my favorite everyday condiments that I use.

Choose healthier cooking oils

Hydrogenated processed oils are so unhealthy and are found in so many different food products. Instead of cooking or baking with canola, vegetable, margarine, shortening, safflower oil, hydrogenated, and other oils. Use more natural high-quality cold-pressed oils. These oils have more nutrients and give you more polyunsaturated, and monosaturated fats. Which is so good for our hearts.

• • My top picks: Avocado oil, Extra virgin olive oil, unsalted butter, and sometimes coconut oil (coconut oil is high in saturated fats… the not so good fat, so use it sparingly)

Swap mayo for avocado mayo or hummus

Processed mayo ingredients contain water, canola oil, modified corn & potato starch, liquid whole egg, sugar, salt, vinegar, concentrated lemon juice, sorbic acid, spices, natural color, natural flavors, calcium disodium EDTA. Avocado mayo doesn’t contain highly processed oils, modified corn or potato starch, or sugars.

• • My top pick: Primal Kitchen Mayo Avocado Oil (Ingredients are: Avocado oil, organic eggs, organic egg yolks, organic vinegar, sea salt, organic rosemary extract) and Hope Foods Hummus

Make homemade healthy jams instead of buying store jams

Most store-bought jams and traditional jam recipes have lots of sugar and other processed ingredients. An easy swap is to start making this simple healthy jam recipe, you’ll never want store-bought jam again.

• • Try this healthy homemade jam recipe. You only need fruit, lemon juice, and chia seeds.

Use natural sweeteners rather than ultra-refined sugars

I love finding ways to make things healthier, so you’ll notice in my recipes that I’ll use natural sugars like 100% pure maple syrup, unsweetened applesauce, or honey. Natural sugars have so many great nutritional benefits. They are lower on the glycemic index and don’t spike your blood sugar as much as refined sugar does.

• • My top picks: Pure maple syrup (the only ingredient should be pure maple syrup, nothing else), unsweetened applesauce, and honey.

Instead of table salt, use real salt

Real salt has lots of good minerals that table salt doesn’t have. Look for sea salt, pink salt, Himalayan salt, or real salt. I love purchasing this salt.

• • My top picks: Redmond Real Salt Ancient Fine Sea Salt, and Sherpa Himalayan Pink Salt

Make salad dressing from scratch

Store-bought dressings have tons of processed ingredients, sodium, and added refined sugars. Making salad dressing is so rewarding and easy.

• • Here are 8 healthy salad dressings you can make from Wholefully blog.

Choose better Ketchup brands or make your own

Most store-bought ketchup brands are loaded with high fructose syrup, salt, and sugar. There are better alternatives to what ketchups you buy that don’t have unhealthy ingredients. Another great option is making ketchup. Here’s a healthy homemade ketchup recipe from Healthy Delicious Blog.

• My top picks: Trader Joe’s Organic Ketchup, Annie’s Natural Organic Ketchup, Sir Kensington’s Classic Ketchup, and 365 Organic Tomato Ketchup

Snacks are important to have throughout the day, but it’s even more important to have healthy snacks that are nutritious and have good wholesome ingredients in them. I think you’ll enjoy this list of some easy ways to swap snacks for nutritious healthier options.

Swap fruit yogurt for plain greek yogurt

Fruit yogurt has lots of unnatural ingredients and lots of added sugar. Buy plain Greek yogurt and add fresh fruit to make fruit yogurt. It’s way better for you and will taste fresher too.

• • My top picks: Two Good Plain Greek Yogurt, Stonyfield Greek Yogurt, and Chobani Greek Yogurt.

Choose healthy crackers to snack on

Most processed crackers are full of refined oils, bleach flours, added sugars, high sodium, and other unhealthy additives. There are better healthy crackers to choose from. But, the healthiest and best cracker is making sourdough mozzarella crackers. They are so good and have natural wholesome ingredients.

• • My top picks: Sourdough Mozzarella Crackers, and store brands like Mary’s Gone Crackers, Simple Mills, From the Ground Up, and Annie’s which are made with wholesome real ingredients.

Swap store-bought dried fruit to homemade dried fruit

Dried fruit is so good for you however, most store-bought dried fruit have lots of added sugar for a preservative. Making your own dried fruit in a dehydrator means the only ingredient is the fruit.

• • Check out these dehydrator fruit recipes

Swap applesauce to unsweetened applesauce

This might be a surprise, but most applesauce is loaded with added sugars or high fructose corn syrup. Swap your applesauce for unsweetened applesauce to avoid all the unnecessary added sugars. Plus switching to unsweetened applesauce saves you 13 grams of added sugars. The only sugar in the unsweetened applesauce is the natural sugar from the apples.

• • My top picks: Organic Unsweetened Applesauce or Gogo Squeez Applesauce

Make potato chips or even better kale chips

Potato chips have tons of processed ingredients, sodium, unhealthy oils, and added preservatives. Making potato chips or kale chips is tasty, healthy, and easy.

• • Try this kale chip recipe

Stop drinking soda

You’ll feel so much better ditching the soda. Soda is overloaded with unhealthy preservatives, chemical ingredients, loaded with extreme amounts of sugar. It’s not great for your body. Even diet sodas or sugar-free sodas still aren’t great. The best option is to drink water or if you are missing the fizzy taste have some sparkling water.

Swap juice drinks for real whole fruit

Most fruit juices are just pure sugar and a little bit of fruit. Rather than drinking fruit juice, eat the actual fruit instead. You get all the healthy nutritious fiber, vitamins, and other amazing benefits that whole fruits have.