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Top 5 HelloFresh Recipes For International Happiness Day

The food you eat may be linked with your mental wellbeing, as well as your physical health. By making conscious decisions to include more fruit and vegetables into your diet you may be able to increase your happiness levels - a perfect focus for International Happiness Day. Read on for more information on how recipes from our HelloFresh Meal Kits can help incorporate good foods into your diet.
The food you eat may be linked with your mental wellbeing, as well as your physical health. By making conscious decisions to include more fruit and vegetables into your diet you may be able to increase your happiness levels - a perfect focus for International Happiness Day. Read on for more information on how recipes from our HelloFresh Meal Kits can help incorporate good foods into your diet.

Why Do We Celebrate International Happiness Day?

International Happiness Day is celebrated worldwide on 20 March. The day was created by the United Nations as a way to celebrate the human right to be happy. It was first celebrated in 2013 as a way to pivot world leaders' attention to focus not only on economic growth but also increasing human wellbeing and happiness within their countries, too.

5 HelloFresh Recipes For Mood-Boosting Foods

Everyone knows the importance of getting your 5-a-day on your physical health, but some research suggests that eating more fruit and vegetables in your diet may also improve your mental wellbeing. To help make this easier and to, hopefully, help boost your mental health we've put together 5 top recipes that includes the best subgroups of fruit and vegetables that might help improve your happiness levels.

Fruit Crush

Fruit Crush

Don't wait around to include more fruit in your diet, get started with our Fruit Crush for breakfast. Great sources of fibre and antioxidants, berries are full of so much more than just fruity flavour. They may also be a great way to kickstart your day in a positive way, as berries may be one of the key subgroups that can positively influence your mindset.
Quick Tomato and Bacon Trottole

Quick Tomato and Bacon Trottole

A renowned superfood, spinach is a leafy green you definitely want to include in your diet. With our HelloFresh Quick Tomato and Bacon Trottole you can get the best of this nutritious leafy green in this delicious, warming recipe.

Not only will this recipe make your stomach full, it just might help make you happy too with research suggesting that leafy greens might help increase optimism levels.

Increase Your Fruit And Vegetable Intake With HelloFresh

Salads can be a fun, easy way to get a boost of goodness into your everyday diet. Our HelloFresh Asian-Style Chicken and Pineapple Salad with Cashews offers the best of green salad with an infusion of sweet pineapple and adding texture with a crunch of cashew. A bowl full of nutrition, this recipe has a variety of vitamins to help promote positive wellbeing for both your physical and mental health.

Decadent Meals To Help Your Happiness Levels

Adding citrus to your meals doesn't always have to be sour. Our HelloFresh Duck a L'Orange recipe provides duck protein glazed with an orange and apricot sauce, paired with lemony greens that will inject your diet with all the goodness of citrus fruits in the most delicious way. Enjoy the zest of citrus fruits and see if they have a positive effect on your mental health; research suggests this may just be the case.

For those looking for something a bit simpler, incorporating more tomatoes into your diet may also help with your mental wellbeing. Our Beef and Tomato Sugo with Fresh Fettuccine and Parmesan is bound to be a favorite for all the family.

Commemorate International Happiness Day With HelloFresh

Associate Professor Tamlin Conner, from the Department of Psychology at University of Otago, said, “In my research, I have found that the relationship between fruits and vegetables, and the practice of eating ‘5-a-day’ and happiness is fairly strong. This relationship is even more pronounced when eating raw fruits and vegetables.
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