Prepare your fridge like a subway's counter: many ingredients ready to be inserted into the meal. A lot of foods that are 'junky' are at one end of a spectrum

Prepare your fridge like a subway's counter: many ingredients ready to be inserted into the meal. A lot of foods that are 'junky' are at one end of a spectrum of foods, too. Nachos, as per your examples, for instance, can be over-salted round chips with 'cheese' poured over them, or they can be orders of magnitude healthier. If you've money, then you can easily find this out by switching the shops you eat in, but if you're not going out, then as has been suggested, buy things which have only one ingredient(which makes them -the- ingredients). Fresh or Canned, doesn't matter. Construct, rather than 'cheese'+chip nachos, real cheese(try two or three different kinds of cheese, too), a bit of meat (red meat or poultry..I would not suggest fish nachos) shredded lettuce, onions, etc, etc, etc. Those nachos are rather good for you. Still nachos, likely much more delicious, likely better for you. The ingredients to that can be prepared in large quantities,and used in many other things. Nachos can easily become tacos or burritos, and if you add some loaf bread and leave some meats out, sandwiches.