Grocery shopping as a married couple allowed us to make healthier choices than we could while living with our parents

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Grocery shopping as a married couple allowed us to make healthier choices than we could while living with our parents

Christina Ditlof-Nahed finds it easier to eat healthy now that she lives with her husband.

Before marrying Anthony Nahed in May last year, Christina Ditlof-Nahed was trying to make healthier food choices.

But, like nearly half of Canadians in her age group (20-29), Ditlof-Nahed lived with her parents – so she ended up eating whatever her mom put on the plate: pasta cooked in rich sauces, bread with every meal and red meat that her father enjoyed (he, like many other men of his generation, has an aversion to white meat).

The 29-year-old was in Woodbridge, Ont., a suburb north of Toronto, and relied heavily on her parents’ financial and logistical