Nudgers Studio

We had a great time in Safety Harbor this past month. Our goodies are up in our site (NudgersStudio.com) if you want to check out our fruit and veggie wall art and screen printed tea towels. 🌶️🍋🍊🪩

Friday afternoons are the prefect time to whip up some quick comforting soup to enjoy all weekend. Mediterranean Vegetable Soup recipe and gorgeous soup pot photo from 🥰

🥦🥬🫑🍠🌶️🫛 🍆🍓🥑🍍

If you are trying to eat more fruits and veggies and good food, it helps to understand what increases grocery purchasing behavior. Then you can nudge yourself in store towards the good stuff.

For impulse purchases, what stands out is at eye level, on the end aisle displays, and lots of facings in a block on a shelf, plus the bright colors and design of packaging.

We know from years in the advertising business that most people spend only 3 seconds to pick a product at shelf.

So to help you influence yourself, make sure you have a list, read labels not front of pack claims, shop for groupings of food you cook together into meals, and look at the top and bottom shelves, too, before you buy.

Such a good New York Times article on how we can control our behavior (and nutrition) by controlling our environment (and kitchen), written by Angela Duckworth. . “In surveys, American adults have cited lack of willpower as the top barrier to changing behavior.

Successful people rarely rely on inner fortitude to resist temptations. Instead, many exercise situational agency, arranging their lives to minimize the need for willpower in the first place.

Random-assignment experiments confirm the causal role of putting temptations out of sight and out of reach.

Adults encouraged to keep unhealthy foods at a distance ate healthier days later.

No matter your age, situational agency empowers you to navigate what might be called an ultraprocessed world — an environment saturated with temptations engineered to be irresistible.

You cannot change the conditions of modern life, but you are the sovereign of what enters your personal space.

Physical distance creates psychological distance: Draw close what you want more of; push away what you want less.”