We’ve all been there. You know that point in the calendar, either before or after the holidays when you say “you know, I need to do something about this.”
That could apply to a lot of things in life, of course, but for the sake of this time here? We are referring to our diets.
We’d all agree that life can come at you pretty quickly. That sometimes means needing to eat something quickly on the go as well. Healthy options aren’t always easy to find when you are in a hurry. Andrea Bergelt and her husband realized that and decided to do something about it.
It would be nice to say they eat healthy so they opened up a restaurant doing healthy food, but their path was a little more complicated than that. Once upon a time, they opened the island’s most popular burger joint, the Char Bar.
They followed that up with the island’s first high end tequila bar, Holy Tequila. The 3rd space was the now closed Whiskey Room. All three of those restaurants did well. So well that they sold them all and turned their focus to something that fit their own lifestyle a little better.
Enter Healthy Habit. A salad and smoothie shop on the island’s South End.
“We realized we can’t eat like that forever.” Andrea says. “We decided to go more health and wellness.”
It’s a beautiful space. All smoothies and salads made to order. “We used to do only chopped salads. When we moved here we expanded to more than chopped salads. It’s healthy good food that everyone can enjoy.”
The smoothies are delicious, but Andrea tells us the locals who visit this shop come primarily for the salads.
The approach to those salads is pretty interesting. You place your order, lettuce, grains, nuts, etc. They are then moved down the line and chopped together. Then all of it goes back into your bowl. Proteins and dressings added after the fact.
A lot of times you eat a salad, once the good stuff on top is gone you are left with a bowl of bland leaves. Not at Healthy Habit. It’s mixed and chopped together beautifully.
My favorite is probably the Sedona. Black beans, corn, tomato, red onion. It’s fantastic. The smoothies are delicious too.
“It doesn’t matter if it is 10 degrees outside.” Andrea says. “People love the smoothies because it’s Super Food. You are getting a meal by drinking it.”
“People just eat empty calories. In an hour they are still hungry. You need food to fuel you.” Andrea says.
Sounds like the first step to a healthy habit.
Healthy Habit 33 Office Park Road, Suite 227 (near Holy Tequila) Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 healthyhabithhi.com
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