Kristin Cavallari in White Tank Top and Gray Leggings Cooks a Healthy Dinner

Kristin Cavallari is known for many things including whipping up delicious meals for her family, but the former reality star didn't always know her way around the kitchen. "I really didn't start cooking until I had kids," she told Harper's BAZAAR. "I just recently wanted the episode of Laguna Beach where Jessica and I make the boys dinner and we say the chicken Alfredo tasted like feet," she laughed. The mom of three has come a long way since her teenage days and now has three cookbooks packed with healthy recipes. Wearing a simple, yet sexy white tank top and gray workout pants, the fashion designer posted a pic of herself making one of her epic dinners. "Home, leggings, no makeup, kids running around, red wine and cooking = happiness." The 36-year-old maintains a clean diet and we take a closer look into what she eats to stay slim and healthy.

1. She Loves Juice

Cavallari starts her day by checking her phone, drinking water, making coffee, and then juice. " I wanna let my body get hungry before I put in a huge breakfast otherwise I just feel kind of sluggish the whole day," she told the outlet. "I will do apple, lemon, cilantro, celery, cucumber." She added, "Sometimes I'll throw ginger in there, which I love."

2. She Makes Her Kids Different Breakfasts

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In the interview with Harper's BAZAAR, Cavallari admits breakfast is the only time she will make her kids different meals. "I have these gluten-free crepes out of Truly Simple that I make a couple of times a week." She continues, "Inside of them I'll either do like a healthier Nutella, a chocolate hazelnut spread, and bananas." Another thing she'll make for breakfast is an egg bowl with "scrambled or fried eggs." She adds "arugula or spinach a little sauteed, goat cheese, avocado, and maybe some cherry tomatoes."

3. She Loves Leftovers

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After breakfast, Cavallari drops her kids off at school, works out, hits the sauna for a half hour, and then has an early lunch. "Depending on how much time I have or what's going on in my day, I'll have leftovers, or I'll take a leftover protein and put it on a salad." She adds, "I love a homemade dressing. They take two minutes to make, and they are so well worth it. Even something as simple as olive oil, Dijon, a little honey, and salt and pepper."

4. She Can't Get Enough of Cauliflower

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In an interview with EatingWell, Cavallari said if she only had to eat one vegetable for the rest of her life it would be cauliflower. "I love cauliflower because I think it's very versatile, and there's actually a Sweet Harissa Cauliflower recipe in Truly Simple that's my absolute favorite cauliflower recipe on the planet," she said. "If you've ever been to True Food Kitchen, their cauliflower was the inspiration behind it. There's this sweet harissa dressing that's on it, and there's little chopped-up dates in it, so it has that nice balance between sweet and savory. It's the absolute best."

5. She's All About Healthy Snacks

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Since the Uncommon James founder eats lunch early, she snacks in the afternoon. "I do anything from beef jerky sticks, hummus, and carrots," she told Harper's BAZAAR. She also noted that she loves Papa Steve's cherry dark chocolate bars.

6. She Loves Brussels Sprouts

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A dish Cavallari raves about is "frying Brussels sprouts in avocado oil." She said, "It is so simple. Sprinkle them with a little sea salt. They taste incredible and people think you put all this time and energy into it." Really they take like 15 minutes," she added.

7. ​​She Has a Sweet Tooth

Cavallari confessed she has quite the sweet tooth and has to have something every night, "even if it's just a piece of chocolate." She'll also indulge in ice cream, banana pudding with homemade vanilla wafers, and oatmeal cream pies.

8. She's a Believer in Moderation

While she has a healthy balanced diet, Cavallari doesn't give up anything. "Eating well to me means enjoying your food and having what I call "food freedom," where you can enjoy what you're eating without beating yourself up," she told EatingWell. "You can eat anything in moderation."

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1. She Does A Variety Of Different Workouts

Cavallari opened up about some of her lifestyle and wellness secrets in an interview with Us Weekly. She says that her fitness routine includes a lot of different things, and that she likes to try new exercises and classes. “I lift weights, but I do circuit training to keep my heart rate up. I also started doing hot yoga every once in a while. I don’t do it as often as I would like, but I love it when I’m able to make it happen.”

2. She Eats An Early Dinner With Her Family

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Cavallari and her family like to eat meals together. However, she says that she prefers having dinner as soon as possible, as it helps her to sleep and avoid midnight snacks. “I eat with my kids every night at 5:15 p.m.,” she told Us Weekly. “I find that I sleep better when I eat early like that. And I eat enough so that I’m not hungry before I go to bed.”

3. She Eats Mostly Organic Food

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“The way I eat is a lifestyle,” she explained. “Organic as often as possible, tons of veggies, meat, nuts and seeds, complex carbs like buckwheat soba noodles, berries, tons of fat — I even eat butter.” What does 100 percent organic mean? "This description is used on certified organic fruits, vegetables, eggs, meat or other single-ingredient foods. It may also be used on multi-ingredient foods if all of the ingredients are certified organic, excluding salt and water. These may have a USDA seal," says the Mayo Clinic.

4. She Loves To Cook

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“I make dinner 90 percent of the time. I think that’s important because that’s the only way to truly know what’s in your food,” she said. Cavallari also says that she likes to make healthier versions of food for her family. “My kids love pasta. We use brown rice noodles or lentil noodles.”

5. She’s Motivated By Results

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One of the most important things you need to be able to workout consistently is motivation. For Cavallari, her motivation comes from results. She says to Us Weekly, “Seeing results makes me want to push harder and gets me excited in the gym. I can honestly say my butt has gotten a lot bigger from being consistent in the gym, working on it for the past year. These results don’t happen overnight. It’s important to be patient and stay the course.”

6. She Packs Healthy Food When She Travels

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It can be difficult to eat healthy while traveling and on the road, especially if you’re on a plane. However, Cavallari has a trick to eat healthy when she’s flying, and it doesn’t involve eating gross airplane food. She tells Forbes that she packs healthy snacks whenever she’s on the roat. “No matter where I'm going, if it's a plane ride that's an hour and a half, or if it's 14 hours, I am bringing food with me. So that means I'm packing a meal like a salad. Or, I've brought leftovers on airplanes, made sandwiches, and then I bring a ton of snacks like Lorissa's Kitchen beef strips. I was just in Colorado this past weekend, and I brought sandwiches for my kids and a salad for me.”

7. She Looks Up Healthy Local Restaurants

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Cavallari tells Forbes that she makes sure that she still eats healthy and organic when she travels. She says that she likes to search for healthy local restaurants when she goes to a new place. “Wherever your destination, it's really about looking online and finding healthy spots. I'll sit on Google for hours trying to find great restaurants and cool coffee shops and juice bars.”

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1. She Eats Food to Stay Thin

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According to Kristin, starving yourself to get thin isn’t a good idea because it messes up your metabolism. “So I think the most important thing is that you actually have to eat food,” she explains in the first clip. “There's a misconception that if you don't eat a lot of food, you're gonna be skinny. I think it's the opposite. I think you have to really work on your metabolism.”

2. Her Breakfast Is Packed with Protein

Kristin starts her day with a protein packed meal. “For breakfast, I'll do a smoothie. I'll do eggs with sauteed spinach or arugula or something, goat cheese, maybe avocado,” she explains in the video. “Or I'll do like overnight oats or something like that.”

3. For Lunch, She Eats a Healthy Salad

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A typical lunch for Kristin? “I love a big salad,” she confessed. “I always have to make sure there's protein in it. I'll do like a deconstructed cobb salad or a Greek salad, something like that, where I'll do leftovers, which is usually protein and veggies.” She also shared a photo of her go-to Greek salad, consisting of cucumber, tomato, red onion, olives, feta cheese, chicken, and tzatziki sauce.

4. Dinner Is Protein, Veggies, and Carbs

Kristin keeps it simple for her final meal of the day. “Dinner is typically a protein of some sort, always a vegetable. I'm big on veggies,” she says. “I've also been doing more carbs in the last few months. A few of her favorites? Sweet potatoes, brown rice, black rice.

5. She Snacks Healthy

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Kristin also snacks throughout the day. “I do fruit. I do hummus. I do lots of beef jerky. Nuts and stuff,” she says. She also loves drunken goat cheese that she gets at Whole Foods. “It's the best cheese on the planet and it's a goat cheese, but it doesn't taste like it. It's really good,” she says about the Merlot soaked cheese.

6. She Reads Ingredients, Not Calories or Fat

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Kristin has a trick when reading food labels. Because she focuses her diet on foods that are “real” she reads ingredients, not numbers. “Never look at calories or fat or anything like that,” she says.

7. She Indulges

In the photo of her Greek salad, Kristin also revealed that she allows herself to indulge. “When I travel and go out to eat, I eat whatever I want and enjoy every second. I NEVER beat myself up. It’s all about balance.”

8. She Avoids Intermittent Fasting

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So, is Kristin one of the many stars who swear by the keto diet and intermittent fasting? “I have in the past,” she reveals. “I honestly think both of those things completely mess up your metabolism.

9. She Drinks Mindfully

“I know it seems like I drink a lot but I actually hardly do,” she revealed when asked about her drinking. “Usually I drink 1-2 times per week but sometimes not at all. I try to be really mindful of it. I do a healthy red wine (low sugar, low sulfites) or tequila soda with jalapenos and lime juice,” she said.

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1. Consistency Is Key

In a recent interview with Us, Kristin revealed that when it comes to staying in shape, it’s all about consistency. “It’s important to give ourselves grace and not beat ourselves up,” she said. “For so many years in my early 20s, I was all or nothing. I have the best relationship I’ve ever had with food and health because I’ve let go of a lot of that control. It’s about consistency — just keep showing up.”

2. She Designs Her Own Workouts

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Kristin no longer works out with a personal trainer. Instead, she has designed her own workout. “I lift weights, but I do circuit training to keep my heart rate up. I also started doing hot yoga every once in a while. I don’t do it as often as I would like, but I love it when I’m able to make it happen,” she told Us.

3. She Eats Dinner Early

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Kristin eats her final meal of the day very early. “I eat with my kids every night at 5:15 p.m.,” she told Us. “I find that I sleep better when I eat early like that. And I eat enough so that I’m not hungry before I go to bed.”

4. Her Diet Is Very Healthy

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Kristin told Us that she eats food “as close to as its natural state” as much as she can. “The way I eat is a lifestyle. Organic as often as possible, tons of veggies, meat, nuts and seeds, complex carbs like buckwheat soba noodles, berries, tons of fat — I even eat butter.” That means no processed foods. "We don't do anything white, so we don't do white flour, white sugar, or white salt," she explained to Women's Health. "We definitely are a meat family. I've never been vegan or vegetarian; I don't think I could be. We actually have a freezer full of meat with all kinds of wild game."

5. She Makes Most of Her Own Food

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“I make dinner 90 percent of the time. I think that’s important because that’s the only way to truly know what’s in your food,” she told Us. However, when she does dine out she indulges. “When I go out to eat or go on vacation, I eat whatever I want and then I really enjoy it.”

6. Her Goal? Lean Muscles

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“I like having some muscle definition without being bulky or looking ‘jacked,'” she told Us. “Seeing results makes me want to push harder and gets me excited in the gym. I can honestly say my butt has gotten a lot bigger from being consistent in the gym, working on it for the past year. These results don’t happen overnight. It’s important to be patient and stay the course.”

7. She Avoids Cardio

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1. She’s Comfortable With Herself

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Cavallari is all about accepting herself. She opened up about her journey to this in the caption of this Instagram post. “I’ve been sitting on this picture for a few days going back and forth on if I should post it or not. Ultimately I decided to bc I’ve come a long way from a few years ago and I’m really proud of the progress I’ve made. I don’t even recognize the girl in those other 2 photos..and no, I never had an eating disorder..that was purely stress. I work out really hard and am dedicated to a healthy lifestyle and I think just because I’m a mom doesn’t mean I can’t be proud of my body and be comfortable in my skin. So, here ya go.”

2. She Weight Trains

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Cavallari shared some of her workout secrets with Us Weekly. She says that her trainer has helped her with weight training. “He kicks my ass. He pushes me really hard. He has me actually lifting really heavy weight, the heaviest weight I’ve ever lifted in my entire life. I feel the best I ever have. I feel like I’m the strongest I’ve ever been.”

3. She Uses A Stair Climber

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Another workout Cavallari likes to do is use the stairclimber. “Usually, I’ll work out and maybe do 30 minutes of a VersaClimber [on a fourth day], which will also kick your butt, man,” she told Us Weekly. Duke Human Resources states that stair climbing has a lot of benefits. “Stair climbing requires about 8 - 11kcal of energy per minute, which is high compared to other moderate level physical activities.”

4. She Eats A Healthy Breakfast

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Cavallari shared one of her favorite healthy breakfasts with Insider. "Sometimes I'll make a little egg bowl and I'll use scrambled eggs, avocado, soft goat cheese, and spinach, and maybe a little hot sauce. I sautée the spinach and then I throw everything together. It really doesn't take long and you can use the same pan for the spinach as the eggs to have less to clean up."

5. She Loves Healthy Drinks

Cavallari loves healthy beverages, and shared some of her favorites with StyleCaster. “I love kombucha, and actually make my own. I do green juices. There’s also this stuff called tiger nut milk. Tiger nut is a root vegetable, but you can make milk from it. I buy it from this juice place that puts vanilla, maple syrup, and all kinds of stuff in it—it’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever had in my entire life. And it’s supposed to be really good for you.”