So the obvious answer is to prepare them ahead of time! Making it a bit harder to reach for those chocolates and sweets but easier to reach for the veggies and fruits does wonder for the human habit! Here’s what I usually do:

Slice fresh carrots and celery into nice bite-sized chunks

Put these into their own containers

Add a covered bowl of healthy dip

Put them in front of the fridge

As for the sweets, I do the following:

Pack all of them into one plastic bag

Put them right at the back of the fridge, behind the stacks
of veggie containers

Then to convince my brother and mom to follow my example, I often take the container of fresh veggies with the bowl of dip out when we watch a movie in the living room. My brother especially would have to either eat the veggies or walk into the kitchen to get his preferred snack.

He was soon preferring the carrot sticks I’d cut. Heh.