Hey, friends! Today I thought I’d share some of the blogiversary reader survey results so that way you guys have an idea where HH is headed. I’ll also ask for some clarification in the comments and share the winner of the gift card!
Okay, let’s do this!
Demographics
I’ll just summarize the demographics for you. 100% female, which means my two male readers (Mr. Hungry and my FIL) did not take the survey, shame on them! I know I’ve got some male followers because they my male clients tell me they found me via the blog but I guess they didn’t take the survey. As far as the age group, the majority of you fall into the 19-39 groups, followed by 39-49, then 49-59, then 60+ years old. Totally makes sense to me because that follows the trend of blog readers in general. What really surprised me is that majority of survey responders don’t have children living in the home. I don’t know if I 100% believe that’s an accurate representation, maybe those of you with small children don’t have time to respond to surveys? Then again, it could make sense because this is a very personal blog and I don’t have kids yet…. I should have asked about fur babies!
Topics You Want To See More Of
- 70% of you said you wanted to see more Nutrition topics, what topics do you want to see?????
- 48% of you want to see more easy weeknight meals, so I’ll continue the one pan Mondays for the rest of the year then!
- 29% of you want to see more fitness related posts, do fitness Fridays count?
Topics You Want To See Less Of
- 36% of you want to see fewer drink recipes, that’s fine I don’t drink that much but do smoothies count?
- 31% of you want to see fewer Paleo recipes, super surprising because the New Years survey respondents asked for more Paleo friendly recipes!
- 29% of you want to see fewer photography posts, well I don’t do any of these now.
Suggested Topics
I LOVE all the suggested topics and will continue to create more posts with them in mind! In the meantime, I included links to some of the topics you guys suggested!
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Healthy Balance
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Intuitive Eating
I will add more of these in, but here are some posts I’ve written in the past.
- Week 21: What You Will Learn From Recording Your Meals (Intuitive Eating Series Part 4)
- Week 20: Eat Until 80% Full (Hara Hachi Bu) (Intuitive Eating Series Part 3)
- Week 19: Limit Distractions While Eating (Intuitive Eating Series Part 2)
- Week 18: Gaging Your Hunger Cues (Intuitive Eating Series Part 1)
- How to Practice Portion Control Without Counting or Measuring
- Tightening Up Your Diet Without Dieting
- quick videos on simple but effective exercises
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More personal posts
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Gluten free
- 95% of my recipes are gluten free. Just check gluten free tag on all recipes.
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Budget-friendly recipes
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Freezer cooking?
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carb timing!
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getting wedding ready.
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Day in the life
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this is food related – but restaurants!! Choices to make, options to explore, good vs. bad, substitutions! Nonfood related – nights out!! What to do to incorporate great food, fun or entertainment!
- How to Not Derail Your Diet at a Sporting Event (spoiler, you can enjoy your favorite food!)
- How to Eat Healthy at Chipotle
- Tips On Building a Healthy Calorie Friendly Salad at a Salad Bar
- Meal Planning for Eating Out
- 8 Tips for Valentine’s Day Dining Out
- 7 Tips for Navigating the Super Bowl Party Spread
- 10 Game Day Recipes & 10 Nutrition Tips
- Skipping the “Lite” Menu
- How to Practice Portion Control Without Counting or Measuring
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Gluten free, vegan, egg free
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Resistance band exercises
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How you choose products at the store eg which bread is healthiest, what are some of your pantry staples, etc
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Vegan recipes
- I don’t typically eat this way so I don’t have a ton of recipes, but I do have some from when eggs used to make Mr. Hungry super sick and I couldn’t even bake with them. Now occasionallyly accidently create vegan recipes and make sure to tag them as such. Vegan Recipes
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High-protein meals
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Debunking nutrition myths, continued recipes with veggies (always need ideas to eat more veggies!)
- Should You Be Taking Collagen?
- How to Make Your Smoothie More Filling!
- 6 Foods That Seem Healthy, Why I don’t recommend them!
- Supplement Spotlight: Multi-Vitamins
- Benefits of Grassfed Dairy & Meat
- 5 Foods to Make a Healthy Lunch More Filling
- Nuts and Avocados for Weight Loss or Weight Gain?
- Friday Focus…How to Become a Breakfast eater.
- Three Big Meals vs. Smaller Meals and Snacks?
- 35 Quick and Healthy Snacks
- Tips to Drink More Water
- Tips to Increase Veggies
- 10 Tips to Eat More Real Food
- Why You Need Healthy Fat & 15 Ways To Get Enough
- How To Fight Inflammation With Food: Omega 3’s / Fish Oil Supplements Tips
- Protein: Importance and Best Sources (added vs. natural vs. supplements)
- Why You Might Need A Caffeine Detox
- How Much Caffeine Is In That?
- How To Decrease Sugar Cravings
- Which Foods To Buy Organic
- Why You Need to Eat Red, Orange/Yellow, Green, Blue/Purple, white vegetables and fruit
- Why You Should Stop Reading The Nutrition Facts Panel
- How to Eat More Veggies
- Ideas to have Veggies at Breakfast
- Ideas to have Veggies at Snacks
What Do You Love Most About Hungry Hobby?
What Do You Struggle With The Most In The Kitchen?
Top answer were:
- TIME – a bunch of you said this
- balance or understanding how to cook healthy
- having variety
- meal planning
- meal prep
some of these should help:
- How to Create A Meal Plan You Will Actually Stick To
- Simple Meal Prep Tips
- How to Make Ahead Portable Protein Shakes
- My Favorite Lunch Bag
- How to Grocery Shop for a Whole Month
- See Past Sunday Meal Plans
Hardest Part of Staying Healthy?
Top answers were:
- healthy snacking
- sweets/dessert
- gluten free
- budget
- meal prep and meal planning
- the balance between staying away from treats and overdoing it
Giveaway winner! Congrats to Carry for winning the giveaway!
Thank you to everyone who entered! Feel free to leave me a comment if there is anything you would like to add!!!!!!
Cool post! It’s need to see the feedback
Glad you enjoyed it!
The answers to HARDEST PART OF STAYING HEALTHY? are interesting. Not what I would have thought.
Right? Sugar cravings be taking over the world!
As for nutrition posts? I’d like to see ideas on how to plan healthy meals WITHOUT counting calories, macros, etc. Like, what should you try to include in every meal and ideas for how to do that? Even how to balance meals throughout the day to make sure get get a well balanced, nutritious diet.
I am glad more people said they wanted fewer paleo recipes. I follow a few paleo blogs and that’s good enough for me. I’m not Paleo and I feel that many of the excluded foods in Paleo are nutritious 🙂 Having struggled with a horrible eating disorder in the past I am just not a fan of any diet that restricts.
Thanks for doing the survey! Your readers appreciate that you want constructive feedback.
I definitely want feedback and thank you for expanding your thoughts, it helps give me direction SO SO SO much!