Healthy Snack Ideas

How to Send Healthy Snacks to College Kids

I was always filled with envy when my college friends received care packages from their parents and loved ones. Not that I never received any, but it just seems like I was constantly hungry in college. And it also seemed like the best tasting and easiest snacks were filled with carbs and sugar. It’s hard [...]

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Healthy Snacks You Have at Home

Potato chips have become America’s snack food for one reason: they’re easy. Open a bag and you’re ready for a house full of people or a night in front of the television on your own. No one wants to have to create a cooking show (or the mess that comes with it) in their kitchen [...]

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Probiotic Healthy Snacks

Enjoy this guest post by Charles Jones. Probiotic food and snacks are promoted as the healthier alternative to common everyday snacks. The probiotic healthy component is derived from live beneficial microorganisms that have been introduced in sufficient amounts in the food base or in specific ingredients. Probiotic food and snacks are often used to complement [...]

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Healthy Eating Habits for Kids: Set the Right Example

Do you have kids in your home who are picky eaters? Do your kids crave junk foods and only want to eat sugary or salty snacks? When you set the right example by making healthy food choices, controlling your portions and eating according to a basic schedule your kids will learn to do as you [...]

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10 Healthy Snacks For Weight Loss and Wellness

Contrary to popular belief, snacking is actually very beneficial. It helps to refuel your body, maintain blood sugar and energy levels and control your appetite. Healthy snacking will help your body get the nutrients it needs and help you avoid overeating at meal times. Indulge in these guilt-free snacks. Remember we encourage an anti-inflammatory, low-glycemic, [...]

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Healthy Snacks to Satisfy the Munchies

When you get an attack of the munchies it seems like the attraction of the cookie jar or that bag of chips seems incredibly strong, right? What if there is no one around to see you 'cheat' and grab some junk food. Comfort food seems to hold a power over us sometimes and the hungrier [...]

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Healthy Snacks for Kids

Are you looking for the best healthy snacks for kids? Let us face it. A large number of parents out there have horror stories about their children turning up their noses at the food placed before them. In fact, there are children who definitely do not eat anything except takeout meals, TV dinners, processed foods, [...]

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Eat Healthy Snacks and Lose the Belly Fat

Belly fat can stop you from buying that perfect little black dress which you have been eyeing since last summer or wearing a skimpy two-piece swimsuit in Hawaii. People want to lose the belly fat and love handles, and they want to lose it fast. The secret to losing belly fat is taking in just [...]

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Low Glycemic Index Healthy Snack Recipes

Low glycemic index recipes use foods--specifically carbohydrates--that produce small fluctuations in blood glucose levels. It's the wide fluctuations caused by eating large quantities of foods that are high in simple carbohydrates, like those found in white sugar, that can lead to adult onset, or type II diabetes. A few years back, carbohydrates developed a bad [...]

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Impromptu Granola Bars

I have to confess that I, the author and host of a healthy snack blog, have been buying store bought granola bars. I love to cook and bake, but it's been crazy busy lately, so I haven't made granola bars in months. This morning, while standing in the produce aisle at Safeway trying to choose [...]

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