Healthy Snack Ideas

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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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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Healthy Snacks for Pregnant Women: Satisfying Pregnancy Munchies

This goes out to my friend Bonnie, who just let me know that she is pregnant with baby number two. Her first child is seven, so it's been awhile since she's been preggers. She battled and worked hard to lose 100 lbs. after her first baby, so she is concerned about weight gain during his [...]

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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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Making Delicious Healthy Snacks At Home

Eating healthier is always something that can be improved upon. For many people, selecting a healthier meal plan is almost never any trouble with the exception of snacks. Anyone can cut down on excessively fatty foods, replace bad starches with good starches, etc. However, it is a little more difficult to do the same thing [...]

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Try These Top Ten Power Packed Healthy Foods

The quality of the foods that we eat can largely determine the state of our health, vitality and longevity. While we rely on food as the fuel to keep our bodies going throughout the day, not all foods provide the best quality energy and nutrition. When you eat a better diet filled with these power [...]

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Healthy Pizza Snack Recipe

Healthy Pizza Snack Recipe Yield: 4 servings 2 whole wheat English muffins sliced in half 4 TBSP Marinara (tomato) sauce 1/2 cup (low fat) Mozzarella cheese or soy cheese 1/4 cup Mushrooms chopped 2 TBSP chopped green pepper 1 Tsp Dried oregano 1 Tsp chopped fresh Basil (or dried) 1 tsp garlic powder Spread the [...]

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Healthy Pumpkin Spice Cookie Recipe

Fall is definitely in the air, and pumpkins are everywhere these days. The taste of pumpkin, cinnamon and allspice make me think of autumn and cooler days. I was in search of a good pumpkin cookie recipe and I came across this one at the Natural Papa blog. It's wholesome and uses healthy, fresh ingredients. [...]

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