Healthy Snack Ideas

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

I discovered Tulsi Tea in the grocery store the other day. I love herbal infusions, and when I saw the new display from Organic India of a nice variety of flavors of teas, I purchased a box of the Peppermint flavor to try this new brand of tea. I love my Yogi teas, and of [...]

Developed by Kraft Foods, Big Fork, Little Fork is an iPhone/ iPad app that contains: Recipes designed to please picky eaters Tips, articles and other information about healthy eating habits and nutrition Step-by-step how-to videos Games to teach kids and parents about the USDA food pyramid and more It’s available in the iTunes store, and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]