April 8th, 2010

sweet healthy snacks

sweet healthy snacks

Make Weight Loss Easier- Here's Some Healthy Snacks To Keep You Sane

When most people think of dieting, they conjure up images of deprivation, cravings, and overall hunger. They think it's a necessary evil to feel bad just to shed some pounds. It doesn't need to be this way. In fact, if you're in this mental mind frame before or during a diet, you're doomed to fail. Break out of that shell and see the light at the end of the tunnel.

If I could show you a way to add something to your diet to reduce the anguish, you'd listen wouldn't you? Well, here's a simple tip I use with my clients yet easy way to crush your sweet cravings while keeping calories in check.

Your answer... Fresh Fruit and Berries

Yes, it's as simple as the old switcheroo. In meals where you'd normally have some sweets such as ice cream or chocolate, instead indulge in nature's dessert: Fresh fruits and berries.

More specifically, low-sugar, high fiber fruit. Berries are best, but other options like apples, grapefruit, kiwi, etc. are great too. Instead of polishing off an extra 500- 800 calories of empty calories, you can load up on these delicious, healthy snacks.

This caloric deficit will add up over time to help you lose weight fast. Losing weight at it's very core, comes down to creating a caloric deficit. A caloric deficit is where the number of calories you take in (food, drink, whatever) is less than what you're expending in a day.

When loading up on these fruits and berries, you'll also get a nice dose of antioxidants- nutrients (and enzymes) that fight free radicals, which are charged molecules that roam around like rogues, causing muscle soreness and a whole host of other problems.

Here are some of my favorite fruits and berries:

Blueberries

Cranberries

Blackberries

Strawberries

Raspberries

Goji Berries

green apples

Grapefruit

Kiwifruit

Watermelon

Honeydew

Tip to make the berries even tastier: Top with some low calorie whipped topping for added flavor and texture.

Michael Season's Snacks Sweet Barbeque Potato Crisps, 0.83-Ounce Bags (Pack of 24)
Michael Season's Snacks Sweet Barbeque Potato Crisps, 0.83-Ounce Bags (Pack of 24)
List Price: $18.96
Sale Price: $14.40
You save: $4.56 (24%)
  Eligible for free shipping!
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
See Reviews For This Product

Description

Just like our full size Baked Potato Crisps;  What could be better to tantalize your taste buds than some Sweet BBQ. Made with simple ingredients, these low-fat Potato Crisps will be your guilt-free 100 calorie treat.

Features

  • Case contains Case of twenty four, .75-ounce bags (total 18 ounces)
  • Baked, Wheat-free, Gluten-free.
  • Reduced fat product.
Pet 'n Shape Chik 'n Sweet Potato Dog Treats, 16 oz.
Pet 'n Shape Chik 'n Sweet Potato Dog Treats, 16 oz.
Sale Price: $17.49
  Eligible for free shipping!
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
See Reviews For This Product

Description

Pet 'n Shape natural chicken treats are made from 100% natural chicken breast fillets. Each highly nutritious treat provides dogs with a high-protein, low-fat, natural and healthy snack. Each treat is carefully roasted to ensure the ultimate quality and flavor. Pet 'n Shape Chik 'n Sweet Potato treats combine chewy nutritious sweet potato with crunchy delicious 100% natural chicken breast.

Features

  • All natural and healthy treat for your dog
  • High protein; low fat treat
  • No artificial colors or flavors
  • No additives
  • No preservatives
Lunch Boxes and Snacks: Over 120 healthy recipes from delicious sandwiches and salads to hot soups and sweet treats
Lunch Boxes and Snacks: Over 120 healthy recipes from delicious sandwiches and salads to hot soups and sweet treats
List Price: $16.00
Sale Price: $10.88
You save: $5.12 (32%)
  Eligible for free shipping!
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
See Reviews For This Product

Description

Packing your child's lunch box doesn't have to mean another peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a bag of chips. Renowned children's cooking and nutrition expert Annabel Karmel shares more than 120 healthy, creative recipe ideas as well as time-saving hints and tips that will help you make a complete and nutritious lunch without increasing the chaos of your morning routine. Lunch Boxes and Snacks is packed with mouthwatering recipes that can boost your child's brainpower, increase energy, and strengthen the immune system. You'll find a wide range of delicious and easy lunch ideas, from Oriental Turkey Wraps, Individual Focaccia Pizzas, and Chicken Superfood Salad to Trail Mix Bars and Fruit on a Stick, that guarantee that your child will be the envy of the cafeteria. In Lunch Boxes and Snacks you will find: Inspirations for hot meals that can be packed in a thermos for winter days Quick recipes that can be prepared in advance and kept in the fridge or freezer Tips to get your child involved in the lunch-making process Helpful hints on packing your child's lunch box so that food stays safe to eat With Annabel's help, even the busiest parents can easily pack a healthy and tasty lunch that their child will look forward to eating.

Features

  • ISBN13: 9781416548928
  • Condition: USED - Very Good
  • Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Ella's Kitchen Organic Baby Food, Sweet Potatoes, Pumpkin, Apples + Blueberries (4+months), 3.5-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 7)
Ella's Kitchen Organic Baby Food, Sweet Potatoes, Pumpkin, Apples + Blueberries (4+months), 3.5-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 7)
Sale Price: $29.95
  Eligible for free shipping!
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
See Reviews For This Product

Description

These are very different from any other baby food on the supermarket shelves for not only do they contain nothing, absolutely nothing, but pureed organic fruits and vegetables, they have been gently pasteurised and popped into our unique pouches that are so easy when you are out and about or at home. They are healthy AND handy - Pure and simple. Our Stage 1 baby food range is a completely different concept in baby food, bringing together minimally processed, carefully chosen organic natural fruits and vegetables including many superfoods and extremely convenient and easy packaging. They're simply 100% organic fruit and veg, with nothing to dilute their goodness - not even water. And because our special packs are so easily squeezy they're just as handy out and about as at home.

Features

  • 100% Organic. 100% fresh fruits and vegetables
  • Shelf-stable. No refrigeration required.
  • Convenient pouch packaging
Earth's Best Organic Sunny Days Snack Bars, Strawberry, 5.3-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
Earth's Best Organic Sunny Days Snack Bars, Strawberry, 5.3-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
List Price: $26.16
Sale Price: $18.61
You save: $7.55 (29%)
  Eligible for free shipping!
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
See Reviews For This Product

Description

Sunny Days Strawberry Snack Bars pack the juicy flavor of fresh picked strawberries inside a wholesome and delicious cereal crust. Individually wrapped, they are a quick and easy healthy snack to eat on-the-go.

Features

  • Pack of six, 5.3-ounce units (total of 31.8-ounces)
  • Juicy flavor of fresh-picked strawberries inside a wholesome cereal crust
  • Excellent source of calcium, iron, zinc and six B vitamins
  • Made with organic ingredients
  • No artificial flavors, colors, preservatives
Advantus Corp. Products - Sweet N Spicy Trial Mix, 1.75 oz., 24/BX - Sold as 1 BX - Sweet N Spicy Mix is a healthy snack for the office or on the go. 1.75 oz. packs of trail mix also offer a single-serve snack for the breakroom. Mix contains peanuts with a butter toffee coating, roasted peanuts, honey roasted peanuts, Cajun Corn Sticks, and roasted sesame sticks.
Advantus Corp. Products - Sweet N Spicy Trial Mix, 1.75 oz., 24/BX - Sold as 1 BX - Sweet N Spicy Mix is a healthy snack for the office or on the go. 1.75 oz. packs of trail mix also offer a single-serve snack for the breakroom. Mix contains peanuts with a butter toffee coating, roasted peanuts, honey roasted peanuts, Cajun Corn Sticks, and roasted sesame sticks.
Sale Price: $27.99
  Eligible for free shipping!
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
See Reviews For This Product

Description

Advantus Corp. Products - Sweet N Spicy Trial Mix, 1.75 oz., 24/BX - Sold as 1 BXSweet N Spicy Mix is a healthy snack for the office or on the go. 1.75 oz. packs of trail mix also offer a single-serve snack for the breakroom. Mix contains peanuts with a butter toffee coating, roasted peanuts, honey roasted peanuts, Cajun Corn Sticks, and roasted sesame sticks.Sold as 1 BXManufacturer: Advantus Corp.Total percentage of recycled content: 0Post Consumer Waste: 0Country of origin: US

Features

  • Sold as 1 BX
  • Manufacturer: Advantus Corp.
  • Total percentage of recycled content: 0
  • Post Consumer Waste: 0
  • Country of origin: US
Biscuit Box with Tin from Haba
Biscuit Box with Tin from Haba
Sale Price: $7.99
  Eligible for free shipping!
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
See Reviews For This Product

Description

HABA 1407 - A whole tin of fancy cookies for kitchen or market play. European beech painted with non-toxic paint. Tin measures 1.5" x 2.5" diameter. Recommended for 3 years and up. Made in Germany.

Features

  • Age: 3+
  • Materials: tin can and wooden biscuits
  • Measurements: tin D 2.5 x H 1.25 in.
  • Made in Germany
The Sweet Talker [Explicit]
The Sweet Talker [Explicit]
Sale Price: $0.99
  Eligible for free shipping!
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
See Reviews For This Product
Low Calorie Soups, Salads, Starters, Snacks and Sweets
Low Calorie Soups, Salads, Starters, Snacks and Sweets
List Price: $2.99
See Reviews For This Product

Description

Low Calorie Soups, Salads, Starters, Snacks and Sweetsby Kanchan KabraMost of the people think that dieting means eating dull, bland, monotonous food like boiled vegetables, porridge, soups, etc. But it is not so.This book presents a wide range of low calorie dishes, which are delicious and healthy at the same time. The book offers an unimaginable variety of dishes commencing from interesting, tasteful, colourful soups to the wonderful, relishing desserts. All the dishes are sure to be very light on your stomach and heavy on your taste buds.For the proper utility of this book, readers are requested to go through the nutritional notes and health tips given under each recipe to suit the requirement and deficiency in a particular nutrition among different individual. All the recipes are sure to work.The book also provides an answer to treat and cure obesity since that is the gateway to many secondary diseases, some of which are uncurable.List of Recipes :- 01. Starters & Snacks * Masala Paneer Dumplings * Broccoli Tidbits * Spinach Surprise * Mini Kanjivaram Idly with Red Chutney * Bread Pizzas * Dhokla * Bengali Jhaal Mudi * Mumbai Bhel * Vegetable Grilled Sandwich * Pumpkin Pancakes * Pani Puri * Aloo Tawa Chaat * Chickpea Chaat * Sprouted Bean Bhel * Stuffed Potato Chaat * Stuffed Cuccumber Chaat02. Soups * Mixed Vegetable Soup * Pineapple Rasam Soup. * Minty Red Soup * Cream of Carrot * Spinach Soup03. Salads * Potato Salad * Red Cabbage In Orange Sauce * Sprouted Bean Salad * Salad Sticks * Chickpea Salad * Raw Papaya Salad * Green Pasta Salad * Pineapple & Cottage Cheese Salad * Russian Salad04. Sweets * Mango Mazza * Honey Moon Shrikhand * Apple Sandesh * Orange Rabdi * Mishti Doi05. Party Vegetables * Nawabi Korma * Corn Capsicum in Red Gravy * Metthi Matar IN Paneer Sauce * Baked Corn Jalfrezie * Tawa Sabzi * Bhindi LajawabAbout the Author :The Author is qualified in Health & Nutrition and Obesity management. “The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards” are considered the prime reward and honour for those who “Cook with words”. It is the Oscars in the World of Food and Wine, and this Supreme honour was bestowed to Kanchan G. Kabra in Spain for her work, “The Paneer Cook Book”When the then President of USA. Mr. Bill Clinton came to visit Gujarat, India the onus of preparing the menu was given to her. In keeping with her splendid culinary skills and knowledge, she prepared a menu worthy of her revered guests and also of the delicious heritage of the region. The author then presented her bestseller work, “The Gujarat cookbook” to the impressed president.As a Nutritionist she heartily believes in ‘You Are What You Eat’. Your physical appearance tells everything about your diet. Food should not be taken to satisfy your taste buds of fill your stomach. Rather it should nourish all the parts of the body for its proper functioning. She is an acknowledged expert in the field of International Culinary skills and art, and has held various cooking demonstration at many centers in India and abroad. Apart from this she acts as a food Connoisseur to various hotels, food industries, boarding schools and hospitals.She is a regular contributor to many leading newspaper and periodicals and given a number of radio and television programs. She provides recipes and food articles to Femina and even to Femina online. Recently, she has prepared a live cooking demonstration C.D as an option to cookery books. The C.D is superbly designed flashing recipes step by step which would help learners, housewives, teenagers and even the connoisseurs.She believes that cooking is not a chore, not a hobby but a fascination – a passion for her.For more details you can log on to www.Kanchankabra.com or e-mail: kanchan@kanchankabra.com

Sweet N Savory Snack Tray
Sweet N Savory Snack Tray
Sale Price: $39.79
See Reviews For This Product

Description

Sweet and savory munchies are ideal for movie night, family gatherings, holidays or anytime!This Gift Includes:* 6 oz. Roasted Salted Almonds * 6 oz. English Toffee * 6 oz. European Chocolate Bridge Mix * 6 oz. Colossal Pistachios * 6 oz. Chocolate Covered Cherries.

Features

  • This gift if packed full of almonds, chocolate, and pistaschios
  • Sweet and savory munchies are ideal for movie night, family gatherings, holidays or anytime!
Share and Enjoy:
  • Print
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • Blogplay

Tags: , , , ,

Comments are closed.