This is a great breakfast sandwich and snack. I often make this sandwich and cut it in small pieces for mid day snack. The best pear for this sandwich is Bartlett pear. You need a juicy one so it will add more moisture to the peanut spread.
A slice or two of sour dough or your favorite bread, to top your sandwich, or an open face sandwich. Chunky or smooth peanut butter, and very thin slices of pear over lapping each slice on the peanut butter spread. That is it😋 simple, healthy, yummy.👍
We usually think of our pantry as the place we store what we need for cooking on daily bases. I have come to realize these days, that my pantry should have everything I need to make meals for not just weeks but maybe months.
Believe me I don’t own a large pantry, so no room for a large varieties of food, but I have learned how to make meals that share the same basic ingredients. And with few more from the freezer, voila I have put together a nice meal.
To create a nice meal has always been important to me. I grew up in a household that eating healthy, and eating delicious meals took an entire day to prepare. Chopping vegetables, marinating the meat, making sauces, all were an important component of creating a delicious food, and setting a beautiful table.
So to keep stress out of my life I have grouped my basic pantry items in 4 categories:
1- cooking
2- baking
3- snacking
4- breakfast
Always store Salt, peppers, spices, cooking oils in large quantities since they are used in daily cooking. Canned sauces, and tomatoes, canned vegetables, soups, tuna, pickles, olives, and pastas are another must haves, with long expiration dates that are easy to buy for storing.
Take advantage of end of season sales for baking, canned vegetables, and pastas. And remember you can store most ingredients like butter, cooked pastas, cooked rice, and breads, for few weeks in your freezer.
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Best way to eat fruits & vegetables sometimes is to make a nice salad. I have found it to be easier to add flavor and excitement to our food and get our kids to eat more fresh and healthy food.
One summer fruit that I love to serve is watermelon. With 1200 varieties, it is sweet, juicy, full of nutrients, and easy to serve.
Thirst quenching watermelon has many benefits, with 92% water, drinkingits juice is an important way to keep our body hydrated.
Low in calories only 46 calories per cup, it is a great recovery beverage after a workout, and packedwith vitamins, that help with :
1- Lowering blood pressure
2- high in antioxidants – prevents celldamage
3- helps in preventingcancer
4- helps withinflammation
5- helps with muscle soreness
6- helps with healthy hair & skin
One of my favorite salads in summer is watermelon feta cheese salad. Served with mint, glaze balsamic vinegar, olive oil, is cool and refreshing and everyone’s favorite.
Watch the video on how I made this easy salad. Try it & enjoy it 👍😋🍉
We love mozzarella on our salad or on top of a heaping hot pasta dish, but for breakfast it is light & something fresh.
adding berries and walnuts just adds to this nutritious, easy to make breakfast. We all know about the benefits of berries eating walnuts help with lowering blood pressure, inflammation, helps with weight loss, and supports good brain function.
We need to Avoid food that contain artificial sweeteners, foods that contain high amounts of sugar, saturated fat or caffeine.
Processed foods like deli meat have been linked to triggering ADHD symptoms in children. Instead choose foods that contain antioxidants, choline, omega-3 fatty acids, and complex carbohydrates that boost brain health.
Fruits & nuts for snacks
Apples
Pears
Oranges
Kiwi
To add Protein to a healthy diet :
beans, almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, multi grain cereal. Eggs, milk, goat cheese, and Greek yogurt.
Happened to watch Bobby Flay making crumpets for brunch & we had to try it.
Hoping to have them ready for breakfast had to rush through the mixing but needed to let the dough sit for an hour. Before that added more flour to the mix since ours looked too watery & didn’t quite look like a smooth dough.
We let them cool before hvg them with butter & honey & served a couple after dinner toasted with cherry jam, butter & peanut butter.
Warm crumpets are delicious. We cut them in triangles & had them with salad & soup for lunch.
Crumpet with scrambled eggs, turkey bacon side of cherry jam & fruits
If you are having a difficult time to make grapefruit as part of your families regular food, you are not alone. At our home this amazing, beautiful, nutritious fruit makes its way into salads, sides for sandwiches, and mid day snacks.
Benefits:
Skin
Fights skin damage, reduces wrinkles, and gives you an all over healthy look since it plays a vital role in the formation of collagen. We can even apply the juice directly to skin.
On the beach, by the pool, the car trip they all call for snack time.
with the warm temperatures how to keep everything fresh is a problem but to make tasty snacks to satisfy everyone is a bigger problem.
Here is a list of few snacks our family loves.
Watermelon
Great way to stop your thirst & served with chunks of feta cheese replenishes the salt you need. Easy to transport cold or room temperature still good to eat.
Fruit & veggie bowl with cheese
grapes, pineapple, cantaloupe, bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers mixed with chunks of favorite cheese. Mozzarella sticks or cheddar cubes work well together.
Hummus, yogurt with veggies
hummus with water-rich veggies like baby carrots, celery sticks or sugar snap peas.
Peanut butter & jelly
with bread or whole wheat crackers, easy to pack & store since you don’t need to worry too much about keeping them cool.
Oranges, tangelos
Oranges are hydrating and thirst quenching. they are high in vitamin C, which has been shown it limits the damage of ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
Target cooler
Pack everything in a cooler back pack any spills will be contained.
Yogurt with drizzle of honey, or toast peanut butter topped with slices of peaches
Snacking before bed, Good or Bad?
Snacking before bed is Good. There is nothing wrong with having a snack before we go to bed. It is easy to stay up late finishing a project or cleaning up before bed, and as you get ready for bed you realize the last time you ate was dinner, many hours ago. Nothing is worst than going to bed with a grumbling stomach.
4 important facts about snacking before bedtime.
1- It should be only a snack
2- Choose a snack that won’t keep you up.
3- Snack we pick should be light on the stomach and low on fat content.
4- No sugary, caffeinated, or spicy food.
Any snack with complex carbs and protein will release amino acids into our body that could actually help us sleep better at night.
Here is a list of 10 snacks :
1- Peanut butter
2- Pistachios
3- Greek yogurt
4- Cottage cheese
5- Popcorn
6-White Meat Turkey
7- High fiber cereal
8- fruits
9- whole wheat cracker
10- dates & nut butter
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