Inspirations
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.
Fish for omega 3 & fatty acid
Salmon, mackerel, fresh tuna, trout, sardines, herring.
Making tuna wraps, sandwiches and pasta salads for kids lunches is a great way to add good fat to their diet.
For salads, sandwiches, and wraps use Green leafy vegetables like spinach and kale. These greens are full of folate and vitamins .
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.
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.
Heart
Lowers blood pressure, helps with weight control, & lowers blood sugar.
Digestion
High in fiber & water, grapefruit promotes regularity for a healthy digestive tract.
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.
Pack everything in a cooler back pack any spills will be contained.
Be safe & Healthy😎
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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So sweet and delicious these beautiful fruits originally from China are in season from October to February.
More than 100 varieties we are only familiar with two. The fuyu and hachiya persimmons. The fuyu variety the flat and round shape is full of flavor when they are just soft to the touch, but the acorn shape the hachiya needs to be perfectly rip, very soft to touch before it is sweet and flavorful.
Loaded with vitamins, persimmons are good for our heart, immune system, and are an excellent source of powerful antioxidants like carotenoids and flavonoids.
Easiest way to enjoy a hachiya persimmon :
We hear from friends and coworkers that fasting is their choice of regulating their weight during this time of the year.
Does it really work or is it healthy it all depends on how fasting is done!!
When we consume Carbs, sugar and refined grains, they quickly break down into sugar, which our cells use for energy. If we are not active we store it in our fat cells as fat. But sugar can only enter our cells with insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas. Insulin brings sugar into the fat cells and keeps it there. If we don’t eat between meals our insulin level goes down and fat cells release sugar stored so we can move around and be active.
When we fast our insulin levels go down far enough and for long enough that we burn off our fat.
Studies show when we stop eating during the day is a key on losing weight. Eating between 7am to 3 pm, or 10am to 6 pm, and avoiding any snacking between meals is the smart way to regulate our weight .
We will need our nutritious Meals to stay active and happy when bad weather leaves us in the dark and no access to stores or restaurants.
Dry fruits paired with varieties of nuts, and nut butters with chutneys or jams and nutritious whole grain crackers can provide us with protein and good variety of tastes.
Also canned tuna, chicken, salmon, can be paired with lettuce, apples, grapes for a fresh and delicious salads. Don’t forget the manual can opener. If you don’t like missing your vegetables add cans of grilled eggplant, peppers and zucchini to your pantry. Shelf stable milk, breakfast cereals, are also great for snacking.
Lets not forget candles and matches .
Before the kids go back to school, finish summer with a little sweetness. These everyday snacks are introduced to being a dessert as each of them are covered in semi sweet chocolate.
Place them individually on a tray covered with aluminum foil. Place the tray in the refrigerator for an hour before serving.
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