Healthy Snacks

Healthy Snacks

When eating snacks one thing to remember is watching how much you put in your mouth. If you think that because you’re snacking on fruits and vegetables you can eat as much as you want, you really can’t. You have to remember that this is your snack for the day not your meal.

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Instead of snacking on junk food like chips, chocolate, and candy, that will make you feel bloated and weigh you down, why not snack on something healthy. If you’re in the need for a snack, make sure you choose to eat something that tastes good, is healthy, but will still satisfy that quick craving. If you are a chocolate junky and love to snack on it a good suggestion would be to try dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is really good for you and still tastes good, but only a piece of dark chocolate, you need to make sure you’re only in taking a little.  

A few good snack ideas would be fruit, vegetables, and peanut butter or just peanuts by themselves if that’s what you prefer.

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Any kind of fruit is really good for you. I prefer to snack on grapes, apples, bananas, and any kind of berries. A really good idea is even to have some sliced apples with peanut butter. I love to eat that during the day as a snack! Peanut butter is really good for you because it’s really high in protein. If you don’t like peanut butter and prefer just to eat peanuts than that is also good for you. Almonds are a good suggestion and are one of my favorites.  
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Again any kind of vegetable is really good for you. The ones I enjoy to snack on are sliced carrots, broccoli, and celery. It is really up to you on which vegetable you like and would prefer to snack on.  

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Healthy Shakes & Smoothies

A great way to get your daily fruit intake quickly is through shakes and smoothies ! They are great for just drinking while relaxing at home, or for a quick, on the go, treat.

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They are very easy to make as well.

For a shake, you can often just choose a fruit; any fruit. For example, if you pick strawberries, all you have to do is put the strawberries into a blender, add some ice, and maybe a little bit of sugar to make it a little sweeter. Mix it up and you have a healthy drink right infront of you. These are often a lot thinner than smoothies though. You can change the strawberries with any fruit you would want.

For smoothies it takes a couple more steps. You pick your fruit, you add some ice, and then from there you have to decide if you want to add milk, or ice cream. If you are choosing ice cream, your best bet would be a low fat ice-cream or one without any sugar in it. This keeps the smoothie as healthy as possible! Mix the smoothie in the blender and your done. It is very quick, and ends up being very delicious.

Some options for some smoothie flavours are:
-Banana Strawberry
-Mango

-Strawberry Kiwi

-Cherry Banana

-Orange Raspberry

-Apple Pear

Dinner Meal Plan

So we have already decided what foods are good for you in the morning for breakfast and in the afternoon for lunch. Now the question is what do I eat for dinner?

Since your lunch is usually smaller when choosing to eat a salad or a sandwich, maybe add some meat to your evening meal. You don’t want to fill yourself at night so don’t completely pig out. Here are some dinner ideas that are easy to make and healthy and nutritious.

Personally my favourite meal for dinner is grilled chicken with rice or grilled chicken with vegetables.  If you don’t like chicken another great option is salmon and if you’re a vegetarian maybe you will prefer tofu. Stay away from frying your meat and bake it or grill it, which ever you prefer.  Fried food is so much heavier and in order to stay away from the greasy, sticky foods, you want cook your foods in a way that will make you feel like what you ate tasted good, but at the same time still healthy. I like to have chicken or salmon with some green beans, or broccoli. Whatever vegetables you like will taste good with your meat. Any meat is good really; it’s just a matter of watching how much you put in your mouth.  

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Another great dish for dinner, if you like pasta can be low in calorie whole wheat pasta. When you eat pasta try to have small portions though because it will fill you up very easy and remember you can’t completely cut carbs and breads out of your diet so just be careful with the portions you intake. If you don’t like pasta and prefer rice, just make sure that the portions are also not very big.

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If you decide or prefer to have a heavier lunch, then for dinner why not have a salad. You can have a bigger salad with some meat added to it and some vegetables.  Now here is a great delicious, but nutritious meal!

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Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are all important meals of the day and none of them can be missed. So if you feel like you’re eating too much during one meal, for the next meal eat something a bit smaller.

You want to make sure that you’re eating all of the foods you are suppose to be eating but watch the portions and make sure you feel good about what you’re eating and know that what you put in your mouth is healthy, tasty, and nutritious.