As part of the Healthy Snacking Challenge, we’ve swapped out Orville Redenbacher SmartPop! for our usual after school snacks. I’m doing this to encourage my family as well as my readers to snack smarter. Here’s why: snacking on 100-calories of low-fat healthy popcorn leads to less hunger and more satisfaction versus other snacks like almonds [...]
Posted on May 18, 2012 in Contests and Giveaways,Featured,Food Reviews and tagged as healthy snacking
You may have noticed by looking in my side bar that I’m now an Orville Redenbacher’s SmartPop! Ambassador. The reason I signed up to be spread the word about Orville Redenbacher’s SmartPop! popcorn is that I’m on a mission to get families to eat – and snack – in a healthier way. One way to [...]
Posted on May 7, 2012 in Food Reviews and tagged as healthy snacking
Since becoming a Mountain High Yoghurt Mom, their product has become a staple in my kids’ lives. As I explained in a previous Mountain High Yoghurt post, I used to buy it all the time until I started making my own yogurt. Since my yogurt maker is in storage, Mountain High Yoghurt has become my [...]
Posted on May 2, 2012 in Food Reviews and tagged as healthy snacking, yogurt
To close out National Grilled Cheese Month, I’ve partnered with Horizon Organic and Udi’s Gluten Free on a Grilled Cheese Recipe challenge using Udi’s Gluten Free breads and Horizon Organic Cheese to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich recipe. Inspired by my recent trip to Hawaii, I wanted to incorporate tropical flavors of pineapple, guava, [...]
Posted on April 29, 2012 in Featured,Gluten Free,Recipes and tagged as healthy snacking, Udis Community
Every school day when it’s hot out, the first thing my son, Nathan, asks after I pick him up is, “Can we go out for ice cream?” Inevitably the answer is no. Instead, I prefer that my kids cool down with a healthy snack, like yogurt parfaits. To make Berry & Yogurt parfaits, just layer [...]
Posted on March 27, 2012 in Desserts,Featured,Recipes and tagged as healthy snacking, yogurt
Manly food doesn’t have to be meaty, greasy and covered with cheese! Considering that cardiovascular disease is the number one killer for men in the US, it’s time to make a change starting in the kitchen this Super Bowl Sunday. That’s why CanolaInfo.org came up with their Heart-Healthy Dude Food Recipe Collection. It contains 10 [...]
Posted on February 3, 2012 in Featured,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking, party food
Did you have a chance to try the Quinoa with Pomegranate Arils and Goat Cheese vegetarian recipe from POM Wonderful? I did on Christmas Eve as a side dish, and it was wonderful. Well, here’s another healthy recipe from the folks at POM Wonderful – Pomegranate Relish to use as a holiday party appetizer topping. [...]
Posted on December 28, 2011 in Christmas,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking, party food
Having had a Jewish father, I grew up eating wonderful cookies and cupcakes at the Jewish-style bakery my parents frequented by my dad’s office in Red Bank, New Jersey. If you lived in the area in the 1970s, it was the bakery by Red Bank Catholic High School and down Main Street from Norman’s Deli, [...]
Posted on December 5, 2011 in Baking,Christmas,Desserts,Gluten Free,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking
Are you looking for strategies to survive this holiday season in a healthy way without gaining weight? Rachel Berman, RD, CSR, CD/N, the Director of Nutrition for CalorieCount.com, has identified some of the unhealthiest holiday foods and has prepared the following list of suggestions for healthy and delicious swaps for holiday beverages, appetizers, desserts, side [...]
Posted on November 23, 2011 in Christmas,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips,Thanksgiving and tagged as healthy snacking, party food
Day of the Dead – Dia de los Muertos – is a Mexican holiday which focuses praying for and remembering friends and family who have passed away. It takes place on November 1 and 2 in conjunction with All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. People build private altars honoring the deceased and decorate them [...]
Posted on November 1, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking, vegan
The folks at Truvia challenged me to replace a usual lunchbox snack (be it chocolate milk, pudding, cookies or candy) with a no-sugar-added, naturally sweetened healthy snack from one of their Truvia-sweetened recipes. One of the not-so-healthy items I used pack for my kids was chocolate pudding. We gave it up years ago because it [...]
Posted on September 29, 2011 in Desserts,Featured,Gluten Free,Recipes,Weight Watchers and tagged as chocolate, healthy snacking, stevia
California Raisins nearly 3,000 growers are hosting an easy-to-enter recipe contest called “Give Kids Their Day in the Sun.” Now through October 5, healthy snack recipes can be uploaded to California Raisin’s Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/CaliforniaRaisins for a chance to win a premium playground structure (valued up to $10,000), a year’s supply of California Raisins, [...]
Posted on September 20, 2011 in Contests and Giveaways and tagged as healthy snacking
When Mom Central gave me the opportunity to to try out Starbucks’s new Bistro Boxes, it couldn’t have been better timing. School had just started, which meant stopping off for a healthy snack before black belt karate classes. While we loved stopping at Panera Bread, we were all up for something different. Why I was [...]
Posted on August 29, 2011 in Restaurant Reviews,Weight Watchers and tagged as healthy snacking
