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Category: Healthy Snacks

Food prep healthy snacks

Eating whole foods!
- Is this so difficult, planting vegetables, picking berries or purchasing fruit from a farmer or local grocery market. These are whole foods that will make your diet sparkle.
- So simple to freeze these bountiful berries on a cookie sheet and transfer into a big freezer bag, preserving them for the dark winter days ahead… to top your breakfast cereal or add to a smoothie.
- These will add flavonoids, vitamins, fibre and flavour, help fight inflammation and boost the immune system!
August 30, 2022
Is there a Healthier Chip????

Nutrition Facts

Is there a Chip that is Healthy?

Looking for a healthy chip… I suppose one has many features to consider, flavour, crispness, crunch, mouth appeal when looking for a snack. Also calories, fat, net carbohydrates and sodium are of concern if you are trying to maintain a healthier weight, reduce risk of heart disease and diabetes and reduce your blood pressure.

For a healthier chip, with fewer additives, no salt added, one could consider the sweet potato or beet chips by Terra, they have medium carb (net 17g) and a good source of fibre (4g)m low in protein and are the lowest in sodium.

Three Farmers have come up with the nice product, roasted Lentils, not quite a chip but modest in carb (net 23g), highest in fibre (9g) and very low in salt.

Of the tortilla chips, they are fairly equal in calories, and fat (except the Old Dutch baked salt & vinegar chips) which are higher in carb (net 38g) , all of the are high in carbohydrate actually (net 27-29g) and not too bad in sodium as long as you can stop eating them after eating one serving (defined as 23-40 chips).

The Dare Veggie chips taste better than Quakers Crispy Minis but they have sea salt added, making them a high sodium choice and they are not gluten free, the crispy minis have a slight after flavour and many additives .

Next time we’ll look at crackers.

January 24, 2022

Category: Healthy Snacks

Eating whole foods!

Is this so difficult, planting vegetables, picking berries or purchasing fruit from a farmer or local grocery market. These are whole foods that will make your diet sparkle.

So simple to freeze these bountiful berries on a cookie sheet and transfer into a big freezer bag, preserving them for the dark winter days ahead… to top your breakfast cereal or add to a smoothie.

These will add flavonoids, vitamins, fibre and flavour, help fight inflammation and boost the immune system!

Is there a Healthier Chip????

Is there a Chip that is Healthy?