Snacks 101

Snacks 101

 

• Replace, don't remove snacks from your home
• Start with fresh veggies and fruit. Have then already cut and ready to eat on plates in the fridge. When the kids are hungry, if this is what is offered, they will already have had a nutritious part of their dinner.
• Fact: if people are craving snacks, the meals they eat are not giving them emough nutrition.
• Fact: craving for sweets means a lack of vitamins and minerals in the diet
• Fact: there is no such thing as eating too many veggies, especially if they are raw.
• Pick one snack that you know is not good and replace with a better one. Wait until the family gets used to the swtich before replacing a second one.
• Goal: no one eats after 7 PM. That means dinner has to be nutritious so that people are filled.

Something to ponder:

 

Why do people offer foods that are not nutritious, even bad for them, as a "treat?" Shouldn't treats be extra specially delicious and nutritious?

 

What would those "treats" be? 

 

Go to: www.hacres.com and click on recipes and then click on desserts.

 

This is the end of Lesson 1.