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Ten Healthy Snacks For Hungry Kids

Monday, January 2nd, 2012 at 7:32 pm 
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Ten Healthy Snacks for Hungry Kids

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A Good Snack for Kids

Trying to help your kids lose weight, but aren’t sure how? Try these healthy snacks to break your junk food addict of his or her bad habits.

Start serving fresh fruit at least once a day. Bring home new fruit and have fruit taste testing events where your kids try a few different types of fruit and vote on which one they like best. Offer both new and unusual fruits alongside the common options.

Get an air popcorn popper and show your kids how much fun it is to pop and eat, even without the butter. Spritz the popcorn with water and the sprinkle with salt. To satisfy a sweet tooth, toss popcorn with a small amount of reduced-calorie maple syrup–it’ll taste liek caramel corn.

Get a bag of those pretzel thins and top with slivers of cheese. Try using a strong-flavored cheese so you won’t need much to flavor the pretzels.

Cook up some hard boiled eggs. Kids love to peel the eggs, and the protein will keep them full for a long time. Most kids like them with paprika, salt, and pepper.

Get silly with your kids and make ants on a log. Cut up celery sticks, smear a small amount of peanut butter on them, and dot them with raisins or a scant number of miniature chocolate chips.

Offer plates of veggetables with salad dressing on the side. You can let older kids carve the vegetables into sculptures before eating them.

Try seasoned, cooked shrimp. Just pour some cajun seasoning into a pot with some hot water and boil the shrimp until done; it’s a perfectly delicious high protein snack.

Cold cut roll ups. Buy lean ham or turkey, and roll it up with thin slices of cheese and secure with toothpicks so it looks special.

Fruit smoothies. Combine frozen raspberries or strawberries with low calorie fruit juice and blend. Add yogurt for those who like it creamy.

Introduce your kids to Greek yogurt. Greek yogurt contains two times the amount of protein as regular yogurt. You can find plenty of flavors; even chocolate!

If you set the example with your healthy eating habits, your children will make the transition more easily. For more suggestions, check out a healthy eating cookbook.

Healthy Foods Recipes: Guide to Cooking Fish

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011 at 1:19 pm 
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Healthy Food For Your Family

We repeatedly hear about how fish is so good for us and we should be eating it twice a week, but cooking fish at home can be intimidating if you don’t know how to do it or what type of fish to get. Cooking fish is actually really easy to do and can be delicious from home. With minimal ingredients and cooking tools you can cook fish easily. Tilapia is a great fish to learn how to cook as a beginner fish. Most stores will care flash frozen tilapia.

Healthy Foods Recipes: How To Prepare Fish?

One of the easier ways to cook fish is to pan fry them. You will want a good quality stainless steel pan.

Start by thawing the fish over night in the refridgerator. Rinse your filet off and pat dry. Add a 1/4 cup flour in a shallow bowl with 1 tsp of pepper and 2 tsp of salt. Mix the flour mixture. Place the fish into the mixture and gently coat both sides. Then shake the excess flower from the fish filet. Heat a pan with a 1/4 of coconut oil. After oil is hot add your fish filet. Cook for two and a half minutes on each side. You will know the fish is done when the flour coating is crispy and the fish flakes easily with a fork.

Another great way to prepare fish is to bake it. Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Put your thawed tilapia filet into an oven safe container along with a tablespoon of butter. Sprinkle some dill weed, salt, and pepper on the fish. You can even cut a lemon into rounds and place it on top of the fish. Then cook in the over for 20 minutes. You know it is done cooking when it easily flakes apart with a fork. If the fish is not done put back into oven for another five minutes and check again.

These are two simple ways to cook fish but there are so many options at your fingertips. Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking, is one of many books out there on how to cook fish. Don’t let fish intimidate you when cooking, they are quite easy to make.