The 365 Day Cooking Challenge and Your Shape Challenge I’m participating in have fallen by the wayside a bit these last few weeks. I have been pretty sick, and the kids were as well for awhile, so it was tough to cook. We ended up eating a lot of sandwiches, brinner, and odds and ends for dinner. I was also away twice in New York City, and my husband had the kids out once each day for a meal. Partly this was my lack of planning ahead, and partly it was due to everyone being stuck inside for 2 weeks straight.
My doctor told me not to exercise while I was having breathing issue, but now that I’m starting to feel better (thanks to a round of antibiotics), I will be slowly reintroducing exercise into my day. I’m starting today with some yoga.
My challenge this week along with the 10 other Your Shape challengers is to create healthy snacks for myself, and family. Since I’m all about whole foods, I found the challenge of going to Walmart to shop a little difficult. I tend to eat fresh foods for snacktime.
Snacks in our house are usually:
- fresh fruit, or frozen fruit-the kids love frozen blueberries
- carrots and celery with hummus, dressing or plain
- cheese- I love cheese, sometimes with whole grain crackers
- nuts-a handful of nuts is really filling, and healthy
- bars-more for the kids than me, they love a good cereal bar
- yogurt-another favorite whether plain with blueberries, or pink yogurt
- occasionally pretzels, or potato chips-while not super healthy, they aren’t terrible either
- stovetop popcorn-yum
- leftovers-if we’re really hungry we will eat leftovers for snacktime
- GUACAMOLE!-my favorite snack, avocado with sea salt and lime-perfection
What are some of your favorite healthy snacks?
Kelly
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