Here are a few tips for offering your children some healthier options for snacking, desserts and even beverages:
Avoid anything sweetened with high fructose corn syrup or any artificial sweeteners -so soda, Kool Aid and Crystal Light are out. Celestial Seasonings Zingers are powdered drink packets made with green tea and other high quality ingredients in several flavors which are sweetened with stevia. They have absolutely no high fructose corn syrup. Stevita brand also makes these packets to go in several flavors that you may be able to find either at your health food store or at www.stevitastevia.com. Simply add one pack to 16 oz. of water.
If your children like the fizziness of soda, try Zevia, a natural, sugar free alternative to diet soda. Visit www.zevia.com to learn more.
The old standby snacks of apples or bananas and nut butter are always good. Ants on a log have always been my oldest son's favorite: Stalks of celery filled with nut butter and topped with raisins. Frozen grapes is an old favorite and still good.
You can make popcorn healthier by sprinkling freshly popped organic kernels with either Organic Spirulina or nutritional yeast. It's really delicious.
You can add 1 tablespoon of Purium's Apothe-Cherry to 1-1/2 cups of organic applesauce and then add in any other dried or fresh fruit your child likes.
You may have some great ideas I haven't covered here - I'd love to hear them. Please share them with me and I will add them to this list.
Take a Step:
Don't feel you have no healthy options. There are always healthier options and new, healthy products being introduced daily! Visit the links I have provided and look at some of the healthy products available and try one. Even replacing one unhealthy choice will make a big difference in your child's overall health and well-being.
Until next time, I wish you vibrant health. Ann
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