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Monday 1 October 2012

Try Preparing These Really Healthy and Delicious Snacks for Yourself - Health

When you want a snack, remember what food you reach for? Chips and candy? What if you are working to be healthy? Finding delicious and nutritious snacks can be a great challenge, especially if the foods you like best for snacking are full of sugar or salt. Keep reading to find out how to whip snacks that are hearty and that satisfy your cravings. All of the snacks talked about in this article are snacks you can eat even when you are trying to watch your weight and diet. Does that sound like it is too good to be true? Continue reading!Super yummy dipped pretzels are a fantastic snack that you can eat that won't make you feel like you are limited in terms of calorie count or portion size while still eating your favorite foods. Melt a half of cup of semi sweet chocolate on your stovetop until melted. This will take up to 2 minutes and make sure that you stir it up really well before trying to use it. Dip low salt pretzels in the melted chocolate to coat them and then set them in a single layer on parchment paper. Let them cool at room temperature or place them in the fridge for approximately 20 minutes. Yummy Tortilla Chips are a snack that you can make all by yourself at home...seriously! Tortilla chips, when you buy them from the grocery store, are usually loaded down with an insane amount of salt and aren't actually very good for you. For this yummy snack, you can whip the chips yourself using corn tortillas. Slice at least 10 corn tortillas into sixths. Put your cut up pieces onto a baking sheet and spray with a thin coat of a spray you can put together yourself by blending canola oil and a quarter of a teaspoon of chili powder, half a teaspoon of cumin and a fourth of a teaspoon of table salt. Allow each piece to be coated completely and then bake all of the pieces together in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes. Let the chips cool down totally before you eat them.Fix delicious caramel corn! You probably think that there is no way that c aramel corn can be great for you because it is loaded with sugar and calories. Try this healthy recipe instead; it's good for you. In a large stock pot, you should melt two tablespoons of butter and then blend in a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar, a tablespoon of water and a fourth of a teaspoon of kosher salt. Mix the ingredients and then mix in seven cups of air popped popcorn. If you enjoy lightly salted peanuts, add ounce or so of those too. Stir until the popcorn and peanuts (if you added them) are well coated and then let all of it cool before you eat it.If you are okay doing some research, you can find quite a few snack recipes that are low on bad ingredients, have fewer calories but that still taste extremely good. There are many terrific tasting alternatives for snacks that are both healthy and tasty. You just have to be persevering enough to locate them and make them for yourself. It need not be difficult to stay healthy. It's completely achievable!





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