The 3 Week Diet

Monday, September 26, 2011

Try Making These Really Healthy and Scrumptious Snacks for Yourself

By Louise Floyd


When you are craving for a snack, which food do you try to eat? Chips and sweets? What if you are trying to be healthy? Finding yummy and hearty snacks can be a huge challenge, particularly if the foods you like best for snacking are loaded with sugar or salt. In this article, we are going to teach you how you can create your own hearty snacks to satisfy all of those cravings. Below are foods you can indulge in while you watch your diet and weight. Does that sound like it is too good to be true? Take a look! Have a look at these informational resources colon cleanse diet and colon cleanser.

Super yummy dipped pretzels are a fantastic snack that you can consume that won't make you feel like you are limited in terms of calorie count or portion size while still eating your favorite foods. Use the microwave to melt roughly a half of a cup of semi sweet chocolate. This will take a couple of minutes to accomplish and ensure that you stir it very well before you use it. Dip pretzels that are low in sodium in the chocolate until they are coated and then lay them on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet in a single layer. Let the pretzels cool entirely at room temperature or stick them in the refrigerator for approximately 20 minutes.

Yummy Tortilla Chips are a good snack that you can put together at home without a lot of work. Tortilla chips, when purchased at the store, are commonly loaded and coated in salt and other terrible ingredients and are not at all nutritious. In this yummy snack, you make the chips yourself using corn tortillas. Use no less than ten corn tortillas and cut them into sixths.

Place the pieces onto a baking sheet and spray them lightly with a spray you can put together yourself by mixing canola oil and a fourth of a teaspoon of chili powder, half a teaspoon of cumin and a quarter of a teaspoon of salt. Let each piece to be coated totally and then bake all of the pieces together in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes. Let them cool off completely before eating them.

Make caramel corn yourself! You probably think that, because of the super high sugar and calorie count, there's no way that the caramel corn can be good for you. Fix this recipe instead; it's good for you. Use a big stock pot and melt two tablespoons of butter at the bottom of it and then stir in two tablespoons of brown sugar, a tablespoon of water and 1.4 teaspoon of kosher salt. Try to use whisk to blend it all together and then dump around seven cups of air popped popcorn. If you prefer, you can even stir in some lightly salted peanuts if that's your thing. Stir until the popcorn and peanuts (if you added them) are thoroughly coated and then let all of it cool before you eat it.

If you don't mind doing a bit of research, you can find quite a few snack recipes that are low on unhealthy ingredients, have fewer calories but that still taste so good. There are lots of great tasting options for nutritious snacks out there. You only have to be diligent enough to find them and make them for yourself. Staying healthy doesn't need to be a trial. It's totally possible!




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