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Holiday Eating Tip: Healthier Easter Basket
Easter is coming up this Sunday, and for those of you who celebrate and are also trying to watch your weight, this means another holiday of dealing with candy and sweets. The positive side is that there is no rule that says you have to fill your Easter basket with pounds of chocolate eggs and jellybeans. Fill your basket with these healthier alternatives instead:
- Carrots (since the Easter Bunny likes to share)
- Fresh fruit
- Homemade cookies that are filled with healthy ingredients like oats, raisins, dried cranberries, walnuts, and dark chocolate chips
- Bars of Dark chocolate
- Colored eggs made with homemade dyes
- Dark chocolate covered peanuts, pretzels, or raisins
- Mini banana bread muffins
- Fitness DVDs
- A scented candle
- Animal shaped hand soaps (my girls love these)
Resist the Temptation to Buy Easter Candy on Sale
Pastel coated candy and egg shaped chocolate are tasty April indulgences, and there's a chance you're still on a sugar high from the holiday weekend. When you head to the store to buy ingredients for this week's healthy meals, resist the urge to pick up bags of discounted candy.
It's easier to justify spending money on junk food when it's half-priced.
Halloween Survival: Don't Buy Your Candy Yet
I did it. I couldn't resist. The bags of candy were two for $5.00, so I thought I'd stock up for Halloween early, you know, for the trick-or-treaters.
A Healthier Easter Basket
You've seen the Easter Candy breakdown. You cast your vote for your favorite Easter Candy over on YumSugar...and now you're thinking maybe I should make a healthy Easter Basket. Well you know I am going to second that option.
Keep Those Wee Teeth Healthy This Halloween
Sure kids adore the costume aspect of Halloween but the number one reason why wee ones look forward to the ghoulish holiday? The hunt for candy. Chocolate bars, candy corn, and bags of Skittles can make a youngster hopelessly in love with sugar but leave their pearly whites in pain.
Snickers Energy Bars?
Clif, Balance, and Luna are a few of my favorite brands when choosing energy bars, but the popular packed-with-peanuts candy bar company wants to get in on the action too with their Snickers Marathon bars. I know what you're thinking. Snickers?
Tasty Treats For Halloween Bashes: Trick or Treat Lollipops
Halloween may be all about the costumes and candy, but that doesn't mean you can't trick kids with a treat that's healthy too. Take an all-time childhood favorite – the lollipop – and convert it into something that will fill trick-or-treaters up with necessary nutrients.
Take a selection of firm fruits like watermelon, cantaloupe and pineapple and cut them into thick slices.
Chocolate: The Best Perfume Note?
Yesterday, I snuck in a packet of delicious milk chocolate raisins after my healthy salad lunch, and afterward, I was awash in sugary sweet happiness (and guilt). But my candy got me thinking about the smell of chocolate which, inevitably, made me think of fragrance. And I realized what a delicious note chocolate is.
Forget Candy! Fill Easter Eggs With Healthy Treats
Traditional Easter egg hunts and baskets are a dentist's nightmare. I suggest asking the Easter bunny to pack your baskets with reading material, bath toys or tiny stuffed animals, but you may have to get more creative if you hope to fill your hunt eggs with something other than chocolate. For a list of healthier items you might consider putting in your eggs, read more
Healthy Dose Link Time
- Enjoy the last of Summer corn with a healthy souffle — Shape
- Keep the hotness going with the short shorts workout — Vital Juice
- Weight loss helps a British woman discover her breast lump — That's Fit
- Soothing a sweet tooth with Yoplait Delights Parfait — Daily Spark
- What's your biggest post-workout beauty pet peeve? — Fit Bottomed Girls
- Would you delete Facebook photos after losing lots of weight? — Shape Up
- Jordin Sparks grabs a racket at Arthur Ashe Kids Day — Fit Celeb
- How do you kick a candy habit?
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