How to Eat Healthy: Carry Healthy Snacks with You
We’ve all been there. You’re having a good healthy eating week and suddenly you find yourself in a situation where you’re hungry with no prepared meal in sight. Enter the vending machine, the drive-thru, the plate of communal cookies, and before you know it you’ve killed your week-long good eating karma in a fast-food minute.
When we are hungry the instinct to eat whatever we can find the quickest is almost impossible to fight. Trying to resist the urge to eat when you are hungry is never going to work as a healthy eating strategy, nor is it a kind to you and your fabulous body.
So, as our Healthy Eating How - To number 3 we are going to recommend that you start carrying healthy snacks with you as you go about your daily routine. Now, when hunger strikes you will have a snack handy to tide you over while you prepare or buy a nutritious meal.
Fruits and veggies make great snacks, as do nuts and beans. To get started check out this great visual guide to 15 healthy snacks.
Appearances may be deceiving when it comes to which packaged snacks are really good for you so read this quick article from Newsweek to weed out the baddies in disguise.
On the “lighter” side The Onion has some breaking news on Frito-Lay’s New Line of Healthy Snacks