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Aerobics & Cardio InformationAre Your Kids Sabotaging Your Weight Loss?
by:
Kim Beardsmore
If you are a mom at house on a diet, you wish probably related to a frequent situation I encounter as a weight loss consultant. Many a of my clients with children are able to support to a healthy consumption plan through most circumstances except two. It all starts to go wide
once
the kids move house from school, or once
they are preparing school lunches.
It's no surprise really. Kids love snacks we buy from the supermarket, and parents love them because they are quick and easy to throw into the lunchbox or for kids to grab from the shelves in the pantry. Small bags of chips, tasty bite size crackers, sodas and the like. No problem. Except once
it comes to mom's weight loss program. Mom loves them too!
These products are high in fat, high in energy and high in refined sugars. And after one, two or three nibbles it is possible to wrack up an unwanted 500 calories. This single act wish probably stall your weight loss or even as worse!
To finish your kids from sabotaging your weight loss efforts, here are 20 snack ideas for kids that wish do far less damage to your weight loss program if mom nibbles (just a little).
1. Chop up ½ preserved
pear or different fruit in natural juice and set in 200mls of low calorie jelly. Do up into individual disposable plastic containers with lids.
2. Cut up crisp vegetable sticks with dipping sauce - ranch, peanut (satay), sweet chili or tomato.
3. Cut celery sticks 6-8 cm, fill with house
cheese and top with sultanas or cut nuts.
4. Combine a mixture of low fat hard cheese cubes, around the bend and dried fruits in plastic wrap or a lunch bag.
5. Roll up thin slices of carrot and celery with grated cheese in a slice of cold meat. Secure with toothpick. Slice the carrot and celery with a vegetable peeler for actually thin slices.
6. Cut oranges into quarters and freeze on trays. Put into plastic bags for a fruity ice block.
7. Dish
surprise. Next time you are fashioning meatloaf, double the quantity and do a batch of meatballs. These are great in lunchboxes cold. Add a slice of pineapple with a strip
to each meatball. Add dipping tomato sauce if required.
8. Mini quiches….make a batch of crust-less quiche and cook in quick bread
tray. Each 'muffin' wish be a extraordinary healthy snack for kids.
9. Chilled fruit surprise - slice a combination of strawberries, bananas, kiwi fruit, watermelon, grapes or in season fruit. Place in small resealable plastic container. Top with apple juice; do not overfill. Seal, freeze. Once
packed in lunchbox, wish support sandwiches cool and prove a refreshing treat on a hot day.
10. Rice cakes spread with mashed avocado, mashed banana and cinnamon, or try mashed avocado, sliced tomato and sprouts.
11. Cut hard-boiled egg served with low fat mayo, salt, pepper on a crisp bread.
12. Leaf wrappers: wrap a cheese finger, celery stick and carrot stick in a lettuce leaf. Wrap in foil and place in lunchbox. Contents wish be unbroken
moist.
13. Food tub.
14. Baby Bell Cheese and low fat cracker.
15. Creamy dates: slice dates lengthways, move out stone. Fill with City of brotherly love cream cheese (low fat).
16. Quick sausage rolls: wrap a injured (good quality) sausage in several sheets of filo pastry. Brush pastry with beat egg to glaze. Cut into desired lengths. Bake in moderately hot kitchen appliance
for 15-20 minutes. Rolls can be frozen.
17. Same as above but use fresh chicken breast strips and cut to 2" - use tomato or favorite dipping sauce
18. After school hot snack attack: Spread a round of flat-bread
bread with tomato paste and herbs. Top with tomato, ham, mortadella, add onion, sliced mushrooms or pineapple. Sprinkle grated low fat hard cheese over flat-bread
bread. Grill to do a tasty pizza. If no flat-bread
bread is available, substitute a crisp bread.
19. Fruity kebabs: place bite size pieces of fruit in season on dish skewers.
20. Pop top sandwich tuna tin, crisp bread, bag
of mayonnaise. Kids can put their snack together at school so that it doesn't go soggy.
Remember fresh is better several for yourself and your children. By work
these ideas for several of the packaged
snack food and cookies your kids eat you wish be doing several them and yourself a favor.
(c) Copyright Kim Beardsmore
- Please feel free to publish this article, free of charge with the Author's Biography, URL and links intact and working.
Just about the author:
-- Kim is a eminent weight loss coach who wish cut through the diet-hype and help you reach your goal weight. No public 'weigh-ins', meetings that cost you money or fads...simply results you wish love! You can obtain a free consultation. Visit today: http://tinyurl.com/6l2cdAre you interested in earning money from home? We can help you grow a profitable house business: http://tinyurl.com/69eoy
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