Popcorn Poppers – Make Healthy Snacks For The Whole Family
Posted by admin in Healthy Food on September 29, 2011
Who doesn’t like popcorn? Popcorn has been around for a long time and is still as popular today as it was when it originated. Through the ages there have been a wide variety of ways to cook your popcorn and here are a few of those ways highlighted.
One of the original ways to cook popcorn is with a bit of oil in a cast iron pot with a lid. A Dutch oven could be used also and this way could be done range top or even over a campfire. Remember, this is a treat that has been around for a long time!
Remember shaking the Jiffy Pop container over the burner as children? What child didn’t love shaking that container while anticipating the hot popcorn to come? For a trip down memory lane or even to introduce your children to the concept you can still purchase these today at the grocery store. Read the rest of this entry »
Fun Healthy Snacks
Posted by admin in Healthy Snacks on September 29, 2011
Getting your children to eat the right foods can be hard if they are given the wrong things everywhere that they go. Grandma and the babysitter mean well, but that does not mean that they should be given sugar all of the time. Once they get a sweet tooth, it can be hard to get them to eat the right things so that they can grow up healthy and strong. You have to find new and interesting ways to present the right foods to your kids. Try some fun healthy snacks to see if you can get them back on the right track with good healthy eating habits that can last a lifetime.
Fun healthy snacks may be more about the way that you present them to your children than the types of foods that you offer, though you really want to try to give them the ones that you know they will or have eaten in the past. If they have tried and spit out broccoli, perhaps one way to get them started is to skip the broccoli and try something else. You can always try to serve that broccoli at a later date. Instead, think about the things they have had and liked in the past and go from there.
One way to get fun healthy snacks into your kids is to make them up in fun and creative ways. If this is not your strong point, there are plenty of ideas out there that you can use. For one, you can make the tried and true ‘ants on a log.’ This is a celery stick with peanut butter smeared inside. On the top of that peanut butter you can stick raisins. The celery is the log and the raisins are the ants. Many kids love this, especially boys who think eating ants is gross and fun all at the same time. You can use purple raisins for black ants and yellow raisins to represent some other type of insect if you wish. Read the rest of this entry »