Snack Attack
Snacks seem to be the latest “on the attack” by the self-declared food police.
One article, which attacks children’s snacking habits, rudely stated the following:
Apparently, we have collectively decided as a culture that it is impossible for children to take part in any activity without simultaneously shoving something into their pie holes. Source: Snack Time Never Ends
(Their “pie holes”?) Well, children are active. Children are growing. Together these factors make for some seriously hungry kids. Seems it’s been that way since time began…why should today’s kids be any different? The after-school-snack has been a “staple” of the American diet for so long recipes are named after it.
And for us adults, snacking can be healthful. In the case of diabetics, utterly necessary. Snacks play an important role in the daily life of a diabetic, particularly those with type 1 diabetes and insulin-requiring type 2 diabetes. (See Snacks: Healthy Necessity in a Diabetic Diet)
In fact, there are New Snack Ideas that are healthy, Smart and healthful snacks for kids and adults to enjoy on an every day basis. There are healthy alternative snacks, and downright Smart Snacks we can eat.
The American Dietetic Association recently offered up suggestions as “Healthy Pyramid Snacks“.
Don’t fall into all this stuff and nonsense about the big, bad snack. Avoid all the hype and just use common sense and all will be well…we promise.
Consider: Quick 100 Calorie Snacks and/or One Hundred Calorie Snack Packs.
