Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Tip #2 Fruit Salad to the rescue

I LOVE living in the Northwest. Growing up in Idaho, I took for granted all the fruit and vegetables that easily grew in our climate. Then we moved to Chicago. I had no idea how hard it would be to get a decent fresh peach. I shudder when I remember those years. Moving to Seattle rescued me from my fresh fruit funk. We have fruit salad a lot for dinner- it's the perfect incentive for my kids to eat some of the main dish and their vegetables. I always make a HUGE bowl of salad so that even if we take all we want for dinner, there will be some leftover. Then, at 10pm when I am on the prowl for something sweet, I grab the leftover fruit salad because we all know cut fruit won't be decent in the morning! I think in the evening we crave sweets for a variety of reasons: 1) We're actually thirsty from dinner and interpret it as hunger 2) We're tired and want a carb boost 3) We're celebrating having survived a day with kids and getting some alone time with our spouse or 4) a combination of the previous three. If you find yourself reaching for ice cream or other sweets late at night and you want to cut back on that habit- try drinking a big glass of water and eating a piece of fruit or my fruit salad trick. You'll be getting more servings of fruits to add to your daily quota.
~Here's to Healthy Eating

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