Snacks and Between-Meal Eating
Most nutritionists advise against too much snacking or eating between meals. For most of us, that doesn’t work at all. We need our snacks. The best we can do is attempt to make most of those snacks reasonably healthy. It helps if you like fruit. Fruit can be a great snack choice. Eating an apple, or some berries or melon can be a great … Keep Reading → choice for a healthy snack. Adding some cottage cheese or peanut butter is a great way to add protein to the snack and attain the proper nutritional balance. If you must have your “munchy” snacks there are still some choices that are better than others. Anything fried such as potato chips is usually very unhealthy. Eating baked items such as pretzels or baked chips is almost always a better choice. As is usually the case, reading the ingredients and nutritional profile is the only way to know exactly what we are eating.
