Healthy snacks

3. Another discovery that wasn’t in my kitchen cabinet prior to this cleanse is almond butter. This is a real find for me.  I had been eating a cream of brown rice cereal with coconut milk, vanilla and cinnamon for breakfast each morning. Even with the spices, it still tastes a bit bland. Now I add 1 heaping spoonful of almond butter and it tastes like a peanut butter treat.2. During the first week of the detox, I had a hard time trying to find something crunchy I could eat. When you are unable to eat eggs or glutton (these seem to be in most everything), it is difficult to find a chip or cracker that meets the criteria. I discovered, at Whole Foods, a brown rice chip that offers the crunch I missed.View the list »
1. I discovered a tasty bag of mixed berries at Whole Foods that is great to snack on between meals or while you are on the run. I go to class in the evenings and this bag, which reseals, is a perfect fit in my school bag.

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As a continuation to the 30-day Detox article posted in January, I thought it was appropriate, especially if you’ve started the detox, to offer additional healthy snacks. This month-long cleanse is tough because it takes away dairy, sugar, glutton, peanuts, red meat and pork. It allows for Chicken, cold-water fish, plant based protein, a lot of berries, nuts and leafy vegetables.

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Once I realized the scope of my food selection within the cleanse parameters, I thought it important to understand the true definition of a berry. As defined by Wikipedia.org, “The botanical definition of a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary. Grapes are an example. The berry is the most common type of fleshy fruit in which the entire ovary wall ripens into an edible pericarp. They may have one or more carpels with a thin covering and fleshy interiors. The seeds are usually embedded in the flesh of the ovary (there are some non-fleshy exceptions, such as peppers.”

I was happy to realize I could eat nuts, just not peanuts. Onward I went snacking on a variety of raw nuts and berries.

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  • 1. I discovered a tasty bag of mixed berries at Whole Foods that is great to snack on between meals or while you are on the run. I go to class in the evenings and this bag, which reseals, is a perfect fit in my school bag.
  • 2. During the first week of the detox, I had a hard time trying to find something crunchy I could eat. When you are unable to eat eggs or glutton (these seem to be in most everything), it is difficult to find a chip or cracker that meets the criteria. I discovered, at Whole Foods, a brown rice chip that offers the crunch I missed.
  • 3. Another discovery that wasn’t in my kitchen cabinet prior to this cleanse is almond butter. This is a real find for me.  I had been eating a cream of brown rice cereal with coconut milk, vanilla and cinnamon for breakfast each morning. Even with the spices, it still tastes a bit bland. Now I add 1 heaping spoonful of almond butter and it tastes like a peanut butter treat.
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With a 20 yr business background, Kathy began her career in a corporate setting where she held various positions in Sales, Production, Materials & Purchasing. She specialized in purchasing reaching levels in Executive Management. Kathy earned an Associate's & Bachelor's Degree in Business...

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