Beat stress with these snacks
Posted: Mar 23rd 2008 9:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Emotional Health, Food and Nutrition, General Health, Healthy Habits
Go ahead. Eat when you're stressed. Just make sure you don't grab anything sweet, salty, crunchy, or greasy. I know, stress drives you toward diet-dangerous comfort foods but when you're overwhelmed and anxious, mellow food is what you need -- like meals and snacks to clear your head and ease your tensions. Try these.
- Prepare mini-bags of carrots and almonds. Aim for 15 carrots and 15 nuts per bag. The bottom line: 165 calories and 10 g healthy fat.
- Mix up snack packs of sunflower seeds and dried cherries. Loaded with soothing complex carbs, antioxidants, and vitamin E, this treat with its 165 calories and 4 g fat will both satisfy and heal.
- Top a whole wheat bagel with two teaspoons honey mustard, two slices tomato, and two ounces of smoked salmon -- all for the price of 410 calories, 8 g fat, and 1 g saturated fat.
For more real simple snack ideas -- these intended to hold you over until dinner's ready -- click
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Tags: comfort, eat, foods, meals, snacks, stress, tension
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3-24-2008 @ 9:46AM
marcie0305 said...
Great tips! Just be careful with the honey mustard - it may be best to make your own (simple enough - your favorite mustard + some good local farm-made honey if you can get some :)) - because most of the "packaged" ones are mostly - corn syrup. Ew.
~Marcie
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