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Snack Gift Basket For Your Best Friend
By Ginger O’Riley
Snack gift basket is an ideal gift for someone who wants to lose
weight naturally. You can arrange a basket with healthy snack
foods to give to your friends and family, to celebrate a birthday,
college graduation or any other special occasion.
Rather than giving a high sugar high fat snack, you can review
your options and include a trail mix, dried fruits, unshelled
sunflower seeds and wholegrain crackers. A lot of these snacks
can be found in many food stores, but the largest variety can
be found in health food stores. Especially the organic food variety.
Organic Health Food Snacks
If you are looking for snack food with ingredients that are organically
grown, without chemicals, then you will find one or two snacks
in the snack section in food stores, but there are often a bigger
range of organic health food snacks in health food stores.
You can buy a ready made snack gift basket, but it may be a better
idea if you choose and buy the healthy snacks and place them in
a basket, with your own decorations. It means so much more, when
you make the effort to create the healthy snack gift basket.
Luxury Fruit On The Kitchen Table
There are probably as many people on diets as those who aren’t.
Snacks, sweets and fatty foods are major culprits in the diet
merry-go-round. So here we’ve got an idea for a terrific, all
occasion gift for those who are watching their waistlines: a snack
gift basket, filled with delightful snacks that are tasty, but
filling, low in calories and altogether satisfying.
The truth be told, this snack gift basket is a great gift for
anyone, dieting or not. The assortment of goodies listed below
may make a few converts to a healthier eating plan!
Losing Excess Pounds By Snacking
By the time your recipient gets through this snack basket, they’ll
be feeling better about the whole subject of snacking and might
lose a few excess pounds as well.
1. Start with a bag of trail mix,
the back packer’s best friend. Packed with nutrition and flavor,
it gives you a burst of energy without the sugar rush. Check the
labels of a few brands, choosing those which are low in sugar
and calories.
2. Add some dried fruit, such as bananas,
apricots, glazed ginger and pineapple. The sugar in the dried
fruit is more concentrated than in fresh fruit, but a single piece
serves as a nice, mid-afternoon snack that’s sure to please that
sweet tooth with minimal impact on dieting objectives.
3. Unshelled sunflower seeds make
a good addition to your snack gift basket. Why? They are a good
source of vitamins A, E and folate, as well as phosphorus, potassium,
magnesium, calcium, zinc, iron and selenium. By the time you’ve
shelled a handful, you’ll be satisfied with this snack.
4. Here’s something to put in your
snack gift basket that’s more than a snack – it can be a light
lunch! Full of those Omega-3’s, a can of herring fillets with
lemon and cracked pepper provides a full gram of Omega-3 fatty
acids. Anti-cancer therapy in a snack!
5. Along the same lines, try putting
a box of fire-roasted red bell pepper and rosemary whole grain
crackers in your snack gift basket. These go great with a thin
slice of cheddar, or a dab of salmon spread, making a delicious
snack that doesn’t taste like diet food!
6. Now, what would a snack gift basket
be without a few sweets? These snacks do not contain sugar, but
are made with Splenda(TM), which tastes just like sugar – without
the sugar. There are granola bars, pudding cups and bags of bite
sized candies, all made with Splenda(TM). This is a great treat
for both dieters and diabetics.
With all these healthy treats packed into your snack gift basket,
you’ll be a hero to your recipient! Think about it – you could
practically live off the snacks.
A Birthday Gift For Your Best Friend
If you know your best friend is having a birthday and you want
to buy him something unexpected, then getting him a snack gift
basket, may be ideal. Especially if he has been talking about
losing a few pounds over the next few months.
A lot of these snacks are available in local food stores, but
if you want to find some of the low carb, low calorie and wholegrain
snacks then you should be able to find them in health food stores.
Talking to staff may give you more ideas about what you should
include in the healthy snack gift basket.
Boosts Your Metabolism
Eating a healthy snack boosts your metabolism and helps to lose
weight as natural food is consumed as a snack. By eating healthy
food, you are avoiding the usual high fat snacks advertised endlessly
on television. Just remember, it is always the high sugar high
fat snacks that seem to be advertised as these are what many people
eat, resulting in an obese nation.
You can help your best friend control his weight by arranging
a healthy snack food basket.
About the Author:
Ginger O’Riley has written a number of articles on gift baskets, food, cooking and recipes including
Slow Cooker Recipes,
Low Carb Cooking,
Breakfast Recipes,
Muffin Recipes,
Bread Making,
Potato Salad,
Chocolate Chips,
Fruit Cake.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Did You Know?
How has the origins of Mother's Day being pagan and relating
to other deities found its way into acceptance by Christian religions?
Early Christian priests and governments knew
that outlawing all pagan practices was not the way to bring new
followers into Christianity. So often they would take pagan rituals
and festivals and incorporating them with Christian beliefs.
Mother's Day did originally honor pagan
Goddesses but as Christianity began to spread, the followers began
to substitute the Virgin Mary in place of Juno and Cybele.
As more people began to adopt Christianity
as their religion the older pagan celebrations began to fade into
obscurity.
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