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Nutrition Strategies For Healthy Thanksgiving Snacking
If appetizers have a place on your holiday table, there's so much more you can offer than the standard tub of French onion dip and baby carrots.
Here's a lean, heart healthy idea:
Drain a can of water-packed tuna. Flake the tuna into a bowl and drizzle with good quality extra-virgin olive oil. Add 1 tablespoon drained capers, 2 tablespoons chopped red onion, and a generous grinding of fresh black pepper. Mix well and serve in lettuce leaves or on a high fiber, healthy cracker (see below)!
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Sitting in my office, I've got 48 full-size containers of one of the most delicious, healthy, organic crackers I've ever tasted.
Whole grains, fiber, and omega-3 fatty acids are baked into bite-sized flatbread crackers.
I first learned about these when the company exhibited at our annual nutrition conference in 2007.
The company founder and I have teamed up to offer a FREE box of "Doctor Kracker Snackers" with the purchase of either of my nutrition booklets.
This offer is good through December 23rd, 2008 or until the crackers are gone; whichever comes first!
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Nutrition Bailout Plan!
Thanksgiving is two days away. You're probably busy shopping, cooking, cleaning, and perhaps fitting all of that in and around your Monday-Friday job! Have you thought about what you'll do to maintain your healthy eating and exercise plan over the next few days?
Don't deprive yourself at this once a year feast, but here's my "bailout" plan. An infusion of "exercise cash" into your fitness bank account, and an intense item-by-item scrutiny of the food options presented on the big day.
~ "Exercise Cash Infusion" ~ Get up and out for a walk or run on Thanksgiving day, preferably first thing in the morning, but hey, between dinner and dessert works too! In the days left before 11/27 - log some extra time on your workout, and keep that extra time in place through the weekend that follows.
~ "Item-By-Item Food Scrutiny" ~ If you choose to eat foods that you don't like, or just to be polite, you're wasting precious calories AND stomach real estate! You only have "comfortable" room for 1-2 cups of food in your stomach (yes, it's a muscle and it will stretch, but then you're "UNcomfortable, right?). BE CHOOSEY; choose foods based on taste, flavor, memories, or health. Regardless of your motivation to put something on your plate - stay tuned in to your head AND stomach. Remember, there will be leftovers - you can always eat again!
~~~ LISTEN IN! ~~~
For more healthy holiday eating tips, click on the link below to hear my interview airing Wednesday, November 26, 2008 between 6:00 - 6:30 p.m. CST. In the Chicago area, tune your radio to 90.9 FM.
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Wishing you a healthy, happy Thanksgiving!
Cathy Leman, MA, RD, LD
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