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Kids Healthy Food Interview With Suzette Kroll-Barancik

It is so cool to have Suzette here with us today giving us some of her great tips! Suzette writes for one of our Favorite Clients and Magazines - Seventeen Magazine!

Welcome Suzette!

Suzette Shares With Us" The Best Way to Eat"

Wanna know the best way to have lots of energy and maintain a healthy weight?!

Eat 3 meals a day with snacks in between.

That's right! Eat...and eat regularly.

Just like a car needs gasoline to make it go, your body needs food to make it run properly. If you skip meals you're missing out on fuel (energy), plus you're likely to get overly hungry and choose not-so-good-for-you foods.

Poor food choices and/or large portions are most likely to occur when you get too hungry.

Plan to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, with healthy snacks in between. "Snacking" doesn't have to mean eating "junk foods" between meals. Snacks should be comprised of at least 2 foods groups and portions large enough to fill you up for 2-3 hours.

Here are some of my favorite healthy snacks:

• Ants on a log: spread natural peanut butter on celery and dot with raisins.
• Veggie kabobs and dip: Slide chunks of raw vegetables on a skewer (ex: bell peppers, zucchini, mushrooms). Dip in homemade sauce: mix plain yogurt with dry onion soup mix.
• Dip carrot sticks and cucumber slices in plain nonfat yogurt mixed with salsa.
• Dip carrot sticks, celery, cucumber and bell peppers in hummus.
• Lettuce wrap: roll turkey slices and hummus in a lettuce leaf.
• Fruit smoothies: blend milk or yogurt with frozen fruit.
• Premade fruit smoothies: Naked Fruit or Hansens are good brands.
• Homemade popsicles: freeze smoothies in popsicle molds or simply freeze 100% fruit juice in popsicle molds.
• Edamame (green soybeans): fresh or dry roasted
• Apple spread with natural peanut butter.
• Mix plain yogurt with vanilla extract and cinnamon. Dip apple slices or frozen fruit chunks in (ex: frozen grapes, frozen pineapple, frozen banana chunks).
• Make ahead: Dip banana in yogurt, roll in crushed cereal and freeze.
• Trailmix: nuts mixed with dried fruit.
• Healthy brands of granola bars: Barbaras, Health Valley, Odwalla.
• Small bowl of whole grain cereal with nonfat milk.
• 1/2 baked sweet potato topped with lowfat cottage cheese or plain yogurt. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Lowfat ricotta cheese mixed with cinnamon and vanilla. Spread on fruit or crackers.
• Whole grain waffle topped with peanut butter and fruit slices.
• Lowfat string cheese with an apple or pear.
• Hard boiled egg with small can of tomato or V-8 juice.
• Hard boiled egg. Remove yolk, and fill with hummus.

Bon appetit!

For more nutrition information, visit my website, personal-nutrition-guide.com or feel free to contact me.

Suzette's advice has been seen in Seventeen Magazine, Mindful Mama Magazine, The American College of Sports Medicine Fitness Journal, Weight Watchers online, and on various cable and television stations, including the Food Network. She is a member of The American Dietetic Association, The National Physique Committee and The International Natural Bodybuilding Association.

Thanks so much for being with us here Suzette .. We look forward to having you with us again for more great kids healthy food advice!

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