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We want to know what questions you have on health and wellness. Share your questions here and Arlene Sanoy, registered dietician at Kraft Kitchens, will stop by monthly to select two questions to be answered in our new upcoming KRAFT Live Healthy & Happy newsletter. The answers will also be posted here for everyone to see on the message boards.
Please keep in mind that other members may claim medical or nutrition expertise or status that they may, or may not, possess. Please use good judgment and discretion in following their advice. Always check with your doctor or nutritionist before modifying your diet.
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 6, 2009 8:39 AM
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As far as healthy goes, I go for moderation and simply try to hit as many food groups as possible, while still making something that tastes good. (Nothing is healthy if it ends up in the trash instead of the tummy.) So, how about stuffed vegetables. Ants on a log are usually well liked. (celery stuffed with peanut butter or pimento cheese, topped with raisins). Make cucumber boats by scooping out the seeds and filling them with deviled ham, topped by grated carrots. My kids love to dip things, so I make a dip of sour cream, brown sugar and a bit of vanilla extract, and they will dip all kinds of fresh fruit in it. Oh, and melon smiles, that they can just pick up and eat the center out of. Those have been a big hit at ball games too.
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 5, 2009 4:00 PM
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nah, i like salty stuff myself. we all have cravings.
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 4, 2009 7:50 PM
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and i agree with you foxxxxy brown; cool whip is crap - full of chemicals and the fat free stuff has more crap and chemicals than the regular kind. if you need something creamy, go for the real stuff in moderation.
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 4, 2009 7:48 PM
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what about an apple and peanut butter? or blueberries? my 18month old LOVES blueberries and shoves them in his mouth by the handful. strawberries too. summer is great for antioxidant rich fruit, always a healthy and tasty snack. once you stop eating crap (give yourself a week or two) healthy stuff will taste better and crap will taste like what it is - chemicals.
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 4, 2009 6:58 PM
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Vegetable cutlets are nice. I prepare them Indian-style, because that's the "genre" of food that makes veggies rich and amazing. Still, not sure that there's another way to make them. Anyways, while we're on that type of food, if you live by an Indian grocer, they'll have some fruit custard powder there. Make that. Or, moving on, flan is to die for.
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 4, 2009 5:03 PM
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There is no food that is unhealthy to eat as long you eat the recommended amount of its servings.
What gets me is when people say: "I don't eat this because it has this or that in it." For if that was the case everything we eat would be unhealthy.
I've also read the ingredients in Cool Whip, but I also look at the Nutrition Facts to.
If I eat 2tbsp of FF Cool Whip that's 15 calories with calories from fat 0, sat. fat 0, trans. fat 0, sodium 5mg, total carb3g and sugar 1g. and it also cholesterol free and recommended by South Beach Diet.
As a Kraft foods buyer I don't think Kraft would market anything that is unhealthy to consume or eat.
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 4, 2009 3:36 PM
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> Foxxxxy Brown how is Fat Free Cool Whip uhealthy?
> When the total fat in it is 0g. I love eating fat
> free cool whip on my fruit and sugar free jello.
The ingredients scream "unhealthy!"
Cool Whip -- even fat free -- is nothing more than water, corn syrup/high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil and chemicals.
Nothing about it is remotely healthy for you. Except the water, I suppose. The hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup are very bad for you, not to mention the chemicals.
COOL WHIP - WHIPPED TOPPING - FREE - FREE
Ingredients: WATER, CORN SYRUP, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL* (COCONUT AND PALM KERNEL OILS), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM CASEINATE (FROM MILK), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, XANTHAN AND GUAR GUMS, POLYSORBATE 60, POLYSORBATE 65, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, SODIUM HYDROXIDE, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR). *ADDS A NEGLIGIBLE AMOUNT OF FAT.
Size: 8 OZ
Upc: 4300000287
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 3, 2009 11:18 PM
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Hey Macrump,if you go up to the search button and type in snacks Kraft will generate tons of healthy snacks for you and your family .
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 3, 2009 10:28 PM
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I love yogurt and fresh fruit mixed together - you can also do this with cottage cheese. Sweet potato "fries" (season and bake them instead). 100% fruit juice popsicles (buy them, or make your own). You can make smoothies by using frozen fruit and vanilla yogurt, or sorbet by using frozen fruit and fruit juice.
I'll post more as I think of them!
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 3, 2009 5:31 PM
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Light Cool Whip with a banana mixed in on Fat Free graham crackers.
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Re: Healthy / Tasty snacks
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Jun 3, 2009 4:40 PM
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Jun 3, 2009 3:33 PM
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I am looking for some healthy yet tasty snacks for our family - 2 adults 2 kids -
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