Snacks-calorie breakdown
Snacks are vitally important as we talked about a couple of days ago, to keep energy levels up, and to keep important nutrients coming in throughout the day. Your diet needs to be all about energy and getting your performance levels right up there!
Here are some ideas on what you should eat and their calorific value.
Fresh fruit for energy-100g usually
Apple-50
Pear-64
Banana-95
Blueberries-30
Kiwi fruit-29
Plums-34
Grapes-60
Strawberries-27
Satsuma-23
Dried fruit-to cure a sweet tooth and good for you
Sultanas-138
Raisins-136
Figs-43
Apricots-29
Low-fat yoghurts-provide calcium and nice desserts
Natural low-fat-56
Whole milk-79
Low-fat fruit-90
Low fat fromage frais-58
Nuts-50g-for essential fats
Cashews-287
Brazils-341
Almonds-306
Walnuts-344
Pumpkin seeds-57
Sunflower-57
Mixed nuts chopped-304
Hazlenuts-325
As you can see by this list, we are talking about good healthy natural foods that are going to do you the world of good!
Please throw out the other sugary snacks such as biscuits, crisps and chocolate, the fact that they are still in the house means that they will get eaten at some stage or another, so give them away to someone who will appreciate them!
Snacks have often been the area where i have seen a lot of individuals leave themselves down. We have talked about the usual suspects such as chocolate, crisps, biscuits but what about the ones with real hidden dangers?
I am talking about cereal bars, and these were highlighted in the news this week as containing much more saturated fat and refined sugars than even chocolate in some cases.
When you add all the chemicals that they put in that you have never even heard of, then you have a very destructive so called snack that is going to put body fat on, and give you a lot of useless energy that is unusable by the body.
Eat natural and this means eating well
