Quit Unhealthy Holidays Snacking
3 Tips to Un-Junk your Snack Time This Holiday Season 2021
Christmas and New Year are just around the corner and we need to work on our unhealthy snacking habits. How? — Well let us find out!
It’s no secret that snacks play a significant role during the holiday season and when it comes to Christmas snacking, we want something quick, filling, and easy to prep. That’s the reason why we pick junk foods as a go-to snacking option during the holiday season.
But have you ever realized that Christmas snack preparation can be easy, quick, filling, healthy, and cruelty-free too!
Are you looking for ways to make your snack time a little healthier? — There are plenty of ways to un-junk your Christmas snack time without too much extra effort.
Here are three tips to get you started with:
1. Plan Your Meals
Choose not to buy Junk Foods by planning your meals. If you’re busy working around the clock most days in a week, consider pre-planning your party meals priorly.
Go grocery shopping in advance and pick healthy snack options, like — fresh fruits, dried fruits, seed and nut trail mix, protein bars, yogurt-based smoothies, and low-sugar drinks.
Make sure you buy only organic fresh foods and read all the nutrition labels for healthy package snacks.
As a host, serve your healthy snack treats in a portion control manner so that people will not feel guilty about overeating and weight gain.
Related Read: Delicious Christmas Appetizer Recipe Ideas
2. Avoid Skipping Meals
Holidays snack time is all about guilty pleasures, and such cravings are associated with under-eating. So, don’t let your appetite go wild like a beast eating any random unhealthy snack just because you were hungry in the first place.
Skipping meals during the festive season is very common. People skip important meals like breakfast and lunch, which triggers hunger hormones to go wild in your brain.
As an outcome—without considering your health, you eat anything that is most accessible to you at the next moment. This is known as mindless eating.
Eating enough protein and carb-rich meals throughout the day even during the festive season will help you minimize unhealthy cravings and keep you satiated for longer.
So, make sure you start your holiday's with soul-filling meals and keep up with this tradition throughout.
3. Try Food Swapping
Believe it or not, during the time of holidays— we all want to dig into something sweet, fried, or spicy kinda soul foods. That’s what makes you a human.
And you know what? — Food swaps will make your holiday cheat meals healthy, too!
So, instead of serving high-calorie sweet pies and cakes; try baking some gluten-free and vegan desserts that are low in sugar as well as calories.
The Key Takeaway
Snacking on junk food during the holidays is addictive. The more you eat it, the stronger your cravings become, and soon enough, they are impossible to resist, so break this cycle now and take some healthy actions today.
Start by understanding that, change comes gradually and try changing slowly as you feel comfortable. Start by changing your ingredients, then change your unhealthy cooking practices, and lastly change your mindset towards food by being more mindful.
Eat Clean, Happy Un-Junking!…and Happy Holidays!
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