Prepackaged or homemade????

Example:
Sure crackers are a snack, but graham crackers are more healthful.
Potato and Corn chips, can be substituted with Homemade Potato chips, or use slices of cucumber instead of a corn chip when serving or munching on salsa.
Fruit Crisps make a nice mid day snack, epecially when prepared with canola oil, cinnamon and oats.
1/2 cup of plain yogurt mixed with a teaspoon of honey and maybe some fruit, is much healthier than grabbing a pre-mixed variety–prepared with high Fructose Corn Syrup.
A bunch of frozen grapes is much healthier on a warm days, then a frozen latte, ice cream cone, or frozen yogurt could ever be.

CANDY: Make your own using dark chocolate broken bits or chips with fruits, cereals, nuts etc. is much less expensive than relying on something prepackaged.

There are so many healthful alternatives to prepackaged snacks, you just got to get creative when wanting to eat healthier.

Whole foods come in 2 varieties these days:
Fresh Organic Foods and Organic Raw Ingredients
Fresh Foods and Raw Ingredients

As a culinary author I thoroughly understand the promotions of Organic foods, as they are cleaner in a sense. But I believe that any type of fresh produce, meats, cheeses, poultry, fish, etc is much more healthful than any food that has been previously prepared and/or prepackaged with excess salts, sugars and chemicals.
And when you conside purchasing these prepackaged goods, although they may seem to cost less, your actually paying for the packaging and chemicals, not the food within.

For example soaking raw oatmeal is great, yet it is more expensive than a container of steel cut, old fashioned Oats, and old fashioned Oats are just as healthy as raw organic oats, and more so with the addition of fruit or nuts. Yet those little individual convenient packages of oatmeal, are loaded with sugars, salts and ultimately cost you more—-in price and because they increase the want for more food before the next meal!

And sure when you cook, eat and serve food, one of the best ways to control weight gains, while still eating healthfully is to control serving sizes and offer fresh fruit as a dessert or addition if still hungry.

You say that you feel fuiller when you consume eggs for breakfast, that’s because eggs are a source of protein. And if you were to add some fresh spinach to your eggs, most likely you won’t be snacking before lunch! I have lots of healthful tips like this in my new cookbook: LOVE MORE FEED LESS.

Growing a few veggies yourself is another way to include healthy foods in your diets for pennies. We eat tons of fresh veggies straight from the garden and they save money and time.

For a snack we like to enjoy a raw milk latte or some warm spiced raw milk (usually with cinnamon, star anise & vanilla beans). We also enjoy a lot of herbal teas instead of snacks, they’re full of healthy goodies for your body and often help fight off sickness. I’m convinced herbs/spices are an oft overlooked source of nutrition and we should try to include more in our diets.