Healthy snacks for one day at the beach

About two hours into my first day at the beach this summer I realized that not good planning. Ice cream man began ringing a Bell that is automatically run my hunger. Digging through my bag Beach, find anything resembling food. After taking a SWIG from a bottle of water, warm water filled with half my I realized I need to plan better for my the next day in the Sun a bit.

It's easy to crave junk food when you are on vacation or stranded on the beach for hours. Packing healthy snacks for me, is the way to go, especially because the last thing I want to feel bloated or slow in my bikini. Here are my picks for the friendly beach snacks that can be translated easily to options for any outdoor picnic this summer.

Dried fruits and nuts

Dried fruits nuts nutritional may is the perfect combination to your day at the beach. The great thing about trail mix is fully customizable. Toss together favorite unsalted nuts, seeds, dried fruit, or anything else you can dream, you have a healthy snack. This perfect pairing of carbohydrates and nutrients such as protein also loaded with antioxidants and Omega-3 fatty acids. Are you looking for comfort?  Grab bar kind trail mix is basically no fuss in portable bar form. Avoid those containing chocolate on super hot (similarly to add chocolate to your mix homemade trail); it can get messy fast.

Fresh fruit

Best bets are citrus, melons and berries blue or purple, mango and apricot.  For what? All these fruits in phytochemicals, which can help to protect the skin from harmful UV rays. While this does not mean you're free skimp on Sun, may give you an extra boost you need to stay safe in the Sun. On top of that protective properties, many fruits throughout the summer season and a healthy snack and refreshing perfection.

Banana + peanut butter

Can't decide between sweet and salty?  Want something easy that will fill you? Bananas with peanut butter will do the trick. Bananas are loaded with potassium and vitamins B6 and c add some peanut butter to the mix: Slater that right on the banana, or enjoy this heavenly slice of mix on whole grain bread and you will be ready to ride the waves throughout the day.

Raw vegetables

Chop up some carrots, red peppers and broccoli bring to the beach. As you know, it's packed with vitamins and minerals to keep your body strong and healthy. What you may not know is that all these vegetables can also help protect the skin from the Sun, where the company is perfect for a day at the beach.  Additionally, is a great source of water that will help keep you hydrated from vegetables. Not in vegetables alone? Yummy bean dip package such as hummus or low-fat dressing dipping and you will be assigned to fun in the Sun.

Edamame

This bean peeled or aunshilid, is the perfect snack for the sand. Rich in fiber and protein (a cup with the same amount of protein as eggs 2) and strengthening energy carbohydrates, beans green small this is great for noshing in and out of the Sun. Pack frozen edamame in your beach bag, they'll be ready for a snack time comes.

Drinks

It's always important to stay hydrated when out in the Sun but of beverage calories can add up quickly. For some of us, not just water yummy enough. Try adding slices of cucumber, melon citrus or even water with herbs such as Mint, add some excitement. Still bored? A fast, easy and healthy iced tea. You can cold brew at home and customize it, too. Try adding lemon or honey or ginger for some extra flavor. In addition, green tea and black alike, such as some fruit, protecting the skin from UV rays, makes it the perfect beach drinks.  Not in the mood to BREW? I love the "honest tea"; there are many low-calorie options, not only in a few fun flavors.

The two halves should be cooler.

Sure, you can toss some snacks in your beach bag, but for a whole day on the beach and these are my must haves cooler keep you going.   Pack light cheese options such as low-fat string cheese (trader Joes had stick mozzarella fresh new – yum!)"Laughing cow" wedges or dresses baby-Bel. They're perfect for pairing with a piece of fruit. Greek yogurt container to snuggle next to frozen water bottle keep it cool until you're ready for a snack in the middle of the day.

What is your favorite healthy snack for your beach?

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How to deal with the hunger

Leave a practice you vamishid or you thought in post workout food make you sick? There is a right and wrong way to eat after exercise; check balance to get the most out of your fitness routine.

Feel the burn
The question some people or not worth the exercise since burn many calories can make you starve to death. Worth it, and there turn tricks you can adopt to overcome this episode. Choosing the correct foods after intense exercise can make a huge difference.

Research says hunger pangs hit women harder than men; hormones for that. Why girls need to pay more attention to how to eat before and after exercise.

On the other hand, other studies have found that exercise reduces hunger hormone levels-spiking is called grilin. The only warning here that this process must be extensive, leisurely stroll on the treadmill.

Frequency of exercise also plays an important role. Up to the gym (or however you like to sweat) regularly train your body to burn calories more efficiently and naturally reduces the risk of attack diseases including diabetes and heart disease. Bottom line: good practice say; here how can provide fuel properly.

Préval
It may seem backwards to you need to eat in order to burn calories efficiently but that's what your body needs. A small meal before exercise helps fuel your metabolism, and the result is the best workout and increase energy expenditure.

See our suggestions for appropriate and easy meals brioorkot.

Avoid calorie workout unnecessary
Unless you're a competitive athlete, sipping on sports drinks calories or energy gels on slurping is a no-no. Sucking down those extra calories will hinder your weight loss goals, stick to water to moisten.

Is there an appropriate time to drink sports drink?

Repair and restoration
Give tired muscle exactly what they need after a workout: plumbing carbohydrates and proteins with appropriate quantities. They could be meal or snack, depending on when you exercise. Support research to snack on a post workout correctly must have 3 grams of carbohydrates per 1 gram of protein. Eat protein at this time will also help curb appetite beastly in terms of protein digestion takes longer.

Our hit list of favorite foods.

Tell us: do you eat after exercise?

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Summer Festival: what to do with mellow peach

"Peach pie juice" healthy and refreshing the Ellie candy classic.

One of the most important reasons for the peaches I love summer. There is nothing quite like biting into a ripe, juicy Peach on a hot day and feeling your mouth dribble down the sweet nectar. Napkin? No, thank you.

Unfortunately, peach is a fruit which can be obtained very mature quickly. Forget them in your more obvious even for several days, you're stuck with mushy, bruised fruit. Fortunately, there are lots of ways for preparation of mature peach sound that still stand out flavor summer, Wuxi delicious all the same. Here are the "healthy eating" uses the peach top 5 in the past on the Prime Minister.

1. to make sauce – peach already through, as they will cook quickly. Additionally, cooked with loads of pungent flavors such as Cherry, mustard and leeks, so you don't have to worry about taste any bitterness has developed in your peach.

Recipe: peach-mustard sauce food network kitchens

2. freeze them and blend them into Smoothie – peach, frozen mature blend them in a refreshing fruit juice. The final product will be a great peach flavor and color, nobody will be able to tell it was bruising or first mushy. Freezing peaches is also generally a great way to keep them in the past the summer months.

Recipe: peach pie Smoothie Wiley (above)

3. hot fruit salad -cooked some peach and cherry ripe with sugar and balsamic vinegar and top with a dollop of yogurt, generous.

Recipe: peach Wiley with balsamic cherries

4. to make a glaze for meat -peach and make meat to match sweet and salty in the sky. To make easy and delicious glaze for grilled chicken with peach reduction with some sugar, brush on your meat.

Recipe: grilled chicken breast with Bobby spice peach glaze

5. mixing some Sangria – grate and cast mature peach to jug and add the white wine and a few leaves of lemon verbena to bright summer drink.

Recipe: peach Sangria food network kitchens

Word to the wise: don't Grill mature peach. The disintegration and chaos becomes mushy when exposed to the grill.

Tell us: How do you use up unripe plums?

Peach recipes from family and friends:

Janet for a healthy life: black peach Arugula Salad
Cooking with Elise: streusel-topped peach dumplings with peach butter
Heather Christo Chef: peach India coconut pancakes
Components, Inc: easy peach pie
From my corner of Saratoga: grilled peaches with caramel sauce-ginger pound cake
Deshain Festival & dishes: chicken salad dressed in peach
Girls large kitchenette: Easy peach Limeade
NAPA farmhouse 1885: coconut cake and peach fresh India
Daily deshain Festival: grilled peaches with caramel
Delicious lean: Smokey Chipotle roast chicken peach
Thursday night dinner: peach cookies
Bake sweet life: Jicama tortilla salad with dressing peach
I am Baker: coriander Salsa peach
Zabardast zeka: donut peach Quesadilla
And I love very much: India peachy coconut Streusel Muffins
Sweets daidrimir: Margaritas and white peach
Cooking channel: 4 uses savory peach
Eat healthy: what to do with plums mellow "
FN dish: peach go to large kids table

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Taste test: hot sauce

With a lot of talk about hot sauce, we had to taste test all popular varieties of ourselves. We got our mouths opened to this test taste spicy. Find out who topped our list.

All about sodium
The new sauce is hot sauce. DAB a little white sandwiches – almost any dish, grilled meats, pizza, pasta dishes, chili. If you can check the label, you will notice that there is a lot of information on each service nutrition – not the calories, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, or protein (or at least a bit it can be listed as zero food labelling guideline). What is sodium – and some brands have more than others.

Standards
This taste test, we rated hot sauce based on taste and spiciness, ingredients and nutrition information — specifically from sodium. We chose the original flavor of each brand and rated them on a 5-point scale (5 being the highest). Since usually eaten with hot sauce, we tasted each tortilla chip.

Although many people yelled out sriracha on Facebook and Twitter, we chose to stick to the traditional varieties of this taste test.

Cholula hot sauce
Rating: 5.0
Cost: $ 0.45 per ounce liquid
Nutrition information (per teaspoon): 0 calories; 28 mg sodium
Our take: imported from Mexico, this is the only brand that contains the spoon as a serving size (1 teaspoon of others). Very mild pepper flavor, especially compared to some of the other brands; it may be because the first item listed is water (then Arbol pepper Beijing).

Tabasco pepper sauce
Rating: 4.0
Cost: $ 1.18 per ounce liquid
Nutrition information (per teaspoon): 0 calories; 35 mg sodium
Our take: a lot of us grew up using a small red bottle and boy it's still hot as we remember this. This child has only 3 ingredients: distilled vinegar, paprika and salt. Along with Cholula, less sodium content but it was much more expensive.

The original Frank's red hot
Rating: 4.0
Cost: $ 0.31 per ounce liquid
Nutrition information (per teaspoon): 0 calories; 190 mg sodium
Our take: we love the innocent woman (after filthy mouth) on "red hot sauce" Frank commercials (see their website if you haven't seen them). Components in this one is very simple-cayenne pepper, vinegar distilled powder, water, salt and garlic. Flavored just right — not too hot but not mild either and it's cheaper than a bouquet. Sodium, however, one of the highest of all brands tested.

Texas Pete hot sauce
Rating: 4.0
Cost: $ 0.18 per ounce liquid
Nutrition information (per teaspoon): 0 calories; 100 mg sodium
Our take: Whoa, Nelly! This hot sauce to kick that you feel beautiful again after it hits your mouth. Sodium is smack in the middle of all the samples we've tested, and include a few extras such as gum ingredients buzzes and benzoate of soda (to maintain freshness and flavor).

Louisiana hot sauce
Rating: 3.5
Cost: $ 0.37 per ounce liquid
Nutrition information (per teaspoon): 0 calories; 240 mg sodium
Our take: this "hot" sauce was actually on the side of sweetness and the sauce itself has a thicker consistency. Simple item list: peppers, vinegar, salt, but sodium is much higher than other brands tested.

Tell us: what are your favorite hot sauce?

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Win this smartstik hand mixer!

Keep the summer heat in the Gulf with refreshing smoothies, creamy. Take a handful of berries, a dollop some yoghurt and ice and viola!, you've got an easy breakfast or lunch or snacks. Not sure where to start? Try an easy Smoothie variations 50 "Food Network Magazine."

Make life (and to make Smoothie) easier with "hand blender smartstik from Cuisinart. Lightweight stick fits right in pots, pitchers and cups and bowls for mixing quick and simple "clean". Used to make juices not only, but pureed soups, sauces and even pancake batter.

You can buy your "smartstik Mixer" from Cuisinart or enter in the comments for a chance to win one. Just let us know in the comments, your favorite Smoothie mix-ins.The contest starts at 10: 00 am EST today, and ending on Friday, 17 August at 5 pm EST.

We're giving away one "smartstik hand Mixer" from Cuisinart food network store for one lucky commenter, selected randomly. You must include your email address in the ' email ' field when you send your comment so we can communicate with you if you are a winner.

Comment may only once and you do not have to buy anything to win; the purchase will not increase your chances of winning. The possibilities depend on the total number of entries. Void where prohibited. Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States, d.c., Puerto Rico, and must be at least 18 to win. On the first day of the giveaway, you must enter all entries (answers) between 10: 00 am EST on 15 August, 5 pm EDT on August 17, 2012. Subject to full official rules. To leave a comment on the blog, you acknowledge your acceptance of "official rules". ARV of each prize: approximately $ 34.95. Sponsor: Scripps Networks, LLC, d/b/food network, 9721 Sherrill Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37932.

So tell us, what are your favorite Smoothie mix additional?

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