Delicious Ways to Replace the "Treats"

What's on your summer snack platter?? With these options, you get to happily dig in, satisfy cravings and still feel great!

What you crave can shift within days (taste buds turn over in about 10 days). So why not switch to nutritious, energizing foods to replace the “treats”?

The Chip Bowl: For healthier store-bought chip subs, check out kale, beet, sweet potato, cassava or plantain chips.

Opt for those with extra virgin olive, avocado, or coconut oil and simple seasonings like garlic or sea salt.

Delicious Dippers:?Try cashew “cream” cheese, sugar-free organic salsa, olive oil-based hummus or make-your-own avocado, lime, or sea salt guacamole.

Cracker Subs: Radishes, cucumber, jicama, celery, carrots or buy nut or seed crackers like Nud’s Flax and Carrot or Hu's Everything.? Or make your own with this simple, homemade plantain cracker recipe:

Ingredients:

• 2 green plantains, peeled
• 1 tbsp liquid coconut oil?
• 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil?
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• Optional add-ins: 1/2 tsp thyme, cinnamon, garlic salt or nutritional yeast

Instructions:?

• Food process all ingredients.?
• Flatten dough into a thin cracker-like layer between folded parchment on a baking sheet.
• Bake on 350 for 10 minutes
• Remove with parchment to a cutting board and divide into squares with a pizza cutter
• Return to oven and bake 10-15 minutes until golden brown

On the sweeter side, coconut yogurt with fresh berries and cocoa nibs; or date-sweetened lemon "nice cream" (think date, lemon smoothie popped in the freezer) do the trick.

If you're looking ahead to shed weight + regain energy + lower anxiety (with a motivated accountability group!) in an end of summer reset, send me a DM to chat and assess fit.

Paige Purvis guides women over 40 to make small shifts without deprivation which over time, helps them to create and maintain their healthy, energized bodies.?

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