Healthy Snacking

"Snacks are meant to be smaller meals that help to prevent you from feeling hungry, keep your blood sugar stable, and prevent overeating. This also helps you to satisfy your caloric requirements for the day."

Snacking is having small meals in between your regular three meals per day. In Jamaica when we talk about snacks, we are actually referring to high calorie, high fat, and low nutrient foods like cheese puffs, chips, pastries, sweets, and sugary drinks. However, we all know that for the most part these foods simply fill us up with empty calories. How are we supposed to snack and consume healthy snacks? 

Is Healthy Eating Really That Hard?

"There are no foods that are inherently bad or good,  and what is needed is a balance and variety in the foods we eat."

Why can't I eat whatever I want? This is a question that I have asked many times and I am sure you have as well. In reality, no one is stopping us from eating what we want, but we often deny ourselves the foods we enjoy in order to achieve and maintain and reach our  'goal weight'. This habit of denying ourselves the things we enjoy often backfires in harmful ways e.g. binge eating, purging. 

Most disordered eating patterns are rooted in unhealthy relationships with food. Some of us genuinely believe that some foods are bad and some are good. However, in actuality, there are no foods that are inherently bad or good,  and what is needed is a balance and variety in the foods we eat.

Planning a Day's Meal

Join Jamaican Food Savvy in viewing our very first video tutorial. I hope to continue making these videos, but more importantly, I hope that you learn a lot from this video. Share with a friend and recommend it to others.

https://youtu.be/2U7FMmenNB0