Junk Food Is Good For You

Junk Food Is Good For You! That’s right, junk food is good for you when you make the right choices.

Most people think that snack means junk. Not all snacks are junk food. There are lots of snack foods that can be considered good-for-you junk foods. What is a good-for-you junk food? I would define it as a snack food that is fun to eat and healthy too. Most people think that all snack foods are bad for you, and that is really not the case. Many of the snack foods that are available are just like eating dinner only you think they are a snack.

Check out the recipe (in the recipe category) for Easy Tortilla Bowl with Black Bean Salsa. That recipe is a snack that is almost as healthy for you as chili. Sometimes I even add ground cooked turkey and then it is as good for you as chili. When you combine it with some whole wheat tortillas, your junk food is better for you than most processed food dinners and this recipe will feed an army!

Baked Tortilla Chips

One of my favorite tortilla chips is my own baked variety. First find a whole grain flour tortilla with no added sugars, (especially high fructose corn syrup) and no hydrogenated fats. Then, cut your tortillas into wedges and arrange them on a baking sheet. The stone type of baking sheets work best. Sprinkle the wedges with salt, or another spice you like and bake until crisp. You can then package them up into airtight bags and freeze or keep at room temperature. If you are in the mood for salsa and chips and do not have any of these pre-made, just take your tortilla, fold it into quarters and pop it in the toaster. One folded half on each side and VOILA!…whole grain tortilla chips for one. If you are going to eat chips, they might as well be good-for-you chips.

Popcorn: Facts & Fiction

People always say popcorn is a good-for-you snack. And it can be a better choice than some snack foods, although not always. Movie theater popcorn is one of the worse choices of snack foods on the market. It is usually hydrogenated fat-laden and artificially enhanced and most likely frequently genetically modified corn as well. Any way you look at popcorn it is a very high carb food. Certainly not a good snack choice for a diabetic! When choosing your popcorn, I recommend an organic popcorn. They are even available in the microwave convenience packages. Purchasing organic popcorn guarantees that it is not a genetically modified product. The old fashioned way to cook popcorn is my favorite. That is in a kettle with some olive oil. Popcorn is a treat and can not really be considered health food, no matter how you fix it.

Wholefoods Farmacy

Most of the time when I go for snack foods I use a product that I purchase online at the Wholefood Farmacy. They have a wide variety of farinas, (cereals), soup bases, and some personal care products as well. The snack foods are what I get the most of though. These products are organic although not-certified-organic raw or air dried whole foods. The company has a very purist conscious awareness of their foods and ingredients. Their motto is “Let your food be your medicine”.

The Wholefood Farmacy’s snack foods are good enough to be considered dinners. For example, Phi Plus is a soft granola. It is made of dates, oats, raisins sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, pecans, walnut oil, brazil nuts, prunes, figs, raspberries, brown rice, rice bran, barley, corn, quinoa, coconut, buckwheat, guava powder, peach powder, strawberry, kidney beans, beet powder, chick pea flour, millet blueberries, pumpkin seeds, flax orange, peas rice bran, cinnamon, ginger, clove, aloe, nutmeg, lemon oil, orange oil, sweet leaf powder. How is that for an ingredients list!!?? All of their products are equally as good for you. As you can see, this snack food is as good for you as dinner. It makes a great on-the-run meal solution so you can avoid fast food joints. When you couple the Phi with another favorite of mine, Veggielicios Spice, you are giving your body a snack that includes all the necessary components of a balanced meal. Other snacks that the Wholefood Farmacy carries are Corneborialis, (many varieties) and Fruitilicous, and my favorite Buckey Ball Matrix. (I have no clue what a buckey ball really is!) This is a peanut snack with raspberries and black sesame seeds and it is the yummiest! Trust me when I say that these snack foods are as much fun to eat as the ones in those brightly colored bags at your grocery store. Try them! At (If you decide to give them a try and place a $100 order through this link, you will get a free bag of Phi Plus.) One of the reasons I like these so much is that they not only are yummy, they also keep forever in my car, even in the hot summer months, so I always have emergency meals.

At first glance good quality snack foods like The Wholefood Farmacy may appear to be more expensive than the many varieties in your grocery store. The difference is that they satisfy you, so you do not eat the whole bag. When it says 6 portions you really do get six portions! It is better for you than some dinners! Try The Wholefood Farmacy snacks. The best thing to do is to pay the $15 to join the wholesale club, then place your first order of $100 so that you get a FREE extra bag of PHI. There is even a chocolate PHI !

Are you frequently on the run? Do you find yourself eating fast food “meals” that are really just junk food? Plan your snacks. Keep some healthy snacks with you all the time so that you are eating a snack that is better than a dinner. Junk food can be good for you when you choose your snacks wisely. Click here to try Debs Favorite Whole Food Snacks.