Summer Snacking

In the summertime kids get school off. Suddenly you have all this extra time to waste! What do you usually end up doing... heading for the pantry to snack on something. For PKU'ers it's a little harder to join in with this summer ritual. We have to count our PHE equivalents for the day, and snacking sure doesn't help. Here are a couple ideas for both PKU and non-PKU people to avoid snacking a lot during the summer:

1. Have a lot of fruits and vegetables in the house. This doesn't necessarily help you stop snacking... but you might as well be snacking on something healthy if you need to snack. My favorites are apples, strawberries (especially fresh), watermelon, and carrots.

2. This one is for PKU people especially. Keep PKU foods that are lower in PHE so you don't go over your limit because of snacking. I like Cambrooke Foods a lot, and you sometimes can find lower foods in grocery or health food stores (lemon pudding, onion rings, low-pro pretzels...)

3. Drink plenty of water. In the summer where I live it can get pretty hot. Chances are your just thirsty.

4. Go out and do something! Sitting around the house will make the forbidden pantry a temptation. If you go outside and have adventures, you won't even be thinking about snacks.

Snacking can be okay when your actually hungry. But eating when your bored? Why? That prevents you from getting yourself "un-bored" which is the original problem after all. It's summer you should be outside basking in the glory of the sunshine. Go plant a garden! Trust me it'll be worth it and in the fall you'll have lots of good healthy food to snack on.

Many Apologies

Many apologies to all! I have been a procrastinator and it gets worse as I keep putting it off. So to make up for it this post will (hopefully) be long. :)

Bettermilk- My thoughts- My observations- and my Choice

Day 1:

• For breakfast I made the Island Smoothie recipe they had. Being the smoothie queen I did change it slightly though: I doubled the soda added water, and 1/2 a banana. It probably was the best smoothie I've ever had! I can't taste the soda which is fine by me. But it was super tasty.
• For lunch I made mashed potatoes with it. It turned out kind of gray... and I didn't like the taste. In fact I couldn't bring myself to eat it all. :P My dad says it tastes like real mashed potatoes but I've decided I don't like the taste of "real" mashed potatoes. Bring my water made any day! (this was a recipe I tried on my own)

Day 2:

• I used it as a creamer for cereal in the morning. Sugary cereal + sugary creamer= too much sugar. Again a recipe I tried on my own! Of course I don't like my normal formula as a creamer either. They use sugar to mask the bitter taste.
  
• For an after-school snack I froze an Orangsicle using their recipe. It was good! A little lumpy maybe but that was my fault being in a hurry to get to school. At the end it had a bit of an aftertaste, but while I had it I loved it. Why does their recipes work and mine don't??

Day 3:

• I finally made it as a normal drink according to the instructions. It looks white and milky... but it tastes kind of acidic. I don't know I don't like it. And since that's the way I'd have it 99% of the time, I don't think I want to change!

After thoughts: It was okay in their recipes, obviously they know better than me what it tastes good with. But the milk itself was kind of icky. You can try it yourself and see but that's my opinion.

I decided against downloading pics... just because it's kind of hard for a person who's not tech savvy like me... oh well. See you later this week for another post. ;)