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Sweet Brown Bag Lunch Snacks
Just like apple pie and baseball, snacks are an American tradition. After you've finished off the main course in your lunch, you'll be ready for a sweet treat. Snacks don't even have to be sweet, but what a great reward they are for eating a healthy lunch.
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Sweet Brown Bag Lunch Snacks
Through the years brown bag lunches have consisted of all types of snacks. Some of the most common brown bag lunch snacks include lollipops, candy bars, chips and cheese puffs. Keep in mind that we aren't suggesting that you eat a bunch of junk food, but a bag of chips every now and then won't ruin your diet. The important key here is to eat these sweet snacks in moderation.
Let's begin with the snacks. The food industries goal now is to make snacks that are better for a healthy diet. Today chips have taken on a new form by baking them and adding spicy flavors to make them taste even better.
What's even better is that you can find about any type of snack in a 100 calorie pack. You can even get Oreo cookies and M&M's in one of these 100 calorie packs. They give you the same sweet taste without adding too many extra calories. Also available in these packs are regular and baked chips and crackers as well.
Candy bars are not a bad choice for a snack, especially when they come in bite size pieces. One of these bite size pieces at lunch will not ruin your appetite for dinner. Did you know that eating a bit of dark chocolate everyday provides more benefits for the body? The dark chocolate benefits far outweigh the fattening calories.
Homemade snacks are great for a brown bag lunch. With the homemade snacks you are already aware of the ingredients these snacks contain. For example, make a batch of brownies, chocolate chip cookies or muffins to keep on hand for your brown bag lunch. By baking mini cookies your children will think that they are getting a ton of good stuff, even though you know it's equal to 2 or 3 of the regular sized cookies.
What snacks do you enjoy the most? Go ahead it won't hurt a thing to include them in the families brown bag lunches. Snacking is great because it prevents overeating at meal time and snacks are tasty too. For a well-rounded brown bag lunch snacks are essential. If you want to save a little money, buy a value pack of different kinds of snacks from the store and use them as needed.
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