The Healthy Bride Snack Ideas for Energy

(Items you can carry in your purse or workout bag)

• Veggie sticks with hummus or bean dip (use a variety of vegetables such as carrots, bell peppers -all colors, snow peas, celery, cucumbers, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower etc.)
• Plain yogurt with muesli
• Apple or pear with nut butter (I love almond) OR low-fat cheese
• Trail mix with nuts and seeds (avoid dried fruits-5% or less and chocolate-1% 01 less)
• Hard boiled egg
• Plain yogurt with cucumbers and fresh dill
• Egg salad on whole grain crackers
• Whole grain cracker with nut butter and sliced fruit
• Energy Bar (look for bars with real food
  • The Original Nutiva Bar
  • Ruth's CranNut Flax Power Bar
  • Living Harvest Hemp Seed Bars
  • Cliff Bar Carrot Cake
  • Luna Bar Lemon Zest
• Turkey lettuce wrap with avocado
• The big thing with stress is not over doing caffeine and sugar.
• Start the day with balanced breakfast---that means combining protein fat and fiber.
• Don't go too long without food (that means have a bag 0' healthy snacks... ...as listed above)
• To keep blood sugar balanced (and to handle stress better) combine protein fat and fiber for all meals
• Stay hydrated
• Take time to eat 3 meals and 2 snacks you'li handle stress better down the road if blood sugar is balanced.