Natural And Healthy Sweets For Kids
Are your children looking at you with wide sugar crazed eyes? Are they pulling on your shirt tail demanding something sweet NOW! You love your little darlings, you want to give them something, but the inevitable effects of white refined sugar leave your children bouncing off the walls. Forget the ole black strap molasses trick that your mother tried on you, it didn’t work with you, and it won’t work with your little darlings either. As you know, refined sugar (white sugar) isn’t exactly famous for its nutrition profile.
Not only that but these foods are easy to carry, easy to eat, sweet, tasty, don’t spoil, and you don’t have to cook anything. A recipe for better health that any parent can appreciate.
1.) Goji Berries: extremely high in antioxidants, vitamin A (more than carrots), more iron than spinach, 21 trace minerals, and 18 amino acids. It is considered a "superfood" and is one of the most famous ingredients used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gogi Berries are known to be one of the primary food sources for long lived cultures.
2.) Incan Berries: high in vitamin c, niacin, bioflavinoids, and protein. They have a citrus taste to them. The seeds are high in Vit B.
3.) Mulberries: used as a tonic to clean the blood, also high in antioxidants, and protein.
Nutrition Tip: In general “berries” are known to have the highest amount of antioxidants over other food sources. The above mentioned berries contain more antioxidants than blueberries, strawberries and raspberries.
Dates: take pit out and replace with an almond. Tastes exactly like a candy bar.
Take pineapple chunks, dip in honey, roll it in coconut flakes.
Melt coconut oil, add cacao powder (raw chocolate powder). Stir. Dip Banana slices into it. Freeze slices.
Raw chocolate bars. Raw unprocessed chocolate is one of most nutritious foods on Earth. Very high antioxidant content, high in vitamins and minerals. Tastes just like the processed form, except 100% good for you. They sell these at the Big Carrot and the Carrot Dispensary at 348 Danforth Ave. Or you can purchase them at Living Libations and Sunfood Nutrition. These are made from pure raw chocolate, unrefined, without any sugar added. Pure raw chocolate is called “cacao”.
The chocolate bars that Sunfood Nutrition sells are called “sacred heart” chocolate bars. These taste exactly like the chocolate bars you buy at convience stores, these are creamy, sweet, very tasty, and they have a variety of flavours all made with pure ingredients. For example, if they add vanilla, it’s actually made with vanilla bean versus vanilla extract. Be aware that you can not eat them like a regular chocolate bar and devour them, they are to be eaten in small doses.
The chocolate bars made from Living Libations are slightly different. These contain a lot of hemp seed, to add moisture, melt in your mouth type of feel to it. Not to mention the nutritious value hemp can add to any recipe. They also have a variety of flavours to choose from.
All foods in these recipes can be easily found in most health food stores.
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Lindsay Tietz, BSc, HD
Owner Intention to Heal
Homeopathic Medicine Practitioner and Holistic Nutrition Expert
Proudly Serving The Toronto Danforth Area Directly
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Lindsey. You have a great blog. I am glad I came across it. I too promote, blog and support natural wellness methods and protocols and have been helping people in wellness for over 20 years. Recently wrote a book called Live Smart and started blogging a few months ago. The Goji berries are a great snack. I recently blogged about them as well imparting the particular differences between the true Goji and the somewhat inferior - Wolfberry that is often sold as a Goji. I will visit you blog often. Great stuff.
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