Heather: Hey guys this is Heather from healthyeatingstartshere.com.
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday.
I had a fantastic time with my family and it’s now January so all of you have made
New Year’s resolutions and possibly to eat healthier for the New Year and possibly to
shift to a plant-based diet for the New Year.
So that’s exciting.
I’m excited for you guys and I want to help as best I can.
One way that I have found is really helpful is if you have the right kind of snacks because
that’s where a lot of people fall off of their goals is they get their meals down,
but then when it comes to snack time you know its really easy to jump for those left over
cookies, left over chocolates, all those things that are left over from the holidays or you
kind of get in the cycle of being addicted to chocolates and cookies and all that kind
of good stuff which is fine for a little while.
But if it starts as an addiction and if it starts spiral out of control then you want
to kind of rein it a little bit and the best way I find to do that is to replace your unhealthy
snacks with healthy snacks and I have the perfect solution for you.
My friends have Vegan Cut’s have a snack box.
They get mailed once a month and gives you a sample of nine to fifteen different snack
items and for January what they are doing is a healthy snack box.
So this is pretty exciting and I wanted to share with you a few of the things that are
going to be in this box.
One of my favourite teases in this box Mighty Leaf Green Tea Tropical whenever I see this
on the menu in a restaurant I get it.
There is also a sample of Organic African Nectar which is now rivalling the Green Tea
Tropical for my favourite.
Its organic African Rooibos with lively tropical notes.
I checked by the way with my friend who lived in South Africa for a while and how to pronounce
Rooibos because a lot of people have trouble pronouncing it and she said the way I pronounce
it is correct Rooibos and that they make Rooibos into ice tea for babies in South Africa because
they find it relieves a lot of common baby ailments.
There is also a sample of their Earl Grey.
So you can tea yourself out.
I find tea to be a great way to keep myself warm and I also get something tasty in the
middle of the afternoon or in the middle of the morning when I would maybe think about
snacking then I will have some tea has no calories tastes great fantastic.
Another favourite I was really excited to see in this box - Hemp Hearts! - and they
are from one of favourite company’s Manitoba Harvest a Canadian company they source their
seeds from Manitoba and Hemp parts are fantastic because they are rich in omega 3 fatty acids
which can help balance out if you’ve being having too many plant oils.
You would be having a lot of oily food over the holidays get some hemp parts that balance
out your omega 3.
They are fantastic in smoothies, on cereal, on porridge, on your salad, toss them into
anything they have a very mild flavor, but it’s a little bit nutty and they are soft.
They’re not like a hard seed so these are fantastic.
And a new one I was really excited to try salted caramel peanut butter from the three
nuts.
They make a lot of different flavours of peanut butter and salted caramel is one in the snack
box for January and this is cool because it tastes really sweet and rich and flavourful.
There are spices in here as well as Vegan caramel made with just brown sugar and water.
Other ingredients are just peanuts, spices, and sea salt.
So it’s a very natural way to get a very sweet fix.
It tastes really, really sweet even though there is no a whole lot of sugar in here and
it’s just really satisfying and rich.
So if you are trying to shift yourself off of those holiday treats in a healthier direction
this is a good way to go.
And one last one I am going to mention today is another favourite of mine Mary’s Gone
Crackers and they are putting in the Super Seed Crackers which --listen to the ingredients
on this – brown rice, quinoa pumpkin seeds , sunflower seeds, flax seeds, sesame seeds,
poppy seeds, water, sea salt, sea weed, black pepper and herbs.
So you cannot get any healthier than these crackers.
They are perfect.
They eve go really nicely with the salted caramel peanut butter if you want to do that.
So everything in these crackers is organic, gluten free, soya free, non GMO, Vegan, no
diary and they make them in their own facility so they know that there is no gluten there
is no issue with cross contamination with nuts or gluten or diary or anything like that.
So fantastic crackers that you can check out in the box or on the shelf.
So what you should do if you want to check out these products plus a lot more you sign
up for the Vegan Cut’s Snack Box.
You can just ahead over to website or put a link down below this video.
I am super excited to see my box and enjoy all the goodies and I may just sit here smelling
teas for a little while.
Alright so that’s it for today, but I will see you later this week with a recipe using
three of these four products and I will let you guess which three.
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