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Delicious and Healthy Alternatives To Your Favorite Junk Food Cravings

Eating Healthy Has Never Been So Tasty

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Delicious and Healthy Alternatives To Your Favorite Junk Food Cravings
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As a college student eating healthy can be hard. From all you can eat buffets at dining halls, to a Burger King being walking distance from campus, eating healthy is a lot more difficult than one might think. However, don't let the freshman 15 idea get you down. There are plenty of healthy snacks and drinks that you can feel good about putting in your body. Here are great junk food alternatives to get you feeling good and feeling energized.

1. Fiber Gourmet

Fiber Gourmet has a variety of low calorie crackers that are perfect for packing on the go. These high fiber snacks will fit easily in your lunch box and make deciding what to eat easy and tasted. Their thin crackers give plenty of room for stacking meats, cheeses, ect or great tasting alone as well. Some recommended products are: Cinnamon Thinables, Cheddar Thinables, Pizza Thinables, Toasted Wheat Thinables, Italian 4-Cheese Thinables, Jalapeno Cheddar, and Sharp Cheddar. Fiber Gourmet also sells pasta, which would make for a staple and healthy lunch/dinner option.

Quinoa Puffs when you want cheese puffs and other salty snacks. Eat Chocolate Puffs when your craving chocolate-covered candies or malt balls. Eat Toasted Quinoa Flakes when you want hot cereal and eat Toasted Quinoa when your craving rice.

Drink Karma

Karma wellness water gives you great tasting alternatives to soda or high sugar juices with all the benefits of water but with a kick! Karma is truly unique by their specially made lit. That traps vitamins and until you are ready to drink. The vitamins in the water are: A, B3-Niacin, B5, B6, B12, D, and E. For a drink that is not only good for you but tasty keep this on the go to stay hydrated. Recommendations:Karma Probiotics line(Kiwi Melon and Strawberry Lemonade) and Karma Wellness Water(Passionfruit Green Tea and Orange Mango).


4.Tomer Kosher

Tomer Kosher is a Chicago Based company that takes pride in only using the best ingredients. They specialize in beef sticks that is made with 100% chuck beef and is 100% kosher. There are no artificial flavors or fillers and no dairy, soy, or gluten. Keep all the good, and take out the bad! The sticks come in flavors: Original, Pepper, Jalapeno, Cajun, and Hot. Each stick is 90 calories with, 7 grams of protein and only 1 carb! Fuel up with a taste that can't be beat,

Terra Bar Co

Terra Bar is a company that sells fueling and energizing healthy bars that keep you focused and full throughout the day. The bars are high in fiber, protein, gluten free, and grain free. The flavors come in:Almond Berry, Ginger Apple Cinnamon,and Cocoa Coconut. The mission of the company was to create a healthy mobile meal that would fit all life styles, from rushing to school, feeling hungry at work, or even life's most extreme moments such as climbing the highest mountains. Grape-nuts

Grape-nuts is a high fiber cereal that not only taste great but is cholesterol free and low in fat. These whole grains will help start your day with the recommended amount of wheat servings. Try Cranberry Vanilla trail mix crunch for the best combination of cereal, granola, cranberries, puffed barley and natural vanilla flavor. This makes for a great alternative to either over sweet desserts or sugary cereal. Top over yogurt and fruit for a great parfait as well. You can also try their grape-nuts flakes and the original grape-nuts.


Rule Breaker

Rule Breaker snacks are a twist on your normal. They break all the RULES. The founder wanted to create a snack that not only tasted delicious but made you feel good eating it as well. She concocted the perfect recipe for brownies and blondies made from chickpeas. They snacks are vegan, high in fiber and protein, low in sugar, and free from the top 8 allergens. The flavors come in; Birthday Cake, Deep Chocolate Brownie, and Chocolate Chunk Blondie.

Now that you know about 7 different healthy alternatives to junk food snacks what are you waiting for? Time to get back into the swing of things with fueling foods that keep you satisfied throughout the day. These tasty foods will keep you energized in whatever life throws your way.
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