Instead of junk…
Instead of ice cream- make sorbet or smoothies with frozen fruit (we do smoothies with frozen berries, fresh banana, soy milk and flax meal)
Instead of popcicles- make your own with DILUTED 100% juice (try 100% juice with veggies like V8 VFusion or Juicy Juice Harvest Surprise for an extra boost!)
Instead of fruit roll-ups- make homemade fruit leather; recipe HERE… it’s EASY PEASY!
Instead of Jello- buy PLAIN gelatin mix by Knox and make the flavor you want using the juices listed above
Instead of noshing on a huge box of candy at the movies- bring a sucker! The big round gourmet kind should last the whole movie!
Instead of salty chips- try sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds (the ones at the store are different than the ones straight out of a pumpkin)
Instead of regular eggs- buy farm fresh and if you can’t do that, try cage free or free-range (find some coupons-they’re in the paper almost every week!). They have tremendous healthy benefits per egg!
Stay posted and I’ll have more “Instead of” ideas as I think of them!
PS- if you really want to know my true feelings on cow’s milk, ask me!
these are great ideas! We do the smoothie thing all the time… but I do use cow’s milk because I can’t have soy products. I have no idea what flax meal is though!
I had never thought of the “make your own jello” idea… brilliant! We also use the fruit & veggie juice all the time.
And I must say the sucker idea is very clever!