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Lean Snacks

The Snack Artist.

11/14 by The Frug Leave a Comment

A Minimalist approach to snacking.

Snack Artist
With football season in full swing and the holidays on the way, this would be a good time to go deep on snacking.

When I used to work in an office, one of my coworkers would regularly bring in a large jar of dry roasted peanuts. He used to leave the dry roasted peanuts in a few different spots around the office.

Several times a day he would walk by and grab a handful of peanuts from the jar.  He would also gesture at people, with the jar and say “nuts” ?  I would usually answer yep, then, keep on walking.  Other times, I would grab a handful en-route to a meeting.

I always wondered why he didn’t just leave the nuts in his office. Later, I realized my coworker had a snacking strategy. By leaving snacks in a location outside of his office, he had established a routine whereby he needed to get up and walk to get to the snack. [Read more…] about The Snack Artist.

Filed Under: Live Lean Tagged With: Dining out, Lean Snacks, less equals more, live lean, minimalism

Live Lean Food Hacks

08/13 by The Frug Leave a Comment

food hack

It’s football season. That means a lot of us will be doing some hard-core snacking. Football helmet full of nacho cheese dip anyone?  Anyway, in preparation, I’ve come up with some food hacks for those of you who like to snack but prefer to do it following a live lean philosophy.

I’m a big fan of the #slowcarb diet, so I was excited to find some chips and dips that fit with the diet and still taste good.  For instance you can’t do corn chips or potato chips on the slow carb diet, but you can have all of the beans you want. Doug and Dave Foreman came up with Beanitos.  These chips are made with nutritious black beans, free of additives, preservatives and corn. Beanitos are also gluten-free, high-fiber, high antioxidant, certified kosher, dolphin safe …etc. etc.

Team these bad boys up with some of this crazy spinach or egg plant dip from Trader Joe’s and you are ready to go. It’s like having the top fantasy football quarterback and running back on the same team.

Enjoy

 

 

Filed Under: Live Lean, The Frug Recommends Tagged With: Lean Snacks, live lean, slow carb diet

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