When my youngest hit toddlerhood (circa 2008) it became clear that eating was not her forté. She is a grazer at heart. After thrashing around for a way to get her to eat something resembling a healthy diet, I came to the conclusion that almost everything I offered her needed to have some redeeming qualities.
At the same time, my eldest was gaining a little too much weight. It wasn’t a big concern, but I was trying to select foods that wouldn’t exacerbate what might be a growing problem.
While my family’s diet is a relatively healthy one, I started to notice that our snacks were a weak spot. The craziness of everyday life with children made it not only easy but necessary to reach for whatever required the least effort (i.e., highly-processed, nutritionally empty foods). Today, even with this blog, I still find myself in a snack panic a few times a week or I occasionally just go ahead and buy some junk food for fun.
Fix Me A Snack documents my search for “ideal” snacks: fresh, yummy, healthy, and easy. What makes an ideal snack is certainly up for debate, but in my kitchen I try to fix snacks that are made with real foods. And I try to keep a healthy distance from excess sugar and fat (most of the time). Snacks that are hands-down winnners at my house are categorized as Favorites.
Before I became a self-appointed snack guru, I was an artist and a librarian. I currently live in central Connecticut with my husband and two children and am a stay-at-home mom.
