Hello :) Hope you have had a great Monday!
First, I wanted to talk a bit about Size Healthy.
The reason I did Size Healthy was because I struggled with the size on my tags for years. I let the size on my tag (and other numbers) define how I felt about my body and about myself.
Writing Size Healthy on my tags was one of the most liberating things I have ever done because it finally represented symbolically that I was letting go of what I struggled with for many years and occasionally to this day.
I don’t claim that it will be appropriate for everyone. Not everyone is currently at their Size Healthy and some of you are not bothered by numbers on a tag. I get that!
This was created for people who have had struggles with basing self-worth on a number. Those who, despite being at a healthy weight, struggle with the desire to lose more and more weight. Those of us who have never been happy with our bodies despite being perfectly healthy otherwise.
Size Healthy represents being happy about where you are right now and knowing that your efforts day in and day out should be applauded. Whether you are naturally a size 0 or a size 12, writing Size Healthy on your tag is a small reminder each day that you are doing your best to live a healthy and balanced life.
Size Healthy Around The Blog World:
- Kate: http://happyrunningthoughts.blogspot.com/2010/02/size-healthy.html
- Jacquie: http://sweetestthingdc.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/what-size-are-you/
And now for a twist on a childhood favourite…
Nut Butter, jam, & grilled banana on toast
I first saw grilled bananas on Healthy Tipping Point and I thought it was right up my alley. I decided to create a spin off of the PB & J Sandwich of my youth.
Ingredients:
- Ezekiel bread, toasted
- 1 banana, cut into slices and grilled in frying pan until browned
- Nut butter (I used almond butter in this one)
- Jam (I used organic strawberry)
Directions: Slice up a banana and grill on low-med in a lightly greased frying pan until browned. Toast bread and spread with nut butter and jam. Take grilled banana and place over top. Enjoy!
The grilled bananas really made this pop! Much, much tastier than just placing a fresh banana on top. I burned my banana a bit (ok, ok, I scorched it!) and it gave it such a deep flavour.
Foods You Used To Love As A Child:
Yesterday I was talking with a girlfriend about snack foods we loved as children.
Here are some snack foods I used to love as a child:
- Peanut Butter and Jam sandwich on white bread (classic!)
- Cheese Whiz sandwich (I used to LOVE Cheese Whiz as a kid)
- Little Debbie Snack Cakes: Swiss Cake Rolls, Zebra Cakes, Fudge brownies
- Ah Caramels
- Kraft Dinner
- Fruit By the Foot, Fruit Roll-ups, Gushers (let’s be real there is no fruit in those things!)
- Cotton Candy Ice Cream (the blue swirl = amazing!)
- Bubblegum ice cream
- Starburst/Skittles (go hand in hand)
- Kool-Aid
- PENNY CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (100 pieces for $1 buck = jackpot!) Sour Patch Kids, Big Foot, Hot Lips, etc…
- Anything in a juice box ;)
- Salt and Vinegar chips
- Pigs in a Blanket (OSGMOM was the coolest mom on the block when she made these!)
- Mr. P’s Frozen Pizzas (used to be 99 cents!!!)
- Bonkers- the original, not when they brought it back in the late 90’s
- Spaghetti Sandwich (I used to take a dinner roll, stuff it with spaghetti + sauce)
We actually rarely had these snacks foods in the house, but I used to envy my friends who had them and would eat them whenever I could!
I asked my mom about snack foods I loved as a kid and this is what she said, “You will laugh at this…you didn’t like veggies much. You loved sweets, pizza, peanut butter & jam sandwiches, and mac & cheese.”
I clearly remember the days of taking my veggies and feeding them to our dog underneath the dinner table!! I also used to have to sit at the table until I finished my veggies. Sometimes I would hide them in potato skins thinking my mom would never notice! hahah…good times! ;)
Isn’t it funny how our tastes change and evolve?
Tell me what snack foods YOU loved as a kid…I’m sure I am forgetting a TON of them I used to eat. I can’t wait to reminisce with all of you… :mrgreen:
Updates:
- Check out Caitlin’s Garmin 305 raffle for the Livestrong Foundation!
I have actually always loved veggies, even as a kid. But that didn’t mean I didn’t love sweets!
Suzy Qs (the whoopie pies from Heather Kaminsky’s My Sweet Vegan are a great substitute!)
Cadbury eggs
Snickers
Bugles
Pop tarts
These are all things I no longer eat because I make stuff that tastes so much better! Altho I bet I wouldn’t turn down a few Bugles.
I never had Kraft Mac & Cheese — or even a grilled cheese, for that matter — til I went to college. My mom didn’t make that stuff.
I use to love fruit roll ups, pixie sticks, berry berry kix, kraft mac & creese, and 7 layer burritos from Taco Bell. Ugh, just thinking of that food makes me sick now.
As someone with a fixation on feeling like I always need to lose more weight, I am 100% behind size healthy. I felt totally liberated after writing size healthy on my pants. http://2bahealthyfit.com/2010/02/18/does-size-matter/
fruit roll ups all the way! and GUSHERS! the thing was, when i was younger i was really allergic to red food dye, but red was my favorite flavor… and i would sneak eating the red candies, and i would get caught because it made me throw up. haha. oh my
AHHHHH CARAMEL!
Bonkers!
I haven’t thought about those snacks in ages! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Diana
I used to love fruits and veggies! especially pears (which I am not a big fan of now..weird). Anyway, as far as snack foods go I LOVED hostess snow balls, kit kats and mini pizzas! I also loved eggo waffles… yum..
I loved Lucky Charms – I would pick out all the marshmallows. I also loved Toaster Strudles! The icing packets were so much fun! I actually did eat some of my veggies – my dad would try to make it fun and called broccoli “trees.” Thanks for bringing back memories, Angela!
OMG, just by reading everybody’s comments and Angie’s list to I remember all the junk I used to love as a kid, many of which I would not come near now! hahaha… I just loved:
– Eggo waffles with brown sugar AND maple syrup;
– Pillsbury strawberry strudels with that little white glaze;
– Strawberry Pop-tarts
– White toast with velveeta and strawberry jam
– Mini bagel pizzas
– Humpty Dumpty cheese sticks (OMG, I used to love having orange fingers after and just licking them…)
– Maywest
– and last but definitely not least: mini sausages wrapped in bacon and dip in velveeta!
OMG, re-reading my list makes me nauseous… It’s so funny how our taste for certain foods evolves… Thank god for mindful evolution! ;)
I always loved vegetables – didn’t love nuts or nut butter though! I remember going to baseball games where I would put the entire peanut (with the shell on!) in my mouth, suck off the salt, then spit it out. Gross haha!
This is a great post! Crazy how our ideas change about food.
When I was little, my Mom used to toast bread, and cut it into tiny little squares (bite sized pieces) and melt some Cheez Wiz in the microwave, add a little bit of milk — Think chez wiz fondue! And i would dunk my little toast squares — with a fork — into the cheeze wiz! It was sooo good!!!
ohhh yea and those philly cream cheese cake things and HOT POCKETS! lol :)
I am working right now to get to a healthy wieght in a healthy way. I am under what I should be so when I did my “healthy size” tags I did not do it on my smaller pants that I know I will not fit in once I get to my healthy wieght. I know it will help so much when I am fitting properly into my “healthy size” pants to have “SIZE HEALTHY” written on my tags.
I ate some gross stuff as a kid… mainly bologna and ketchup on white bread! I have no idea why I loved that stuff so much.
Ahh I remember another –
Wholegrain toast with raspberry or strawberry jam and smothered with cheddar cheese!
I ate that for DAYS in University. Also, I used to eat Triscuits with seafood sauce when I didn’t have any money.
OMG, I totally did the strawberry jam/cheddar cheese thing! LOVED it… :)
I loved Golden Grahams cereal and Pasta Roni! hehe
Ooooh I LOVED penny sweets!
In Germany you could get your pick n mix from the bakery and I remember going there all the time and getting my fave sweets, those included:
sour apple balls
Muscle candy (it’s a plastic muscle shell filled with candy which you lick, it’s the most absurd thing but as a kid I never questioned this haha)
Chewy strawberry gums
Edible paper
Then, this is the Korean in me, I used to eat potatoes mashed with sugar.
It’s something Korean children eat a lot and I used to do that a lot with my leftover potatoes, haha.
xxx
I was ADDICTED to raisins!! Every photo of me when I am a child, I have a red box of Sunkist raisins in hand. It was one of the few foods I would eat as a kid. I was a HORRIBLE picky eater!
It’s so fun to think back on old snacking days! I loved Little Debbie Swiss Roll cakes (especially after a boring family trip to the grocery store), salami, Warheads sour candy and Tootsie Rolls, spam and velveeta sandwiches on white bread (crusts cut off!), and poached eggs (wouldn’t go NEAR one now).
Little Debbie made a Big Chrissy back in the day – LOL
Bonkers!!! Wow, I almost forgot about those!
As a kid, as well as to this day, I’ve always had low iron and when I was too little to swallow vitamins or pills I had to take the supplment in liquid form (imagine: a black liquid that smells, and tastes like metal)- Y-U-K!
I always got a Bonker after swallowing the spoonful of nastiness!
Other faves were also Cheez Whiz sandwiches, lettuce and mayo sandwiches (ugh!), Bubbalious gum, Ketchup chips, cold coffee with LOTS of sugar and milk (thanks to my Italian Nana), Alphagetti, Tahiti Treat “juice”…among others I’m sure!
What a fun post! I love looking back at the past and seeing how much you change :)
Hee hee I hated veg too! And rice, HATED rice, now I love it! I basically loved anything deep-fried, white bread, chocolate spread, crips, chocolate…we rarely had junk food at home so when I got pocket money I’d buy lots. I was a skinny kid but by the time I got to 23 although my weight was fine my cholesterol was sky high! Hence the healthy eating turnaround…
sugary cereals! with no fiber, no nutrition, just lots and lots of sugar.