Foodie Swellness: Wonderful Pistachios

The Super Bowl is on Sunday — go Broncos! (After my visits to Colorado in January, they’re “my team” now, haha). The Super Bowl is the one time a year I maybe watch football (not that I dislike football, I just haven’t followed in many years). And, hey, it’s an excuse for prime snacking, right? And there’s always that big halftime show.

I only just discovered there are flavoured pistachios from Wonderful Pistachios, what?! Sweet Chili and Salt & Pepper (and they also offer unsalted ones, which is great if you’re being careful about your salt intake). I love pistachios (one of my fave nuts, actually), plus since they have fewer calories than other nuts and provide minerals such as copper, manganese, potassium, calcium, iron, zinc, selenium and magnesium, they make a healthy snack (that is if you can stick to a serving size, which, admittedly, I typically can’t stop at one serving…oops).

If you’re looking for snack ideas for game day, Wonderful Pistachios suggests pistachios (doy!), and galas apple wedges drizzled with honey, aged gouda, and ginger beer (hello, another one of my favourites!). You’ve got crunch and salt from the nuts, caramel=y richness from the cheese, which both go well with the sweet juiciness of the apples.

And as for a bevvie with booze, this cocktail recipe will appeal to those who like Caesars:

• 2 oz. vodka
• 1 oz. tomato juice
• 1 spoon of wasabi paste
• dashes of balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper, horseradish, lemon juice and Tabasco

Add  all ingredients to the glass end of your shaker and fill to the top with ice. Shake until frost starts to collects on the brass end of your shaker. Pour directly into cocktail glass.

Ready for game day? Who are you cheering for??

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Healthy Swellness: Pro protein-rich breakfast

Greek yogurt. Bacon. Eggs. Sausages.

All typical breakfast foods for me. Not altogether. Ick. Although I suppose if you threw it all into a burrito with some salsa, it’d work together tastily (I sub yogurt for sour cream all the time, after all).

Hmm.

On second thought: yum.

In any case, they are all good foods for the first meal of the day according to some new research. A study has found that a protein-rich breakfast (and those foods boast protein) helps reduce snacking on junky high-fat, high-sugar foods at night. So catch up on Scandal sans bag of potato chips, fancy that. They don’t have to go hand in hand.

(Greek yogurt with berries, toasted oats and pecans, Eat Like a Girl

3 Comments April 3, 2013

Popcorn’s health benefits

Popcorn contains more polyphenols (a type of antioxidant) than fruits and vegetable (the pholyphenols get diluted by the water content of fresh produce), according to new research presented at the  243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. And those pesky hulls that get caught in your teeth? They contain the most polyphenol and fibre content.

( Too bad the bag(s) I hope to pick up from Garrett’s Popcorn in Chicago before I fly home don’t qualify as healthy — the greasy cheese and sugary caramel of the “Chicago mix” probably cancels out any polyphenol benefits…

Leave a Comment March 26, 2012