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Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Sunday, July 5, 2015 / No comments / children , clean eating recipes , fruit recipes , fruits , fun cooking , greek yogurt , healthy , healthy family , Healthy recipes , popsicles , Recipes , summer ideas , summer recipes

Popsicle Recipes for Healthy Summer Snacking

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Popsicle recipes that are healthy make it so easy to enjoy an indulgent summer treat. I love how quick it is to make a batch of healthy popsicles. Most of these popsicle recipes require nothing more than mixing and then freezing the ingredients. For perfect-looking popsicles, you can buy a popsicle mold. Otherwise, you can make your own molds by pouring your mixture into small cups and inserting popsicle sticks in them before freezing. 
 
 
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Fruit Juice Popsicles.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes the best popsicle recipes are the simplest ones! By combining your favorite 100% fruit juice with some fresh fruit, you’ll have delicious and refreshing popsicles. You’ll want to stay away from fruit juices with lots of added sugar. If you have a juicer at home, you can make homemade juice so you’ll know exactly what ingredients are going into your popsicles. Fill your popsicle molds with some juice, and then drop in some diced fruits and freeze them until they are set. You can also try adding a little bit of veggie juice for some extra nutrients. Orange and carrot juice together are a tasty combination!</div>
 
 
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Coconut Milk.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Add some variety to your popsicle recipes by using coconut milk! Popsicle recipes that use coconut milk don’t seem to drip as much as popsicles with only fruit juice. When you’ve got little ones at home, that’s a definite plus! Less sticky messes! Simply use coconut milk instead of juice as a base and add your diced fruit as you normally would. You can also try mixing in some chia seeds for some super food nutrients. If you add chia, just make sure you give them 20-30 minutes to expand in the coconut milk before freezing.</div>
 
 
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Yogurt.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using yogurt as the base for your favorite popsicle recipes will result in a creamy, filling treat. Less of a popsicle and more of a creamsicle. All you need to do is scoop some yogurt into your popsicle molds, and then add in chopped or diced fruit. You can also try blending the fruit and yogurt until everything is smooth.</div>
 
 
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What I love about these popsicle recipes is that they’ll satisfy your sweet tooth without lots of refined sugar. If you want to add a little extra sweetness, simply mix in a little bit of raw honey or Stevia. Once you find a few popsicle recipes you enjoy, it’s super easy to experiment with new flavors! By changing up the mix-ins that you add to your favorite popsicle base, the possibilities are endless. These recipes are so easy to make. The hardest part is waiting patiently for them to freeze so you can eat them!</div>

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Popsicle Recipes for Healthy Summer Snacking

Popsicle recipes that are healthy make it so easy to enjoy an indulgent summer treat. I love how quick it is to make a batch of healthy po...

Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Thursday, March 26, 2015 / No comments / Alyssa schomaker , beachbody. beachbody coach , children , eating health , health , healthy foods , Healthy recipes , kids , Kids Health , motherhood , Recipes , teach health

Teaching Children About Health Is Vital

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As a Beachbody coach and a mother, I believe that teaching children about health is vital. And I’m not saying forcing them into healthful eating. I'm talking about teaching children WHY it’s important to eat healthily and regularly exercise. It does take a little extra time and effort, but the outcome provides a promising outlook for a healthy future. 
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 Benefits Of Teaching Children About Health Enforces Healthy Habits 
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 Teaching children about health from the beginning helps enforce healthy habits as they grow up. If they start eating a side salad at dinner every night, it will become routine for them. Hopefully, those healthy habits will continue for the rest of their lives. Produces Healthy Preferences When children eat healthfully in their youth, they often prefer the taste of whole foods over the taste of processed foods. Plus, their bodies will typically feel the toll of processed foods when they do eat them, so they will continue to recognize the value of getting proper nutrition, daily. Teaching children to eat healthy food every day can help them favor it in the future. Generates Curiosity If children start learning why they eat healthily and exercise daily, they’ll start to wonder why they would do anything else. Teaching children the reasoning behind healthy decisions can help get their minds thinking about why they do what they do. That encourages healthy, thought-out decisions. Prevents Unhealthy Futures If children are eating healthy and getting enough exercise from the beginning, there shouldn’t be a need to spend time and energy on correcting habits. Establishing healthy lifestyles can prevent things like obesity and obesity-related diseases. It can also eliminate the need for extreme health changes, which can be difficult. Because of this, teaching children about the importance of health can have a profound influence on their future. Inspires Action Teaching children the importance of health and exercise means you will be keeping them active. Being active gives children all the great benefits of exercise and fresh air. Plus, when they are running around outside, they aren’t fostering sight and posture issues by sitting and staring at a screen. Do you agree that teaching children about health is essential? I hope so! Becoming a Beachbody coach is a great way to establish a healthy lifestyle and learn about how to incorporate health into your life, your family members' lives, and your friends' lives. <a href="https://alyssaschomaker.wufoo.com/forms/royal-republic-coach-apprenticeship-information/">Click here</a> to learn more about becoming a Beachbody coach.</div>
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Teaching Children About Health Is Vital

As a Beachbody coach and a mother, I believe that teaching children about health is vital. And I’m not saying forcing them into healthful ...

Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Sunday, August 4, 2013 / No comments / children , home made , orange , popsicles , super berry , tropical shakeology

Super Berry Orange popsicles

My children love popsicles! My husband is obsessed with making our own! I secretly think her likes them more then my children do. I came across this awesome recipe from the Team Beachbody page and made them this weekend for my family and they were a big hit and super nutritious compared to other popsicles on the market! 
 
This recipe is made with Tropical <a href="http://myshakeology.com/alyssaschomaker" target="_blank">Shakeology</a> and turned out excellent! 
 
 
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Recipe from Team Beachbody 
Total Time: 4 hrs. 10 min. 
Prep Time: 10 min. 
Cooking Time: None 
Yield: 4 servings, 1 pop each 
Ingredients: 
½ cup cranberry juice, unsweetened 
½ 100% orange juice 
½ fresh or frozen raspberries 
1½ scoops Tropical Strawberry Shakeology 
 
Preparation: 
1. Place cranberry juice, orange juice, raspberries, and Shakeology in blender; cover. Blend until smooth. 
2. Pour mixture into ice pop molds. 
3. Freeze for at least four hours, or until set. 
 
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Super Berry Orange popsicles

My children love popsicles! My husband is obsessed with making our own! I secretly think her likes them more then my children do. I came acr...

Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Wednesday, May 29, 2013 / No comments / appetizers , bite , children , clean eating , cooking , food , healthy , interactive , nutrition , real foods , snacks , toddlers , vegetables , veggies

10 ways to get your children to adjust to a clean eating lifestyle

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I don't know about you but, I really struggled and still do with getting my three kids on board with clean eating. My oldest Son Gavin was never a good eater! I mean he ate NOTHING! It was a very tough thing for my husband and I to go through watching our child refuse to eat food. My pediatrician had told us when he was two that we should not worry at this point about "healthy" foods but, just make sure that he is eating. I think his approach was anything is better then nothing. So, now that he is older and quite a good eater, I must add, we have really been working with our kids to eat healthy and make good choices when it comes to food. This is definetly a work in progress but, continue to educate my children because I feel like it is very important and want them to feel as good as I do from consuming whole, real foods!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGw9GzSVJwMIa8EGfUm-M2CgVwcNcT4rZKveqtklRSjNwdY-l7qQfp1l-sZjeIl4zXCHuVDnWY2iGBpwr4R7PhohSBaHCB30exBNHEDkoa3-lKxK_1DwXDYZeaqngeBVa2ezNBgltM2w_7/s1600/How-to-get-your-kids-on-board-with-healthy-eating-and-living.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGw9GzSVJwMIa8EGfUm-M2CgVwcNcT4rZKveqtklRSjNwdY-l7qQfp1l-sZjeIl4zXCHuVDnWY2iGBpwr4R7PhohSBaHCB30exBNHEDkoa3-lKxK_1DwXDYZeaqngeBVa2ezNBgltM2w_7/s640/How-to-get-your-kids-on-board-with-healthy-eating-and-living.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are some of the ideas and things we have been doing to incorporate our children into eating clean foods....</div>1. Serve vegetables as an appetizer. While you set out the rest of dinner, keep hungry kids occupied with veggies. (I love carrot sticks and fresh cut bell pepper.) When you serve veggies before dinner, they’re more likely to be eaten. 
 
2. Offer control. Picky eating is often about control, not taste. Offer two options (“Shall we have peas or broccoli trees with lunch?”) and give your child the power to choose one. 
 
3. Remember tiny tummies. Do you often think that your toddlers aren’t eating enough? But when they describe all the child ate that day, it’s really plenty of food. Children’s tummies are quite small, about the size of their clenched fist. What looks like a reasonable snack to grown-up eyes might be an overwhelming portion for little ones. 
 
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwfRKazprAfT_vzzsBsrH1tZAU0kDDY4RzNu0otLK1scgCtpQep6Ux5oV5nFWlwU_jWse4vVDSkqSww0Jd0Puuc_A_MbGt772ar-oKRkyNeWnbGVkUx7D3yPh6rCJpsKgVKbeW0ysjqfF/s1600/healthyfood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwfRKazprAfT_vzzsBsrH1tZAU0kDDY4RzNu0otLK1scgCtpQep6Ux5oV5nFWlwU_jWse4vVDSkqSww0Jd0Puuc_A_MbGt772ar-oKRkyNeWnbGVkUx7D3yPh6rCJpsKgVKbeW0ysjqfF/s320/healthyfood.jpg" width="320" /></a>4. Never underestimate the power of a silly face or use animal shapes. At snack time, try arranging cucumber slice eyes with a ranch dip smile and carrot teeth, or peanut butter eyes and a celery mouth on an apple slice head. And what kid can resist this BEAUTIFUL butterfly! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Make it interactive. Who says you shouldn’t play with your food? Steamed artichokes with lemon butter for dipping, roasted asparagus with a little cup of grated parmesan, lettuce wraps for stuffing with seasoned chicken or beans and veg — kids love interacting with their food! For bonus points, give each component a cool name — “trees with snow” will add a dash of giggles to a dish of broccoli with parmesan. 
 
6. Delegate sous chef duties. At the market, have everyone pick out one fruit or veggie they’d like to have that evening. Then, let them add their chosen food to the pizza, soup, or salsa. When children are involved in the cooking, they’re much more likely to try the result. 
 
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.tumblr.com/523b9617c80635ef92a6140b840530ed/tumblr_inline_mn0l3kjUl51qz4rgp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" class="toggle_inline_image inline_image constrained_image" height="400" src="http://media.tumblr.com/523b9617c80635ef92a6140b840530ed/tumblr_inline_mn0l3kjUl51qz4rgp.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>7. Be a veggie pragmatist. As a busy mom, I know it is not always possible to browse the market with your children. And to be honest with three kids grocery shopping can actually be quite enjoying when I get the oppurtunity to go by myself. When that happens, reach for frozen vegetables. The nutrient profile on vegetables that are flash frozen are just as good  and frozen veggies are more forgiving of busy schedules and fickle toddler tastes. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Zucchini bread is not a vegetable. Quite a few recent books suggest ways to “sneak” fruit and veg into children’s meals. Boosting nutrition is all well and good, but it’s also important to teach children what things look and taste like in their natural state. Don’t just sneak a cheeky puree into the pizza sauce. Let them know it’s there, and let them see how it’s prepared. 
 
 
9. Don’t give up. Studies show that children have to try a food 10-15 times to like it, and I’ve certainly found that to be true. Encourage children to play with a new food, touch it, smell it, and above all taste it, but keep things lighthearted. Remember your child isn’t just being contrary being suspicious of new food is an entirely reasonable instinct, especially for children. 
 
10. The no-thank-you bite. If your child refuses outright to try new things, introduce a “no-thank-you bite” rule. With this rule, if a child doesn’t want to eat something, that’s fine  so long as she takes a small bite and says “no thank you.” If she still doesn’t like it, chalk it up to one of those 10-15 necessary new food exposures and move on. 
 
I hope you find these tips helpful! Remember it is a work in progress and your children will eventually start eating more real foods over time! 
 
Alyssa 
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10 ways to get your children to adjust to a clean eating lifestyle

I don't know about you but, I really struggled and still do with getting my three kids on board with clean eating. My oldest Son Gavin w...

Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Sunday, July 5, 2015 / No comments / children , clean eating recipes , fruit recipes , fruits , fun cooking , greek yogurt , healthy , healthy family , Healthy recipes , popsicles , Recipes , summer ideas , summer recipes

Popsicle Recipes for Healthy Summer Snacking

Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Thursday, March 26, 2015 / No comments / Alyssa schomaker , beachbody. beachbody coach , children , eating health , health , healthy foods , Healthy recipes , kids , Kids Health , motherhood , Recipes , teach health

Teaching Children About Health Is Vital

Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Sunday, August 4, 2013 / No comments / children , home made , orange , popsicles , super berry , tropical shakeology

Super Berry Orange popsicles

Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Wednesday, May 29, 2013 / No comments / appetizers , bite , children , clean eating , cooking , food , healthy , interactive , nutrition , real foods , snacks , toddlers , vegetables , veggies

10 ways to get your children to adjust to a clean eating lifestyle

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