Tips for Avoiding Junk Food

Series Summary

Everyone wants to live a fit and healthy life, but sometimes beginning a new low fat diet can be daunting and even challenging. Changing your eating habits and learning to prepare low calorie, low fat food might be difficult to acclimate to at first, but having a solid knowledge base about the types of foods that you can enjoy without guilt and some inspiration towards creating a delicious menu full of diet-friendly meals is a great start. Healthy snacks, exercise, and a refrigerator makeover are great steps for diet beginners, and this series will help jump start your diet easily.

Rather than avoid snacking altogether, it's best to start replacing junk food in a diet with healthy alternatives. In this free video series, a cook will show you how to make yam chips and nut granola, allowing you to stay healthy when snacking. After learning how to plan a diet and clean out a pantry, you'll hear how to prepare these two dishes with instructions and video recipes. You'll learn how to cut yams, prepare nuts with honey, and eventually create two simple, nutritious snacks. So, stay off the junk food and start eating right!

Video Transcript

"Hi everybody, my name is Lauren Taylor.We are at the Bakers Corner on behalf of Expert Village. Thank you so much for joining me today. Todays show is a little bit different. I'm actually going to be making a couple different things and my focus is actually not so much on the food that I'm making which I will show you in detail on how to make what I'm making but also really what I'm focused on is how to avoid junk food and fast food even. You know I live in a big city and so I'm in my car alot, just driving around and I dont get to swing home very often just to eat real quick and leave and go somewere else. I often have to really plan ahead and really prepare if I really want to avoid a vending machine or to avoid stoping at a fast food restaurant which you know every once in a while its not going to kill you but we want to avoid that as much as we can,for our weight maintenance, for our overall health, how we feel. So for today I want to focus on a couple of tips I have for you on how to avoid grabbing a candy bar or grabbing a double bacon cheese burger and french fries. And also I am going to be making two healthy snacks that you can make at home. They don't take very long at all. They are very, very simple to make, very few steps and you can throw them in your purse, in your bag and take with you. So I just want to arm you with some tools so that you are able to avoid that junk food and fast food. So lets get started on our tips and healthy snacks."