WEBVTT - Make produce an easy snack

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is to make produce an easy snack. If you

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<v Speaker 1>make grabbing grapes as easy as grabbing potato chips, you

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<v Speaker 1>will probably eat more fruit. Today's tip was inspired by

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<v Speaker 1>a New York Times article about how a nutritionist actually eats.

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<v Speaker 1>According to the article, nutritionist doctor Maya Vadevalou suggests making

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<v Speaker 1>vegetables your lazy snack. In other words, if eating vegetables

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't require a lot of effort, you're probably going to

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<v Speaker 1>eat more vegetables. She suggested that she was often very

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<v Speaker 1>satisfied with a bag of baby carrots on her desk. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>there is a caveat here that people who are drawn

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<v Speaker 1>to the field of nutrition might be more into healthy

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<v Speaker 1>foods than the rest of us. I do not find

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<v Speaker 1>baby carrots to be an exciting snack. But the truth

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<v Speaker 1>is that making produce as easy to eat as possible

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<v Speaker 1>does increase the chances that it can compete with cookies

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<v Speaker 1>or doritos or anything else that you might be trying

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<v Speaker 1>to minimize. As an example, unwashed whole bell peppers are

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<v Speaker 1>no match for a can of chips, but cut up

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<v Speaker 1>bell pepper sticks that you can easily dip into hummus

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<v Speaker 1>have a fighting chance in that battle. So if you

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<v Speaker 1>buy peppers at the grocery store, go ahead and wash

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<v Speaker 1>them and remove the seeds and pith and cut them

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<v Speaker 1>into snackable sticks. Store them in a storage container in

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<v Speaker 1>the fridge that is easily visible. I'm talking maybe even

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<v Speaker 1>a single size container with an individual serving size container

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<v Speaker 1>of hummus stacked on top. You want the veggies to

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<v Speaker 1>be a very easy snack with some produce. You don't

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<v Speaker 1>even want to hide it away in the fridge. I

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<v Speaker 1>know that grapes keep longer in the produce drawer, but

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<v Speaker 1>the goal is not for them to last a long time.

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<v Speaker 1>It's for people to eat them quickly. So I try

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<v Speaker 1>to buy really enticing looking grapes and then put them

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<v Speaker 1>in a bowl on the counter. Likewise, if I cut

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<v Speaker 1>up more than enough strawberries for dinner and leave the

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<v Speaker 1>extras in a bowl on the counter, people tend to

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<v Speaker 1>eat them as they pass through the kitchen at night.

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<v Speaker 1>Now we do risk people not eating all of them

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<v Speaker 1>and the leftovers turning a little bit on appealing, but

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<v Speaker 1>I can tell you that someone hunting for a late

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<v Speaker 1>night snack is unlikely to pull a container out of

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<v Speaker 1>the fridge, wash everything, cut off the tops, and then

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<v Speaker 1>eat them. We want to make this an even fight package.

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<v Speaker 1>Snack food has intrinsic appeal, but a lot of the

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<v Speaker 1>time we eat traditional snack foods simply because it's the

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<v Speaker 1>easiest thing to do. If you make produce an easy

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<v Speaker 1>snack as well, then you won't need to rely on

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<v Speaker 1>willpower to reach for a banana instead of the cookies.

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<v Speaker 1>The banana is right there in front of you in

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<v Speaker 1>the fruit bowl, which makes it much more easy to grab.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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<v Speaker 1>here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for

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<v Speaker 1>listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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<v Speaker 1>you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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