Have You Had Your Snikiddy Snack Today?

Between lunch time and dinner time, what do you do for a snack? It is during this time, you know you are getting hungry. Whether you are at home, work, school or just out and about, it is always nice to have some sort of snack on hand, right?

When the munchies come calling, there is no need to have junk food on hand though. Junk food, for the most part, contains such ingredients as MSG, aspartame, HFCS and so much more that is chemical-based for man-made. There is no need for these ingredients, especially if you can not pronounce them, in your body and mind.

With this said, there is no better time than to go to your local, grocery store, and pick up a bag or two from Snikiddy. The Snikiddy snack company was founded in 2006 by a Mother and Daughter who wanted to provide a healthier snack option to all parents wanting to give their children better snacking options.

Well, I am one of those parents wanting to give my twins a healthier snacking option. My twins love cheese puffs and oh yeah, Snikiddy makes, and sells, Cheese Puffs! In fact, they make and sell two flavors of Cheese Puffs. Both Backed Cheese Puff snacks are certified Gluten-Free, made with non-GMO corn (yeah!), no trans-fats, low in saturated fats, NO MSG (yeah!), vegetarian and made in a factory that does not contain peanuts or treenuts.

• Baked Mac n' Cheese
• Baked Grilled Cheese

 

 Snikiddy also makes, and sells Baked Fries which come in these awesome flavors. Every bag of Snikiddy Baked Fries are made certified gluten free (wheat free too), non GMO potatoes & corn, 50% less fat than regular potato chips, NO MSG, cholesterol free, vegetarian (contains dairy), kosher and made in a facility that does not manufacture any products containing peanuts or treenuts.

• Baked Chedder Cheese
• Baked Sea Salt
• Baked BBQ
• Baked Original Seasonings
• Baked Bold Buffalo
• Baked Hot & Spicy

 

Then, for those who are not fans of eating their veggies on a regular basis, there is a new, and great way to begin eating your veggies in chip form. Now, you can eat your veggies in chip form and with several flavors as well. Just like the other amazing snack foods above, the Eat Your Vegetables snack chips are made with a full serving of vegetables (In just 1 oz, 13 chips), made with Non-GMO vegetables, grains, and oil, excellent source of Vitamin A, all-natural & cholesterol free, gluten & wheat free, low in sodium, 3 grams of protein per ounce, vegetarian, NO MSG, kosher, made in a facility that does not process any products containing peanuts or tree nuts and available in 4.5 oz bags.

• Sea Salt & Lime
• Sea Salt
• Sour Cream & Onion
• Jalepeno Ranch
• Italian Herb & Olive Oil 

 

When the Snikiddy snack company had a plan to make all healthy for you snacks, they went all out. This is one amazing company and everyone who wants eat healthier snacks needs to support Snikiddy every time you go to the grocery store to stock up your pantry with snacks. Snikiddy, with all our help, can put the 'old stand by' chip companies, out of business by voting with our dollars on only healthy snacks, always, all the time.

So, do what I did and when the need to eat snacks comes upon you, reach for a bag of Baked Cheese Puffs, Baked Fries or Eat Your Vegetables Chips that are already in your pantry, waiting to be opened and ready to be eaten alone or with your children.

Designing Your Own Candles Is Fun and Easy

Candles are great in the home. They are a great way to make a home smell good and give it the ambiance a homeowner wants. Ambiance is important for most homeowners, the last thing they want is a home that is not warm and welcoming, right? This is where placing candles in strategic places in the home make a difference. When I was looking for candles I could make myself, I found this company, Illumbiance. This candle company does just that, they let their customers make a candle the way they want. How cool is that? This is a candle company that saw what client wanted and met that need.




These are just a few of the glass candle contaniner's Illumbiance uses when making their candles. Right now, they offer over 15 glass containers that can be filled with the scent and color their clients want. When I was looking for the candles I wanted, I choose these containers

in the colors of Golden Honey and Banana Nut Bread scent. The other glass container I also bought with the Golden Honey color, but the Caramelized Pralines scent. I already used the Banana Nut Bread candle, but this is the Caramelized Pralines candle which I is not completely done yet:

 These candles come in these colors as well:

• Black
• Blue
• Burgundy
• Brown
• Golden Honey
• Key West
• Olive
• Purple
• Red
• White
• Yellow

The scents I choose smell delicious, I mean they are will have you wanting to eat these candles, but this would not be a good idea. They certainly smell like the real thing though. Here are the other scents candle lovers can look at for their own personalized candles:

• Amorette Nog
• Antique Sandlewood
• Apples and Maple Bourbon
• Asian Amber
• Baby Powers
• Banana Nut Bread
• Bayberry
• Beach Linen
• Bird of Paradise....

This list of scents goes on, there are over seventy scents for candle lovers to look at and choose from. This is, by far, the very best candle company I have ever found. This is the way all candles should be made. Sure it is nice to have candles already made, and in stores, but candles are more special, and fresh, when they are made to order. Illumbiance is the best candle company out there and I am so happy I found them.

Have you ever used Organic Blue Agave Sweetener before?

If not, I suggest you do. This Organic Blue Agave sweetener is delicious. Oh my goodness, this is a liquid sweetener and if you are a coffee drinker, this is the best sweetener to use because it blends well with hot and cold coffee. These days, there are so many artificial sweeteners, that I strongly suggest you do not use. Instead, use this Organic Blue Agave sweetener as it is a better alternative to white sugar and alternative sweeteners. Don't  get me wrong, sometimes you need white sugar for baking purposes, but when it come to adding a sweetener to coffee, tea or homemade lemonade, this Organic Blue Agave sweetener is the only product to use. Now, I just started using this Organic Blue Agave Sweetener two weeks ago and I do not see myself using anything else.

When it comes to sweeteners, I am sure you already know my stance of artificial sweeteners. If you are not aware of what artificial sweeteners are made from, let me tell you.  Artificial sweeteners, also known as, Aspartame, is also known as a Sweet Poison. This sounds like an oxymoron, right? Well, it is true. This is one sweetener you and your family do not want to use. When grocery shopping, there are a lot of sweeteners on the store shelves, right? Well, here are a list of these sweeteners, that go by different names, but are in fact ONE element (Aspartame).

This is the list of sweet poisons you will find on your store shelves:

• Aspartame (yes, Aspartame is actually a boxed sweetener on your store shelf)
• Equal
• NutraSweet 
• E951
• Spoonful
• et al

This is an article I wrote on Gather.com in 2008! Yeah 2008 is when I found out what Aspartame was and how it was affecting my health. So, I am  not new to this whole healthy sugar sweetener you know. I want to wake up my family and friends to see that their current sweetener (poison-if this is what is being used) is not good for your health.

Here are the ingredients of Organic Blue Agave:

• Organic Amber Nectar
• A Low Glycemic Organic Sweetener

Organic Blue Agave is also:

• Gluten Free
• USDA Organic
• Certified Organic by Quality Assurance International
• Vegan

Well, there you go. These are reasons to use Organic Blue Agave instead of white sugar and artificial sweeteners. 

Oh, one more thing, did you know white sugar comes from sugar cane and sugar beets? I am sure you do, but did you know beet sugar is being grown as a GMO crop? GMO, what is GMO you might be asking. Well the acronym for GMO means: Genetically Modified Organism, Genetically Engineered Organism, Genetically Altered  Organism and Genetically Manipulated Organism . Is this something you want in your body? If it can be avoided, please avoid eating and drinking anything grown from a GMO crop. 

How do I know the food is GMO? Good question. If you live in California (like I do), you had the chance to vote YES on 37 in November. The Yes on 37 meant YES label GMO fruits and vegetables. Sadly, this proposition did not pass because Monsanto and others like them defeated the grassroots effort to label GMO foods. If our foods were labeled "Non-GMO", we would have a choice to eat or not to eat GMO foods. Now, Monsanto, who makes GMO seeds, is immune from any lawsuit or whatever is thrown their way.

It will be a miracle if another state can get their Non-GMO labels on their fruits and vegetables.

To your health!