The Best Healthy Gourmet Snacks of the Year
The world is full of fantastic, delicious, and innovative healthy gourmet snacks. That’s why we’ve tasted some of the best, and here’s what we found.
A taste of the Domestic Geek: Breakout Foodies of the Year Award
YouTube Star Sara Lynn Cauchon, aka the Domestic Geek, was a recent honoree winner of the Breakout Foodies of the Year TASTE AWARD.
She has been very busy since then, as these two great recipe videos from her online series demonstrate.
5 Healthy Breakfast Smoothies:
5 Outrageously Delicious Milkshakes:
About Sara:
Sara Lynn Cauchon wants to make eating well a lot more delicious. Since launching her YouTube channel, The Domestic Geek, in April 2014 she has earned more than 600,000 dedicated subscribers who appreciate her fresh, fuss-free approach to cooking. In that time she’s shared more than 100 original, mouth-watering recipes as well as countless tips and tricks for making life at home easier.
An experienced guest expert, Sara Lynn has made dozens of appearances on hit lifestyle shows like The Social and Steven and Chris. She’s also a dynamic motivational speaker who has shared her story at a number of live events.
Sara Lynn is also an established television host/producer/director who has more than a decade of industry experience. She has hosted a number of television programs including Diva On A Dime, GirlzTV and HGTV’s Rooms That Rock, for which she was nominated for the GEMINI Viewer’s Choice Award for Best Host In A Lifestyle Series.
When Sara Lynn isn’t on set, you’ll most likely find her in the kitchen. Her love affair with food started nearly 20 years ago when she would eagerly help her mom with dinner. Since then, good food has become an obsession. And, although she is not technically a chef, she spends most of her spare time whipping up delicious recipes for friends and family.
Healthy Gourmet Snacks of the Year
Looking for gourmet snacks that are both healthy and tasty?
I Heart Keenwah’s Quinoa Puffs
I Heart Keenwah has a new line of quinoa puffs that are vegan, high in protein, GMO free, and gluten-free.
We were able to try two flavors. The Sweet Chili, and the Herbes de Provence.
Both had that crunchy taste that you can associate with snack chips, but were a little bit crunchier since they are spherical, not flat.
If you are already a quinoa lover then you’ll immediately sense the difference between these and potato-based snacks.
The two flavors are interesting. Spicy is a very popular snack flavor category these days, so the Sweet Chili makes sense to have on the roster. The taste certainly does have a kick.
The Herbes de Provence has a bit of a sage flavor profile, and our Official Tasters debated who would get the last bites of it that were left in the bag.
If gluten-free is your priority, or just something different and slightly addictive, these are a good choice.
Bellabeat launches LEAF Stress Tracking Smart Jewelry
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus? Maybe. But one thing is certain, they are built differently. That’s why apps and wearables have a wide margin of error if they are created with both sexes in mind. They can miss gender specific topics, and that’s where Bellabeat comes in.
Bellabeat, a company dedicated to creating innovative and beautiful technology for women, today announces the Limited-Edition LEAF, the latest in smart jewelry that monitors women’s activity, sleep, stress and ovulation. The LEAF seamlessly combines a stylish piece of jewelry with innovative health tracking technology, particularly its mechanism for tracking breathing in relation to stress levels, to provide women with wellness data and recommendations through the LEAF app. Check out the LEAF in action here.
The Limited-Edition LEAF is nature-inspired, designed with sustainably sourced 7,000-year-old dark Marshwood and embellished with gold leaf plating, available in five different styles. Bellabeat also offers a new collection of chic accessories that can be paired with the LEAF to fit women’s individual styles from Boho Chic to Downtown Edge.
The LEAF stays with you throughout the day, stylishly tracking your daily activity, sleep and stress, revealing life patterns via the LEAF app. Receive real-time feedback in the form of slight vibrations, notifying you to increase or decrease your activity and reminding you about other aspects of your health, such as getting more sleep or even an alarm to start the day. The LEAF app even helps to monitor your monthly menstrual cycle by tracking expected days and providing information based on your activity, sleep and stress levels. As you continue to use the LEAF, it becomes smarter by learning your personal habits and tailors feedback accordingly. The LEAF is truly unique in that it allows you to cross reference your cycle with trends in your daily activity, all easily viewable in your app. It truly is a best friend and health coach combined into one beautiful package. Wearable smart jewelry has never been so beautiful, functional and effortless.
STRESS
- The LEAF monitors stress levels by measuring the rise and fall of your breath when worn as a necklace. This breathing data is cross-referenced with stress level entries you input into the LEAF app and, over time, the app learns how your breathing correlates with stress.
MOVEMENT
- The LEAF monitors daily activity by tracking every movement you make. The data syncs with the LEAF app where you can view your progress in an instant.
SLEEP
- The LEAF monitors sleep by tracking the small movements you make while in bed, learning how long you spend in each stage, and determining how long and how well you’ve slept.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
- The LEAF assists with monitoring your menstrual cycle, and even reminds you in the days leading up to your next period. Women trying to conceive are able to identify ovulation days to increase their chances of successful conception. By cross referencing your daily activity in the LEAF app with your menstrual cycle, women are able to better understand their health trends during this specific time.
