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Rice Cake Snacks

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January 11, 2018 By Laura Ligos, MBA, RD, CSSD 3 Comments

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rice cake snack

For The Love of Snacks

I love food. There are no ifs, ands or buts about it. However, I am guilty of forgetting to eat. I know, it’s a sin. I get it. I will, however, grab a snack if I have any in the house. That requires me planning ahead. Good thing I’m a dietitian and meal plan for a living, so there’s always that…

Working from home means that I’m on my own schedule. Most people think it means I eat all day long. The opposite usually happens (unless my friends text me to remind me). I keep telling myself I’ll grab something in a bit, and that bit turns into a bit of HOURS later.

This then goes to the point of needing to rummage through my kitchen like a savage and eating anything in sight. Everything is fair game at that point. I then have immediate regrets. “Should’ve planned ahead” I always tell myself.

Yes, I am a dietitian, and I know better. So, the moral of this story is plan ahead, have snacks on hand, set a meal time and DO BETTER. (Obviously said to myself, I’m not yelling at you, unless of course it applies to you).

Meal Plan

Speaking of meal plans, you know I work at Designed to Fit Nutrition building meal plans for clients all over the world. When I add new snacks and meals to their menus, I immediately want them on my plate. I told you on Tuesday, my food jealousy is real. When I see others eating it, I want it.

I also realized how sporadic my meal consumption had become since working from home. So not only did I want all their food, I also wanted all of their meal/snack consistency. When working with InsideTracker, I never gave myself the time to eat. I was also stressed, which caused me to not want to eat. Of course, this is nothing but an excuse but I fell victim to the working from home trap of “i’ll eat later” or “I’ll take a break later”.

I could tell my energy was down and my stomach GROWLING at me constantly was not my favorite. I needed to make a change.

Snack Attack

In walked healthy snacks that helped (still do) keep me on track. I have found a lot of fun snacks over the last year, mostly thanks to friends and DTFN coaches & clients. It keeps me more consistent, fuels my workouts, makes me more functional with work and life and SO much happier.

I was never depriving myself for any other reason than just forgetting and being stressed. I now have snacks stocked so I have something to look forward to. Not to mention, my friends text me daily to remind me to take a break and eat so it makes it a little easier to remember.

Rice Cake Snacks

What are some of these snacks you ask? I have currently been obsessed with rice cakes and putting almost anything on them. Sweet, savory, you name it. I usually eat one pre-workout as it’s easy to digest, easy to prepare, on hand AND a good source of carbs to fuel my workout. I’ll also sometimes sneak another in post-dinner if I’m still hungry and want something sweet OR savory OR both.

Not to mention, the ingredient list of my favorite rice cake is #sassyapproved. It is simple and easy to read, see for yourself: Organic Whole Grain Brown Rice, Organic Wild Rice, Sea Salt.

Not too shabby, eh? I’m all for ingredients that I can recognize, this one’s a winner.

Not to mention, these rice cakes are pretty mild in flavor and are pretty much just a vehicle for what you top them with. The possibilities are endless.

Pro tip: have fruits & veggies cut up and ready to go as well as avocados mashed so you don’t have to prep much. Make it easy for yourself!

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  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Total Time: 2 minutes
  • Yield: 1
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Make these rice cake snacks your own and get creative!

Pictured:
– Rice cake topped with chocolate sunflower seed butter + sliced apples
– Rice cake topped with greek yogurt + pomegranate seeds + hemp hearts
– Rice cake topped with mashed avocado + red pepper flakes + salt


Ingredients

  • Rice Cakes

Toppings

  • Nut/Seed Butter
  • Greek Yogurt
  • Fruit (i.e. sliced apples, pomegranate seeds, bananas, etc.)
  • Hemp hearts
  • Avocado, mashed
  • Spices (i.e. red pepper flakes, salt, pepper)

Instructions

  1. Spread nut/seed butter, greek yogurt or avocadao on top of rice cake. Add toppings of choice.


Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 Rice Cake + Toppings

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xoxo,

Sassy

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  1. Verna says

    January 26, 2018 at 9:51 pm

    I top rice cakes with flavored cream cheese and fruit.

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    • Laura Ligos, MBA, RD, CSSD says

      January 28, 2018 at 10:31 pm

      sounds delicious! I have not tried cream cheese on a rice cake before, yum!

      Reply

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  1. What is a Superfood?! - The Sassy Dietitian says:
    January 16, 2018 at 1:41 pm

    […] Rice Cake Snacks […]

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@thesassydietitian

We’ve made it over a week together and it feels We’ve made it over a week together and it feels like it’s always been this way.

Motherhood is a wild ride & it’s only getting started. I have never been so tired & simultaneously so fulfilled in my life. That’s not to say it’s not filled with tears, worries and doubts but what fun would it be if it were all sunshine and roses anyway?

Going into this all I have felt so supported by friends going through this with me BUT I felt so unsupported by the general public. It seems like we want to fear and shame moms because misery loves company, right?!

The focus quickly shifts from mom to baby (still shocked that I only have an appointment at 6 weeks even though my body went through the biggest event of its life) and there also seems to be this shift from joy to shame & guilt.

Here’s some of what I heard from people:

😕Sleep when baby sleeps. You’ll never sleep again.
😕Don’t let baby sleep in a car seat, or a bouncer, or anywhere but their crib EVER. 
😕You’ll never have time to shower again, enjoy it now. 
😕Cry it out is cruel and harmful to the baby. 
😕Get baby on a schedule/never put baby on a schedule.

These are all things I heard and that truly led me to believe I was going to lose all sense of who I was and my life as I knew it.

What I wish people had said instead were:

🥰Your heart will grow bigger than you could imagine.
🥰You’ll cry the happiest tears you’ve ever cried.
🥰You’ll feel like a giant hole was filled that you didn’t even know was there.
🥰You won’t feel guilty about cleaning your house, it just won’t matter anymore.
🥰Babies pooping will make you laugh so hard you will feel like a kid again.
🥰You will have time to eat and shower and you don’t have to neglect yourself.

We need to do a better job of building each other up, supporting one another and our decisions while refraining from offering unsolicited advice and opinions. 

So for all you future mamas and new mamas out there, I see you, I’m proud of you and I cannot wait to share our stories with one another and the world.

Let’s stop fear mongering (just like the diet world) and start building one another up.

Xoxo,
Sassy & lil sassy man
🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s b 🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s been a long year of loss, unknowns and worry but it’s all been worth it to get to meet my lil man🥰
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Now time to introduce this sassy human who is already so well loved to the world...
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Introducing 

💙 Connor James Ligos 💙
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After an almost 24 hour labor, Connor joined us over a week past his due date on 2/12/21 at a whopping 9lb2oz & 22.5 inches long with a full head of hair and lungs to scream hello to us with.
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We are so in love already and cannot wait to share him with the world. Thank you for all the love and support from friends and family and to all those that helped us in the hospital. Holy cow labor & delivery teams are truly magical and I cannot imagine doing it without all of their support.
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Now back to snuggling this human of mine and trying not to cry at every last thing he does 🥰 
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Mom, Dad & Bode are all doing well!
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I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk t I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk to others about what worked for us. That's great!
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What's not great is when we push our nutrition and eating behaviors onto others ESPECIALLY when we are not qualified to do so.
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So often when people meet me for the first time they are worried to eat around me and/or buy groceries around me. My friends can attest I am not judgemental around food and will gladly eat that cake, queso dip or sip on that glass of wine right alongside of you. I am not the food police and do not offer unsolicited nutrition advice unless it's a client who is paying for my help OR on Instagram and other social media platforms where my goal is to educate.
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Why do I share this? 
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Because I see far too many people diving down diet rabbit holes, finding success & then claiming to be nutrition experts purely because something worked for them. 
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I've also seen this alot being pregnant, everyone wants to tell you what worked for them. IF you use that stipulation of "this worked for me" then fine, share away but if you start doleing out advice please pause, take a breath and think about NOT doing it.
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People are OVERWHELMED by diet culture and some so badly want to change but YOUR way is not the only way and it most likely is not what will work for your friend/coworker/cousin/neighbor so please, stop trying to be an expert in something you aren't.
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Got it!?! 
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Ok, carry on.
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xoxo,
Sassy
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#nutrition #nutritiontips #nutritionist #dietitianapproved #rdapproved #rdchat #dietitiansofinstagram #dietitian #dietitiansofig #albanyny #albanynutrition #albanynutrition
Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. I'm not saying you have to find perfect balance (does that even exist?) but I am saying that we shouldn't feel like either we have to eat perfectly or that we might as well give up.
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Instead we should look to the grey area in between for our nutrition guidance. 
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What do I mean?
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I mean that we need to realize that we can still eat cookies but we probably should throw some veggies in there. 
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We can have a glass or 2 of wine but we should probably also drink some water. 
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We can take rest days but we should also find ways to move our bodies regularly.
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And the list goes on.
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It's not about all or nothing it's about doing something daily to help your health and nutrition without it feeling like a set of rules or a free for all.
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How do we find that grey area in between?
👉🏻 stop hopping on and off fad diets
👉🏻listen and trust your self, not your coworkers and cousins 
👉🏻focus on the simple things (ie drinking water instead of worrying about supplements)
👉🏻work to remove guilt and shame around food & body
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Where do you currently fall Right now?!
🤪 all
👍🏻in between 
🙅🏻‍♀️ nothing 
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Xoxo,
Sassy
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#dietitian #dietitiansofig #dietitiansofinstagram #nutrition #nutritionist #nutritiontips #thesassydietitian #rdchat #realtalk

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