MamasHealth.com Home Healthful Living Health Foods Healthful Gift Giving Living Healthy Tips Links Email Mama	Healthful Gift Giving Healthful gift giving is a great way to encourage friends and family to eat healthful foods. Many people want to eat healthful foods, but don't know what kinds of foods to buy or cook. If you plan on attending a pot-luck soon, why not bake some high-fiber, whole-grain loaves of bread. Instead of giving a friend a bag of butter cookies, give a bag of heart-healthy omega-3 rich walnuts containing recipes for walnut-infused pancakes and veggie burgers. Healthful Gift Giving Ideas (Food) Fruit Basket containing fruits rich in anti-oxidants. Fitness and Health magazines are great additions to food baskets Clear-glass apothecary jar or pretty soup tureen filled with all the colorful dry ingredients needed to make a multi-bean soup. Variety of dried, vegetable-based pastas, such as spinach linguini or carrot fettuccini and a few jars of low-sodium tomato or cheese sauce. A person who exercises regularly might appreciate a gift basket full of nutrition bars, sports drinks and energy gels. A mom with small kids may appreciate a gift basket with healthful meals that take less than 30 minutes to make. A sampling of cooking or salad oils that are low in saturated fat. Wrap in a pretty box of canola oil, olive oil and all-purpose vegetable oil. A nonstick frying pan or skillet wrapped with a can of canola oil cooking spray. A basket filled with baby items is perfect for a mom-to-be. A basket filled with vitamins and immune boosting supplements A salad bowl filled with a couple of bottles of tasty, light salad dressings and some light salad toppers such as a bag of croutons or Salad Toppings and some salad tongs or serving spoons A bag of ground flaxseed packaged with a light cookbook on cooking with flax. Healthful Gift Giving Ideas (Non-Food) Bath and skin items that haven't been tested on animals. Recipe book (low calorie, low carb). Exercise equipment. An exercise video. A certificate for "pamper yourself" ( manicure, pedicure, facial, or massage). A "de-stress yourself "gift basket. A one-month pass to Yoga or Pilates studio. A bottle of scented massage oil packaged with a candle. A garden kit with fruit or vegetable seeds. Vegetable steamer Fruit juicer	Featured Book Advertise on MamasHealth.com Sponsor a contest on MamasHealth.com
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